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BrowZine Help Guide
BrowZine is a free web or mobile application from Third Iron that allows users to browse, read, and monitor journals available through the MSU Libraries.

Journal of Economic Literature
JEL's "purpose is to help economists keep up with the ever-increasing volume of economics research....by publishing survey articles and essays, book reviews, and an extensive bibliographic guide to the contents of current economics periodicals."

EconLit This link opens in a new window
The premier economics literature database. Citations and abstracts, to articles from more than 400 economics journals. In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included. Some working paper series are also included.
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields--with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the American Economic Association's EconLit bibliographic index.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides access to articles in scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals, trade journals and business news publications. Includes the full-text of the Harvard Business Review. Also includes company profiles, investment research reports, industry reports, market research, country reports, SWOT analyses, and more.
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Provides access to articles in scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals, trade journals and business news publications. Includes the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the Economist. Also has videos, ebooks, and company, industry, and country reports from providers such as Fitch Solutions and Economist Intelligence Unit, and analyst reports from J.P. Morgan.

All Economics databases
Complete list of economics and economics-related databases.

Economist Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains every page of every issue of The Economist published from 1843 to 2020 and provides an invaluable perspective on the great events of the 19th and 20th centuries and offers tracking and comparison of economic and political trends across continents and centuries.

IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research
World's largest freely available bibliographic database dedicated to economics. Indexes economics working papers, journal articles and software.
EconPapers offers another search interface.
NBER Working Papers
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers
Fed in Print
A comprehensive index to Federal Reserve economic research.
IMF Publications
Includes Policy Discussion Papers, Working Papers and World Economic and Financial Surveys. The MSU Libraries also has a large collection of IMF publications. Search for these in the MSU Library Catalog.

World Bank E-Library This link opens in a new window
Contains over 6,000 books, reports, journals, and working papers from the World Bank, including the final, peer-reviewed versions of the Bank's formal publications.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Includes the Institute for Scientific Information Citation Indexes - Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. It indexes science, social sciences, and arts and humanities information from nearly 9,300 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with smart tools that track, analyze and visualize research.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
From the British Library of Political and Economic Science of the London School of Economics and Political Science, this source indexes the information contained in over 2,600 social sciences journals and 6,000 books each year. Coverage includes both core and specialized material from over 100 countries in more than 90 languages.