Using Econlit

EconLit Index to economic literature

EconLit indexes economic literature:

Articles from over 600 journals, since 1969.
Articles in collective volumes (such as conference proceedings, collections of essays, and Festschriften).
Books, dissertations, and working papers (from Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics) since the late 1980s.
Book reviews (full-text) appearing in the Journal of Economic Literature since 1994.

Topics include economic theory, development, economic history, monetary and fiscal theory, health economics, industrial organization, international economics and trade, labor economics, natural resource economics, quantitative methods and econometrics, public finance, accounting, business finance, investment and other specific topics.

GETTING STARTED
1. Use your web browser to go to www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/databases/
2. Scroll down and click on EconLit.
3. Now check EconLit from the short list.
4. Click on Open Selected Databases.

(note that EconLit may only be accessed from ucsb.edu computers).

BASIC SEARCHING
Select the type of search you want and type your search terms in the box:

Search Words Anywhere: derivative securities

Notes:

Multiple words are searched as a phrase (or as adjacent words, so an author search for jati sengupta will also find records under sengupta-jati).
A Words Anywhere search will look for your words anywhere in the record, including author, title, abstract, and descriptors.
A Subject search will search subject descriptors and geographic descriptors. Descriptors are from the Journal of Economic Literature, and may be browsed at www.econlit.org/econlit/elhomsub.html.
Use * to search for variant word endings (i.e. financ* retrieves finance, finances, financial, etc.)

LIMITS
Choose Set Other Limits to restrict your search by date or type, such as article, dissertation, review, or working paper:

Example of Set Limits screen

ADVANCED SEARCHING

Choose Search Builder, then limit your search to a particular field, such as AU (author), TI (title), AB (abstract), DE (descriptors), SO (source), and AF (author affiliation). For a full list, see the EconLit help.

Example:

To find articles about labor or unions, written by UCSB faculty:

DISPLAYING RECORDS
The default display includes the title, author, source, and abstract (if available). To see a full record, including descriptors, choose Change Display, then Complete Record, then Confirm Changes.

DOES UCSB OWN IT?
EconLit does not know whether or not UCSB owns a particular item. Check PEGASUS:

Look up the title of the book: t [title of book]
Look up the title of the journal: t [title of journal]

ONLINE AVAILABILITY
IMPORTANT NOTE: EconLit uses TWO fields to indicate possible electronic access: "Full-text" and "Availability." Change Display to Complete Record to get displays of both fields! These links may or may not work as formatted in EconLit, and we do not have access to every web site included. For the correct links for UCSB access, see the title at www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/ejournals/econ.html

PRINTING, MAILING & SAVING
1. Mark records to print, mail, or download by clicking in the box next to the desired record.
2. Click on Print, Save (i.e., download) or E-mail.
3. Follow the instructions that appear for the option you chose.

LOGOUT
Please logout (click on logout in the upper right hand part of each screen) before you exit EconLit: only 5 people can use the database at one time.

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Author: Eric Forte

Updated: 10/11/04 08:30:48

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