LibGuides: Economics and Finance Research Guide (IMF): Journals

IMF and World Bank Group

Finance and Development
Finance & Development is the IMF's quarterly magazine, publishing analysis of the international financial system, economic development, and other global economic issues.
IMF Research Perspectives
IMF Research Perspectives is a bi-annual online newsletter covering updates on IMF research and research-related activities. IMF Research Perspectives replaces the IMF Research Bulletin.
World Bank Economic Review
The mission of The World Bank Economic Review is to encourage and support research in the field of development economics.
World Bank Research Observer
The World Bank Research Observer seeks to inform nonspecialist readers about research being undertaken within the Bank and outside the Bank in areas of economics relevant for development policy.

Journal Indexes and Collections

Business Source Corporate Plus
Contains the full text of premium business magazines and journals including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and Wired.
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BSC+ provides access to AP wires, newsfeeds, over 2400 newspapers, 850,000 transcripts, 1,600 country economic reports, and 1.1 million reports on public and private companies. BSC+ also contains sector-specific trade publications and corporate operations journals.
EconLit
Includes all bibliographic content in the EconLit index as well as the full text for more than 600 economics and finance journals, such as American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives.
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All titles include deep back files and current issues without embargoes.
Economics Research Network
Research network devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of economics research, part of the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN).
Google Scholar
Search for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports across many academic areas from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities.
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Google Scholar is a good first place to search, especially if you need a few good articles. It is not comprehensive. Some search results will contain links to full text and some will not - look for the Full Text @ IMF-WBG Library link immediately following the title for full text available via the Library Network. Search results contain links to items that cite the retrieved item.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews in anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
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Broad coverage of international materials, incorporating over 100 languages and countries.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journal literature in a variety of disciplines including economics, ecology, education, finance, mathematics, population, and more.
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Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR. [dates vary]
PAIS International
Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
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Covers journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, and more. Includes publications from over 120 countries.
ScienceDirect
A collection of over 2,500 journal titles, 400+ titles of which are subscribed and available full-text from 1995-present, with the backfiles of journals in economics, econometrics and finance available as far back as 1967.