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Economics
A guide to locating articles, working papers, datasets, and more in the field of economics
Discovery Tools for Articles
1. Library Quick Search
- Searches across multiple databases
- Great for articles, book chapters and other full-text content
- Cons: doesn't search numerical data, proprietary, and dynamically-generated content
Library Quick Search
eBooks
2. Google Scholar
- A subset of Google with scholarly content, including academic journals, books and book chapters, working papers, conference proceedings, legal opinions, patents, and more.
- If accessed through the UTSA Libraries website, links to full text licensed by UTSA.
- Does not include trade and industry publications, business magazines and newspapers.
- How to Use Google Scholar Off CampusDue to recent changes made by Google, you'll need to do a one-time set-up for your account to access full-text articles available through UTSA Libraries. Step by step instructions provided.
Databases
- EconLit (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowvia EBSCO. American Economic Association's database for references to economic literature back to 1969. Indexes and abstracts journal articles and books on economics, as well as Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Also provides citations for dissertations and articles from collective volumes and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. Updated monthly. Full Text.
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowvia EBSCO. Provides full-text coverage for over 9,400 general and scholarly business journals and other sources in marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowvia EBSCO. Indexes and abstracts more than 9,300 journals with full-text content for more than 5,300. Multidisciplinary.
- ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowContains a wealth of business and financial information, both current and historical across three databases. Global offers full text of both scholarly and trade journals, market and industry reports, as well as dissertations and working papers. Trade & Industry is focused on specific companies, executives, products and trends. Dateline contains city, state, and regional company and market news. Coverage: 1984-present. Updated daily.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowProvides access to journal articles, e-books, book chapters and major reference works published by Wiley in science, technology, medicine, business, humanities and social sciences. Significant full text.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowSearchable full-text and full-image backfiles of scholarly journals, as well as e-books, and primary resources. Subject areas include the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, math, and business. Includes the Artstor Digital Library containing millions of images from the world's museums, archives, and libraries.
- SIAM Journals Online This link opens in a new windowProvides full-image access to journals published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Journal issues dating from 1952 to 1996 are located in LOCUS, the online archive.
- Emerald Insights This link opens in a new windowProvides access to management and engineering journals. Emerald Management Plus Collection includes 200+ journals in business and management from over 20 subject areas, including Marketing, Health Care Management, Accounting and Finance.
- NBER Working Papers This link opens in a new windowFeatures access to full-text research papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, including titles from the Working Papers, Technical Working Papers, and Development of the American Economy series. These papers may prove useful for research in economics, political science, history, and public administration, among other academic disciplines.
Indexes & Abstracts: Citations Only
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowSearch current and retrospective information from 12,000+ high-impact research journals worldwide. Provides seamless access to Science Citation Expanded (1900- ), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900- ), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- ), Conference Proceedings Index (1990- ), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-2017). Cited reference searching enables tracking prior research, gauging the impact of research, and to locate articles that share common references.
- PAIS Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowPAIS, Public Affairs Information Service, indexes issues in the public debate through selective coverage of publications from more than 120 countries. Includes journal articles, books, government documents, statistical information, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more, on a variety of subjects.
- Current Index to Statistics (AMS) This link opens in a new windowIndexes journals, books, and proceedings in probability and statistics. Over 160 core journals are fully indexed, and selected articles are indexed from an additional 1,200 journals.