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Research for your professional thesis: how to find academic and professional press articles?
Writing your professional thesis requires you to make a review of literature: by considering the current knowledge on your subject you establish a theoretical framework and provide a context for your reader.
Academic articles and professional press will be of great use to you for this part of your work. Finding relevant articles requires more than the internet: the Learning Center’s resources are here for that!
Academic articles
Academic journals contain articles that are in-depth accounts of the state of research on a subject.
Some famous titles are Journal of Marketing, Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management...
The best resource to find academic articles is Discovery: it will search the various academic databases and provide you with the links to the articles.
You can also search each database individually. Business Source Complete is one of the main ones.
How to identify academic articles in Business Source Complete ?
In Business Source Complete, type your keywords then launch the search. Once on the results list use the “Refine your results” column on the left to limit your search to “Academic journals” in the “Source Types” section.
Professional press
Professional magazines and journals will provide you with insights on how issues are addressed in companies in a practical way.
There are many titles on all industries, including LSA, L’Usine Nouvelle, Stratégies, Logistiques Magazine... These magazines are available on our press databases. To look for a specific magazine, search for the magazine title on Discovery's Journal search.
More info!
Daily and weekly economic newspapers such as Les Echos, L’Expansion, Financial Times are on Factiva and Europresse. You can consult our tutorial video about press databases on the Moodle platform:
Business Source Complete is also the place to go for professional and sectoral press in English
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