ECON 3013: Economic History of the United States

This is an index of literature covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes journals from 1964 to present and includes citations and links to book and media reviews.

EconLit provides access to economic research dating back to 1969. It contains journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.

GenderWatch provides abstracts and the full text of journal articles covering the topics of women's history, feminism, women’s studies, gender studies, and LGBTQ studies.

Gender Studies Database provides indexing and abstracts covering the full spectrum of gender-related scholarship, including economics and history. It offers over a million records from scholarly and popular publications, including journals, books, conference papers and theses. Subjects include gender inequality, masculinity, post-feminism and gender identity.

Google Scholar is very useful for seeing if a book, article, etc. has been cited by other scholars. Search on the title, and then follow the "Cited by ..." link.

JSTOR provides the full text of back issues from core scholarly journals in anthropology and other fields in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Please note that, generally, this database does not include issues published in the last few years. You can search just the economics journals in JSTOR by using the Advanced Search "NARROW BY DISCIPLINE AND/OR JOURNAL" feature.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) covers four areas of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. NOTE: These are not peer-reviewed as economic journals are.

This is a multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It links publications based on citations allowing you to search the "web" of communication surrounding a topic. You also can search Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Index simultaneously with the Social Science Citation Index - select "MORE SETTINGS" to pick the databases you want to search.

This database covers more than 350 key international, English-language periodicals in all social sciences, including economics and economic history. The indexing of periodicals provided starts in 1983.

This database is devoted to scholarly literature on North American and international politics.