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Description   Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 750 international economic journals. EconLit source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. The database contains more than 350,000 records and covers subjects from accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and more. Years of coverage are 1969-present with approximately 26,000 records added annually.
Dates covered   1969 to present
Articles indexed 1969+, abstracted 1987+
Books abstracted 1987+
Dissertations indexed 1987+
Abstracts of working papers 1984+
Book reviews 1994+
Updating frequency   Monthly
Sources   Economics journals. For journals indexed and coverage dates in EconLit see http://www.econlit.org/eclist.html.

Abstracts of published books from the Annotated Listing of New Books section of the Journal of Economic Literature.

Indexing of articles (chapters) in collective works, conference proceedings, collections of essays on a particular topic, papers from research projects, collections of papers by a single author, and Festschrift volumes (articles collected in honor of a distinguished person).

RePEc Project: Research Papers in Economics database of working papers.

Dissertation titles with subject classifications supplied to the American Economic Association by the individual graduate departments.

Full-text book reviews from Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
Type of coverage   Six types of documents are indexed in EconLit:
  1. Journal Articles,
  2. Books,
  3. Collective Volume Articles,
  4. Dissertations,
  5. Abstracts with links to working papers from the decentralized RePEc Project: Research Papers in Economics database of working papers, and
  6. full-text Book Reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
Print Counterpart or related resources   Journal of Economic Literature, with some additions.
Provider   Producer or content provider: American Economic Association
Vendor or electronic presentation provider: Ovid Technologies, Inc.
Help   Detailed search help is available from the vendor. From the top right of the OVID search screen, click on the "Help" icon. Instructions are provided on Basic and Advanced searching techniques. Also available from the main search are icons to limit searches to specific fields such as Author, Title, Journal.
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