Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Applications of the Dismal Science: Economic Issues

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Humanities & Business Librarian
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Periodical articles

scholarly indexes to research articles. . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database, multi-disciplinary. Some full text. Limit search to "peer-reviewed" to find scholarly titles.

Business Source Elite
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database for business research. Some full text. Limit search to "peer-reviewed" to find scholarly titles.

EconLit
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database for economics. Some full text. Interlibrary loan articles that are not full-text.

Omnifile
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database, multi-disciplinary. Some full text. Limit search to "peer-reviewed" to find scholarly titles. Allows limiting to specific discipline.

indexes of "high brow" news sources. . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good starting place for locating articles in the New York Times, Economist, etc.

Wall Street Journal
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
The WSJ doesn't like to play with others, so it has it's own database. . .

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Get It link found next to the citation, or run a journal title search in Trexler Library's online catalog. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.

articles via interlibrary loan. . .

Journal articles not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > ILL

Books containing primary research

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat ***RECOMMENDED***
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Database > Most Popular > WorldCat
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Statistics

Statistical Abstract of the United States (Statistical Reference 317.3 U58s)
The "bible" of U.S. statistics.

Statistical Resources on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html)
Hosted by the University of Michigan. Both national and international statistics.

Search engines

Popular

Google (http://www.google.com)
Non-selective. One of the largest web crawlers.

Scholarly (use with discretion)

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Intended as a "federated search" to search across disciplines (weighted toward sciences and social sciences). Not always full text. Check our Journal Locator (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text.

Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)
The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

Citing sources in a bibliography

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources. ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Citation Guides.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/). Here is a user guide.