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A search engine specific for economics, from our partner ZBW
When you need to find literature on a particular topic, these databases are recommended:
Provides bibliographic or full text content from 1,300 academic journals, magazines and trade publications covering business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Platform: EBSCOhost
International bibliographical database for economists.
Platform: ProQuest
ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases - including e.g. the ABI/INFORM Collection and J.P. Morgan Research - to a total of more than 130 million documents.
To facilitate the research of e.g. company or market information ProQuest developed new corporation and business subject thesauri for ProQuest One Business as well as a new indexing for e.g. different types of reports and report content. Based on this new indexing ProQuest One Business offers special search and navigation features that are not available elsewhere on the ProQuest Platform. For more information on how to use these features, please see the Unique Features page.
These online encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks are recommended:
Online version of the well known dictionary of economics.
Multidisciplinary collection of (subject) dictionaries and encyclopedias, timelines and quotations, plus thesauri and guides to English grammar and usage.
SRMO helps you to answer your research methods and design questions, with over 100,000 pages of book, journal and reference content. The Cases offer hundreds of case studies of actual research projects. They add nuance and context to the more theoretical material found in SRMO.
SRMO contains
One of the features is The Methods Map. This is a visualization tool that can be used to discover relationships between methods, to discover new methods and to find content related to them. Underpinning the Methods Map is a new taxonomy of social science research methods, developed by Sage, and containing over 1,400 unique terms.
Related databases: Safari: O’Reilly’s Learning Platform for Higher Education
You can find online journals here:
Quality journal lists according to EUR Research Institutes:
Working Papers are basically articles in progress. They are in the process of peer review. This will take some time that is why authors already publish a version. So a working paper show very recent research but not with the quality stamp of the peer review process yet.
First two resources which are gateways to a lot of workings papers, one paid license and one free internet resource:
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks and aims at early distribution of research by publishing abstracts of papers.
Specialized research networks are for example in the field of Cognitive Science, Corporate Governance, Economics, Legal Scholarship, Political Sience and Humanities.
The eLibrary can be searched for papers. This online library consists of an Abstract Database, containing abstracts of working papers and forthcoming papers, and the Electronic Paper Collection containing full text documents. Not all documents can be downloaded free of charge.
Date range: 1994 - present
Related database: EconPapers
Two other well know resources for working papers with already high academic status are:
Working papers from economists of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Articles will lead you to older articles through their literature list. There are also databases that record the citations. Searing with these citations will actually lead to newer literature. However keep in mind a citation is not always based on content. We all cite Tinbergen and often you also cite your supervisor. So if you have a great article you can use the citations to find newer literature.
Two great resources for this citation searching are:
Web of Science is a citation database, covering academic journals worldwide in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, and conference proceedings. It provides cover-to-cover indexing, from 1975 till present.
The EUR license to Web of Science Core Collection consists of:
Date range: 1975 - present
Related databases: Scopus, Dimensions
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature (journals and books). The search results also contain links to preprints (2017 onwards) and research data.
Date range: 1788 - 1970 (abstracts included where available); 1970 - present (records including references)
Related databases: Web of Science, Dimensions
Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is an analytical tool to identify top-performing research in Web of Science Core Collection. It ranks authors, institutions, countries and journals based on publication and citation performance.
Date range: rolling 10-year period
When looking for data please go the Erasmus Data Service Centre (EDSC). The EDSC provides access to financial and social science databases and gives individual support and workshops for students and staff of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Fiscal Economists please also have a look at the Law Guide