Databases for Economics

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Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers in all fields of economics.
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.
Provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, and indexing for 1,300 more.
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.
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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Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers.
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
CIAO publishes a range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research, proceedings from conferences, journals, and policy briefs.
FRED® is a database of over 267,000 economic time series from 80 sources.
This publication is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand the context of global trade and finance (1996-present).
Allows you to create, customize, and share geographical maps of data found in FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data).
Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.
Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.
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.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data.
Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and books dating back to 1951, primarily covering anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
A digital collection of primary sources covering the history of Western trade.
Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs.
Provides bibliographic citations to working papers, journal articles, books, and book chapters, many in full text, covering all aspects of economics.
Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines.
Compiled from officially-recognized international sources providing 331 indicators, from agriculute to urban development, covering 209 countries.