OWHL Guides: Andover Economics Society (AES) Research Guide: Scholarly Sources

Scholarly Sources at the OWHL

Select Reference Sources

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Written by leading figures in the field including many Nobel prize winners, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists.

Gale Encyclopedia of U. S. Economic History
Call Number: eBook
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Call Number: eBook

Databases To Explore

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Econ-Relevant Databases

EconLit by ProQuest
This database is published by the American Economic Association and provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.
Business Source Premier

This EBSCO business research database provides the full text for more than 2,300 popular and scholarly journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Social Science Database by ProQuest

This database offers the full text of hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Interdisciplinary Databases

JSTOR

This multidisciplinary database provides access to full text scholarly journals, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. Also includes image database (previously ARTSTOR)
Academic Search Elite by EBSCO

This multidisciplinary database provides the full text of more than 2,100 journals, including more than 1,700 peer-reviewed titles.

Scholarly Sources Online

Open Access Articles, Working Papers, & Other Research

Many authors and scholars make their academic work available to the public by publishing in an open access journal or adding their work to a preprint repository. The following resources have their own searches/filters that allow you to look for free economics literature.

Digital Repositories

AgEcon Search
An open-access repository at the University of Minnesota of working papers, research papers and conference papers on agriculture and applied economics.
ECONPapers
The world's largest repository of economic working papers, created by a collaboration of hundreds of volunteers in 96 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics and related sciences.
EconStor
This publication server is provided by the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and holds over 200,000 open access full texts.
Social Science Research Network
SSRN disseminates social science research to professionals, academics, and the general public.
MPRA
Munich Personal RePEc Archive is a repository of research papers from economists who don't have institutional affiliation with the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) network.
Ideas - Economic Research Papers
IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet.
Global ETD (Electronic Thesis & Dissertation) Search
Created by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), this volunteer organization uploads open-access papers from international universities.

Gov't & Nonpartisan Research

Congressional Research Reports
The Congressional Research Service prepares these reports for members of Congress. Typically, the topics are related to current events or legislation and present both sides to an issue.
Fed in Print
An index to all the documents and research produced by the various United States' Federal Reserve Banks. Much of the research and articles are devoted to monetary and fiscal policy.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonpartisan organization that facilitates cutting-edge investigation and analysis of major economic issues.

Open Access Econ Journals

EconBiz Journal Search
Aservice of ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, this journal search is pre-filtered for open access journals.
Open Access Economics Journals
A list of OA economics journals on OA.mg, which is a search engine for academic papers.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Search for open access journals by subject, and identify which journals charge author processing fees.