The guide is has four primary objectives:
General Guidelines for Economics Research, with an emphasis on defining a topic. Includes a brief outline of how to use the Rutgers Library Catalog IRIS for finding resources.
Finding Articles: a brief discussion of the general practices used to find articles. This section also contains full tutorials for the following databases: CIAO; Factiva; Lexis/Nexis Academic, etc.
Evaluating Resources: This section focuses on the evaluation of white papers and think tank information. Also included is a check list for evaluating information found on the Internet.
The Data section contains links to data sources for US and Non-US information including central banks, government economic data, census information, etc.
The Scholarly Communications section contains links to economics journals, white papers, and dissertations.
