Databases for Economics
Best Bets
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| EconLit with Full Text |
Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers. |
1969-present |
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| National Bureau of Economic Research |
Abstracts and full-text (in .pdf) of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research. |
1998-present |
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| ScienceDirect |
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection (indexing for 1,300 more). |
1960s-present |
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| SSRN - Economics Research Network |
The Economics Research Network (ERN) distributes quality research (journals, working papers, and forthcoming papers) in economics currently covering 44 subject areas. |
1994-present |
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Also Useful
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| ABI/Inform Complete |
Full text for more nearly 4,000 business publications, and citations with abstracts to 1,000 more business titles. |
Full text 1991-present | Indexing 1905-present |
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| Business Source Complete |
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. |
1886-present |
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| CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online |
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, fou |
1991-present |
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| Financial Times |
"This publication is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand the context of global trade and finance. |
1996-present |
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| Global Development Finance |
This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low-and middle-income countries. |
1970-present |
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| ICPSR |
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. |
1940-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| PAIS International |
Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. |
1972-present |
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| RePEc: Research Papers in Economics |
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics provides bibliographic citations to working papers, journal articles, books, and book chapters, many in full text. |
1969-present |
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| SpringerLink |
Provides full text access to more than 500 peer reviewed journals and over 2,000 books online. |
1990s-present |
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Even More
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Provides full text access to more than 100 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. |
2000-present |
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| LexisNexis Academic |
News, business information, medical and health topics, and law-related resources |
1990s-present |
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| Making of the Modern World |
The Making of the Modern World: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature digital collection presents more than 65,000 titles from the period 1460-1914, and 466 pre-1906 serials |
1450-1914 |
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| Wall Street Journal |
Wall Street Journal; Eastern Edition The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news. |
1984-present |
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| World Development Indicators |
The World Development Indicators are compiled from officially-recognized international sources providing 331 indicators, from agriculute to urban development, covering 209 countries. |
1960-present |
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