Getting Started in Economics Research

4. Selected E-Resources for Economics Research

Below are a few selected Harvard E-Resources that will help you locate newspaper and journal articles, book reviews, case studies, company reports, etc to help you get started with your research. Please contact us if you would like more information about other economics e-resources.

E-Resources for all disciplines can be found on the Harvard E-Research website. You can search by title, keyword or subject.

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier (ASP) is a multi-disciplinary database that includes citations and abstracts from over 4,700 scholarly publications (journals, magazines and newspapers). Full text is available for more than 3,600 of the publications and is searchable. Indexing and full text availability varies with title. Most complete coverage begins in the 1990s.

ABI/Inform
ABI/Inform provides summaries and citations from over 1000 academic management, marketing, and general business journals, with full text available for more than 500 of these publications, including the Wall Street Journal. Over 350 English-language titles from outside the United States are included as part of this collection.

Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is a database of citations to, summaries and full text of articles from academic journals, magazines, and trade publications. Citations, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included as well as current company, industry and region reports.

Economic Literature Database
EconLibrary.com is an online database that contains over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of accounting, economics and finance. EconLibrary.com's bibliographic references can be searched by author, keyword in title, journal or year, or combinations using the databases' Boolean logic searches. You can choose to have access to the tables of contents of all journals (economics, accounting and finance) or access only to the subset of accounting journals or the subset of only finance journals.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information System)
PAIS International indexes the public and social policy literature of public administration, political science, economics, finance, international relations, law, and health care, International in scope, PAIS indexes publications in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The database is comprised of abstracts of thousands of journal articles, books, directories, conference proceedings, government documents and statistical yearbooks.

 

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