Business Source Premier (via EBSCOhost)
Latest screenshot: 2023-01-18
Access to search interface:
paywalled
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
EBSCO Industries Inc.
Location of system headquarters:
Ipswich, US
Year of launch:
N/A
Type:
Aggregators' database
URL:
N/A
Help URL:
N/A
X-Handle:
Description of database (by system owner)
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
Description of search system (by system owner)
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For more than 70 years, we’ve partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content and technology.
Total coverage:
21.55M
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
-1.43%
Subject coverage:
Multidisciplinary
Retrospective coverage:
1894–2022
Record types:
10
Open Access records:
N/A
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
sufficient
Forward citation searching:
sufficient
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
5
Query
Latency with short query:
1.29 seconds
Latency with long query:
1.6 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
16
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
750 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
250 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
5
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
10
Results filters:
25
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
48.76%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
6.65%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
30000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
25000
Export formats:
11
API:
upon request
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
50
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
50
