Seminar in International Economics

Economics 398D - Fall 2009

Searching Economic Literature

• EconLit covers economic theory and application, and indexes journal articles, working papers, books, and dissertations.
• Scopus covers a wide range of disciplines in the sciences and social sciences. It includes the references provided in articles and allows you to trace citations.
• Google Scholar - use it to find the full text of articles, trace citations, and find related articles.

An Example:

National Borders Matter: Canada-U.S. Regional Trade Patterns

John McCallum

The American Economic Review, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Jun., 1995), pp. 615-623

RefWorks

• Use RefWorks to keep track of all the sources you use in your research.
• Use the Quick Start Guide to get started using RefWorks. A Web-based Tutorial is also available.
• Write-N-Cite: this is a utility that works with MS Word to format citations, bibliographies, and works cited lists automatically from the data in your RefWorks database.