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SUBJECT: Economics

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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.

EconLit (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
Produced by the American Economic Association. EconLit indexes and abstracts journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers from 1969-present.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
(reference resource)
Includes signed articles by 1,506 eminent contributors providing a current overview of economics.

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Bureau of Economic Analysis
(statistics)
Data from this site includes: Economic Indicators, gross domestic and state products by industry, government receipts and expenditures, foreign trade and investments, etc.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
(statistics)
Data from this site includes: inflation and consumer spending, consumer and producer price indices, wages by area and occupation, demographic characteristics of the labor force, occupational injuries, etc.

Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
Provides full text for over 2,710 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

Handbooks in Economics (ScienceDirect)
(e-books)
A collection of volumes from Elsevier's Handbooks in Economics series. To see the list of handbooks available, scroll down the page to the section labeled "Handbooks in Economics online are:"

LexisNexis Statistical
(statistics)
LexisNexis Statistical enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers.

NBER Working Papers
(reference resource)
1994-present. Economic Research disseminated by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization.

Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (2004-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1979-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.

Stat-USA
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A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, providing business, economic, and trade information.

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