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- Description
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Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 750
international economic journals.
EconLit source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books,
dissertations, book reviews, and working
papers. The database contains more than 350,000 records and covers subjects from accounting,
consumer economics, monetary
policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and more. Years of
coverage are 1969-present
with approximately 26,000 records added annually.
1969 to present
Articles indexed 1969+, abstracted 1987+
Books abstracted 1987+
Dissertations indexed 1987+
Abstracts of working papers 1984+
Book reviews 1994+
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- Dates covered
- 1969 to present; see notes in description.
- Updating frequency
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- Sources
- Economics journals. For journals indexed and coverage dates in EconLit see
http://www.econlit.org/eclist.html.
Abstracts of published books from the Annotated Listing of New Books section of the
Journal of Economic Literature.
Indexing of articles (chapters) in collective works, conference proceedings, collections of essays
on a particular topic,
papers from research projects, collections of papers by a single author, and Festschrift
volumes (articles collected in
honor of a distinguished person).
RePEc Project: Research Papers in Economics database of working papers.
Dissertation titles with subject classifications supplied to the
American Economic Association by the individual graduate departments.
Full-text book reviews from Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
- Type of coverage
- Six types of documents are indexed in EconLit:
- Journal Articles,
- Books,
- Collective Volume Articles,
- Dissertations,
- Abstracts with links to working papers from the decentralized RePEc Project: Research Papers in Economics database of working
papers, and
- full-text Book Reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- For indexing from 1963 to 1968, consult the Journal of Economic
Abstracts.
- Producer/content provider
- American Economic Association
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- Ebsco
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