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Research Tools for Economics
Use these research tools to find information related to Economics from sources such as scholarly articles, books and encyclopedias.
Article Databases
Archival Collections and Primary Sources
Electronic Journals
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Government Information
Library Catalogs
Statistics and Numeric Data
Working Papers
Listings of article in journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. Many include
abstracts (article summaries). Some include, or link to, the full text of articles.
Some excellent sources of economic history are listed here, including the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and the historic Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature. See also the Bancroft Library for UC Berkeley special collections, and the Stanford Hoover Institution Library and Archives for one of the world's leading collections in political and economic history.
Electronic Journals
The Hass School of Business Library has developed an excellent collection of Electronic Journals in Economics. For indexing to electronic journal content, please see the Electronic Resources finder listing of Article Databases in Economics.
Additional sources of note for economics journals include JSTOR, the IDEAS Bibliographic Database, and Google Scholar.
Encyclopedias, Almanacs & Dictionaries
General or subject-specific encyclopedias, almanacs, and other collections
of factual information. Please see the electronic resources finder for electronic sources listed separately under economics encyclopedias and almanacs and dictionaries, thesis and quotations.
Print Resources
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Doe Reference HC15 .O94 2003
- A Dictionary of Economics. John Black. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Doe Reference HB61 .B554 1997
- The Elgar Dictionary of Economic Quotations. Charles Robert McCann, Jr., ed. Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2003. Doe Reference HB61 .B554 1997
The UC Berkeley Library Government Information Pages contain a wealth of information on California, Federal, International, and Foreign governments. The Institute for Governmental Studies Library is also a rich repository of Local Government Information.
Government Information pages of interest to economists include Federal and International Statistics, as well as research guides on Economic Development & Poverty, International Trade & Financial Institutions, International Labour, the World Bank, and International Monetary Fund.
Library Catalogs
The two catalogs for the UC Berkeley Libraries are Pathfinder and Melvyl. Pathfinder is the UC Berkeley catalog for campus libraries excluding affiliated libraries like the Boalt Law Library, Library for Intergovernmental Studies, Institute of Industrial Relations Library, and Giannini Foundation Library of Agricultural Economics. Melvyl is the catalog for all UC libraries with the exception of the Giannini Library, which has its own catalog.
Other important sources of note include Gladis, which is the Telnet version of Pathfinder. Some detailed library holdings of journals, microfilms, and documents can only be viewed on Gladis.
You may also u se the OCLC First Search version of WorldCat (UCB only) or the new Open WorldCat to find books at other libraries worldwide. See also Google Scholar for relevance ranked searching of selected books and articles.
Statistics and Numeric Data
Numeric data sources of interest to economists are dispersed widely throughout campus. The Doe Library Data Lab and Haas School of Business Library contain some of the most important sources, as do the statistics sections of the Government Information web sites. See also the Econometrics Laboratory, the SDA Archives, and UC Data.
Working Papers
The IDEAS web site is a comprehensive index for economics working papers information and is the largest bibliographic database in Economics available freely on the Internet, with over 1819 series. See also the following working paper series in economics and finance at UC Berkeley.
Berkeley Program in Law and Economics
Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) Working Papers
Bursch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Department of Economics Working Papers
Haas School of Business Research Program in Finance
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
University of California Energy Institute CSEM Working Papers
University of California Energy Institute Power Working Papers
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