LibGuides: Accounting Program at HFC: Articles

Periodical Titles for the Accounting Program

World of Accounting Science
Peer-reviewed coverage of topics in accounting and finance.
Accounting and Finance
Publication for the banking, finance, and accounting industries.
Global Journal of Accounting and Finance
Publishers theoretical, empirical or pedagogical works in Accounting, Finance, Banking and Economics.
Accounting Perspectives
Publishes applied research, analysis, and commentary of interest to academics, practitioners, financial analysts, financial executives, regulators, accounting policy makers and accounting students, as well as educational articles and instructional cases with extensive teaching notes.
Journal of Academic Research in Economics
Presents a wide range of subjects in economics: Management, Marketing, Finances, Accounting and other interdisciplinary subjects.
Management Accounting Quarterly
Offers in-depth, research-oriented articles for academics & practitioners.

Article Databases

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Business (Gale OneFile)
Provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice from business and trade publications.
Business Abstracts with Full Text (Wilson/EBSCO)

Provides access to product evaluations, interviews, corporate profiles, surveys, statistical rankings, and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences, etc.
Economics and Theory (Gale OneFile)
Provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields.
MasterFILE Complete (Wilson/EBSCO)

Designed for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an image collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.
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Vocations and Careers (Gale OneFile)
Offers information to aid users in researching a vocation, searching for jobs and appropriate schools, and maintaining a career.
Academic Search Complete (Wilson/EBSCO)

Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database.
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Gale Power Search

More than 60 databases with millions of full-text articles, from popular magazines, newspapers, academic/professional journals, and reference books covering most subject disciplines and topics.

Types of Articles

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Academic Journals: Scholarly

Written for those doing academic research, often with a lot of technical jargon
Articles are reviewed by experts before being published ("peer-reviewed")
Usually produced by non-profit educational publishers
Goal is to show research, educate, and expand knowledge in a field

Trade Journals: Scholarly

Written for those working in certain career fields or industries, with a focus on current trends in those fields
Usually published by professional associations
Examples: the ABA Journal (published by the American Bar Association), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and Social Work (published by the National Association of Social Workers)
Goal is similar to academic journals, but aimed at professionals in a specific field and may also focus on current trends in the field

Popular Press / Magazines: Not Scholarly

Written for the general public
Best for current events, pop culture, etc.
Usually published by commercial media companies
Goal is to entertain or inform the public

Newspapers / News Agencies: Not Scholarly

Written by journalists / reporters
Goal is to inform the public of recent events on a local or national level
Published frequently -- typically daily or weekly

News Article Sources -- National and International

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News (Gale OneFile)
Provides access to major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. News also includes thousands of images, transcripts, and radio and TV broadcasts.
Newspaper Source Plus (Wilson/EBSCO)

Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
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Associated Press
American multinational nonprofit news agency that operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association.
BBC News
International news from the British Broadcasting Corporation
C-SPAN
American cable and satellite television network that was created as a public service.
National Public Radio
Non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States.
Reuters
News from around the world

News Article Sources -- Local

In addition to using library databases to find news articles, you can often find the day's most recent local news articles directly on a news organization's website. Here is a great list of local news outlets that have up-to-the-minute articles on current events in and around Metro Detroit.

Crain's Detroit Business
Detroit business newspaper
Detroit Free Press
Local newspaper
FOX 2
Local news station
Local 4
Local news station
Metro Times
Detroit local event newspaper
MLive
Search many local papers in Michigan
WXYZ
Local news station

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