Library News for Economics

New database available: SocINDEX with Full Text

A campus wide subscription of SocINDEX with Full Text is now available, courtesy of the Social Work Library.

This resource provides comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

New Economic History addition: The Making of the Modern World

The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature

The Making of the Modern World digital collection presents full-text access to more than 61,000 monographs from the period 1450-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In more than 11 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. This online resource encompasses two collections- Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and Kress collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School-with supplementary materials from the Seligman collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from Sterling Library at Yale University.

This resource will be invaluable to faculty and students across multiple departments, including Economics, History, Political Science and Languages& Literature. If you are interested in having this resource demonstrated for you, or need help in conducting a search, please contact Carol Mollman: mollman@wustl.edu or 935-6465