Databases Business
Search our selected discipline-specific reference and full text databases for journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings and much more.
ABI/Inform
Covers all areas of economics, with a focus on business administration and management, The databases offers bibliographic information, abstracts and, for the most part, full texts. It primarily includes journal articles as well as dissertations, conference reports, business cases, market reports and industry reports.
Subscriptions exist für ABI/Inform Global and ABI/Inform Trade & Industry.
Further information about ABI/Inform Global
Further information about ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
Business Source Premier
The database covers economic sciences including marketing, management, accounting, finance and business. In addition to specialist journals, it also includes company profiles, industry reports, market analyses and SWOT analyses. Most of the journals are available in full-text format. Some are only available after an embargo period of one to 36 months.
Tutorials EBSCO (German)
EconLit
Bibliographic index of specialist economic literature such as journals, books and dissertations. Covers both economic theory and its application.
Title list (XLS 1.3 MB)(XLS 1,3 MB)
Gartner
Research reports and analyses on information technology.
No registration required. Automatic user recognition via ZHAW login. The database is not licensed for continuing education students.
OECD iLibrary
Portal for the online publications of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), providing access to all OECD studies and statistics. One of the largest online libraries for data and analyses on the economy, society and the environment.
All contents are licensed with the exception of the IEA statistics.
Open Education Platform for Management Schools (OEPMS)
On the Open Education Platform you will find teaching materials and scientific contributions from all subject areas of economics.
The platform is also available to all interested authors to publish their contributions from various subject areas of economics.
Orbis
Contains comprehensive information on companies, including banks and insurance companies worldwide. With Orbis, it is possible to analyse individual companies, search according to specific characteristics and perform various assessments.
To create an individual account in which your own search and filter settings can be saved, register using the following access data:
Username: ZFH-register, password: bvdregister
Orbis without Login (German)
Instruction (PDF 639,2 KB) (German)
Passport
Market research database of Euromonitor International. Passport provides a comprehensive data offering for country and market studies, including country data, consumption data, market volume and market size data, forecasts, statistics, profiles for large companies and much more. Visuals and graphical representations provide an overview and help to understand the data.
The reports for Europe (Western and Eastern) and Asia are licensed.
Note on use: enter the ZHAW as the organisation upon first-time use and then log in using your SWITCH edu-ID.
WEKA Online Produkte
Contains specialist information and practical tools for work in companies and in the area of public administration.
WEKA online products (access on the intranet – ZHAW login required)
WISO
Database with various modules. Subscriptions are in place for the following:
Economics: references from German and international specialist literature on business administration and economics and their sub-fields.
Social sciences: references on social sciences, social work, social pedagogy, politics and international relations.
Specialist journals: full texts from journals in the fields of economics, social sciences, business psychology and technology.
WISO (German)
Instruction (German)