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Economics – Best Bets

  • Computer Science Bibliography
    Provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. More info
  • EconLit with Full Text
    Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers in all fields of economics. More info
  • GlobalData Explorer
    Formerly Marketline Advantage; now with expanded data. Combines macroeconomic data and information on more than 750,000 companies and 22 industries; provides detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries and impacting companies. More info
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
    Working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. More info
  • OverDrive (Libby)
    Allows faculty, students and staff to borrow ebooks and audiobooks and download them to computers and portable devices. More info
  • ScienceDirect
    Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, and indexing for 1,300 more. More info
  • Statista
    A statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 60,000 topics from 18,000 sources. More info
  • Wall Street Journal
    The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as coverage of hard news (1984-present). More info

Economics – Also Useful

  • ABI/Inform Collection
    Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers. More info
  • Business Source Complete
    Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. More info
  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
    CIAO publishes a range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research, proceedings from conferences, journals, and policy briefs. More info
  • Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
    FRED® is a database of over 267,000 economic time series from 80 sources. More info
  • Financial Times
    This publication is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand the context of global trade and finance (1996-present). More info
  • FRED Maps
    Allows you to create, customize, and share geographical maps of data found in FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data). More info
  • Gale eBooks
    Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias. More info
  • Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange
    Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. More info
  • Global Financial Development
    The sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries, with data for 135 individual countries that report to the World Bank’s Debtor Reporting System. More info
  • ICPSR
    ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. More info
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
    Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and books dating back to 1951, primarily covering anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. More info
  • JSTOR
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • Making of the Modern World
    A digital collection of primary sources covering the history of Western trade. More info
  • Mergent Market Atlas
    Formerly Mergent Online Offers a wealth of detail on company financials, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers and directors, as well as industry and economic data views and reports. More info
  • PAIS Index
    Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. More info
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
    Provides bibliographic citations to working papers, journal articles, books, and book chapters, many in full text, covering all aspects of economics. More info
  • SpringerLink
    Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines. More info
  • World Development Indicators
    Compiled from officially-recognized international sources providing 331 indicators, from agriculute to urban development, covering 209 countries. More info

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Jackie Eagleson
Jackie Eagleson