Business
Discover a selection of relevant sources, specialist literature and useful links in the field of business.
ACM Digital Library
All publications of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) with an archive of approx. 50 years (excluding e-books) as well as the “Guide to Computing Literature” with bibliographic information on journals from major computer publishers.
Annual Reviews
Database with reviews in various research areas.
Business Source Premier
This business database (marketing, management, finance, economics) contains 2,200 journals in full text as well as market research reports and industry and country reports.
EconLit
Electronic bibliography of the American Economic Association (AEA), includes economic theories, country studies, literature on trade, social indicators, etc.
getAbstract
Contains detailed summaries of publications in the fields of leadership & management, science & technology, history & biographies, world literature or politics & society. The database is accessible to FHNW members via SWITCH edu-ID.
IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences of the London School of Economics: economics and political sciences, sociology, anthropology.
LEX campus
LEX campus (formerly Swisslex) is the most comprehensive legal database in Switzerland with around 400,000 documents in full text. Students and employees of FHNW can register directly with LEX campus using their FHNW e-mail address.
ProQuest One Business
The database offers comprehensive search options and full-text access to over 2,400 industry and trade journals, several hundred newspapers and magazines and almost 30,000 e-books. Special company and industry overview pages as well as sector and country reports provide data for detailed company research, including SWOT analyses, financial information, market research reports and current articles.
Scopus
Around 1.4 billion books, articles, conferences and patents on technology, natural sciences, medicine, humanities and social sciences.
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary reference database, contains books, articles and conference papers on economics, technology, natural sciences, art, education, etc. Includes metrics for analyzing journals and articles as well as Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
WISO
German-language sources from sociology, social work, economics and political science, contains around 500 journals and 4,500 e-books as well as popular science literature in full text.
All licensed subject databases can be found in the database list.
You will find specific business media collections in swisscovery:
- Textbook collection on economics
- Textbook collection on business administration
- DAS Modern Policing
- DAS Öffentliches Gemeinwesen Nordwestschweiz & DAS Bauverwalter*in
Members of the FHNW School of Business Basel (PMH) can obtain physical media by courier. They can also use the physical holdings of the nearby University Business and Economics Library – SWA.
Student projects and theses – School of Business
On this platform you will find all public management summaries of FHNW School of Business theses from 2018 onwards. In addition, you can view public theses that were assessed with a grade of 5.0 and higher directly via download button.
Here you will find freely accessible and other relevant sources for the business sector: