Find literature in sEURch, EUR's discovery tool
A search engine specific for economics, from our partner ZBW
When you need to find literature on a particular topic, these databases are recommended:
This link opens in a new windowProvides bibliographic or full text content from 1,300 academic journals, magazines and trade publications covering business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
This link opens in a new windowInternational bibliographical database for economists.
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.
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.
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.
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:
This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new windowWeb 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.
This link opens in a new window This link opens in a new windowScopus 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.
This link opens in a new windowEssential 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.
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
