LibGuides: Economics: Articles, Working Papers & Dissertations (get academic research)

JEL Subject Classification

EconLit Subject Descriptors
Use this site to browse economics topics classified in a hierarchical structure. The assigned subject code is useful for retrieving all articles on a particular topic in databases like EconLit, NBER and IDEAS.

JCR in Web of Science
2007-. JCR provides statistical data on relative importance of more than 1700 social science journals and over 5900 in science and technology. Journals are evaluated on impact factor, immediacy of content, article counts, cited half life & source data.

Academic Search Complete
Good to use if your topic applies to many disciplines because ASC covers articles in journals across many fields - social sciences, humanites, sciences, technology, business and popular magazines. Full-text is available for over 5300 journals.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Full text of working papers, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, and other resources in international affairs.
Environment Complete
Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains more than 2.5 million records from more than 2,350 domestic and international titles dating back to 1888. Formerly Environment Index.
Index to Current Urban Documents Online (1995)-
Index and search engine providing full-text access to documents from local governments, civic organizations, and planning agencies from 500 cities in the United States and Canada

International Development Abstracts via Geobase
1980-present. Abstracts for literature in international development, including environment, agriculture, natural resources, economic reform, urbanization and housing, etc. Lists journals, books, conference papers, proceedings, reports. Part of Geobase
JOLIS Catalog of the World Bank/IMF
References to literature of international economics, development, and finance, from the catalog of the Joint World Bank-International Monetary Fund Library. Includes books, journal articles (1980-present), working papers, conferences, technical reports.

MathSciNet
1940-present. Search Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. With links to electronic journals & ebook chapters. Includes modelling & statistical methods in economics, game theory and operations research.
Mathematical Reviews (MR) from articles and books published since 1940. Bibliographic data from retro-digitized articles dates back to the early 1800s.

OECD - Guide to the Resources
This guide highlights the textual and data resources in the OECD iLibrary collection in the subjects of economics, development, education, energy, environment, scitech and social issues.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
1972-present. Lists print and electronic articles, books, and government publications on issues of public policy, including politics, government, economy, marine policy, law.
PsycINFO
1806-present. From the American Psychological Association. Provides access to scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Includes journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations.
PubMed
Covers over 5,700 journals in the biomedical and health sciences and years covered late 1940's - present, with additional older medical literature selectively added. Search using keywords or the controlled vocabulary called MeSH. PubMed will automatically match your keyword terms to MeSH terms. For additional tips, see the Library's PubMed page.
Social Sciences Full Text
Indexes and provides abstracts of articles published since 1983 in over 700 social sciences journals, with fulltext provided for most articles published from 1994+.
Sociological Abstracts
1963-present. Abstracts journal articles, monographs, dissertations covering sociology, social work, and related social sciences.

World Bank e-Library The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of World Bank documents. The collection consists of World Bank publications and Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published.
World Development Sources
Online image and text archive of World Bank reports, working papers, and project documents. Free browser plug-in required for scanned image viewing. Now includes PDF versions of most documents.
more...less...
World Development Sources (WDS) is a web based text search and retrieval system which contains a collection of World Bank reports most of which are scanned and are available in imaged format, which you can access via a web browser and search through a multi-field search engine. Also included is the ASCII text of the report, which is generated from the image through a technical utility called Optical Character Recognition (OCR). World Development Sources contains citations to over 6,000 reports. These reports include Project appraisal reports, Economic and Sector Works, Evaluation reports and Studies,and working papers

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
1975-present. Research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Coverage varies, but some back to early 1900s. Articles in communication, mass media, linguistics, and film studies. CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of over 230 more, for a combined coverage of over 600 titles. Many journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915).
Communication Abstracts
1963-present. Abstracts articles, reports, papers, books from a variety of publishers and research institutions in all areas of communication studies (mass, interpersonal and new communication technologies).