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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
EconLit: Indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals. Source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. Coverage is from 1969 to the present.
Europa World: Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes many journals in the areas of business, economics, and finance.
NOTE: Coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years are not available.
LexisNexis Academic: A collection of databases with information on a wide range of topics, including news, business, politics and government, law, state and country information, biography, references works and dictionaries, health and medicine, and taxes and accounting. Most articles are in full-text. Covers 1980's to the present.
NBER Working Papers: The National Bureau of Economic Research publishes its Working Papers with the intention of making "results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication. NBER Working Papers have not undergone the review accorded official NBER publications; in particular, they have not been submitted for approval by the Board of directors." Full text available via pdf in most cases.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Social Sciences Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1983; full-text of selected articles in 1995.
ScienceDirect: Elsevier is the world's leading publisher of social, physical, and health science information, producing 25% of the world's scientific journal information. Elsevier delivers this content through the ScienceDirect platform, which offers tremendous search capability and convenient personalization features that save time and increase productivity. The ScienceDirect College Edition collection provides access to more than 1,900 multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal titles, including leading titles like Journal of Financial Economics and World Development.

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AgEcon Search: Indexing and full-text of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics, including agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
Economic Research - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: This site offers a wealth of economic data and information to promote economic education and enhance economic research. The widely used database FRED is updated regularly and provides access to regional and national financial and economic data.
EconPapers: See description below.
IDEAS Database: Both EconPapers and IDEAS Database search the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) database, although each has its own search interface. The REPEc is the world's largest collection of online economics working papers and journal articles. It has over 350,000 records for working papers, journal articles, books, book chapters, and computer programs. The majority of the working papers are linked to the full-text. Many of the journal articles have links to the full-text, although Centre users will have free access only to articles from publications to which the library subscribes.
FedStats: Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
GPO Access: GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides full-text access to several publications produced by the Federal Government. Includes such titles as Budget of the United States Government, Economic Indicators, and Economic Report of the President.
Oxford Reference Online: Economics & Business: Offers complete content of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas, including economics and business. Oxford Reference Online can be searched by individual title, subject group, or the entire database.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies by title.

Last updated October 24, 2008