Subject Research, Course Guides, Documentation: Economics: Home

Beginning Your Search in Economics

EconLit This link opens in a new window
EconLit is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886. It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more.
Data USA This link opens in a new window
Understand and visualize the critical issues facing the United States in areas like jobs, skills and education across industry and geography.
Business Databases (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database of thousands of magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.

Periodical (News) Resources in Economics

Periodical Resources can help you find information on current economic news. Union College offers students access to a number of business and economics periodicals. Each requires their own process for subscription activation. If you are having any trouble accessing a periodical, write to Reference@Union.edu for assistance.

Financial Times This link opens in a new window
On campus, single sign on will provide access to the Financial Times. When off campus, you can register for access: Go to https://www.ft.com/register. Click Continue under the "Start with free access" option. Follow the prompts to sign up for access.
Bloomberg.com (Registration Link) This link opens in a new window
Union College students have free access to Bloomberg.come by visiting www.bloomberg.com/account/create-account
and registering with your Union email address. Follow the prompts to set up an account.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
You need to register here as a student or employee of Union College. You will be asked to create your own account. Afterwards, you can access the WSJ from anywhere.

Quick Citation Resources in Economics

Economics resources typically use APA or Chicago Style

The Purdue OWL website (linked above) provides examples of how to cite and how to structure a paper in this style.

APA style follows this format:

Book Resource

Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000

The library can guide you to citation management software and resources to help you properly cite your sources.

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Beginning Your Search in Economics

Periodical (News) Resources in Economics

Quick Citation Resources in Economics