Database Links
The databases listed below provide access to the research literature of economics, including journal articles and working papers. For a basic introduction on how to search these databases please see the "Finding Articles" guide.
- EconLit (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? EconLit, produced by the American Economic Association, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature, covering all fields of economics. Indexes journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and book reviews. The database contains more than 1.2 million records.
- What dates are covered? 1886 - present
- Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.
- What’s included? Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.
- EconPapersOffers a searchable interface to the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc). The goal of RePEc is to enhance dissemination of economics research. To this end they provide access to working papers, journal articles, books and book chapters. Econ Papers provides a search interface to this extensive full text collection.
- Fed in Print This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research.
- What dates are covered? 1963 - Present
- Social Science Research NetworkThe SSRN is an organization dedicated to the broad disemmination of social science research material. They maintain a database of abstracts of current and forthcoming research papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection of full text articles by current scholars. Organization is by individual subfield within the social sciences.
Created and Revised By
J. Austin & A. Rathemacher 12/2011.
Partly based on "Economic Indicators" M. Boldt