While many of your scholarly sources are going to be books and journal articles in the library's collection, there are also a lot of scholarly economics articles available online. Here are some tips for finding, evaluating, and working with dense, scholarly works.
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Adjust your search terms.
Keep track of broader, narrower, and related terms, and use them in your searches. Be as specific as possible, too! You never know how an author is going to refer to something. Think of how many ways there are to say "employment": work, job, profession, occupation, industry...
Consider the source.
International and US-based organizations can provide a wealth of information, from research reports to statistical data. Always make sure you read the "About" section for every organization to determine their goals, interests, and quality standards. Don't confuse perspective for bias.
Read the bibliography.
The great thing about scholarly sources is that they all have bibliographies. With them, you can find the sources those scholars used and incorporate that information into your own research, whether it's another article or raw data.
You can find books in two places: in the stacks at the library and in our eBook database.
This is a link to the library catalog, where you can find all the physical books the library has in its collection
This is a link to our scholarly eBook database, where you can find over 100,000 books from academic and university presses
Many authors and scholars make their academic work available to the public. It may be in the form of a "working paper," in which researchers ask for feedback before submitting it for publication. The following organizations have their own search engines that allow you to look for a variety of economics information and articles.
