Business specific databases
A key online database for global business and economics topics, including thousands of full text journals, company news, country/industry reports and trend reporting. ABI features key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist.
EBSCO released a new Business Search Interface (BSI) in July 2025. This new interface makes business research more intuitive and efficient. Students and staff can easily browse leading business journals and magazines, search specific topics and easily locate country economic data, company profiles, industry information, and market research.
EBSCO's Business Source Ultimate is an indispensable resource for business students. The database offers access to more than 3,500 active full text journals, including many peer-reviewed publications. It spans various business topics, from current trends to historical information and global perspectives. The resource also includes important video collections, such as a new collection of videos from Academy of Management.
The Emerald publishing platform provides access to articles from over 120 important academic journal titles in the fields of business, management and economics. Full-text archives date from 1994 and abstracts from 1989.
General / Multidisciplinary Databases
EBSCO's Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed titles. The database also includes more than 70,000 videos from the Associated Press. This collection of videos is updated monthly and includes footage from 1930 to the present day.
ProQuest Central brings together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
The ScienceDirect platform provides online access to full text journals and eBooks published by Elsevier. You may need to 'activate' your personal Elsevier account on first use of this resource.
Scopus indexes scholarly journals covering science, technology, textiles, health, medicine and social sciences from 1960s to date. You may need to 'activate' your personal Elsevier account on first use of this resource. You can find more information about Scopus by clicking on the online support guide at https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home.
Specialist Marketing Databases
Financial Databases
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News
Business Case Studies are often used in business and management disciplines to explore different scenarios that may be fictitious, or based on real-life situations. Some case studies are aimed at academic staff for use in teaching sessions to stimulate group discussion. They are used to look at an example of business practice in depth and analyse the problems / potential solutions. If you have been asked to carry out your own case study analysis as part of an assignment, you may find it helpful to look at the Guide to Writing a Case Study Assignment.
You can find case study articles on our databases (effective search examples listed below) in textbooks and on case study websites that often provide some free content.
The Business Source Complete Database with the Business Searching Interface has a section for browsing case studies that can be accessed from the basic search page:
Searching for Harvard Business Case Studies
Once you have clicked on Case Studies, you can search for Harvard Business Review case studies by clicking on Advanced Search and adding "Harvard Business Review" as the Publication Name:
EBSCO released a new Business Search Interface (BSI) in July 2025. This new interface makes business research more intuitive and efficient. Students and staff can easily browse leading business journals and magazines, search specific topics and easily locate country economic data, company profiles, industry information, and market research.
EBSCO's Business Source Ultimate is an indispensable resource for business students. The database offers access to more than 3,500 active full text journals, including many peer-reviewed publications. It spans various business topics, from current trends to historical information and global perspectives. The resource also includes important video collections, such as a new collection of videos from Academy of Management.
You can find case studies published in journals on ABI / Inform.
A key online database for global business and economics topics, including thousands of full text journals, company news, country/industry reports and trend reporting. ABI features key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist.
A limited number of case studies are available on the Emerald database. Follow these steps to access them:
The Emerald publishing platform provides access to articles from over 120 important academic journal titles in the fields of business, management and economics. Full-text archives date from 1994 and abstracts from 1989.
WARC provides access to many advertising case studies. To search for case studies on a topic:
WGSN contains many marketing / brand case studies.
Use the search box in the top bar to enter a keyword then filter the results to Case Studies from the Content Type menu.
There are many case study articles and chapters relating to the United Nations Global Goals on SDGO.
To search for them combine topic keywords with "case study" in the Advanced Search screen:
Textbooks often contain case studies to illustrate how theory can relate to practice.
You can search for case studies in textbooks by finding a relevant e-book title then doing a text search for 'case study'. You can also browse the contents in print or online books to see if there is a list of case studies included in the textbook.
Registration is required for you to search the Case Centre's collection of freely available case studies.
Free case studies provided by MIT Sloan School of Management.
Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Case Bank
An online library of business cases focused on principle-based ethics.
Reports of customer-first marketing stories, including case studies and other material. Choose case studies as the content type to filter your search
Nanyang Technopreneurship Case Centre (NTCC)
Case studies created by Nanyang Technical University that feature Singapore-based and global companies confronting issues and challenges in their businesses.
Journal of Business Cases and Applications
Aimed at business academics, this journal has case studies and exercises for use in teaching.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Find case studies relating to sustainability in business.
Case studies from the Robins School of Business, University of Virginia. Please note that permission should be requested to use the cases in teaching sessions.