Indexes & Databases

This database indexes U. S. dissertations from 1861 to as recent as last semester.
Citations for dissertations from 1980 on include 350-word abstracts, while masters' theses from 1988 forward have 150 word abstracts. For both dissertations and theses, from 1997 on, the citations also provide 24 page previews in PDF format.
Current Research@University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides indexing and some full text access to dissertations completed here at Chapel Hill and submitted to the Dissertations Abstracts database. For dissertations done from 1997 on, both 24 page previews and free downloading of the full text are available.

Econlit
EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Records in EconLit contain basic bibliographic data plus subject and geographic descriptors. Abstracts are included in records added to the database starting in 1987. Journals indexed in Econlit.

Economist.com
Includes articles (searchable back to 1997, economic information and charts, Big Mac Index..... Also included are a style guide and economic dictionary.

IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect (previously called UnCoverPlus) offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 17 million articles from 28,000 publications, including 6,100 online. IngentaConnect provides access to the full-text of your institution's journal subscriptions online and also gives you the chance to purchase articles on a pay-per-view basis.

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. NBER research is conducted by more than 500 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields. Each NBER Working Paper is listed under one or more series, by issue date. The most recent papers are listed first. The series UNC-Chapel Hill subscribes to are: Aging, Asset Pricing, Children, Corporate Finance, Developing Countries, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Economics of Education, Health, Industrial Organization, International Finance and Macroeconomics, International Trade and Investment, Labor Studies, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, Productivity and Public Economics.

For a description of the programs go to http://www.nber.org/programs/program_desc.html

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in economics. It includes tens of thousands of working papers and tens of thousands of pre-prints of journal articles.

Social Sciences Citation Indexes (SSCI)
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. SSCI averages 2,800 new articles per week; includes approximately 50,000 new cited references per week; and contains a current total of over 2.8 million articles. Some of the disciplines covered include anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science, library science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, psychiatry. (Source: vendor website.)

Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers in Economics uses the complete data from the RePEc database, which includes the well known EconWPA, Fed in Print, NBER, CEPR as well as over 60 other archives. BibEc, WoPEc, NEP and other services are based on the same database. We have collected information about 55,394 working papers, 8678 articles and 284 software components from 857 series. 15562 of them have a Journal of Economic Literature classification and 11996 are downloadable.(Source: website)

For additional assistance in this area, contact:
Rita W. Moss, Business and Economics Librarian
Email: moss@unc.edu

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