Research Guides: Economics: Finding Databases

Commonly used databases for Economics

A - Z Databases
This is a link to all the databases Knox College is subscribed to with descriptions of the content of each database.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals.
America's News This link opens in a new window
A wide variety of local, regional and national news sources.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
This journal collection focuses on the sciences and social sciences. Annual Reviews articles are review articles summarizing the research on topics within fields like economics, anthropology, sociology, and most areas of the sciences.
Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for over 1,000 business publications with content dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new window
The full text of this important resource for preparing manuscripts and citing sources is now online.
Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Full text of the magazine for higher education news and commentary.
Galesburg Register-Mail This link opens in a new window
Galesburg Register-Mail newspaper online from 1997-present.
Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
Presents historical data for the U.S. Access is via Knox Primo-All I-Share Libraries.
Knox Primo This link opens in a new window
MLA Handbook Plus This link opens in a new window
National Agricultural Library This link opens in a new window
This catalog from the National Agricultural Library provides citations to the agricultural literature from journals, books and technical reports.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
Students, faculty and staff of Knox College can now enjoy free access to NYTimes.com from any location and from most any device. First time users need to create an account on the account login page.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full text news sources including newspapers, news magazines, news wires, and online news sites. Also includes legal information: court cases and full text of law review journals. SEC filings are also a part of Nexis Uni.
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to over 500 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals; also includes full-text reference books and monographs and full text conference papers.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
A data resource and mapping tool. Uses datasets from trusted public and proprietary sources and the user-friendly mapping tools help you visualize your research.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com consolidates market and consumer statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. Results are presented in graphical display with Excel and pdf download options.
The Times (London) Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
The full text of the newspaper The Times of London from 1785-2014.