Searching Econlit A database for identifying economics journal articles, working papers, and some books
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Three topical examples Cigarette demand Crime prevention Family size and consumption Want empirical articles for all 3 topics
Start Searching with keywords e.g. cigarette demand
Searching for phrase: Cigarette demand
Search returns list of 45
Increase search results by Searching for cigarette(s) AND demand Use truncation symbol * to get singular and plural version of words –i.e. cigarette*
Use * symbol to get either cigarette or cigarettes
Econlit Subject Headings Every article is assigned subject headings based on topic/content of article Can use to get more precise search results
Narrow results to just Empirical papers With Subject Heading
Empirical articles on the Demand for cigarettes
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Subject headings “Health” is broader than Cigarette* demand
Articles on alcohol-not cigarettes
Another Topic Crime Prevention Synonyms to think about? –E.g. prevention or deterrence Plurals to think about? (probably not) Search as phrase? Or as 2 keywords?
How to limit to empirical Papers? -No empirical Subject to narrow by
Use words that would be used in an abstract of an empirical article e.g. data, statistics, empirical
Narrowed by key terms
Besides journal articles Econlit also includes –Working or Discussion papers –Chapters from Books
Working paper Discussion paper Journal article
Link to working paper Working/discussion paper
Article in Book No link –must search UA Library Catalogue to find book Article Book series
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Another Topic Family size and consumption
Keyword search
Limit to empirical articles
Another strategy Search with Subject heading –Eg. Consumer Economics Empirical Analysis
Set to Subject Added keyword to be more Specific (i.e. family)
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