Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Principles of Macroeconomics

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Reference desk IM: talktotrexler

Reference Works

definitions. . .

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics(Reference 330.03 G816m)
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics(Reference 330.3 N532p)

historical, country-specific. . .

Encyclopedia of the global economy: a guide for students and researchers(Reference 330.03 O18e)
The Oxford encyclopedia of economic history(Reference 330.03 O98e)

Books

Trexler Library Catalog
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College. Some useful subject headings are:

WorldCat
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Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation.

Periodicals

newspaper and magazine articles (popular). . .

Academic Search Premier
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
A subscription database. Good starting place for magazines, and includes the full text of many.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
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Archive of full-text newspapers from around the world.

Wall Street Journal via Proquest
ACCESS: Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Coverage 1984 to present.

scholarly journal 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
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A subscription database for business research. Some full text. Limit search to "peer-reviewed" to find scholarly titles.

EconLit ***RECOMMENDED***
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A subscription database for economics. Some full text. Interlibrary loan articles that are not full-text.

Sage Journals Online
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A subscription database. Standard index for social science. Extensive full-text archive.

getting to the full text. . .

Once you have found the citation of a journal article you're interested in, click on the Text at Trexler 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

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

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/). Ask Kelly if you have questions about this.