Information Resources for Economics

UNR's Licensed Resources for Economics

• Business Source Premier (EBSCOHost)
  • About 3,050 full-text scholarly publications, plus abstracts for 3,850+ journals, in management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Also includes country economic reports and profiles for 5,000 large companies. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• EconLit
  • Index to articles in journals, books, dissertations, and working papers in economics.1969 - present.
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • Archive of New National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers and Books. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that conducts and disseminates unbiased economic research.
• Social Sciences Citation Index
  • Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 1,725 journals from 1965- present.
    Save citations to EndNote Web — recorded training sessions are available.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.

UNR's Licensed Resources for Statistics

• ACCRA Cost of Living Index
  • A trusted comparison of consumer costs in U.S. metropolitan areas, updated quarterly.
• Europa World
  • The Europa World Year Book online, with political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
• Global Market Information Database
  • For over 200 countries, demographic and economic statistics, including consumer lifestyles, and retailing. 1977(earliest date of some tables)- present. Market analysis reports for over 350 markets for the last five years. Tables may be opened and saved in Excel.
• ICPSR
  • Electronic archive for government and other survey data. Contact the BGIC staff for access to data archive.
• LexisNexis Statistical
  • Abstracts and index to U.S. federal & state government publications, and to privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources from 1972.
• Main Economic Indicators
  • This monthly statistical publication provides a wide range of indicators on recent economic developments in the 29 OECD member countries and 10 non-members.
• Monthly Statistics of International Trade
  • A reliable and up-to-date source of statistics on international trade of OECD countries. Data are broken down by economic groupings, by country and by region, and include seasonally adjusted series as well as calculated indicators. The series shown cover data for the last eight months, four quarters and two years available.
• OECD Economic Surveys
  • Online access to the OECD's detailed annual surveys of individual countries.
• STAT-USA
  • A database of current and historical U.S. economic data and international trade information. Produced by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

News Sources

• LexisNexis Academic
  • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
• New York Times: Opinion
  • Paul Krugman's op-ed essays on politics and the economy.
• Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition
  • Financial and business newspaper. 1984- present.