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This research guide will point you toward online research resources and strategies available to you as scholars doing research in economics at UCLA. You will also find some help locating online and print resources in our library catalogs.
Visit this guide regularly to check for upcoming library events, as well as newly acquired resources to help you in your research process. If your area of research is outside economics, consider contacting the appropriate subject specialist.
Staying Current in Economics: Scan the quarterly issues of the Journal of Economic Literature.
Index to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations.
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Lloyd S. Shapley of the UCLA Departments of Economics and Mathematics for being awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. He shares the prize with Professor Alvin E. Roth of Harvard University.