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Library Guide for History of Economic Thought and Global Studies

HOW TO GET HELP!

Connect to our Research Assistance Page to get individual help with your project.

This, newly developed, library exercise will help you considerably if you are reticent about, or slow in, using the library.  http://www.uwgb.edu/Library/instruction/courses/scholarlyassign.htm 

And this, related, discussion of search strategies, though originally developed for a different course, is also very useful http://www.uwgb.edu/Library/instruction/courses/soccd251.html. (and tutorial).

Consult Books:
  • WorldCat: use to search for and request items that are owned by libraries worldwide.

Consult Articles:

In order to connect to electronic journals and article databases from off campus you will be prompted to enter your username and password, the same username and password you use to log onto the campus network or to check your UW-Green Bay web account from off campus. 

Recommended journals

Connect HERE to view over two dozen core economics journals in JSTOR, including The Journal of Economic Literature, The Journal of Economic History and The American Economic Review. The current 1-2 years may not be available, however, for the purpose of this course the archival material will prove invaluable. Aside from browsing the tables of contents you can go to JSTOR (see link below) to search across journals for a specific topic.

Recommended Databases For Journal Articles

  • JSTOR
    Description: JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which reach back to the 1800s. The database now contains over 2 million pages and new titles and fields are being added constantly (approximately 100,000 pages are added to the database each month).
    Coverage: varies from title to title, but approximately from the 1800s to 1994.

  • Science Citation Index -- Description: Search for references and cited references in Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citations Index. Coverage: 1987 - present
    Connect to http://www.uwgb.edu/Library/services/EndNoteWeb.pdf for a guide on how to use End Note to manage your bibliography.

  • Academic Search Premier from EbscoHost
    Premier contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier from EbscoHostcontains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.


Public Internet Resources for History of Economic Thought
Countless links to good information about historical economic thinkers and schools of thought:
http://www.phoenix.liu.edu/~uroy/eco54/histlist/hist.html

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/

Great Economists and Their Times
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/education/unfrmd.great/greattimes.html

Timeline of Important Publications in Economics
http://college.hmco.com/economics/landreth/econthought/4e/students/timeline.html

Citation Styles and Formats

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc

Preparing an Annotated Bibliography

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm