Scholarly articles are written by researchers or experts in a field in order to share the results of their original research or analysis with other researchers and students (UW-Madison, n.d.).
Here are some examples of scholarly articles on business topics:
JMU Libraries subscribes to hundreds of databases. These four are the most relevant to the types of assignments that MBA students will complete.
If your topic is not garnering many relevant search results in one of these, email your librarian to see whether another one of our specialized databases could be useful instead.
Scholarly articles can be intimidating to read. This video explains what makes scholarly articles different from other articles and suggests tips for reading them and understanding their findings.
If your instructor gives you a citation to an article, here's how to get access to the full-text.
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.
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that connects you with articles that are library-licensed or open access. LibKey Nomad is available for Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and Vivaldi.
When using LibKey Nomad, you will automatically be directed to the best available version of an article so you don't need to search in multiple places. When the full text of an article is not available, you will be provided with options to request the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service for requesting materials not available in any JMU Libraries collections. We borrow the items at no cost to you from other libraries and document delivery vendors.
JMU Libraries has created several tutorials in Google Slides to help students use our specialized business resources.
Click on the name of the database to open the tutorial that shows how to search for articles and cite the information you find in APA style.