Economics Databases
Recommended starting places
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.
Journal of Economic Literature Classification System
(reference resource)
From the American Economic Association.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
(reference resource)
Includes signed articles by 1,506 eminent contributors providing a current overview of economics.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
(newspaper)
Full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal newspaper.
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ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest)
(article index)
Articles from nearly 3,000 worldwide business periodicals and more than 60,000 business profiles for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more; 1971 to present.
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.
Conference Board Research
(reference resource)
Database of management and economic research.
Global Market Information Database (now Passport GMID)
(reference resource)
Available only to UNC faculty, staff, and students; you must enter your name and Bear Number to use this product.
GMID offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information.
205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.
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:"
NBER Working Papers
(reference resource)
1994-present. Economic Research disseminated by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization.
Passport GMID (formerly Global Market Information Database)
(reference resource)
Available only to UNC faculty, staff, and students; you must enter your name and Bear Number to use this product.
GMID offers integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information.
205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index (1999-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1965-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.
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