EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. It is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It 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, urban economics and much more.

EconLit uses a controlled vocabulary of keywords to index six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. Examples of publications indexed in EconLit include: Accounting Review, Advances in Macroeconomics, African Finance Journal, American Economist, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Business Economics, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Business Research, Marketing Science, Policy, Small Business Economics, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, etc. EconLit records include abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press. These sources bring the total records available in the database to more than 785,000.

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• To export items to the RefWorks software:
  1. Click on add to folder by the items you want to include.
  2. When you are ready to export them to RefWorks, click on the word folder at the top of the page.
  3. Then click on the word export and select direct export to RefWorks.
  4. Finally, click on the word save. This will open a window to allow you to log in to your RefWorks account and complete the export.
  
  
• The wildcard is represented by a question mark ?. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter.

  For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word. For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing.
  

• EBSCOhost treats certain words as "stop words" for example, and, or and not. Stop words are always ignored, even if they are enclosed in quotation marks. Stop words are commonly used words such as articles, pronouns and prepositions. Stop words are not added to the search dictionary, since their relevance is minimal, but they are counted as words for proximity (the distance between words).

  The search engine ignores stop words (such as the, for, of and after), finding any single word in its place. For example, if you entered company of America, it would find company of America, company in America, or company for America. It would not find company of the America, because the search engine retains a word distance. The stop word or will be replaced with any word. For example if you searched for sink "or" swim, the results could include sink don't swim. If you enter two stop words, it will find any two words in the place of the stop words. For example, if you searched for company of the America, EBSCOhost finds any two words in the place of the stop words.

Where is it: Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Articles and Databases tab, click on the A-Z List of Databases and then on the letter E and select EconLit.

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