Guides: Economics: Scholarly Research

Library Databases

These databases allow searching by keyword and links to full-text e-journal articles or full-text dissertations.

EconLit
The database contains more than 1.8 million references and records published from 1886 to today with full-text links available for many articles.
Factiva
Provides access to company and industry financial data and news stories, as well as 6,000 full-text newspapers.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
The world's most comprehensive collection of multidisciplinary dissertations and theses, comprising 6 million records from over 70 countries and more than 4,100 institutions.

Working Papers

Working papers or grey literature have played a major role in scholarly communication between economists. Many papers published in peer-reviewed journals appear first as working papers.

National Bureau of Economic Research
*The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.
*Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year by NBER researchers aimed at other professional economists.
*Full-text: 1973-present
Economics Research Network
*Provides a forum for scholarly communication about research and conferences.
*Allows browsing and searching working papers and reports from universities, governments and public policy organizations.
*Vast majority of papers are free to download
EconPapers
*A portal for working papers and journal articles from Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
AgEcon Database
*A free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including working papers, conference papers and journal articles

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