Research Guides: Economics: Articles

Article Databases

ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Key source for business articles.
Subjects: Accounting, Auditing, Business, Communications, Economics, Ed Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Admin, Hotel Restaurant Mgmt, Management, Public Admin, Technology
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles, magazine articles, news, reports, dissertations
Brief Instruction Video: ProQuest Basics
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit indexes journals, books, dissertations, and working papers on economic topics. Although Econlit does not have fulltext, it may link to sources of full text directly or via FindText+. Indexes content from over 620 sources for the period 1969 to present.
Google Scholar with EMU Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search for scholarly materials such as scholarly articles, books, research reports, theses, working papers, and cited sources.
Tip: When using it in Google Scholar, EMU Findtext+ does not come up in a new window.
Search Instruction: Google Scholar Video
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of back issues for many journals, some academic ebooks, and research reports.
Subjects: Covers most subjects
Info type: scholarly journals, professional periodicals, ebooks.
Access Tips: Usually the most recent 3-5 years are not available in JSTOR. However, EMU may have a current subscription. Check the Journal Titles search.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This Social Work database can be useful for researching economics topics related to development, health economics, poverty, criminology, and social welfare policies.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Growing list of freely accessible journals. All journals utilize peer review or editorial quality control. Use the Social Sciences Link to Economics subjects including Economics as a science.

Survey Articles

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)
JEL Classification System / EconLit Subject Descriptors
The JEL classification system was developed for use in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and is a standard method of classifying scholarly literature in the field of economics. The system is used to classify articles, dissertations, books, book reviews, and working papers in EconLit, and in many other applications. For descriptions and examples, see the JEL Codes Guide.
Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP)
"The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) aims to bridge the gap between the general interest business and financial press and standard academic journals of economics."

For the Serious Researcher: Web of Science

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This large database includes articles from scholarly journals in the Sciences and Social Sciences. A special feature is the ability to find articles that have cited another article. Also, to identify articles that are highly cited.

Scholarly v. Popular

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Click on the highlighted areas to learn about typical elements of a scholarly journal article.

If you are looking at a research article or an empirical article, the article will most likely also have a Methods or Methodology section.

Example of a scholarly research article
Lehman, B. (2015). Physical and nonphysical bullying victimization of academically oriented students: The role of gender and school type. American Journal of Education, 122(1), 133-159. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/683294

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