Library Guides: Economics: Getting started

COVID-19 arrangements

Northampton Square & Business Libraries

A book return facility, click and collect for available items and a limited number of pre-booked study spaces are available at the Northampton Square Library and the Business Library. Our Returning to campus guide provides full details about these services.

Appointments

We are not currently offering face to face appointments however, you can still arrange an online meeting with a Librarian. You can book via our Appointments page.

Key resources

Welcome to your subject guide which brings together the resources you will need while studying at City.

If you are researching a topic for your assignment, your project, your dissertation, or your thesis, use these recommended resources or browse the list of specialist resources.

Business Source Complete
Provides access to journal articles, market research, company profiles, country reports and other reports. Coverage is international, contents are mostly in business & management, accounting & finance, HR management, marketing and economic but it also covers engineering, health, social studies and some business law. It includes Harvard Business Review.
EconLit with Full Text
Published by the American Economic Association, Econlit with full-text covers all fields of economics, including: capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, and labour economic.

Econlit was created by the American Economic Association. It contains bibliographic references and abstracts to international literature in economics and related fields from 1969 to present.
Economist.com
The Economist Online (Economist.com) offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance,
science and technology. It publishes all articles from ‘The Economist’ print edition (including those printed only in British copies)
and archives that date back to June 1997.

The Economist Online also offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes. Access is sponsored by The Worshipful Company of International Bankers.
FT.com
FT.com gives access to the daily news focusing on international business and economics. It also provides access to company and market data as well as the FT ePaper which is the digital replica of the Financial Times printed newspaper from different countries including UK, Asia and USA.

To sign up for a FT account, please see How to register/re-register for a FT account. Further details are available by emailing businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals and e-books in the the arts, business and economics, history, the humanities, law, medicine and allied health, science and mathematics, and the social sciences.
SCOPUS
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. It covers international research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and
humanities and has smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research.

Economics

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