Economics Research Guide

Articles / Indexes | Resources by Subject | Government Documents | Working Papers


Article Indexes

EconLit (EBSCO) Off Campus Access
1969+ Economic Literature Index. Indexes the world's economic literature from over 350 scholarly journals, dissertations, collected works, conference proceedings and books. Includes selected abstracts. Updated quarterly.

ProQuest Research Library Off Campus Access
ABI/INFORM Global; PA Research II; ProQuest Newspapers. ABI/INFORM Global searches 1000 premier worldwide business periodicals (many articles available in full text), and provides information on 60,000+ companies. PA Research II searches over 1800 popular and scholarly periodicals and selected newspapers in all disciplines with many articles appearing in full text. ProQuest Newspapers indexes the full text of over 300 U.S. and international news sources, including over 150 major U.S. and international newspapers.

JSTOR Off Campus Access
JSTOR focuses on humanities, social science, and more recently, science titles which have proven themselves vital to these disciplines and which have many years of publication, in some cases going back to the 19th century.

LexisNexis Academic Off Campus Access
A full-text database which provides full-text access to national & international news, business, legal, and reference information, including federal & state case law, company financials, state statistics, and accounting, auditing & tax information. Includes Hoovers and Disclosure Company Financial Reports.

Available On Campus Only
Online equivalent of the print edition, giving reports on over 1700 equities. Updated daily. BYU has access only to the Investment Survey Online.

Business & Company Resource Center (Gale) Off Campus Access
1997+ Indexes public and private company data, including contact names, address and telephone numbers, total employees, sales volume and business descriptions. Covers more than 11,000 U.S. & international companies and 53 industries. Includes PROMPT & INVESTEXT databases.

Business Source Premier (EBSCO) Off Campus Access
1984+ Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,680 journals and full text for nearly 2,140 popular and peer reviewed journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, and accounting. Full text back files as far back as January 1990. Updated daily.

Bloomberg [Management/Economics Reference Desk]
(Stand alone computer, MGT/ECON/GOV INFO Area) Provides both current and historical activity on stocks and other securities for both domestic and international companies. BLOOMBERG also monitors government bonds, T-bills, etc. Available at Management/Economics/Government Information. Updated daily.

Resources by Subject

Countries Economic Information Research guide ( http://www.lib.byu.edu/hbll/business/countryecon.htm )

Business Biographical Information Research guide ( http://www.lib.byu.edu/hbll/business/bus_biographical.htm )

Government Documents

American FactFinder
This free web site has Census data from the Decennial Census Summary Files, American Community Survey Summary Tables, and Economic Census. American FactFinder can create custom tabulations from micro data files, compute simple statistics, and create a thematic map for a specific geographic place. (http://factfinder.census.gov)

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Includes the Consumer Price Indexes, Employee Cost Index and local area unemployment statistics. ( http://www.bls.gov/ )

Census Data: Historical
The data presented here describe in detail the people and the economy of the United States for each state and county from 1790 to 1970. ( http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census )

Consumer Price Indexes
Includes the latest CPI figures, as well as historical data. ( http://www.bls.gov/cpi/ )

Economic Report of the President
Includes the most recent Economic Report of the president. Includes statistical tables. ( http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/ )

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
Includes links to federal agencies that provides current economic indicators. ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html )

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. It is also a guide to other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations. Updated annually. ( http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html )

U.S. Economy at a Glance
Includes economic information for selected metropolitan statistical data. Access to employment and unemployment data. ( http://www.bls.gov/eag/ )

Working Papers

Economics Working Paper Archive
Abstract + Full Text ( http://econwpa.wustl.edu/ )

Federal Reserve Working Papers
Free online access to working papers of the Federal Reserve System. ( http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/workingpapers.htm )

NBER Working Papers
Produced by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Working papers cover a variety of economic topics by leading economists. Includes full-text. ( http://papers.nber.org/papers/ )

WoPEc - Electronic Working Papers in Economics
Electronic access of working papers in Economics. Some full-text is available. ( http://netec.wustl.edu/WoPEc/data/PaperSeries.html )

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