Research Guides: Accounting: Find articles

Best bets to search for accounting journal articles

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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Content types: Peer-reviewed journals, industry and market research reports, magazines, news sources, SWOTS
Dates covered: 1922-present
Bloomberg BNA Tax and Accounting Centers This link opens in a new window
Content types: Federal tax code, IRS publications, tax rules, tax forms, practice portfolios, and related news and commentary.
Dates covered: Current

SSRN Accounting Research Network
Content types: Open access collection of social science research working papers, accepted papers, published papers, and conference papers.
Dates covered: 1994-present

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Content types: Abstracts and citations for peer-reviewed journals. The Check for Full Text @ JMU buttons will connect you to an article's full-text, if it's available.
Dates covered: 1966-present

Search these resources for recent news articles to use in class or for online discussion boards.

Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Content types: Business news sources, company press releases and reports
Dates covered: Current

CPA Journal (JMU subscription)
Content type(s): Accounting news and analysis
Dates covered: 1987 - present

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Content type(s): Current news, company information, foreign language news, broadcast transcripts
Dates covered: Current
TaxNotes This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive and impartial coverage of tax news, with commentary for understanding of tax policy.
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Often, simply searching the title of an article in quotation marks in Google Scholar will bring you to the electronic version.

Follow these steps to link Google Scholar to JMU libraries. Then you should be able to click Get JMU Access to open the article.

This video shows how to identify the journal title from a citation.

If JMU doesn't have full-text available, we can borrow it from another library -- at no cost to you -- through our Interlibrary Loan service.

Interlibrary Loan
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