The document provides instructions for accessing full-text articles from popular business publications through the Business Source Complete database available through the Barrington Area Library. It explains how to navigate to the database from the library website, search for specific magazines and journals, find full-text articles in PDF or HTML format, browse issues by month, and subscribe to publications by RSS or email alerts. It also provides contact information for reference help from the library.

1. Business Source Complete
Access to Bloomberg
Businessweek, Investors
Business Daily, Fortune, Forbes,
Fast Company, and more

2. Go to balibrary.org and click
“databases”

3. Click on “Business and Careers”
or scroll down to “Business
Source Complete.”

4. Click on “Business Source Complete.”
You will need to enter your
Barrington Area Library card to gain
remote access.

5. Click on “Publications” at the top.

6. Type in the name of the magazine
or journal that you want to read
and click “browse.” Business
Source Complete has full-text
access to Bloomberg
Businessweek, Investor’s Business
Daily, Fortune, Forbes, Fast
Company, Money, and others.

7. When you find your periodical, you
will see if its full text and if its
available as a PDF and/or HTML.
Click on the title when you are
ready to read.

8. Peruse the available issues by clicking
the “+” sign next to the month you
want to read.

9. The “Share” button also gives you the
option to subscribe to the publication by
RSS Feed or E-mail Alerts. For E-mail
Alerts, you will need to create an account
with EBSCO.

10. Select the version that you’d like to
read. Enjoy!

11. Want to learn more?
• The Barrington Area Library’s Slide Share
account has tutorials on other business
databases available with your Barrington Area
Library Card.
• Access these tutorials here.

12. Questions?
• You can visit the Adult Services Reference
Desk, call us at (847) 382-1300 x 1, text is at
66746 (type code askbal the first time you
send a text), or send us an email.
• Thank you for using the Barrington Area
Library! For more information on our business
resources, check out our business page at
balibrary.org/business