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EconLit 1969 - EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly English language journals, dissertations, working papers, and books in the field of economics. Also included are the full-text of book reviews ... Access Database EconLit

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ABI/Inform 1900 - present ABI/INFORM Complete provides thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country and indus... Access Database ABI/Inform
Business Source Complete 1886 - present Business Source Complete provides access to over 3000 business and management publications, of which more than 2000 are full text. The database includes scholarly, trade and popular business magazi... Access Database Business Source Complete
EconLit 1969 - EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly English language journals, dissertations, working papers, and books in the field of economics. Also included are the full-text of book reviews ... Access Database EconLit
Handbooks in Economics Backfile access through 2015 The Handbooks in Economics series provides the various branches of economics with definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students. Topics cove... Access Database Handbooks in Economics
Web of Science Arts & Humanities, 1975 to present; Science, 1900 to present; 1965 - for Science; Social Sciences, 1900 to present; Conferences, 1990 to present The Web of Science is a combination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index (... Access Database Web of Science

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Academic Search 1975 - present Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are index... Access Database Academic Search
African History and Culture, 1540-1921: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia 1540 - 1921 Archival collection of books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history, peoples, and social and economic development of the African continent from the 16th century to the e... Access Database African History and Culture, 1540-1921: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agrib... Access Database AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary) 1910 - present CAB Abstracts a comprehensive database of the applied life sciences. The subject matter covers agriculture, agricultural economics, animal breeding and disease, biotechnology, dairy science, entomo... Access Database CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary)
Cairn (French) This journal database covers subjects in the humanities and social sciences, representing primarily French and Francophone scholarly publications. Since February 2006, the National Library of Franc... Access Database Cairn (French)
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia 1535 - 1920 Created from the holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, this collection contains books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera covering the history of the Caribbean region from the ... Access Database Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals) 1906 - 1993 The Century Journals Project is the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th Century Chinese Journals More than 3,500 full-text Chinese Journals Content beginning as early as 1906 Ma... Access Database Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals)
EconPapers: Economics at your Fingertips EconPapers provides access to the a collection of over 800,000 online Economics working papers and journal articles from over 1100 archives operated by research organizations, academic departments ... Access Database EconPapers: Economics at your Fingertips
Electronic Enlightenment 18th century A project of the University of Oxford and other universities and organizations, Electronic Enlightenment is a web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the eighteenth centu... Access Database Electronic Enlightenment
FAOSTAT: FAO Statistical Databases (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) 1961 - present FAOSTAT is a collection of online databases containing more than 1 million time-series records covering international agricultural statistics for 210 countries. Data are provided by national govern... Access Database FAOSTAT: FAO Statistical Databases (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2016) 1888 - 2016 The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete run of the London edition of this daily paper, from its first issue through 2016. Every article, advertisement and market listing is inc... Access Database Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2016)
Gale Primary Sources: Newspaper / Periodical databases 17th - 21st century Online newspaper portal: cross-searches Gale newspapers archives using a single interface, covering over 400 years of content, with over 10 million pages of full text images. Includes all online Ga... Access Database Gale Primary Sources: Newspaper / Periodical databases
Google Scholar Dates Vary Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of researc... Access Database Google Scholar
IBISWorld Industry Reports IBISWorld is a leading publisher of U.S. industry research. IBISWorld's team of expert analysts covers 700 different market segments. Each industry report is presented in an objective, easy to unde... Access Database IBISWorld Industry Reports
IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS) 1948 - present The IMF eLibrary Data contains a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates, and other economic and financial indicators. The International Financial Statistcs (IFS) has been one of I... Access Database IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS)
Indiastat.com 1990 - present Indiastat.com provides socio-economic statistical data primarily from Indian government sources in electronic formats (both HTML and Excel files). Data includes statistics on demographics, health, ... Access Database Indiastat.com
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Dates Vary; ICPSR was founded in 1962 ICPSR maintains and provides access to a large archive of quantitative social science data for research and instruction. The ICPSR data holdings contain around 5000 studies and 50,000 files coverin... Access Database Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
International African Bibliography Online 1971 - present NOTE: This database will be cancelled effective, December 31, 2021. The International African Bibliography (IAB) is an essential resource for all those working in the field of African studies, prov... Access Database International African Bibliography Online
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) 1981 - present The IBSS indexes the information contained in over 2,600 social sciences journals and 6,000 books each year. Coverage includes both core and specialized material from over 100 countries in more tha... Access Database International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Current (2015) The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences is a fully revised and updated second edition of the 2001 publication. It includes nearly 4000 articles curated by 71 section edit... Access Database International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
JSTOR Dates Vary JSTOR is a portal to academic journal article, ebooks and primary sources. Particular focus is in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological scien... Access Database JSTOR
Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II, III and IV, The 1450 - 1914 This wide-ranging collection looks at history through the lens of wealth and trade with a focus on economics, political science, history, philosophy, sociology, and special collections on banking, ... Access Database Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II, III and IV, The
MANTIS (Numismatics) 2700 B.C.E. - present The American Numismatic Society database contains images of thousands of objects in the Society's collections. These include, coins, paper money, tokens, primitive money, medals and decorations, fr... Access Database MANTIS (Numismatics)
Mintel Academic 2001 - present The Mintel Academic database provides in-depth reports that analyze market size and segmentation, consumer attitudes and marketing strategies relative to hundreds of consumer products in the United... Access Database Mintel Academic
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online 2008 This heavily revised edition includes signed articles by more than 1,500 eminent contributors providing a current overview of economics. In addition, it retains many individual classic essays of en... Access Database New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
Nexis Uni Dates vary Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) offers access to more than 17,000 news, legal and business sources, including print and online journals; television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blog... Access Database Nexis Uni
OECD iLibrary 1998 - 8/31/2019 NOTE: This resource was cancelled on 9/1/2019, after which access will be limited to content published prior to 9/1/2019, and will not include any updates to content made after that date. OECD iLib... Access Database OECD iLibrary
Oxford Handbooks Online Current Oxford Handbooks Online provides access to the full text of more than 300 ebook titles published as part of the Oxford Handbooks series, plus specially commissioned keywords and abstracts. They are... Access Database Oxford Handbooks Online
PAIS (Public Affairs) 1972 - present Public Affairs Information Service indexes more than 900 journals; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernment... Access Database PAIS (Public Affairs)
PolicyMap Online data and mapping tool for creating custom reports of data related to demographics, real estate, health, jobs, the environment, education and more. Data comes from authoritative public and pr... Access Database PolicyMap
Scout Report Archives The Scout Report Archives is a searchable and browseable database to over nine years' worth of the Scout Report and subject-specific Scout Reports. It contains approximately 17,000 critical annotat... Access Database Scout Report Archives
Security Studies on JSTOR Collection of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of security studies. The content offers a broad view of security studies, encompassing research on international security and peace... Access Database Security Studies on JSTOR
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) 1895 - SocINDEX with Full Text includes full text for 397 "core coverage" sociology journals dating back to 1908 and 150 "priority coverage" journals. It also includes full text for more than 720 books an... Access Database SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) 1509 - 1782 State Papers Online, 1509-1714 is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Mon... Access Database State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782)
Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013- (via ProQuest) dates vary, to present This tool is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of... Access Database Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013- (via ProQuest)
Trade Policy Review 1995 - present The World Trade Organization (WTO) monitors the trade policies and practices of its member nations and resolves trade disputes. This CD-ROM includes reviews of the 28 member countries made by the W... Access Database Trade Policy Review
U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) Current The U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System contains more than 3 million records for pending, registered, abandoned, cancelled and expired federal trademarks. When appropriate, trademark records wi... Access Database U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) 1962 - present Worldwide trade data by commodity, including country-to-country information. It contains well over 1.7 billion data records for the past 45 years. (Includes most recently completed year.) Access Database UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade)
US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database 1976 - present The database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue w... Access Database US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database
WisStat 1960 - present GetFacts, formerly WISSTAT, contains thousands of demographic and economic variables for the state of Wisconsin, its counties and smaller communitites. The sources of the data include the U.S. Cens... Access Database WisStat
World Bank Data The World Bank Group provides free online access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is ... Access Database World Bank Data

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