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This guide is designed to help with Economics and Finance research. Click on the database titles to the right to get started.
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Core Library Databases for Economics and Finance
Use EconLit, Business Source, and JSTOR to find the best articles from Economics journals, and use Capital IQ and Mergent to get financial data from corporations.
Some databases provide article citations, but not full text. The Find It! button will link to full text across databases. If full text is not available, request it via Interlibrary Loan.
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EconLit This link opens in a new windowProduced by the American Economic Association. Contains nearly 1.3 million records with citations and abstracts dating back to 1886. Content is indexed from 73 countries, and all abstracts are provided in English. NOTE: Limited to a small number of simultaneous users. If you are blocked, wait a while and try again.
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Business Source Premier - Standard Interface This link opens in a new window
Access 1018 active full-text journals, including Harvard Business Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Fortune, and many others.
See a complete indexing list.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowAccess to thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources covering the social sciences, humanities, and arts, including the journals of the American Economic Association, with a three-year embargo.
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Capital IQ This link opens in a new window
Provides public and private company and industry information including extensive financial data, stock reports, and more. Use hundreds of data points to generate lists of companies, markets, and executives. Includes an Excel add-in for data analysis.
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Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Features industry surveys, data on private and public U.S companies, international businesses, and consumers, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, and more.
Newspapers with Business and Economic News
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New York Times (Institutional Subscription) This link opens in a new window
The New York Times is a daily newspaper based in New York City. Covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews.
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Wall Street Journal (Institutional Subscription) This link opens in a new window
Unlimited access to WSJ.com and the WSJ App.
You will need to create a separate account. See details: Wall Street Journal Access
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Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Full text for regional business publications, including titles from Crain Communications. Updated daily.
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U.S. Newsstream (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowContent and archives (1980s-) from national and regional news sources including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, and Minneapolis Star Tribune.
