Econlit
The electronic version of the Journal of Economic Literature which abstracts articles and dissertations in the field of economics. Choose from the list on the library home page.

Search hints:

• Use AND, OR and NOT to combine terms and place phrases in parentheses. For example, the search for (phillips curves) AND (hayekian triangles) finds works that are about both concepts. To search for works on either concept, use: (phillips curves) OR (hayekian triangles).
• Use + at the end of a word to search for all possible endings. Keynes+ searches for both Keynes and Keynesian.

Ideal
Full contents of current journals published by Academic Press. Includes several economics journals. Includes the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Comparative Economics, and a dozen other economics journals.

JSTOR
Full contents of older journals in a variety of fields. Does not include the most current three-five years. Includes American Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, and eleven more journals in the field.

Reference Books

Cate, Thomas. An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1997.
Ref HB 99.7 .E528 1997
Covers topics, principles, and people associated with Keynes's work in brief essays, with selected references.

New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. 4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1987.
Ref HB 61 .N49 1987
Provides lengthy and authoritative essays on economics with references.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. 3 vols. New York: Stockton, 1998.
Ref K 487 .E3 N48 1998
Covers issues such as antitrust policy, copyright, and attitudes toward risk from an economic viewpoint.

Web Sites

History of Economics Internet References
http://home.tvd.be/cr27486/hope.html
A selective directory of sites.

McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/
Offers online texts of key figures in economics.

Methodology and History of Economic Thought
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecb.html
Part of the massive WebEc project to compile a collection of links of interest to scholars in the field.

Citing sources

Research and Documentation Online
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/
Offers subject guides to research tools and documentation models for citing print and electronic sources.