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• Abstracts in Economic History - Can search, browse over 300 citations & abstracts of dissertations, working & conference papers, journal articles, contributions to anthologies.



• AnnualReportService.com - Can search, browse over 4,500 annual reports & 10-K filings.



• Antitrust Case Browser, The - Can search, browse summaries of U.S. antitrust cases. Has the full-text of key cases, links



• Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources, The - Can browse links to reports, court documents, etc. Sections include bankruptcy proceedings, litigation, agency investigations, Congressional investigations, background, news.



• Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) - Can search over 127,000 citations of USAID technical & program documents, 22,000 downloadable (pdf), on democracy, economics, health, etc.



• Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) - Can search, browse working papers on the commons (environmental policy, equity, experimental economics, game theory, gender, participatory management systems, sustainability, etc.) by Indiana University faculty.



• Documents Online - Can search, browse, download (pdf) 100,000 (pdf) documents, legal agreements, etc., back to 1995.



• Economics Working Papers - Can search, download (pdf) papers back to 1990.



• EconPapers - Can search & download (pdf) over 125,600 working papers, 155,300 journal articles, 1,300 software items, 660 ebooks, 1,400 ebook chapter, etc. Includes the former BibEc a& WoPEc.



• EconPapers - Can search citations of over 58,800 papers & 39,700 journal articles (not all free).



• EconWPA Archive - Can search working papers.



• Electronic Document Information System (EDIS) - Can search public investigation documents.



• EPrints Repository - Can search, browse over 1,500 journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., by Australian National University faculty.



• eScholarship Repository - Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 13,900 articles in journals & peer-reviewed series, working papers, etc. Covers business, education, the social sciences.



• European Research Papers Archive (ERPA) - Can search, browse over 1,000 papers from 6 working paper series back to 1998.



• Fed in Print - Can search books, journal articles, conference & working papers, etc., on economic research.



• FMS (Financial Management Service) Regulations & Guidance - Has the full-text of major federal statutes which deal with federal government financial management.



• FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) - Can search, browse, over 3,000 U.S. time-series data, download (xls,txt) data & view charts.



• FreePatentsOnline.com - Can search full-text U.S. patents (3,930,271 to 6,959,451) & applications (20,010,000,001 to 20,050,241,041), European patents( EP1,200,001 to EP1,561,423).



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Google Scholar - Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service) - Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE). Can search over 290,000 papers; download (pdf) over 190,000 journal articles (not all free), etc.



• ILOLEX - Can search over 75,000 documents on international labor standards (human rights, conditions of work, etc.).



• IMF Publications (International Monetary Fund) - Can search, browse journal articles; working, occasional, policy papers; country reports; world economic & financial surveys; etc.



• INFORMS Meetings Database (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) - Can search over 41,00 citations & abstracts of presentations back to 1990.



• ITC Trade Information Reference Centre - Has citations & abstracts of 1,100 ITC publications; 1,200 trade journals (550 with links), 1,800 serials, 7,000 books; 700 Web sites; 1,000 series of trade statistics; 300 documents on multilateral trade; 1,200 market reports; 700 quality control documents.



• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) - Can search over 7 million documents on the advertising, marketing, sales, scientific research, etc., of tobacco products in the U.S. back to the 1950s.



• Macroeconomics and Growth - Can search, browse journal articles & working papers.



• NATLEX - Can search 55,000 citations & abstracts of national labor, social security, human rights law in 170 countries or territories.



• NBER Working Papers - Can search over 10,000 citations & abstracts back to 1993, citations back to 1973.



• NetEc - Can search WebEc (World Wide Web Resources in Economic); etc.



• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of research worldwide.



• NTIS Library (National Technical Information Service) - Can search citations & abstracts of scientific, technical, engineering, business publications from all U.S. government agencies back to 1990.



• OAIster - Can search & link to over 9.7 million ebooks, ejournal articles, audio files, images, movies in digital collections of over 700 academic institutions.



• OECD Publications - Can search citations of all OECD publications back to 1961.



• PRARS (Public Register's Annual Report Service) - Has over 3,600 public company financials (annual reports, 10Ks) available via snail mail, a list of top 20 sites.



• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) - Can search & download (pdf) over 191,000 working papers; search over 237,000 journal articles (not all free); etc.



• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) - Can search, browse, download (pdf) citations of English-language journal articles, books, proceedings, other printed & electronic sources, most back to 1990, on publishing on the Internet.



• Scirus - Search engine. Can search over 135 million science-related Web pages, including citations & abstracts of peer-reviewed journals, conferences, preprints, etc. Covers economics, business, management; medicine; neuroscience; psychology; social & behaviorial sciences; etc.



• SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR) - Has 24 hour delayed SEC filings & forms (10k, etc.). Txt or html are official; pdf are unofficial.



• SurfIP - Can search the USPTO, IPOS, WIPO, EPO, SIPO, CIPO databases for patents, trademarks, designs, etc.



• Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics - Can browse links to over 210 sources.



• Theses Canada Portal - Can search over 220,000 citations, with abstracts back to 1995, download (pdf) theses submitted between 1998 & 2002.



• Theses Link Collection - Has links to collections in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, German, Sweden, the U.S., etc.



• University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER) - Can search, browse journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., back to 1945.



• Working Women, 1870 - 1930 - Can search, browse over 2,050 books & pamphlets, 4,000 pages of manuscripts on women's roles in the U.S. economy between the Civil War & Great Depression.



• WorkingLife.org - Can search, browse statistics, research articles, commentary, reports on work, the economy and labor.



• World Bank Data & Research - Can search, browse, download 14,000 working papers, policy reports, etc.