Guides: Economics: Find Articles and Key Resources

Find Scholarly and Professional Articles

Search Databases for Scholarly Articles

Business Source Elite (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.
Gale Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
Broad yet detailed coverage of international business, including timely case studies, full-text articles, and robust data sets coupled with authoritative references and tools for analysis.
AgEcon Search This link opens in a new window
A free-to-user Web site that contains the full text of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in applied economics, including the subtopics of agricultural, consumer, energy, environmental, and resource economics. Contributors include academic institutions, government agencies, professional associations, and non-government organizations.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window
Sage provides current access to around 800 electronic peer-reviewed journal titles across many disciplines. Particular strengths include Criminology, Education, Industrial Relations and Labor, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, Sociology and Urban Studies.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) This link opens in a new window
An open access research platform used to share early-stage research, evolve ideas, measure results, and connect scholars around the world, representing disciplines including the applied sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.
Taylor and Francis Social Science and Humanities Library This link opens in a new window
Over 1,500 scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities areas.

Key Scholarly and Professional Journals

American Economic Review
Scholarly articles from 1985-present (abstract-only for the previous two years,) plus access to the AEA conference papers and proceedings. Select the following link for articles older than 1985.
American Economic Review (historical)
Articles from 1911 to a few years from present.
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL)
Peer-reviewed surveys and review articles; reviews of new books; index of dissertations.
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Research critiques and public policy evaluations for economists.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Scholarly, peer reviewed journal covering all aspects of the field.

Newpapers

Current News

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full text online for issues published 1984 – present.
New York Times (NYTimes.com) This link opens in a new window
Full access to the New York Times online (1851-present). Includes international edition and Spanish and Chinese language editions. For full access and no monthly article limits, create an account using your Luther email address or register your account here: http://proxy.luther.edu/login?url=https://ezmyaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/redir.
US Newsstream (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 950 US news publications, including The Des Moines Register, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & Washington Post. 1980-present.

Newspaper Archives

New York Times, Historical plus Index (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: the New York Times provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851. It is searchable by keyword, author, article title, and first paragraph (abstract). You can browse issues by clicking Publications at the top of the screen. It includes illustrations and advertisements. The title changed from the New York Daily Times to the New York Times in 1857.
Economist Historical Archive (1843-2015) This link opens in a new window
The Economist Historical Archive ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Containing every issue since its launch in 1843 and more than 600,000 pages, EHA offers full-color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys. Altogether this is an unrivaled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.