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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 ... View EconLit Online

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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... View ABI/Inform Online
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... View Business Source Complete Online
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 ... View EconLit Online
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 (... View Web of Science Online

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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... View Academic Search Online
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... View AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics Online
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... View CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary) Online
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... View Cairn (French) Online
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... View Century Journals Project (Chinese Journals) Online
CountryWatch 1993 - present CountryWatch is a combination of textual and statistical sources on more than 190 countries. Lengthy Country Reviews give a complete historical, political, economic, investment, social, and environ... View CountryWatch Online
D&B Business Browser Formerly OneSource Global Business Browser. Provides robust intelligence on companies, executives, and industries, as well as news, analyst reports and SEC filings. Use the search boxes on the data... View D&B Business Browser Online
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 ... View EconPapers: Economics at your Fingertips Online
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... View Electronic Enlightenment Online
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... View FAOSTAT: FAO Statistical Databases (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Online
Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2010) 1888 - 2010 The Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue through 2010. Every article, advertisement and... View Financial Times Historical Archive (1888-2010) Online
Gale NewsVault 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... View Gale NewsVault Online
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... View Google Scholar Online
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... View IBISWorld Industry Reports Online
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... View IMF Data including International Financial Statistics (IFS) Online
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, ... View Indiastat.com Online
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... View Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Online
International African Bibliography Online 1971 - present The International African Bibliography (IAB) is an essential resource for all those working in the field of African studies, providing a current awareness service of the latest books, articles and ... View International African Bibliography Online Online
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 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... View International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Online
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... View International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Online
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Dates Vary JSTOR is a full-text journal database which provides access to more than 1,200 titles in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, architecture, Asian studies, biological sciences, bota... View JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Online
Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II and III, 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, ... View Making of the Modern World: Parts I, II and III, The Online
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... View MANTIS (Numismatics) Online
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... View Mintel Academic Online
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... View New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online Online
Nexis Uni Dates vary NOTE: In early 2018, LexisNexis launched a new platform, Nexis Uni, to replace LexisNexis Academic. Access to both platforms will available until March 31, 2018. Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Aca... View Nexis Uni Online
OECD iLibrary 1998 - present OECD iLibrary is a platform containing over 17 ebook collections organized by theme from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. In addition to these ebooks, the platform also i... View OECD iLibrary Online
Oxford Handbooks Online Current Oxford Handbooks Online provides access to the full text of more than 190 plus titles published as part of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks series, plus specially commissioned keywords and abstract... View Oxford Handbooks Online 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... View PAIS (Public Affairs) Online
ProQuest Statistical Insight 1973 - present Statistical Insight contains abstracting and indexing data for more than 5,000 federal statistical publications per year from 1973 to the present contained in ASI (American Statistics Index). Stati... View ProQuest Statistical Insight Online
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... View Scout Report Archives Online
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) NOTE: This database will be cancelled effective, April 1, 2019.Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a... View Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Online
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... View SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) Online
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... View State Papers Online: Early Modern Government in Britain and Europe (1509-1782) Online
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... View Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013- (via ProQuest) Online
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... View Trade Policy Review Online
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... View U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) Online
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.) View UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) Online
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... View US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database Online
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... View WisStat Online
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 ... View World Bank Data Online

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