Key Databases and WWW Sites for Economics Publications and Data

Outline of Presentation for Economics 272/3 on October 17, 2002
Harold Colson, Economics Bibliographer, SSH Library hcolson@ucsd.edu

I. Sources for Articles, Books, Papers

Main Databases

· EconLit http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?autho=100-200-510&dbname=econlit&done=referer

· Current Contents http://gateway.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&NEWS=N&PAGE=main&D=ccall

· Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) http://www.webofscience.com

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

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

Online tutorial for “cited reference” searching in SSCI: http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/ccrs/

Other Specialty Databases

· ABI/Inform http://www.umi.com/pqdauto?COPT=U01EPTQmREJTPTM@

· Academic Universe http://www.lexisnexis.com/universe

· British Library for Development Studies http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/dbases/bldsdb0.htm

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

· 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

· BibEc http://netec.wustl.edu/BibEc.html

· WoPec http://netec.wustl.edu/WoPEc.html

· RePEc/IDEAS http://ideas.uqam.ca

II. Gateways for Data

· UCSD Social Science Data Collection http://ssdc.ucsd.edu

· WebEc Economics Data http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc/webecc8d.html

AEA Journals:

http://uclibs.org/PID/31653 AER

http://uclibs.org/PID/31655 JEL

http://uclibs.org/PID/31654 JEP

Econometrica

Introduction to Econometrics, Yixiao