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The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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Designed for academic institutions, this database is the leading resource for scholarly research with more full-text journals and more peer-reviewed journals than any other database available. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books, and more.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
With premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals, this database is the essential tool for business students. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more. Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as 1886. It contains over 5,600 full-text magazines and journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Contains over 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Contains over 100,000 full-text authoritative ebooks on a wide range of subjects.
Fuente Académica This link opens in a new window
Fuente Académica provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Business (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy as well as business theory and practice.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Contains over 9,000 full-text magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals
American Economic Association (AEA)
AEA is a membership organization and a publisher of a number of economics journals. The website provides free access to tables of contents and abstracts for association publications. AEA provides an electronic bibliography of economics literature throughout the world through the EconLit Web page with links to publishers' URLs. Another excellent resource provided by the AEA is the Resources for Economists on the Internet, organized by type of resource
AmosWEB GLOSS*arama
Searchable database of economic terms.
Brookings Institution
Involved in nonpartisan research, education, and publication in the fields of economics, government, and foreign policy. Its publications, such as policy briefs, reports, and papers, are available in full text on the website; the user can search by keyword or browse the research topics.
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Part of the Department of Commerce, the BEA is a statistical agency. The agency gathers information on key issues such as economic growth, regional economic development, inter-industry relationships, and the country's position in the world economy. The national income and product accounts (NIPAs), which feature the estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) and related measures are considered the cornerstone of the agency. Access to Survey of Current Business, BEA Papers, working papers, and interactive data tables are all available.
Canadian Economics Association (CEA)
While primarily an organization for academic economists, the website does include a full-text archive of the Canadian Journal of Economics (from 1999, abstracts from 1987). Browsing through the index and abstracts is free, but access to full-text articles is restricted to individual subscribers. The association also publishes Canadian Public Policy, which reviews economic and social policy. Full-text articles are available online for all issues, but with a one year delay after the publication date. This is also a collection of Resources for Economists.
Econmagic: Economic Times Series Page
This site of focuses on economic forecasting. The majority of the data references U.S. information. At this point in time there are there are more than 100,000 time series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. Series can be displayed in PDF charts, excel files, or GIF charts. Most series are interactive and allow you to transform or reverse the series.
Economic Purposes of Commodity Futures Trading
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission - In layman's language, discusses futures trading, prices and price factors, hedging, the role of speculators, regulation of futures trading, and how to read commodity futures tables.
Economic Indicators
From the Census Bureau, quick and easy access to numerous economic indicators including employment, income, prices, production, and transportation.
Economic Survey of the United States
The OECD report provides an assessment and recommendations on the main economic challenges faced by the United States. An Economic Survey is published every 1 1/2 - 2 years.
Economics Interactive Tutorials
This site contains a set of interactive tutorials on important topics in economics like elasticity, demand, supply, and pricing. Built-in interactive quizzes provide immediate feedback.
Federal Reserve Bank: Fed in Print
A catalog to Federal Reserve publications, search by keyword, title word, author, bank, publication year, and publication name. Some articles are available in full text, while others need to be purchased from the Federal Reserve.
History of Economic Thought
An encyclopedia and instructional resource. Several hundred historic and working economists, as well as economic and social philosophers and theorists, are portrayed in this work. References to representative works, photographs, and brief descriptions of the works accompany most. Over 60 schools of thought are described, including Schools of Political Economy: Pre-Classical and Classical; Neoclassical Schools; and Anglo-American and Continental Thematic Schools. Essays explain theory of value, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and many other topics grouped under these themes. A virtual library of links to primary sources, instructional resources, and more is also provided.
Joint Economic Committee (JEC)
The committee reviews economic conditions and recommends improvements in federal economic policy. JEC research and studies are posted at the website. The JEC provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money, and federal finance via the monthly Economic Indicators, prepared for the JEC by the Council of Economic Advisors. The historical Economic Indicators, searchable from April 1995 and browsable from 1998, are available at the GPO FDsys website.
National Association for Business Economics
The NABE holds several seminars per year and is the publisher of the quarterly journal Business Economics, which can be searched at the website; most full-text articles are available to members, however.
National Bureau of Economic Research
Economic analysis is the primary mission of this nonpartisan organization, concentrating on developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. Working papers are searchable by keyword, title, author, or working paper number. Abstracts are available at the site and the full text can be purchased from SSRN.com. The website provides links to additional economic data and resources.
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
The IIE has provided nonpartisan analysis and solutions for international economic problems from a macroeconomic point of view. The website provides access to full-text working papers on current economic issues and text of the speeches, testimony, and essays given and written by the staff of the IIE.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
An annual publication (the most recent is 2012) produced by the Census Bureau and focusing on social and economic statistics. The reporter go back to 1878.
The Virtual Library on Microcredit
Sponsored by the Global Development Research Center and covering topics like micro-credit, community development, NGOs, poverty, the environment, and micro-enterprises. Documents and resources are also organized by special themes and key focus areas found on the home page. Using strategies, success stories in the form of case studies and best practices, theoretical and practical articles, and governmental and organizational resources the site presents a wealth of information on alternative, non-conventional financial systems and microcredit." The site is available in English, French, Spanish, and Japanese.
World Bank Group Countries and Regions
On this searchable site, you may either click on a regional map or a list of topics to get news from the World Bank and/or full text of World Bank reports. The World Bank classifies economies by using the gross national income per capita. Countries are classified by geographic region, income, and indebtedness. Some reports are in PDF format and are easy to read. Some reports are available as Word documents or as unformatted text that are difficult to read but are still useful.
