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Evaluation of EconLit

                                                Evaluation of EconLit


Authority- 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.

Literature covered is of interest to researchers, academics, product managers, advertisers, product development specialists, and public policy professionals. EconLit includes information that is of prime relevance to many industries and research establishments world-wide.

Over 80% of all current records include abstracts. Also included are full-text of book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) since 1993. The database also includes links to full-text of some 40,000 working papers in economics.

Scope- Including over 1.6 million records, EconLit covers economics literature published over the last 130 years from leading institutions in 74 countries.  In combination with the optional full-text package of over 500 journals, including the prestigious AEA journals, EconLit provides a comprehensive library of economics literature.

Content-  More than 1.6 million records of economic literature which are professionally classified, updated weekly.

                 Citations and abstracts dating back to 1886.

                 Content indexed from 74 countries.

  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
  • Working Papers
  • PhD Dissertations
  • Books and Book Reviews
  • Collective Volume articles

Currency-Comprehensive and Up-to-Date (weekly updated).

 All areas of economics and many related disciplines

 Coverage back to 1886

 Over 70,000 additions per year

 Journals in over 30 languages

 Full-text option available

Accuracy/reliability- Professionally classified. The JEL classification system was developed for use in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL), and is a standard method of classifying scholarly literature in the field of economics. The system is used to classify articles, dissertations, books, book reviews, and working papers in EconLit, and in many other applications. For descriptions and examples, see the JEL Codes Guide.

Format-

Online available at Ebesco, Proquest, Proquest Dialog and Wolters Kluwer|Ovid platform

1. For Institutional Subscriptions to EconLit and EconLit with Full Text on Ebsco

Website: www.ebsco.com

2. For Institutional Subscriptions to EconLit on ProQuest

Website: www.proquest.com

3. For Institutional Subscriptions to EconLit on ProQuest Dialog

Website: go.proquest.com/pqd_econlit

4. For Institutional Subscription to EconLit on Wolters Kluwer|Ovid platform

Website: www.ovid.com

Technical interference- Institutional subscriptions to the EconLit bibliographic database are only sold through trusted information providers offering search interfaces, technical support, content bundles, consortia pricing options, product demonstrations, and other valuable options to the EconLit data product.

 All providers offer the capability of linking EconLit records to full-text economics and business articles including those found in AEA Journals.

Usefulness- EconLit provides the coverage mos needed by scholars to make new discoveries, develop important insights, and contribute valuable research to the economics community.

Search- Simple keyword search and advanced search.

Each EconLit record includes the following fields:

title, author, author affiliation, source, publication information, publication year, document type, ISSN or ISBN, keywords, subject classifications, named persons and geographic descriptors.

Reference:

https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/

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