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Why Business and Finance Subject Guide ?

Welcome School of Business Students to your subject guide

This page is designed to provide you with all the necessary resources that you might need on your research journey.

If you require any further help, feel free to contact any of our librarians.

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OPAC

OPAC is an acronym for " Online Public Access Catalog"

You can use the NGU libraries' OPAC to:

1) become fully aware of the books available in the library to borrow

2) use on/off-campus, and also

3) can request a book title that you are interested in.

Click here to Learn How to Borrow, Renew, Hold, and Return a book?

Keywords to Search With

Accounting

Business communication

Consumer behavior

Entrepreneurship

Financial institutions

International law

Marketing

Organizational behavior 

Social marketing

 

How to Find the Book You Searched For
After finding the book you need on the OPAC you can click on it and it will show a page showing the details of that book:

After scrolling down a bit, you will find more information on how to find the book on the shelf. 

Item type/Status: Tell you whether you can borrow the book or not

Current Library: The library where the book is shelved

Call Number: Tells you the place of the book on the shelf


The call number can be found on the spine of the book

JSTORcengageEmerald Proquest  sageWolters Kluwer Taylor and Francisspringer

EBSCO Discovery Service
 

Click here to access! (On-Campus Only)

 

The NGU Library provided access to EBSCO Discovery Service On-Campus only, due to its dependence on the IP proxies of the New Giza University, and we are seeking to provide the access off-campus too very soon.
 
E-Books Databases via EKB

The Egyptian Knowledge Bank is an Egyptian project established to provide the Egyptian students and citizens by giving them access to the scientific databases for free.
 
 
Emerald Insight

Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference, now also including health and social care, education, and engineering. Click here!

GALE EBOOKS

Gale eBooks offers a collection of e-books on various subjects, including business and finance. It may contain reference materials and resources in these fields. Click here!

Journal Citation Reports (JCR)

JCR is more of an evaluation tool that provides information on journal metrics. However, it can be used to identify leading journals in the field of business and finance. Click here!

Nexis Uni

Nexis Uni is a comprehensive database that includes news, business, legal, and regulatory information. It is a valuable resource for business-related research. Click here!

ProQuest

ProQuest is a multidisciplinary database that covers various subjects, including business and finance. It includes academic journals, newspapers, and other content relevant to these fields. Click here!

Sage Journals

Sage Journals include a collection of scholarly journals covering business, economics, and related fields. Click here!

Sage Knowledge

Sage Knowledge is a platform that provides access to e-books and reference materials across various disciplines, including business and management. Click here!

Scopus

Scopus is an abstract and citation database that covers a broad range of disciplines, including business and finance. It includes scholarly journals and conference proceedings. Click here!

Springer Link

Springer Link offers access to a vast collection of academic journals and books, including those in the fields of business and economics. Click here!

Wiley Online Library

The Wiley Online Library offers a diverse collection of 1,500 journals, 250 reference works, and 22,000 online books. Half of it is co-published with major worldwide academic and professional groups. Our titles span the life, health, and physical sciences, as well as social science and humanities, with many titles at the forefront of their fields. Click here!

E-Books Open Access Databases

These books are open access and are avilable for free

EconBiz

EconBiz is a comprehensive resource for economic and business studies. It provides access to a wide range of economic literature, research papers, and journals. Click here!

International Financial Statistics (IFS)

IFS is a database provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering a comprehensive set of economic and financial data, including international financial statistics, exchange rates, and monetary and financial indicators. Click here!

ILOSTAT: The leading source of labor statistics

ILOSTAT is the International Labour Organization's database, offering a wealth of labor market statistics, including employment, unemployment, wages, and working conditions. Click here!

Reference for Business

Reference for Business is an online resource that provides information on various business topics, including business plans, marketing strategies, finance, and management. Click here!

SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

SSRN is a repository for working papers and preprints in the fields of social sciences, including economics and finance. It is a valuable resource for accessing the latest research and academic papers. Click here!

The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib)

Econlib is an online library that offers a collection of classic and contemporary economic literature, articles, and educational resources. It aims to promote the ideas of economic freedom and individual liberty. Click here!

TheStreet

TheStreet is a financial news and information website that provides analysis, commentary, and financial news related to stocks, investing, and personal finance. Click here!

UNESDOC Digital Library

UNESDOC Digital Library is the digital repository of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), offering documents and publications related to education, science, and culture. Click here!

World Bank Open Data

World Bank Open Data provides access to a wide range of economic, social, and environmental data. It includes information on global development indicators, projects, and research. Click here!

World Development Indicators (WDI)

WDI, part of the World Bank, offers a comprehensive set of economic, social, and environmental indicators for countries around the world. It is a valuable resource for development-related data. Click here!

 

Egyptian Knowledge Bank Databases
The Egyptian Knowledge Bank is an Egyptian project established to provide the Egyptian students and citizens by giving them access to the scientific databases for free.

MSA-Management Sciences Journal (MSA-MSJ)

 

The Academic Journal of Contemporary Commercial Research

 

Contemporary Egypt journal

 

MSA-Management Sciences Journal (MSA-MSJ) publishes articles that achieve a balance between the practical and academic sectors and acknowledge the complex relationships between various areas of business activity.  It publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed and cross-disciplinary research in the field of commercial studies including Accounting, Business Administration, and Insurance studies seeking to serve society and the international business environment. Contemporary Egypt journal is a quarterly refereed scientific journal issued by the Egyptian Association for Political Economy, Statistics and Legislation.

 

For more journals you can search the databases available via EKB:
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966

The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. The series originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.Click here!

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

publish more than 850 journals and over 800 books, reference works and databases a year in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. Click here!

Elsevier BackFiles for Journals

Elsevier has been helping professionals advance knowledge For over 135 years, by expanding the body of information and enabling it to yield positive, measurable results. Elsevier is an information solutions company with roots in publishing scientific, medical, and technical literature. Click here!

Emerald Insight

Emerald Publishing was founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Today, we continue to nurture fresh thinking in applied fields where we feel we can make a real difference, now also including health and social care, education, and engineering. Click here!

Essential Science Indicators

The Essential Science Indicators™ database reveals emerging science trends as well as influential individuals, institutions, papers, journals, and countries in your field of research. With science trend statistics drawn from more than 12 million articles from over 12,000 global journals, the Indicators delivers the in-depth coverage you need to effectively analyze and benchmark research performance, identify significant trends, rank top performers, and evaluate potential employees and collaborators. Based on a 10-year rolling file, these Indicators are updated every two months. Built on the foundation of Web of Science™, Essential Science Indicators use selective, structured, and complete data. Click here!

JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR was founded to be a shared digital archive serving the scholarly community.Click here!

Nexis Uni

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. It help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. It assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. Also it partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. It endeavor to advance the rule of law across the world. Click here!

Proquest

ProQuest is an important partner for all types of content holders, preserving and enabling access to their rich and diverse information. These collaborations have resulted in an expanding content collection that now includes 90,000 authoritative sources, 6 billion digital pages, and spans six centuries. It houses the world's largest collection of dissertations and theses, as well as 20 million pages and three centuries of global, national, regional, and speciality newspapers; more than 450,000 ebooks; rich aggregated collections of the world's most important scholarly journals and periodicals; and unique vaults of digitised historical collections from great libraries and museums, as well as organisations as diverse as the Royal Archives, the Associated Press, and the National Association of Newspaper Editors. Click here!

Sage Knowledge

SAGE Knowledge hosts thousands of carefully selected titles by world-class authors and editors on hot topics across the social sciences. It includes academic and supplementary titles that contribute to the knowledge base of students and researchers, foundational books in core areas of research and debate, accessible student references, and numerous practical professional titles in education. Click here!

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect is a full-text resource with over 4,430 journals and 31,373 books. Librarians and researchers in the health sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences, and engineering are the intended audience. Collection: eResources Click here!

Springer Link

SpringerLink is an online collection of Springer's peer-reviewed journals and book series that span a wide range of topics in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Researchers can access millions of scientific publications including journals, books, series, protocols, reference works, and proceedings through SpringerLink. Click here!

Taylor and Francis

The Taylor and Francis Group provides access to over 900 Routledge must-read online journals in a variety of disciplines, including Anthropology & Archaeology, Arts and Humanities, Behavioral Science, Economics, Criminology & Law, Education, Library and Information Science, Media, Cultural and Communication Studies, Politics, International Relations, and Area Studies, Public Health and Social Care, Chemistry, and Biological, Earth, Environmental, and Food Science. Click here!

Wiley Online Library

The Wiley Online Library offers a diverse collection of 1,500 journals, 250 reference works, and 22,000 online books. Half of it is co-published with major worldwide academic and professional groups. Our titles span the life, health, and physical sciences, as well as social science and the humanities, with many titles at the forefront of their fields.Click here!

Open Access Databases for school of Business and Finance

Q1 Open Access Journals

Journal of Innovation & Knowledge

 

European Research on Management and Business Economics

 

The Journal of Finance and Data Science

 

The Journal of Innovation and Knowledge (JIK) focuses on how we gain knowledge through innovation and how knowledge encourages new forms of innovation. Not all innovation leads to knowledge. Only enduring innovation that can be generalized across multiple fields creates theory and knowledge European Research on Management and Business Economics (ERMBE) was born in 1995 as Investigaciones Europeas de Dirección y Economía de la Empresa (IEDEE). The journal is published by the European Academy of Management and Business Economics (AEDEM) under this new title since 2016, it was indexed … The Journal of Finance and Data Science (JFDS) is the leading analytical journal on finance and data science, providing detailed analyses of theoretical and empirical foundations and their applications in financial economics.

For more open access journals and articles check the following databases:

arXiv

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,127,356 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. Click here!

Core

CORE aims to aggregate all open access research and facilitate unrestricted access to research. It allows users to check more than 66 million open access articles. Click here!

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 16 500 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Open access journals from all countries and in all languages are welcome to apply for inclusion. Click here!

Open Access Statistical Databases

The following databases offer statistical data and indicators about different aspects.

Africa Development Indicators (ADI) Online

Africa Development Indicators was a primary World Bank collection of development indicators on Africa, compiled from officially-recognized international sources which presents the most current and accurate global development data available and includes national, regional, and global estimates. Click here!

International Financial Statistics (IFS)

International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Click here!

Statistical Capacity Indicators

Statistical Capacity Indicators provide information on various aspects of national statistical systems of developing countries, including an overall country-level statistical capacity indicator. Click here!

World Bank Open DataClick here!

 

World Bank Open Knowledge RepositoryClick here!

 

Bibliographical & Citation Databases via EKB

These Databases offer bibliographical and metrical information on articles, authors or institutions

SciVal

A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal allows you to visualize your research performance, benchmark relative to peer institutions, develop strategic partnerships, identify and analyze new, emerging research trends, and create uniquely tailored reports. Click here!

Scopus

Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. Scopus provides a comprehensive overview of global research output in the domains of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities, as well as sophisticated tools for tracking, analyzing, and visualizing research. Click here!

Web of Science (WOS)

The Web of Science is a database that includes transdisciplinary and regional citation indexes, as well as speciality subject indexes, a patent family index, and a database of scientific data sets. Researchers can search broadly across heterogeneous resources and leverage the citation links inherent in the index to browse relevant research results and quantify impact using the Web of Science's common search language, navigation environment, and data structure. Click here!

Open Access Theses and Dissertations Databases

The following databases provide you with open access theses and dissertations

EBSCO Open Dissertations

OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research. Click here!

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,234,995 theses and dissertation Click here!

Proquest Dissertation & Theses Global

ProQuest is an important partner for all types of content holders, preserving and enabling access to their rich and diverse information. These collaborations have resulted in an expanding content collection that now includes 90,000 authoritative sources, 6 billion digital pages, and spans six centuries. It houses the world's largest collection of dissertations and theses, as well as 20 million pages and three centuries of global, national, regional, and speciality newspapers; more than 450,000 ebooks; rich aggregated collections of the world's most important scholarly journals and periodicals; and unique vaults of digitised historical collections from great libraries and museums, as well as organisations as diverse as the Royal Archives, the Associated Press, and the National Association of Newspaper Editors. Click here!

 

Dictionaries

1. Dictionary.com


2. Investopedia


3. The Free Dictionary by Farlex:


4. It's Education Accounting, Business Studies, and Economics Dictionary: 

Glossaries

1. Glossary of Business and Financial Terms by The University of Texas at Austin:


2. Stanford Graduate School of Business Glossary of Terms:


3. Market Business News (MBN) Financial Glossary - Business Terms and Definitions:


4. The New York Times on the Web Glossary of Financial and Business Terms:

 

Thesauruses

1. Thesaurus.com:


2. Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary & Thesaurus

 

 

Case Studies

1. The Case Centre:

 

 

Citation

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The School of Business uses the APA 7th edition style 

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Citation Tools

Citation Tools are software that can help you  manage your citations.

                      

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Turnitin
Turnitin is an online platform serving the research process for students, researchers, and instructors by avoiding plagiarism and ensuring the authenticity of the research.
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"A citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source that you consulted and obtained information from while writing your research paper. The way in which you document your sources depends on the writing style manual your professor wants you to use for the class [e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.]. Note that some disciplines have their own citation method [e.g., law]."

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