EconLit provides citations to articles found in more than a thousand journals. EconLit also provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics. Published by the American Economic Association, and updated monthly, the EconLit database contains more than 735,000 records since 1969 in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) as well the Index of Economic Articles and indexes journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and provides full text book reviews from JEL. Many of the files are in the PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the articles. EconLit is available to current UT Arlington students, faculty, and staff on the web at this address:

http://eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-econLitEBSCO.cgi

Searching

A truncation symbol in EconLit is an asterisk (*), and when this symbol is put at the end of a word, the database will be searched for all of the possible endings -- suffixes -- for that word. For example, the command "finance*" will have the computer search engine look for "finance," "finances," or "financial."

Two Boolean operators that are important in finding information are AND and OR. The AND is used to connect two different concepts and the OR is used between concepts that are synonymous. It is critical to put parentheses around a search expression that contains an OR. Here is an example:

welfare reform* AND (child* OR adoles* OR youth*)

The first part of this statement will find material about welfare reforms. The second part will look for the words "child or children or children's" or "adolescents" or adolescence or "youths". The AND then links the first set with the second. This might be effective to find welfare reform issues related to children or youth.

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