Key Resources

EconLit contains a variety of peer-reviewed, scholarly information including: Articles, Books & Working Papers. Subject descriptors that appear as JEL codes are appended to articles, working papers and other publications in EconLit. JEL Codes can be helpful in narrowing a search to a specific subject area of economics and when combined with keywords are a sound method to locate applied economics research.

In additional to peer-reviewed information ABI/INFORM also features country-and industry-focused reports and data in series from EIU and Oxford Economics. ABI/INFORM includes a broader range of business information and is useful for locating a particular business issue across both peer-reviewed and generalist / trade information.

Elgar Online provides Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Books and Research Reviews. Short literature reviews on key concepts and topics in Economics are a useful way to quickly find major researchers, theorists or economists in a given area and provide a rapid overview of the context, development and debates of economics theories or topics. To locate these reviews use the search facility provided using either common language or disciplines specific terms then filter the returned results using the search facet filter.

Informit primarily features a broad scope of research focusing upon Australia across a broad range of subject areas related to Indigenous culture, health, legal and regulatory scholarship, policy commentary and social science research.

RePEc is an online collection largely consisting of economics and finance working papers an. Working papers are often early versions of manuscripts produced and shared by economists and academics for feedback. Often such working papers are subsequently refined and submitted to academic journals for peer-review and publishing. Searching working papers in addition to published articles is a useful way of locating current issues or ideas and is a ready way to gauge emerging research on a topic or theory. Always check to see if there is a published version of any paper and locate the published article if available.

SSRN is a open-access repository for scholarly papers in the social sciences, business, and law. Much like subject-specific repositories such as RePec, SSRN contains early scholarly research in the form of working papers. Economics subject descriptors (JEL codes) are supplied in a standalone index through which users may browse towards indexed papers.