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EconLit: Information at a Glance

Resource Type
Online index with citations, abstracts, and links to full-text where available.
Subject Area

Economics, Business Administration, Politics.

Availability
Trent - Access available to any valid Trent user, using their Novell Password in the Library, or at home through the PROXY SERVER.
How to Access

Click here to connect to EconLit through ProQuest.
Click her to connect to EconLit through EBSCO (on trial Fall 2011).

For off campus access, learn how to use the proxy server.
Description

EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application.

Trent has access to EconLit on ProQuest.

Trial: In Fall 2011, we're trying it through EBSCO, where it can be searched simultaneously with the Business Databases.

ProQuest: Select the items you wish to save by clicking in the box provided to the left of each title. Click "Export" and select "RefWorks" in the box that opens up.
Mobile Access
Notes
This database works with to locate full-text availability.
Coverage
1969 - Current
Update Frequency
Monthly
Stable URL

A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web.

When you have full record for an item, look for "Document URL" at the bottom. Check to see if the the proxy prefix is included. Copy this link for a stable url. See the ProQuest information sheet.

Some records include a doi for a stable link.

To link to a particular article, look for the line that says:
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/####.###.

To ensure off-campus access, include the proxy prefix:
http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=

Example: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbbm.2007.04.008

Since this database also contains links to Get it! you can use the "Save Citation" data to create a link to the article.

 

 
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