The complete business research database, full-text and current
The Business Source Ultimate access is the leading database for business and management scholarship, pairing thousands of full-text journals with the industry reports and company profiles that turn academic reading into practical intelligence. Finance, marketing, management and accounting are all covered in depth, with peer-reviewed work and trade press side by side.
Inside this resource
Full-text journals across business
The core is thousands of complete journals spanning finance, marketing, management and accounting, so a literature search returns whole articles you can read and cite rather than abstracts to chase elsewhere.
Company and industry intelligence via Business Source Ultimate access
Beyond the journals sit industry reports and company profiles, which is what makes this useful for a real market question — you can move from theory to a named company or sector in the same session.
Scholarship and trade press together
Peer-reviewed research is shelved next to trade publications, letting you balance rigorous evidence with the practitioner commentary that shows how ideas play out in the market.
Who this serves
- Business and MBA students — full-text journals and company data for coursework and dissertations.
- Analysts and consultants — industry reports and company profiles without a separate market-data budget.
- Management researchers — deep peer-reviewed coverage across the business subfields in one search.
Before you buy
Is it full text or abstracts?
Thousands of the journals are full text, so you can read complete articles across finance, marketing, management and accounting.
Does it include company data?
Yes — industry reports and company profiles sit alongside the scholarly journals.
The chart
| Format | Online database (subscription) |
|---|---|
| Coverage | Finance · marketing · management · accounting |
| Access | EBSCOhost account |
| Publisher | EBSCO |
| Department | Research |
| Delivery | Emailed once your order is verified |


R. Nakamura –
For a dissertation on accounting practice this had nearly everything I cited. Peer-reviewed depth is real.
Dr. Victor M. –
Full-text management journals plus company profiles in one place made my case-study module far easier to teach.
mba_chloe –
Finance and marketing coverage is excellent. Industry reports were a nice surprise on top of the journals.
Dr. Sana K. –
Blending trade press with scholarship helped my applied work. Login was quick and stable.
analyst_dev –
Solid business database. The company profiles are handy but not as deep as a dedicated market service — for academic work though it is more than enough.