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Abstract Problem: The business education literature isn't accessible. Research Questions: Which business education periodicals do vital business educators perceive to be more useful? In which databases and/or indices are they found? How much literature is fugitive? What strategies might increase literature accessibility? Research Method: Delphi technique. Data Collection Procedures: A survey was distributed to 25 vital business educators. Results: The Delta Pi Epsilon Journal and the NABTE Review were rated as essential to the profession; nine periodicals were rated as very useful; and six periodicals were rated as useful. Eleven databases and indices were identified as potentially useful. Conclusions: Approximately 37% of the studied periodicals are fugitive, confirming literature inaccessibility. Recommendations: Strategies to increase the accessibility of the business education literature include libraries carefully selecting complementary databases, getting periodicals indexed, placing periodical tables of contents on the web, improving fugitive-literature retrieval skills, and developing an electronic business education database. Introduction THE BUSINESS EDUCATION LITERATURE, the lifeblood of the profession, is longer readily accessible. As Blaszczynski and Scott (2003a) observed, With the demise of The Business Education Index, a serious problem in accessing the business education literature has been created (p. 23). Even using a series of electronic databases will not retrieve many pieces of relevant business education literature, suggesting that a significant portion of business education literature is fugitive literature, literature that exists although most business educators do not know that it exists or how to go about retrieving it (J. C. Scott, personal communication, August 16, 2005). The challenge facing business educators is to make more of their literature known and accessible than it is currently. Literature Review Blaszczynski (2001) found that prolific business education researchers use the literature extensively. Often they turn to online electronic sources to replace print-based sources and indices. However, Miller (1997) pointed out a widespread myth in both academe and society at large: All information is now available electronically (p. A44). The business education literature is not comprehensively covered in major electronic databases (Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003a; Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003b), creating a major problem for business educators who are relying on databases without fully understanding their shortcomings, including limited coverage of business education periodicals. According to Anderson and Perez-Carballo (2005), Ever since humankind learned how to record messages on portable long-lasting media-clay tablets, papyrus, much later paper and more recently various electronic media-we have devised ways to describe and organize these messages so that they could be found, used and enjoyed later on. (p. 7). However, for some disciplines, including business education (Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003a; Blaszczynski & Scott, 2003b), technical and professional communication (Smith, 1996), and others, the coverage of the discipline in electronic databases is woefully incomplete and inadequate. Mann (1993) observed. If a system makes only some sources easily available-especially if those sources are very superficial or of poor quality-then it can do real damage to the quality of research, for it will encourage users simply to make do with whatever resources are readily retrievable within it, regardless of their quality or completeness. (p. 92) Blaszczynski and Scott (2003a) found, among other things, that no database or index provides anything approximating full coverage of the 18 business education-related periodicals in which the studied authors had disseminated their business education-related research and writing between 1999 and 2001 (p. …
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