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Remote Research During the COVID-19 Emergency

This section has been created to aid students, faculty, and the general public in conducting research without access to the physical collections and spaces of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library https://library.tulane.edu/ Please don't hesitate to contact wedig@tulane.edu with any and all remote research questions and concerns. I am available for email and zoom consultations Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. I am happy and eager to help!

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H-TML has published news about Open & Emergency Resources During COVID-19
Emergency Access by Publisher for COVID-19, Research Guide https://libguides.tulane.edu/C19offers
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Looking for Journal Articles?

In addition to EconLit, the primary database for literature in economics, social science and business databases may also be useful to economics researchers.

EconLit
The standard database for academic literature in economics, EconLit includes citations to journals, books, dissertations and working papers on economics.

ABI/INFORM Global
Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions. Other topics include management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.
Business Source Complete
Comprehensive database of core scholarly publications in disciplines including marketing, management, accounting, finance, information systems, international business, and more. Also includes industry profiles, market research reports, country reports, and SWOT analyses. Entire database can be searched a number of ways, including by subject, article title, author, keywords, date range, and periodical title.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
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Business and political intelligence for more than 200 countries. Reports and Services include: Country Reports, Global Forecasting, Events, and Risk Briefings (formerly Viewswire).

Economic History & Political Economy

Political economy is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the public and the private, the political and the economic, and has its origins in philosophical debates of the Enlightenment. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, scholars may find valuable resources from the fields of history, philosophy, and political science in addition to economics.

America: History & Life
This databases offers historical coverage from prehistory to the present on topics relevant to North America. It indexes periodicals from 1954 to the present. This databases offers historical coverage from prehistory to the present on topics relevant to North America. It indexes periodicals from 1954 to the present. Although there is no direct full text access to book reviews through America: History & Life, follow the green links marked "TULink" to find available full text access.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts indexes book reviews, book chapters, journals and these about world history from 1450 to the present.
Making of the Modern World
Combines Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Combines Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration—along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University.

This database contains more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.

Political Economy Working Papers Archive (PEWPA)
Produced by the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research at The University of Michigan.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Updated monthly.

Research and Statistical Databases (Selected)

Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
Standardized and structured statistical data including key economic indicators. Covers subjects including banking and finance, criminal justice, education, industry and commerce, housing and construction, population and income, stocks and commodities, and more. International data includes China Data Center, International Monetary Fund, imports and exports, international finance statistics, World Bank statistics, and Stats Canada.

Also includes EASI Market Planner with 13 data sets covering consumer behavior, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, consumer spending analytics, demographics, gross domestic product, health, industries, life stages, media, quality of life, and retail sales.
PolicyMap
A data and mapping tool that enables government, commercial, non-profit and academic institutions to access data about communities and markets across the US.
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data.
World DataBank (World Bank)
World Development Indicators Online is a database of statistics from the World Bank’s Data Group. It provides high quality national and international statistics for users worldwide and lets users assess what governments do by accessing reliable data.