Menlo School Library: Environmental & Development Economics: General resources

Subscription databases

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
- Why search here?
  This is an excellent source for secondary source articles.
- What's included?
  Over 10,000 full-text journals and magazines, with a significant portion being peer-reviewed. It covers a wide range of subject areas and offers international journals to provide global context.
America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank)
- Why search here?
  Look here for newspaper articles from many cities across the US.
- What’s included?
  350 years of newspapers and broadsheets.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
- Why search here?
  An archive and cross-searchable library of full-text articles from government research organizations, independent think tanks, university analysis centers, and scholarly journals.
- What's included?
  Over 500,000 pages aggregated from 300 international publishing institutions; documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics, security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, and more.
Global Issues in Context (Gale)
- Why search here?
  This is an excellent database for finding information about issues affecting the world at large.
- What’s included?
  Tertiary, secondary and primary source materials, statics, and viewpoint essays. Topics include a wide variety of environmental and social issues.
Health Source (EBSCO)
- Why search here?
  Look here for information on a variety of health topics.
- What’s included?
  Tertiary, secondary and primary source material in the areas of health and wellness.
Historical Newspapers: U.S. Major Dailies (ProQuest)
- Why search here?
  Find news reporting from major United States newspapers on a variety of historical events.
- What’s included?
  Archived newspaper articles from past issues of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune.
JSTOR
- Why search here?
  This database provides quick access to authoritative secondary source material. Primary sources are now available too—under Refine Results, scroll to Primary source content to select source types.
- What’s included?
  Look here for a very large collection of peer-reviewed journal articles and images, plus a smaller collection of e-books and technical reports. Use Advanced Search to select articles from a particular topical area. Now has primary source content too.
Points of View (EBSCO)
- Why search here?
  Articles on a wide variety of controversial topics can be found in this database.
- What’s included?
  Tertiary, secondary and primary sources, opinion essays, newspaper articles, transcripts of radio and television programs.
RAND State Stats
- Why search here?
  Look here for statistical information on a variety of topics.
- What’s included?
  This is a collection of state – level data from 300 RAND databases. Information is updated frequently.

Online databases & publications

AgEcon Search
Open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics.
Economics Research Network
Open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in economics.
Eldis
Open access documents on policy, practice, and research on international environmental and development issues. Currently an archive with no new publications.
Environment and Development Economics (Cambridge)
Online journal from Cambridge University Press, explores the intersection of environmental, resource and development economics. Select "open access" in the filters to view free full-text articles.
Environment for Development Initiative
Research centers examining environmental and development challenges. Institute locations include: Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, Vietnam, and the United States.
IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research
Access to thousands of working papers, book chapters, and articles from peer-reviewed journals in economics.
International Trade and Development
Global Policy Forum studies on many topics, including: sustainable development, the global financial crisis, tax justice, corporate accountability, sanctions, and more.
Journal of Economic History (Cambridge)
Online journal from Cambridge University Press, dedicated to the study of economic phenomena in historical contexts. Select "open access" in the filters to view free full-text articles.
UN Conference on Trade & Development Publications
Reports on data and analysis regarding trade, investment, finance and technology.
World Resources Institute
Global research organization that focuses on environment and development: climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities and transport.

Look in a book

Yes, you can check out a book!

Click here to search the library catalog.

You can also use our large collection of research ebooks:

EBSCO Ebook Collection
Full text of thousands of research titles.

Free ebooks can be found at the Internet Archive. Some of these are available with no restriction, others have a one-hour checkout period.

Internet Archive

Tools for researching

Google advanced search
Brief instructions for limiting your Google search to relevant pages.
JSTOR instructions
A quick how-to-use guide for advanced search in JSTOR.
Research organization template
Copy this Google Doc to help keep track and expand on your sources.