BEC 494 - Senior Seminar

The most helpful search for exploring issues within a topic. The "cited by" link indicates how many subsequent works cited this one and offers thereby some guidance as to what's a major study in the field. Search again in GS any article or book title from a search of the databases below to see the "cited by" number.

BSE sets you square in the core secondary literature for all aspects of literature from 1985 to the present. Use the "peer reviewed" limit to retrieve results that are academic.

This is the premier database for secondary literature on all aspects of economics.

ASC is comparable to Google Scholar in regard to academic articles in journals. Offers "subjects" (left navigation) that help to identify terms to search and help narrow to your results.

JSTOR is full text archive of academic journals. The content of JSTOR is included in a Google Scholar search.

A good database to browse for an issue within your topic but it doesn't index the academic literature you need for the literature review.

This catalog interface has the very helpful way to narrow your original search by additional topics, which aids also in identifying the best terms to use in subsequent searches.

This is yet another rich source for discovering substantive discussions on your topic.