Research Guides: Economics: Find Secondary Sources (Articles, some books)

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EconLit This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore a wide array of economics literature with citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from scholarly and trade journals.
Content type: Abstracts of scholarly articles, dissertations, working papers, books
Coverage dates: 1886 - present
Includes content related to agricultural economics, business economics, capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, economic systems, environmental economics, and more.
Language: primarily English, with Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Chinese, etc.
Keywords: econ lit
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good starting point when researching topics that intersect with multiple disciplines.
Content type: Scholarly articles, newspaper articles, magazine articles, trade journal articles
Coverage dates: 1887-present; varies by title
Language: English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, French, Chinese, Arabic etc.
Keywords: ASP
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Main database for both historical and contemporary research on business, management, and finance topics.
Content type: Scholarly articles, magazine articles, trade journal articles, newspaper articles, industry reports, market reports, dissertations, SSRN working papers, business information
Coverage dates: 1855-present; varies by title
Only full text source of The Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition and digital images of selected key business journals from the first issue to the present. Included databases are ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry.
Language: English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, etc.
Keywords: ABI INFORM
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for research about a wide variety of business and management topics, including accounting, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and some industry reports.
Content type: Scholarly articles, magazine articles, trade journal articles, newspaper articles, industry reports, market reports, SWOT analyses
Coverage dates: 1886-present
Special Note: Exclusive source for Harvard Business Review.
Language: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Russian, etc.
Keywords: BSP
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Discover abstracts and citations from leading political science journals.
Content type: Abstracts and citations for scholarly articles, monographs, magazine articles, dissertations, theses
Coverage dates: 1975-present
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is the electronic counterpart and continuation of the print publication Political Science Abstracts.
Language: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for conducting wide reaching searches of the scholarly literature and exploring citation based connections between articles.
Content type: Abstracts of scholarly articles, books, book chapters, patents
Start your search in Google Scholar from the library website to get access to open access materials and items only available through Library subscriptions.
Language: English
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Search here for scholarly content in the humanities and social sciences in a major database that many students are familiar with from high school.
Content type: Journal articles, eBooks, images, primary sources
Many journals include only backfiles and do not include current content. Use other databases to find the most recent issues of these journals.
Language: English, French, German, Spanish

Newspaper Articles

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Search here for comprehensive coverage of news and current events, government, business, medical, and legal topics, as well as general reference information.
Content type: Newspaper articles, trade journal articles, broadcast transcripts, financial reports, federal and state case law, medical abstracts, corporate profiles
Coverage dates: 1980-present
Language: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese
Keywords: Lexis Nexis
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Discover news from the top news sources around the world.
Content type: Newspaper articles
Coverage dates: 1980-present
Includes titles such as, The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.
Language: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Urdu‎, etc.
Keywords: News Stream International Newsstand Stand

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