Economics Guide: Search Research Databases

• an article database of magazines, journals and newspaper
• most of the articles are full-text, you can read the complete article online
• it has Wall Street Journal, an important source of economic information
• citations can be created in APA, MLA or other formats

Hints for searching ProQuest

• Check out our Proquest tutorial video
• use quotation around search terms, for example "federal reserve" to retrieve that exact wording
• be brief, use only important terms
• use Search options to limit your search: for example: date range (you can limit your results to the last 3 months, etc.), a particular company (ProQuest helps you look up companies)
• When you get your results you can limit to a particular year: look at the options on right hand side of the page, you can click on the date range desired 
• use TAB for Wall Street Journal to find instruction for finding articles and capturing article URLs

• articles from magazines, journals and newspapers (newspapers are not full text)
• has 100's of eonomic journals and magazines
• is easy to use
• is considered very scholarly
• citations are availabe in MLA, APA, etc.
• you can email articles

Hints for using Academic Search Complete

• Check out our Academic Search Complete tutorial
• don't use too many words: be brief
• use more than one search box, one for each important term
• be sure to click on Full Text so you will be able to read the complete article
• use the Search Options below the search boxes: limit to particular dates, limit to scholarly sources
• you can limit the dates of your results by using the date slide on the left hand side of the results