Subject Guides: Economics: Resources

Books

Books can be a great place to start your reading around a topic.

Economics books are located in the G section on the first floor of the JB Morrell Library. Many books will also be available online as e-books. Look for the links in YorSearch, under the View It section of each book.

Shelf location	Subject
G	Economics
G 0.1	Economic Theory; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
G 0.182	Mathematical Modelling
G 1	Labour Economics
G 2	Financial Economics
GA 2	International Economics
DA	Social Policy
F	Historical Statistics
S	Mathematics

eBook collections

CORE Econ
CORE Econ provides high quality free online textbooks and resources for learning economics. CORE's authors are economists and instructors from around the world giving their time and expertise for free to transform how economics is taught. They're experts in micro and macroeconomics, game theory, economics history, political economy, behavioural, labour, industrial, development and environmental economics.

Ebook Central (formerly ebrary) This link opens in a new window
Discover over 55,000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas, sheet music titles and reports.

For help with this resource, take a look at the ProQuest Help.

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Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance This link opens in a new window
Published by Wiley, the e-version of this 4-volume encyclopedia provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of quantitative modelling in financial markets. Entries incorporate links to further recommended reading in University of York Library collections.

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Mathematics & Statistics eBook Collection (Springer Nature Link) This link opens in a new window
The full text of all the English language titles in the Springer Mathematics & Statistics collection published between 2005 and 2010.

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OECD Publications This link opens in a new window
Gives access to over 30,000 OECD reports, research papers, policy recommendations and case studies.
Oxford English Dictionary Online This link opens in a new window
For access off-campus select the Sign in through your institution option on the OED site.
Search on words, definitions, etymology and quotations. The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with later additions. New and revised entries are added every quarter.

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Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
A fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of over 100 dictionaries, companions, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

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Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics & Finance This link opens in a new window
E-books covering all areas of economics - ranging from classic thinkers to a number of modern masters - published by Oxford University Press.

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Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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A substantial collection of ebooks, journal articles, reference materials, cases, videos and tools for exploring all aspects of the research process from identifying and understanding particular research methods to designing research projects, conducting research and writing up findings.

Included are Sage's "Little Green Books" (the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series) and "Little Blue Books" (the Qualitative Research Methods series).

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Science Direct: Handbooks in Economics This link opens in a new window
The full text of the 57 published volumes of the Elsevier Handbooks in Economics series. Containing nearly 700 articles, including some of the most cited in economics.

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Science Direct: Handbook of Statistics This link opens in a new window
Access is to volumes 1 to 30 only.
The full text of all volumes in the Handbook of Statistics series published before 2010. Each volume is devoted to a particular topic in statistics.

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Journals & databases

All journal titles are listed on YorSearch, and can be found by searching the journal title.

If you don't have a specific title in mind, you can browse journals in your subject area on Browzine. Journals are organised by field of research, such as:

Browse all Business and Economics

Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

Economic Theory

Financial Economics

Investing and the Stock Market

Macroeconomics

Microeconomics

Databases

To start a more detailed search for articles and other research evidence, you'll need to use online databases. These are collections of resources that allow you to search for articles from hundreds of different journals at the same time.

ASSIA (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts) indexes around 650 English language social science journals. Subject coverage includes social services, health, employment, ethnic studies, education, criminology, and related areas.

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Business Source Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The full text of articles from almost 8,200 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This includes the Harvard Business Review back to the first issue in 1922, and most other journals included back to 1965. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

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EconLit (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
EconLit provides electronic access to the Periodicals Index from Journal of Economic Literature and its predecessors. The database consists of bibliographic records for the world’s economic literature, compiled by the American Economic Association. Over 400 major journals are indexed, as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, conference proceedings etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Abstracts have been added to some records from 1987.

Note that EconLit does not include the review articles published within Journal of Economic Literature. For electronic access to these articles, follow the link from the University of York Library catalogue to the e-journal.

EconPapers (from RePEc)
The world's largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles and software.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
A collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 76 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
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An abstracting, indexing and citation database covering peer-reviewed research literature and web sources in the natural sciences and medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

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For help using this resource for bibliometrics see Bibliometrics: a practical guide.
For further information about Scopus metrics see Elsevier's Research Metrics Guidebook.

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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

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For help using this resource for bibliometrics see Bibliometrics: a practical guide.

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