Research & Subject Guides: 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 Memory, Empire Online North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950 Women and Social Movements in the United States Autobiographies, memoirs, correspondence, or letters.