Article Databases
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowScholarly reviews of 37 academic disciplines, including economics. Excellent for finding authoritative overviews of new topics.
- EconLit (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts to scholarly and professional literature in economics. 1969 to present. Links to full text.
- Social Sciences Premium Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowScholarly and professional citations and abstracts with full text links in politics and public policy, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, information sciences and education. Professional society databases included.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowOne of the most trusted sources for scholarly books and historical journal backfiles. Beginning in 2023, JSTOR also includes ArtStor images of art and primary source artifacts.
- PAIS International plus Archive (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowPublic Affairs Information Service offers abstracts of scholarship and professional literature from 1915 to present. International in scope, broad range of social science topics. Includes links to full text where available for Northeastern-owned books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and many government publications.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowAccess to more than 1,500 full-text journals and 22,000 ebooks as well as the Cochrane Library and reviews of literature in the sciences.
- SAGE Journals This link opens in a new windowJournals in full text published by Sage, emphasis on the social sciences.
Working Papers and Related Materials
- NBER Working Papers This link opens in a new windowCourtesy of the Economics Department
US-based private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. 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, but are intended to make results of NBER research available to other economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before final publication. 1973-present.
- Federal Reserve Bank of BostonWorking papers from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
- IDEASSearchable archive of economics working papers.
- IMF Working PapersFree working papers with searchable index.
- RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet from the American Economic AsociationLInks to over 2,000 categorized resources covering Data, Scholarly Communication, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, Teaching Resources, Jobs, Blogs, Commentaries and Podcasts, and more.
- RePEcRePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components.
- SSRN: Social Science Research NetworkRegistration required to access working papers and other documents. Not all documents are available for free, but there are many available without additional cost.
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