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Key index to economics journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers. Content includes both economic theory and application. Covers 1969 - current.

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A vast index of literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has cited a particular document. 1898 - current.

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Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Most journals are included from their first issue until 5 years ago.

Articles in this collection offer comprehensive summaries of the state of research on topics from many disciplines in the sciences and social sciences, including Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science. Covers 1997 - current.

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A highly cited collection of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Covers 1993 - current.

This database contains scholarly literature in business and economics as well as trade magazines specialized for audiences of practitioners in particular industries.

This database from Lexis-Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Online covers 1972 to present while the print, ref H1.P8, goes back to 1915.

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Searching for dissertations is a helpful step in early background work as you are trying to identify a researchable topic. Dissertations often include very precise discussions of methodology - more so than published articles - as well as exhaustive literature reviews. ProQuest Digital Dissertations doctoral and masters' theses and provides abstracts, previews, and full text for most documents published after 1997.

Full text search across the scholarly literature on a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.