duPont Library: Economics Research Guide: Find Journal Articles

Economics Databases

The indexes below are among the best to use when performing research in Economics. For an expanded listing of possible resources, see the Economics listing in the Electronic Databases by Subject. Use the Journal Finder to help you locate the full-text of articles you have identified in one or more of the indexes listed here. Just type in the title of the journal to see where it is available. If we do not have access to it, you can request the article via Sewanee ILL, our interlibrary loan program, which is linked below.

Preferred Databases

AgEcon Search
A collection of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development. Covers 1950-present.
Working papers, conference papers, journal articles. Some book chapters and government documents included. This is a freely available database.
EconLit with Full Text
This database contains full text for over 600 journals, including the American Economic Association journals. It also provides citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886, including books and working papers. All fields of economics are covered, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary database that offers indexing and the text of articles published in key academic journals. Economics is one of many areas covered by JSTOR.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Publications
This is a collection of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (H.W. Wilson)
Provides full text of articles from approximately 2,700 publications (many of them peer-reviewed.) Also includes abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Covers every core undergraduate subject (sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, and education) as well as cross-disciplinary areas such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, history. 1982 to present.
All the content of these full-text databases as well the full runs of every full-text journal they index: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Also contains the full text from ONLY the journals in selected databases to which Wilson has full text rights: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Contains abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Search interface: EBSCOhost.
SocINDEX with Full Text
A comprehensive sociology research database that abstracts more than 1300 journals back to 1895 and contains full text for more than 860 journals back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers. Subjects covered include criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
Topics covered include: abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. Search interface: EBSCOHost.
Social Sciences Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text provides access to articles published on a broad array of subject matter in the social sciences, including economics. The indexing primarily covers journal material published since 1983. Links to the text of many articles from 1994 to present are included.