The business equivalent of PubMed?

[WaitThatShouldntWork]

I’m trying to create an automated reasoning system and need a load of documents to text mine and build a dataset.

There is ample reliable sources In medicine - PubMed for example, but I’m struggling to find the equivilanet for the business community?

For example I can query PubMed about “IGFBP1” and get loads of links to papers regarding this keyword, but what similiar database can I query about a business question like “Pricing methods”.

I get that there are TONS of business and entrepeneur information sources out there, but none are on the same quality, scientific rigour and usable format as PubMed.

Thanks in advance and sorry if I missed something obvious.

[Chronos]

What sort of documents do you want? “Business documents” is way too broad, since every document ever is part of some business or another.

I dunno, maybe the Wall Street Journal?

[Chronos]

What sort of documents do you want? “Business documents” is way too broad, since every document ever is part of some business or another.

I dunno, maybe the Wall Street Journal?

[psychonaut]

You can try querying Google Scholar, which indexes academic papers from all disciplines, including business. Some caveats, though: first, there’s no way to explicitly restrict your query to business-related papers, though you might be do this implicitly through judicious use of keywords. Second, Google Scholar only indexes the documents; it doesn’t host them. Many of the results it returns may be to books and papers that are paywalled, or are not available online at all.

[WaitThatShouldntWork]

@Chronos

What sort of documents do you want? “Business documents” is way too broad, since every document ever is part of some business or another.

I dunno, maybe the Wall Street Journal?

Perhaps, PubMed covers all of “medicine” which I would argue is as broad as “business”

I think it’s a case of the two can’t be directly compared like I’m currently doing and no such broad brush of library or database exists like PubMed.

In which case, it’s just a case of going through each speciality area instead.

[Chronos]

First of all, “medicine” is not as broad as “business”, because medicine is itself a business.

Second, PubMed doesn’t cover all of medicine. It’s just medical research. You won’t find, for instance, patient charts, nor prescriptions, nor notes for excused absence or disability, nor insurance bills, there. And it’s not even all research, just government-funded research.

[PastTense]

As with the other respondents I am not clear about what you want. But here is a general purpose search index: BASE

BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

We are indexing the metadata of all kinds of academically relevant resources – journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. – which provide an OAI interface and use OAI-PMH for providing their contents (see our Golden Rules for Repository Managers).

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): Advanced Search

And note you can restrict the searches so 100% of the results returned are open source.

[MrAtoz]

I would suggest that the most comparable resource for business and industry related sources is ABI/INFORM, published by ProQuest. Like PubMed, you can search it by authors, titles, subjects, journals, etc., and do advanced searches using Boolean logic.

Unlike PubMed, it’s not free, but requires a subscription. If you attempt to do a search from the above link, the first thing you will be asked for is what library, organization, or company you’re affiliated with. So you won’t be able to search it on your own, most likely, but your local library might have a subscription. Academic libraries are probably more likely than public libraries to subscribe, especially if they have an MBA program. State-sponsored schools (e.g., “The University of [state name]”) are the most likely to allow any resident of the state to use their databases, even those who don’t attend there, although there’s no guarantee of that.

–MrAtoz, professional serials librarian

[slash2k]

@Chronos

Second, PubMed doesn’t cover all of medicine. It’s just medical research. You won’t find, for instance, patient charts, nor prescriptions, nor notes for excused absence or disability, nor insurance bills, there. And it’s not even all research, just government-funded research.

PubMed is an indexing service created by the US National Library of Medicine to cover published journal articles in medicine and related fields (some life sciences, bioengineering, behavioral health, toxicology and environmental health, etc.). For the journals it covers, ALL articles are indexed, whether or not any government had any role in the funding, and currently they index well over 5000 journals published in 40 languages, so pretty much any significant research in any field of medicine is included.

[glowacks]

“Business” is a lot more nebulous than “Medicine”. Most research that goes into business methods is not public knowledge because there’s money to be made selling it to people. The few academic accounting papers I glanced at when considering going further into acadmia with accounting were a complete joke when it came to practical applications. Any academic business discussions are more about standards setting than on the best ways to actually do work, since no one makes money from setting standards.