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.

1969-present
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Abstracts and full-text (in .pdf) of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

1998-present
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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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Statista is 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.

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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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Business research from journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations, and working papers. Full text for over 6,000 business publications.

Full text 1991-present | Indexing 1905-present
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Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.

1886-present
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CIAO publishes a range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research, proceedings from conferences, journals and policy briefs.

1991-present
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FRED® is a database of over 267,000 economic time series from 80 sources.

1913-present
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This publication is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand the context of global trade and finance.

1996-present
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Also called: GeoFRED

FRED Maps allows you to create, customize, and share geographical maps of data found in FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data).

1970-present
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(formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Provides full text access to more than 250 reference sources, primarily encyclopedias.

2000-present
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This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history.

10200 BCE-present
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This edition of GFD presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low- and middle-income countries.

1970-present
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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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The IBSS includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.

1951-present
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Core scholarly journals, ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.

1800s-present (2-5 yr embargo)
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

1975-present
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The Making of the Modern World is a digital collection of primary sources covering the history of Western trade. 

1450-1945
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Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs.

1914-present
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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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Provides full text access to more than 1,500 peer reviewed journals in a wide variety of academic discplines.

1990s-present
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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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