Key Databases and WWW Sites for Economics Publications

Outline of Presentation for Economics 282/3 on September 27, 2006
Harold Colson, UCSD Libraries, hcolson@ucsd.edu

Subscription resources are highlighted in yellow; you will need proxy or VPN to access them from off campus.

Sources for Articles, Books, Papers

Main Databases

· EconLit http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=ucsd&databases=ECON

· Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) http://isiknowledge.com/wos

· WorldCat http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=WorldCat?done=referer

· Digital Dissertations http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/search

Online tutorials for “cited reference” searching in SSCI:

http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/citedreference/ http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/ccrs/

Other Specialty Databases

· Business Source Premier http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=buh

· British Library for Development Studies http://blds.ids.ac.uk/blds/search/search.html

· Current Index to Statistics http://www.statindex.org/CIS/psqlQuery

· JOLIS (World Bank–IMF) http://jolis.worldbankimflib.org/e-nljolis.htm

· MathSciNet http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/

· Population Index http://popindex.princeton.edu/

Electronic Journals View full listing from Roger catalog

· JSTOR http://www.jstor.org

· Elsevier http://www.sciencedirect.com

Databases and Online Archives of Working Papers

· RePEc/IDEAS http://ideas.repec.org/

· SSRN http://www.ssrn.com

· Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com

Bibliographic/Citation Management Software

Using Citation Management Software with Vendor Databases (CDL)

http://www.cdlib.org/inside/instruct/citman.html

Bibliographic Software (UCSD Libraries)

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/services/bibsoftware/

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