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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Economics:
Economics Indexes
Caveats/Comments:
- This page lists searchable resources that index publications and data in economics. Emphasis is placed on resources that index a broad range of information. More specific sources of information are listed on the Data and Text Resources page.
- For more extensive links from a business perspective (accounting, finance, company research, etc.), consult the Business Research Guide.
- Government publications are often a rich source for economic data and analysis. Check the Government Information Resources page for more information.
- Additional data resources are listed in the Numeric and GIS Data Guide. You may also want to consult the Data Services page and the RutgersData blog for further leads to data at Rutgers.
Books
Use the links below to locate monographs (books), and other material such as computers files, electronic databases, videos, and journal holdings at the title level. For journal articles, see the next section. While Rutgers should be your first stop for book searching, our collection is only of moderate size and has gaps. Using other catalogs to locate material, and requesting them through Interlibrary Loan or E-ZBorrow will ensure that you are finding all the relevant resources.
- IRIS is the catalog of the Rutgers University Libraries. Search here for books, electronic databases, media, computer files, and journals across all of our locations. Over 4 million items. Use IRIS to request delivery of material from other libraries at Rutgers, or material that has been checked out. Also, request free electronic delivery of journal articles.
- E-ZBorrow lets you locate and request material in regional libraries, with delivery times of about a week
- WorldCat is the largest combined database of research libraries worldwide. Also available via free interface.
- Library of Congress holds a comprehensive collection of books published in the United States plus large international and multimedia collections. Over 32 million books.
- Other Library Catalogs
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Journals and Other Publications
Use these indexes to locate articles in scholarly journals, newspapers, government documents, and more.
- EconLit the American Economic Association's index to scholarly literature in Economics from 1969 to present. This is the best index for coverage of scholarship in economics. For journals indexed and coverage dates in EconLit see this list. For coverage from 1963 to 1968, consult the Journal of Economic Abstracts.
- Access UN indexes United Nations publications.
- Asia-Studies Full-Text Online provides access to journals and papers from APEC, ADB, and other organizations focused on the Asian economy.
- ASSIA is Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, covering a selection of social sciences journals.
- Business & Industry provides full text coverage of specialized business periodicals.
- Business Source Premier contains full text and indexing of leading scholarly business journals.
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (Monthly Catalog) indexes US documents since 1976.
- CIAO is Columbia International Affairs Online - full text working papers, conference proceedings, and research reports on international affairs. Includes information from American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Cato Institute, London School of Economics, and more.
- Declassified Documents Reference System is a full text database of US government declassified documents.
- Factiva is a full text database of news, business, and (some) academic publications from around the world.
- Fed in Print is the official index to Federal Reserve Bank economic research.
- Left Index provides coverage of Marxist, radical, and left-leaning publications.
- PAIS provides international coverage of public affairs and policy.
- Popline covers population and demography literature.
- Population Index: PopIndex (Princeton University) index to scholarly literature on demography through 2000.
- SourceOECD provides full text of books, reports, and papers of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
- Web of Science is a citation index to thousands of academic journals. Explore the literature by tracking who is citing your favorite papers.
Working Papers
Working papers report research findings well in advance of formal publication. Working papers are published by research organizations such as the NBER and CEPR, as well as by academic departments and nongovernmental organizations. The links below should help you to locate working papers available electronically. For sites not listed here, try EDIRC, a directory of economics institutes and research centers, or the Organizations page.
- AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota)
- CEPR Centre for Economic Policy Research (UK) -- online discussion papers and other publications
- CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online - working papers, conference proceedings, and research reports on international affairs. Includes information from American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Cato Institute, London School of Economics, and more.
- EconPapers search RePEc archives of working papers
- IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service) also searches RePEC archives
- Inomics browsable list of institutes and publications producing working papers, with links to papers
- MRPA Munich Personal RePEc archive - for authors unaffiliated with institutions
- NBER Working Papers (latest working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research)
- NBER Working Papers (search engine)
- RePEc authors service Information about authors of working papers
- NEP New Economics Papers - browse and receive e-mail notification of new submissions to RePEc
- RePEc largest archive of Full text research papers in Economics from EconWPA, Fed in Print, NBER, CEPR as well as over 100 other archives. Access through the IDEAS or EconPapers search engines
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Department of Economics Working Papers (search engine)
- Social Science Research Network leading alerting and download service for working papers, includes:
- Socionet.ru Working paper archive of Russian social science research
- TEKTRAN Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service papers
Searchable Web Sites for Data, Software, and other Information
Extensive browsable resources are listed on the Economics Data page
- Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
- Cross-National Time Series provides access to the data from over 250 countries, over 200 series and data beginning in the year 1815.
- Data on the Net searches across more than 300 sites that provide data. Includes list of Social Science Gateways.
- Global Financial Data the most complete collection of historical and current financial and economic data available in the world. Covering more than 150 different countries, it provides over 6000 different data series for download or charting.
- Fedstats searches across all US government sites for statistics
- Historical Statistics of the United States over 37,000 data items from colonial times to 2000
- ICPSR search the world's largest archive of social science data.
- International Economic Statistics (IES) is a database from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that provides a simplified search for worldwide economic indicators.
- International Financial Statistics (IMF) contains detailed financial and macroeconomic statistics for many countries, from 1945 to the present, updated monthly.
- iPoll (Roper Center) large compilation of US poll data.
- LexisNexis Statistical very comprehensive index to both print and online statistical publications of international organizations, and federal, state, and foreign governments. Includes direct access to tables from many publications, including the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
- Numeric and GIS Data Guide searchable links to numeric data from the Rutgers University Libraries Scholarly Communication Center.
- Polling the Nations searchable international poll results from a variety of sources.
- OECD.Stat downloadable statistics from OECD publications.
- Social Science Electronic Data Library large health and social science datasets.
- TableBase tables and rankings extracted from specialized business publications.
- UNdata portal to data from hundreds of sources of the United Nations and its sub-organizations
- World Development Indicators (World Bank) Complete coverage of major indicators from 1960 to the present for all countries tracked by the World Bank. Here is a short video introduction to the database, part of the Data Snapshots series.
Additional Data Resources at Rutgers University Libraries
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