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Bonnus

The search portal bonnus of the University of Bonn shows you the availability of titles in the ULB main library, the Library of Economics (i.e. the Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar) and libraries of other departments of the University of Bonn. You can note the shelf mark or – if the title is available as "full text" – access it directly digitally. To get to know bonnus read the help pages for bonnus or watch the ULB-video-series.

Alternative search portals

• hbz-Verbundkatalog - Books and journals in university libraries in NRW and Rhineland-Pfalz
• Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog - >500 million books and journals in libraries and bookstore catalogs worldwide
• DigiBib - Metasearch in various databases (but: even though you use your bonnus access data, not all databases licensed by us are integrated)

Search portals with a focus on journal articles

• EconLit - Most important English-language literature database with economics journal articles, articles, working papers and dissertations
• Social Sciences Citation Index - Literature database with social science articles, showing cited & citing articles as well as impact factor for hits
• JSTOR - Literature database, which offers many journals in full text, although current volumes are not available
• EZB - Electronic journal library with access to all e-journals that are licensed by us or freely accessible. By the way: If you click on the link "Info zur eZeitschrift" for an e-journal in bonnus, you will be redirected to the EZB.
• ZDB - Journal database that lists both paper and e-journal titles. Searching the ZDB is particularly useful if you have not found a journal-title in bonnus and thus in Bonn

You can find further economic databases in the Datenbankinfosystem (DBIS).

Search engines and link collections

• Google Scholar - With approx. 390 million documents, the best-known scientific search engine with a focus on journal articles
• Connected Papers - Displays thematically related work, with access limited to two searches per month
• Econbiz - Search for specialized information in economics, Internet sources, online catalogs, full texts and information services of libraries. Econbiz evaluates among others Econis, the catalog of the University and City Library of Cologne, BASE, RePEc, EconStor and Online Contents Wirtschaft
• Ressources for Economists on the Internet - Extensive English-language link collection from the American Economic Association
• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine - One of the largest multidisciplinary search engines in the world, covering > 160 million documents from over 6,000 sources, with about 60% of the documents open access. BASE evaluates RePEc, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), ArXiv.org and bonndoc, among others

Working Paper

• NBER working papers - National Bureau of Economic Research (USA)
• EconPapers - Plattform RePEc (Research papers in economics) - the most important source for discussion papers worldwide. As a service, New economic papers (NEP) draws attention to new content and working papers on the platform (Int./SE)
• CFS working papers - Center for Financial Studies (D)
• CesIFO working paper - Center for Economic Studies und Ifo Institute for Economic Research (D)
• CEPR discussion papers - Centre for Economic Policy Research (GB)
• SSRN - Social Science Research Network / Elsevier (USA/NL)
• NBER working papers - National Bureau of Economic Research (USA)
  
• IMF Working Papers - International Monetary fund (USA)
• Discussion Paper Series 1- Economic Studies des Research Centre of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank)
• HWWA discussion papers - Hamburg World Economic Archive (Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv)
• Kieler Diskussionsbeiträge - Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel)
• Essays in international finance - Department of economics of Princeton University
• Discussion Paper of the University of Bonn: Bonn Econ; Bonn EconTribute; IZA; SFB/TR 15; ZEF; ZEF Working Papers; ZEI

A list of other series can be found on the pages of EconPapers.

• Bonner dissertations and habilitations of the Faculty of Law and Economics on bonndoc
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal - Dissertations from more than 580 universities in 28 European countries (incl. Dissonline)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NDLTD - Worldwide search for electronic dissertations and habilitations

Open Acess (OA)

Information on Open Access, Open Science and Open Data can be found on the Open Economics Guide and other platforms: 

• bonndoc - Institutional publication repository of the University of Bonn with OA conditions
• CORE (COnnecting REpositories) - Search engine with > 135 million OA publications from international journals and repositories
• OAIster - Literature database of the metacatalogue WorldCat.org
• LATEST THINKING - Independent open access video journal summarising research results