1. Searching Econlit A database for identifying economics journal articles, working papers, and some books

2. Connect to Econlit From UA Libraries webpage: –Databases tab at top of page Can search from off-campus –Need Campus Computing ID

4. Type Econlit in text box

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6. Three topical examples Cigarette demand Crime prevention Family size and consumption Want empirical articles for all 3 topics

7. Start Searching with keywords e.g. cigarette demand

8. Searching for phrase: Cigarette demand

9. Search returns list of 45

10. Increase search results by Searching for cigarette(s) AND demand Use truncation symbol * to get singular and plural version of words –i.e. cigarette*

11. Use * symbol to get either cigarette or cigarettes

13. Econlit Subject Headings Every article is assigned subject headings based on topic/content of article Can use to get more precise search results

14. Narrow results to just Empirical papers With Subject Heading

15. Empirical articles on the Demand for cigarettes

16. Article in Econlit Article NOT in Econlit Very few articles actually Available from within Econlit

17. Click on Icon to get article from some other database

18. Article avail. From 3 databases Best choice- publisher

20. More Like This Econlit offers ability to get more articles like the one you are currently looking at

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22. Subject headings “Health” is broader than Cigarette* demand

23. Articles on alcohol-not cigarettes

24. Another Topic Crime Prevention Synonyms to think about? –E.g. prevention or deterrence Plurals to think about? (probably not) Search as phrase? Or as 2 keywords?

25. How to limit to empirical Papers? -No empirical Subject to narrow by

26. Use words that would be used in an abstract of an empirical article e.g. data, statistics, empirical

27. Narrowed by key terms

28. Besides journal articles Econlit also includes –Working or Discussion papers –Chapters from Books

29. Working paper Discussion paper Journal article

30. Link to working paper Working/discussion paper

31. Article in Book No link –must search UA Library Catalogue to find book Article Book series

32. Set to title Click Book

34. Click for e-book Print books

35. Scroll down

37. Another Topic Family size and consumption

38. Keyword search

39. Limit to empirical articles

41. Another strategy Search with Subject heading –Eg. Consumer Economics Empirical Analysis

42. Set to Subject Added keyword to be more Specific (i.e. family)

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