Research Guides: Economics: Find Articles

Finding Journal Articles

Articles provide detailed discussion and may be paricularly helpful in the latter stages of your research.

The library's Quick Topic Search on the library homepage will return a number of different kinds of resources including academic (peer reviewed) journal articles, newspaper articles, and magazine articles. It can be a great place to start your research.

If you are having trouble deciding what is or isn't scholarly, check out our Scholarly vs. Popular help guide:

Scholarly journals vs popular magazines (Langara Library)

Article Databases

Here are some recommended article databases that deal with Economics topics.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides substantial company profiles, industry and country reports in addition to full-text articles from over 3,000 magazines and journals in business, economics and industry.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes 13,800+ magazines and journals, with full articles from over 9,000. Covers many subject areas.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections I-IX provide access to over 1,500 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including Economics. Recent issues of journals are usually not available; issues are usually at least 3-5 years old.
CBCA - Canadian Business & Current Affairs This link opens in a new window
Canada's most comprehensive and diverse full-text online database providing high-quality indexing for over 1,800 publications and full text for more than 700. Broad coverage from a Canadian perspective spans agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and many more subject areas.
Mergent Market Atlas This link opens in a new window
Extensive Canadian, US & international company and industry information. Covers public companies.
ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 2,000 peer-reviewed journals from Elsevier and other publishers, with full articles from over 1,000 journals.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Multidiciplinary collection of 1,500 scholarly journals in life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
Canadian Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Articles from more than 20 major daily papers, including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Province, Times-Colonist, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, and Toronto Star.

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