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Business Source Complete
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Has full text for more than 10,300 serials. Contains scholarly publications covering all disciplines of business including marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and MIS. Additional materials include country economic reports, case studies company profiles, SWOT analyses and industry reports. Coverage varies by title, but in general dates back to the mid 1990s. Updated daily.
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EconLit
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Covers the international literature on economics. Provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers, collected works, conferences, book reviews, and more. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, healthcare, regional and urban economics, and more. Updated monthly.
NBER Working Papers
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Provides access to papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
SocINDEX
SocINDEX features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus sociology-specific thesaurus. Abstracts are included for more than 1,130 "core&qu...
Public Affairs Index
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Public Affairs Index is a bibliographic database covering global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters. Includes information from scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents and current reference works.
TOPIC Search
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Full text covering social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Includes or has links to full text.

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Sage Stats
SAGE Stats makes research easy by providing, in one place, annual measures dating back more than two decades. It features statistical data series created from more than 200,000 government and non-government datasets, covering popular topics of research interest for U.S. states, counties, cities, metropolitan areas, and ZIP codes. By harmonizing carefully-vetted data from multiple sources into the same format– allowing quick downloads, comparisons, and visualizations–SAGE Stats provides power and context for researchers at all levels.
Statista
Statista provides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.

Newspaper Databases

Regional Business News
Collection of full text newswires from around the world. Includes information about business, politics, economics, and international news. Wire sources covered include: A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business Newswire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Uni)
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790, with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Factiva
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Factiva is a good source for international business and company news. It includes full text news reports from more than 10,000 sources from 159 countries and available in 22 languages.

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Business Ethics - The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility
An online magazine with a strong heritage in the fields of ethics, governance, corporate responsibility and socially responsible investing.
CorpWatch
Investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. Works to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.
CSRWire
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability news, reports and information. Cntent covers issues of Diversity, Philanthropy, Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), Environment, Human Rights, Workplace Issues, Business Ethics, Community Development and Corporate Governance.
Ethix
Publication of the Center for Integrity in Business in the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University. Provides illustrations of business ethics challenges through positive examples of best practices and exemplary leadership.
Free Management Library: Complete Guide to Ethics Management
This guide is a straightforward and highly practical tool designed to help leaders and managers implement comprehensive ethics management systems in their workplaces
Society for Business Ethics
International organization of scholars and others interested in business ethics. Provides a forum for those interested in research, teaching, or the practical application of ethical principles and concepts to the management of businesses.

Selected Courses from LinkedIN Learning

LinkedIn Learning (formerly, lynda.com) is an online education company offering thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills. All Kent State faculty, staff, and students have access to LinkedIn Learning at no charge. Login at https://training.kent.edu/ Here is a list of just a few of the videos and courses related to business ethics on LinkedIn Learning:

Ethics Fundamentals
Marketing Ethics
Privacy and Ethics
Detecting Ethics Issues
Ethical Communication
Business Ethics for Sales Professionals
Learning Ethics in Advertising
Ethics in Procurement and Contracting
Ethics in a Diverse World

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The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management

The Business Ethics Twin-Track

Business Ethics

Business ethics as a science : methodology and implications

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Manufacturing and Services Sectors

Corporate social responsibility and corporate change : institutional and organizational perspectives

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