Use this site to find news, scholarly articles, and data relevant to the discipline of economics.
If you spend more than 15 minutes on a research task without progress, reach out to librarian Jim Kelly for advice on choosing the right tools and search strategies.
Email Jim or schedule an appointment for a research consultation. (See adjacent box for Jim's email address and link to appointment calendar.)
Or try our "Chat with a Librarian" service (see purple pop-up below).
Direct access to wsj.com paid for by St. Thomas.
First-time users: Create a free account using your St. Thomas email address.
Access includes news, commentary, podcasts, WSJ+, use of the mobile app, and more.
Students will be prompted to enter their graduation date upon activation. Faculty and staff will receive an email to renew their academic pass every 364 days.
FT.com is the digital version of The Financial Times, a leading global news source offering in-depth analysis of global markets, economics, and diverse topics like politics, technology, climate change, and much more.
Use your stthomas.edu email address to set up your account for personalized access to content on the FT.com website and mobile apps (ft.com/mobile).
Once registered, sign in to FT.com directly. Use myFT to curate topics that you're interested in, set up email alerts, subscribe to newsletters, and save articles to refer back to later.
Other features include:
The St. Thomas Libraries also offer the Financial Times Historical Archive beginning with the first issue in 1888.
Direct access to nytimes.com paid for by St. Thomas.
First-time users: Create a free account using your St. Thomas email address. Existing paid New York Times subscribers must cancel their subscription before authenticating via the school-funded program.
Includes access to The New York Times in Education (separate registration required), TimesMachine, The Athletic (separate registration required), NYT podcasts, mobile apps, and more. Does not include Cooking, Wirecutter, or Games.
Once registered, students will have access until 12/31 of their graduation year. Faculty/staff will have 4 years of full account access, after which they must re-authenticate by visiting accessnyt.com.
Economics journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, working papers, and dissertations.
Largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: over 21,500 scientific journals, 130,000 books and conference proceedings, covering all fields of academic study: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Scopus also includes 8 citation metrics, analyzing impact at the author, article, journal, and institution levels.
Now includes Scopus AI, a research tool that generates summaries based on Scopus abstracts with references to help decipher complex content, facilitate deeper exploration, and provide academic insights.
AI-powered academic search engine that finds and summarizes relevant research from millions of peer-reviewed papers using natural language queries. Advanced features allow you to get topic-level and paper-level insights, do deep research searching, and see a "Consensus Meter" that groups surfaced papers according to their findings.
UST is currently trialing the premium paid version of this tool. Create an account with your stthomas.edu email address to take advantage of the UST Libraries' unlimited Pro enterprise subscription trial. Select University of St. Thomas under Search settings in your account to enable full-text links to subscribed content.
Search across a wide range of academic literature indexed by Google. Use this link to get full-text access to articles available through the library via “GET IT@UST Libraries” links in search results.
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