You may use the following Library resources to locate full-text case studies. If you identify a case study that is not available in full text, you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service. For details, please see our Interlibrary Loan Guide.
O'Reilly for Higher Education:
The O'Reilly for Higher Education database contains an entire collection of case studies on Business, Career Development, Data, Design, Hardware, Security, as well as Math, Science and Engineering which you can access by clicking here.
SAGE Research Methods:
The SAGE Research Methods database contains an entire collection of social science case studies, showing the challenges and successes of doing research, written by the researchers themselves. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions. Filter by source type, discipline, and search for keywords within texts. Click here to access the collection.
EBSCOhost:
You may limit your search to case studies in the following EBSCOhost databases: Business Source Complete, Regional Business News, Education Research Complete, and OmniFile Full Text. You may access EBSCOhost from the Popular Databases drop down menu on the Library’s home page.
Once on the search screen, scroll down until you see the special limiters for the individual databases, starting with Special limiters for Business Source Complete. Select Case Study from the Document Type menu (NOT the Publication Type menu), as shown below.
Continue selecting Case Study under each database section: Special limiters for Education Research Complete, Special limiters for OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), and Special limiters for Regional Business News. Note that if you select Case Study under only one database, you will be searching only within that particular database.
Next, enter your topic keywords into the search box at the top of the screen. You may also want to limit your results to Full Text documents and/or Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals. Finally, click Search. Your results should contain case studies related to your research topic.
ProQuest:
You may limit your search to case studies in the ProQuest database, as shown below. You may access ProQuest from the Popular Databases drop down menu on the Library’s home page. On the Advanced Search screen, select Case Study under Document Type, as shown below.
Gale Power Search:
Gale Power Search is another resource in which you can search for case studies. From the search page, select 'Advanced Search' to view 'More Options.' Click on the drop down menu for 'by Document Type' and select either 'Business Case Study' or 'Case Study' depending on your research need.
NavigatorSearch (formerly Roadrunner):
Finally, you may try searching for case studies using NavigatorSearch (formerly Roadrunner), the central search box found on the Library's homepage. Click on the Advanced Search link to bring up more search options.
Since there is not a specific limiter in NavigatorSearch (formerly Roadrunner) for case studies, we will include it as part of our search terms. The example search below is for (marketing or advertising) AND “case study” AND china. It is important to note that we have included the exact phrase “case study” in the abstract (AB Abstract) of the article because the abstract will likely identify it as such.
