EconLit

Revised 9/28/2006

Database name: EconLit
Short database name:  ECON
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

• EconLit provides citations and abstracts for articles from more than 700 journals, books, and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE).
• It provides citations for dissertations and articles in more than 500 collective volumes per year.
• It is produced by the Journal of Economic Literature.

Coverage/update frequency

Covers 1969 to the present.
New records are added monthly.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for EconLit and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search.   They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results:

* Year is both an index and a restrictor.

† Must be input exactly as shown, including asterisk (*), e.g., collective*

Sorting

Search results in the EconLit database can be sorted by Author (1003), Title (4), and Publication Date (30).

General punctuation rules

(exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):

Searching tips

Keyword searches (1016): The Keyword search finds information in these fields: abstract (520/a); source (773/t); subject (600/a, 650/a, 651/a); and title ( 245/a).

Using limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31), Availability (5990), and Document Type (1031).

Copyright

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