Economics Research Tools
Core Resources
- EconLit Find journal articles in the American Economic Association database.
- IBSS:
International Bibliography of Social Sciences More articles, interdisciplinary social sciences.
- WoPEc:
Electronic Papers in Economics Download the latest research;
over 200,000 working papers (prior to journal publication).
- Expanded Academic ASAP and Academic Search Premier (interdisciplinary databases, a lot of fulltext journal articles).
- Social Science Citation Index (via Web of Science): Tracks cited references to locate more recent articles, 1984 - to present.
- Dictionaries
of Economics and Business, via Oxford Reference Online
- Style Manuals How to cite that article and format bibliographies.
- Wall Street Journal Full text from 1982 to current; and New York Times (1980 to date, via LexisNexis) and New York Times backfile (1851 to approximately 3 years from current date)
- More databases, (for example, medicine or education will include economic aspects as well)
Course Related (Spring 2008)
- Economics 29: Economic History of the United States
- Economics 77: Senior Departmental Honors Seminar
- Previous Semesters' Course-Guides in Economics
Electronic Journals
- Electronic
Journal Locator See if a journal is available at AC electronically.
- JSTOR Large backfile of fulltext journals in economics. Current titles through Project Muse, including these in economics.
- Fulltext Journals in Economics and Finance via Elsevier
- B.E.
Journals in Macroeconomics Fulltext of four titles
Respected (very LARGE) Econ Websites (& one small one)
- WebEc:World Wide Web Resources (Helsinki School of Economics)
- Resources
for Economists on the Internet (American Econ. Assoc.)
- AC
Economics Department: Online Resources
Statistics and Data
- WDI Online Database of World Development Indicators providing international social and economic indicators and statistics (1960--current) from the World Bank.
- ICPSR abstracts and data sets in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data.
- Historical Statistics of the United States and Historical Census Browser (UVa)
- CIS Statistical Universe Index to over 100,000 U.S., & International statistical publications. Some fulltext.
- International Financial Statistics (IMF) on CD ROM at the reference desk (Ref desk HG 3881.I627)
- Economagic: Economic Time Series Page
- Stat-USA/Internet
Site, Economic, Trade, Business
Many require a password from Frost Reference Desk. - More sources ...
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