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Business

• Emerald Management Xtra 160
  To find case studies, go to Advanced search and select the Journals tab.
  Scroll down the screen and select case study from the article type pull-down menu.
  
  
• Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
  Combine the phrase "case study" with keywords, eg: management and "case study"
  Or, browse for the term case studies in the database Thesaurus.
  
  
• Case Studies in Harvard Business Review
  These are available in Business Source Complete (EBSCO).
  
  
• Case Studies
  from AusTrade
• Case Studies on Victorian business
  This Victorian Government website includes a broad range of free case studies.
  
  
• Case Studies and Reports from eMarket Services (electronic commerce).
  
  
• Factiva
  To find case studies, search the phrase "case study" in the headline and lead paragraph,
  then combine with a selection from the company, subject, industry or region pull-down menus.
  
  
• IP Australia
  Free cases involving intellectual property.
  
  
• Case studies can be found in books in the Swinburne Library
  
  
• Business Case Studies links from Webster
  This is a useful summary of the case study "landscape", with links to free sources.
  
  
• Guide to finding case studies from Simon Fraser University
  
  
• Business ethics case studies
  
  
• Case studies can be found in dissertations and theses
  
  
• Best Practice case studies
  From the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).
  
  
• Bplans.com
  Sample business and marketing; a commercial site with some free material.
  
  
• Times 100 Case Studies
  Case studies on all aspects of business practice.
  
  

Engineering

• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  Search for case studies in the research library
  
  
• Emerald Management Xtra 160
  To find case studies, go to Advanced search and select the Journals tab.
  Scroll down the screen and select case study from the article type pull-down menu.
  Includes papers on engineering management, manufacturing, maintenance and other engineering disciplines.
  
  
• Engineering Ethics
  Case studies from the National Science Foundation and Texas A& M University.
  
  
• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science Case Collection
  From the State University of New York, Buffalo. Includes case studies in physics, engineering, environmental health, chemistry/biochemistry, and more.
  
  
• On Writing Engineering Cases
  by Geza Kardos, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario and C.O. Smith, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska ( from Proceedings of ASEE National Conference on Engineering Case Studies, March 1979).
  
  
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ASEE Engineering Case Program
  Catalogue of over 250 cases maintained by the Center for Case Studies in Engineering. Abstracts are available, or search the catalogue by subject or for electronically available cases.

Authors:
Jane O'Donnell (jodonnell@swin.edu.au)
Fiona O'Donnell (fodonnell@swin.edu.au)