Research Guides: Economics: Economics

Databases for Economics Research

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CONTENT: Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from thousands of news magazines, professional journals, leading newspapers, and popular publications. Subject specific database portions include: business, education, humanities, interdisciplinary, medical, news, psychology, biology, science, social science, and technology and more.

RESOURCE TYPES: Scholarly and popular articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals. Books are full-text in the fields of health and business.

COVERAGE: Covers over 13,000 periodicals/publications, divided by subject areas/databases to allow focus of searching. Dates differ for every periodical, most cover the current three years.
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CONTENT: Browse by journal title or discipline including: anthropology, art, art history, architecture, economics, ecology, film studies, folklore, history, mathematics, music, performing arts, philosophy, political science, religion, sociology, statistics, and many more.

RESOURCE TYPES: Scholarly journals and monographs.

COVERAGE: Over 1,000 scholarly journals and other scholarly content, from the earliest issues (many in the late 1800s) to within 3-5 years of current publication. Collections: Arts & Sciences I Collection, Arts & Sciences II Collection, Arts & Sciences III Collection, Arts & Sciences VII Collection, Nineteenth-Century Literature and The William and Mary Quarterly.
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Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a vast and rapidly-expanding library, providing easy access to thousands of books across the world-renowned scholarly list of Oxford University Press (OUP). Spanning subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law, OSO is an essential research resource for student, scholar, and academic alike, no matter what your subject specialty.
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SAGE Knowledge is home to an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content alongside SAGE Video, containing over 5,100 titles. Content includes reference works, academic books, professional development titles and more. This cross-media platform allows users to search and browse over 10,000 items, video, book and reference titles within the Social Sciences.
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CONTENT: Browse journal titles from A-Z, by discipline or conduct a topic search in the fields of: Health Sciences, Life and Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and Social Science and Humanities.

RESOURCE TYPES: Scholarly journal articles.

COVERAGE: Provides full-text access to 389 journals; updated monthly.
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CONTENT: Highlighting the role of women in United States economy.

RESOURCE TYPES: Primary source documents and images.

COVERAGE: The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images including: 7,500 pages of manuscripts, 3,500 books and pamphlets, and over 1,200 photographs from Harvard University's library and museum collection.

Great Economics Websites

The American Customer Satisfaction Index
Customer satisfaction scores for over 200 businesses in 43 industries. Updated quarterly.
Bureau for Economic Analysis
U.S. Dept. of Commerce's site for data on U.S. economy
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The principal-fact finding agency for labor statistics
CEPR
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established in 1999 to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives.
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
The Library of Economics and Liberty carries the popular Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, edited by David R. Henderson. This highly acclaimed economics encyclopedia was first published in 1993.
Data.gov
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Eurostat Home
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
Explore Census Data
U.S. Census Bureau - Searchable population, housing, economic, and geographic information
FDIC Data Resources
any state, MSA, or county to view standard graphs, tables, and maps depicting economic conditions and how they have changed over time.
FedStats
provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic.
Moody's Analytics Economic Indicators
Free Economic, Demographic & Financial Data
IMF
International Monetary Fund Home Page
Library of Economics and Liberty
The Library of Economics and Liberty is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty.
The National Bureau of Economic Research
The nation's leading economic research organization posts working papers, data, and other resources for business professionals,public policy makers, and the academic community.
NPD Group
Excellent consumer market research.
RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
A collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 75 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics.
RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet
This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists more than 2,000 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics.
State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
The SOCDS provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs.
Visualizing Economics
Dedicated to publishing infographics about economic data. Great for use in presentations!
WFE: World Federation of Exchanges
Includes historical stock information for listings on world stock exchanges.
World Bank Group
Homepage for The World Bank.

Tables and Charts and Graphs

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CONTENT: Citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from thousands of news magazines, professional journals, leading newspapers, and popular publications. Subject specific database portions include: business, education, humanities, interdisciplinary, medical, news, psychology, biology, science, social science, and technology and more.

RESOURCE TYPES: Scholarly and popular articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals. Books are full-text in the fields of health and business.

COVERAGE: Covers over 13,000 periodicals/publications, divided by subject areas/databases to allow focus of searching. Dates differ for every periodical, most cover the current three years.

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