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The search portal bonnus of the University of Bonn shows you the availability of titles in the ULB main library, the Library of Economics (i.e. the Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar) and libraries of other departments of the University of Bonn. You can note the shelf mark or – if the title is available as "full text" – access it directly digitally. To get to know bonnus read the help pages for bonnus1 or watch the ULB-video-series2.
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- hbz-Verbundkatalog4 - Books and journals in university libraries in NRW and Rhineland-Pfalz
- Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog 5 - >500 million books and journals in libraries and bookstore catalogs worldwide
- DigiBib6 - Metasearch in various databases (but: even though you use your bonnus access data, not all databases licensed by us are integrated)
Search portals with a focus on journal articles
- EconLit7 - Most important English-language literature database with economics journal articles, articles, working papers and dissertations
- Social Sciences Citation Index8 - Literature database with social science articles, showing cited & citing articles as well as impact factor for hits
- JSTOR9 - Literature database, which offers many journals in full text, although current volumes are not available
- EZB 10- Electronic journal library with access to all e-journals that are licensed by us or freely accessible. By the way: If you click on the link "Info zur eZeitschrift" for an e-journal in bonnus, you will be redirected to the EZB.
- ZDB 11- Journal database that lists both paper and e-journal titles. Searching the ZDB is particularly useful if you have not found a journal-title in bonnus and thus in Bonn
You can find further economic databases in the Datenbankinfosystem (DBIS)12.
Search engines and link collections
- Google Scholar13 - With approx. 390 million documents, the best-known scientific search engine with a focus on journal articles
- Connected Papers14 - Displays thematically related work, with access limited to two searches per month
- Econbiz 15 - Search for specialized information in economics, Internet sources, online catalogs, full texts and information services of libraries. Econbiz evaluates among others Econis, the catalog of the University and City Library of Cologne, BASE, RePEc, EconStor and Online Contents Wirtschaft
- Ressources for Economists on the Internet16 - Extensive English-language link collection from the American Economic Association
- Bielefeld Academic Search Engine17 - One of the largest multidisciplinary search engines in the world, covering > 160 million documents from over 6,000 sources, with about 60% of the documents open access. BASE evaluates RePEc, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), ArXiv.org and bonndoc, among others
Working Paper
- NBER working papers18 - National Bureau of Economic Research (USA)
- EconPapers19 - Plattform RePEc (Research papers in economics) - the most important source for discussion papers worldwide. As a service, New economic papers (NEP) 20draws attention to new content and working papers on the platform (Int./SE)
- CFS working papers21 - Center for Financial Studies (D)
- CesIFO working paper22 - Center for Economic Studies und Ifo Institute for Economic Research (D)
- CEPR discussion papers23 - Centre for Economic Policy Research (GB)
- SSRN 24- Social Science Research Network / Elsevier (USA/NL)
- NBER working papers 18- National Bureau of Economic Research (USA)
- IMF Working Papers25 - International Monetary fund (USA)
- Discussion Paper Series 126- Economic Studies des Research Centre of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank)
- HWWA discussion papers27 - Hamburg World Economic Archive (Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv)
- Kieler Diskussionsbeiträge 28- Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel)
- Essays in international finance29 - Department of economics of Princeton University
- Discussion Paper of the University of Bonn: Bonn Econ30; Bonn EconTribute31; IZA32; SFB/TR 1533; ZEF34; ZEF Working Papers35; ZEI36
A list of other series can be found on the pages of EconPapers37.
eDissertations
You can find a selection of interesting eDissertations here:-
Bonner dissertations and habilitations38 of the Faculty of Law and Economics on bonndoc
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DART-Europe E-theses Portal39 - Dissertations from more than 580 universities in 28 European countries (incl. Dissonline)
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NDLTD40 - Worldwide search for electronic dissertations and habilitations
Open Acess (OA)
Information on Open Access, Open Science and Open Data can be found on the Open Economics Guide41 and other platforms:
- bonndoc 42- Institutional publication repository of the University of Bonn with OA conditions
- CORE (COnnecting REpositories)43 - Search engine with > 135 million OA publications from international journals and repositories
- OAIster44 - Literature database of the metacatalogue WorldCat.org
- LATEST THINKING45- Independent open access video journal summarising research results
Reseach institutions
There are also a number of important German economic research institutions, for example:
- CFS 21- Center for Financial Studies
- DIW46 - German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
- efl47 - E-Finance Lab (Frankfurt)
- HWWI48 - Hamburg Institute of International Economics (Hamburg)
- IAB49 - Institute for Employment Research (Nürnberg)
- IAW50 - Institute for Applied Economic Research (Tübingen)
- IfW51 - Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Kiel)
- ifo52 - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (München)
- IDW53 - German Economic Institute (Köln)
- IWH54 - Halle Institute for Economic Research (Halle)
- IZA55 - Institute of Labor Economics (Bonn)
- MPI56 - Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Bonn)
- RWI57 - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (Essen)
- Sachverständigenrat58 - German Council of Economic Experts (Wiesbaden)
- WZB59 - Berlin Social Science Center
- ZEI60 - Center for European Integration Studies (Bonn)
- ZEF61 - Center for Development Research (Bonn)
- ZEW62 - Centre for European Economic Research (Mannheim)
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