Economics and finance

Finding Journal Articles

Quicksearch economics and finance articles using Supersearch

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e.g., microeconomic reform australia

This quicksearch option searches across a number of journal databases.
It is useful for conducting an introductory search on a topic.
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Quicksearch will often retrieve a large number of hits. If you need to conduct a more sophisticated search, try searching one or more of the individual databases listed below :

Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost Business database with over 1300 titles in full text. Good source of country economic reports and profiles. Examples are EIU Country Reports and Profiles, and research from Datamonitor
EconLIT on EBSCOhost Indexes and abstracts 450 international economics journals. Produced by the American Economics Association
Business, Economics & Management on Informit Online Searches multiple Australian databases, including GIBLIN Working Papers
Scopus is a large index to scholarly literature which includes Economics. Click on the full text button to access the full text.
Web of Science to search the Social Sciences Citation Index

Newspapers

Factiva 1000s of Australian and overseas full text newspapers, including The Age, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal
Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost has many full text news sources, including The Economist

Economic Indicators and Market Statistics

Reserve Bank of Australia
Australian Economic Reports from Westpac
CommSec (Commonwealth Bank Securities) includes free market reports
see also Company Financials
Market Wrap from the Australian Financial Review
Benchmark your Business from ANZ
Reports from the Australian Industry Group
Sensis Business reports

Gateways for Economics Information

Liber8 An economic information portal for librarians and students
Resources for Economists
Inomics the Internet site for Economists
Virtual Finance Library Ohio State University
WebEc WWW Resources in Economics is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW
BUBL Link 330 Economics

Working Papers

Bank for International Settlements
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)
- OECD Papers (login required)
International Monetary Fund
EconPapers

Country Economic Overviews

Country Information Subject Starter Guide
Various country reports are available from Business Source Complete click on the link to Country Reports and search or browse by country, region or publisher. Sources include The Economist Intelligence Unit, Datamonitor
OECD Economic Surveys available on Source OECD

eBooks (online books)

See the eBook (online books) Subject Starter Guide for more eBook databases.

Author: Jane O'Donnell (jodonnell@swin.edu.au)