Credo Reference is a collection of online reference books that are great for background on a topic, the different facets of a topic, and important people or aspects of the topic.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a selection of ebooks on various aspects of business and management. The link below takes you directly to those items in the collection.
"provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily." Includes access to The Economist.
Access to articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are available through this link to ProQuest Global Newstream. To limit your retrieval to a particular newspaper, use the dropdown menu to the right of the search box and select Publication TItle.