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Applied Economics: Where Can I Find...?

What Resources Should I Use?

If you need: Try using:

 

Somewhere to start your research   

 

Academic Search Complete

Background information                   

 

Books, encyclopedias (Britannica Online), dictionaries (Oxford English Dictionary), or other reference material.

Current research on a subject

 

Databases
*JSTOR is a back issues database and won’t have the most current research.

 

Academic or scholarly articles

 

Databases

 

 

Info on both sides of “hot topic” issues like abortion or gun control

 

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

 

Up-to-the-minute information like stock prices, news, sports scores

 

Newspapers, the Internet or databases: LexisNexis Academic
Statistics

 

LexisNexis Statistical Universe, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center or government websites

 

Popular articles

 

Magazines or Academic Search Complete

 

Contemporary accounts of historical events

 

New York Times Archive or other newspapers on microfilm.

Primary Sources (letters, diaries, government reports, photographs, maps, manuscripts, etc.)

 

American MemoryEmpire Online 

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950

Women and Social Movements in the United States

 

Autobiographies, memoirs, correspondence, or letters.