Economics

Search Recommended Economics Databases for articles and books

This Economics OneSearch will find articles from Business & Company Resource Center, Business Index ASAP, EconLit, Factiva, Google Scholar, Academic OneFile, LexisNexis Academic, and VIRGO: UVa Libraries Catalog.

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Bibliographic Economics Databases

Business & Company Resource Center

Information about companies and industries around the world. Data includes business journals, consumer marketing data, corporate information and press releases, emerging technology reports, and various investment reports.

Business Index ASAP   1980-present

Lists articles from business, finance, management and industry periodicals, many with abstracts and full text. All titles are also included in InfoTrac Onefile.

EconLit   1969-present

International coverage of economics in journal articles, books, dissertations, book reviews. Updated monthly.

Factiva

Company and business information from Dow Jones; articles from over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals plus news photographs. Select "News pages" to browse daily issues of recent newspapers from many countries; use "Search" to find older articles. Logout at the end of a session to avoid problems connecting the next time.

LexisNexis Academic

News and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.

NBER Working Papers   1973-present

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in this searchable database. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.

Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

The first half of the Review focuses on the impacts and risks arising from uncontrolled climate change, and on the costs and opportunities associated with action to tackle it. The second half of the Review examines the national and international policy challenges of moving to a low-carbon global economy.

Web of Knowledege / Web of Science   1981-present

Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.

Statistical Economics Databases and Data Sources

American Factfinder

Geographically detailed data on population, housing, business and government from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Data on labor, employment, and industry for the nation and states.

Census Bureau Economic Programs

Statistics on business, labor, employment for the U.S.

DataFerrett/TheDataWeb

Access tool for data archive of major federal panel datasets including the Consumer Expenditure Survey, Current Population Survey, several health surveys, and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (download required).

Economagic

A collection of more than 100,000 economic time series that can be manipulated to produce forecasts, regression analyses and charts or downloaded to Excel spreadsheets.

Federal Reserve Board Statistics

Data and statistics related to banking and finance.

International Financial Statistics Database

Time series of basic economic indicators for almost 100 countries.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)

World’s largest archive of social science datasets.

LexisNexis Statistical

Statistical information of all kinds, current and historical, US and international.

Nation Master

Limited archive of economic & related data sets associated with agency.

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Limited archive of economic & related data sets associated with agency.

Office of Trade and Industry Information

Data on imports and exports to/from the U.S. and states, including a link to TradeStats Express.

SourceOECD

Access to publications and statistics produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development – 30 member countries committed to democratic government and a free market economy. Use statistics tab. Many series download in Excel format.

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web

Comprehensive list of links to online statistical sources for the US Government and other nations.

United Nations data:

University of Michigan Library: Statistical Resources on the Web

Comprehensive list of links to online statistical sources by subject.

USDA Economic Research Service Data Sets

The Economic Research Service (ERS) is a primary source of economic information and research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The ERS provides handy state fact sheets from 1980 to the present.

World Development Indicators (WDI) Database

54 series for over 200 countries, focusing on the developing world – 2000 and forward.