Economics
Library Subscription Services
Current PVCC students, faculty and staff have access through computers both on and off campus.
Factiva allows searching of 6,000 full-text news and business publications by word or phrase and date.
EBSCO Business Source Complete is a source for articles from scholarly business journals.
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 100 videos.
Mergent Online offers information on domestic and international companies, including annual reports and historic price data.
Mergent Horizon is a comprehensive source of information for companies, industries and the stock market.
CSA Illumina provides access to EconLit, a database with citations and abstracts for economics-related literature. Book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature since 1993 are available in full text.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books. The database relevant to business is Worldscope.
Wiley Online Library has full-text articles available through the advanced search feature.
Reference Works
Encyclopedia Britannica offers extensive entries on a variety of topics as well as access to journal articles, multimedia and ebooks.
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance provides information on finance and banking as well as other business-related topics.
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiles and geographic profiles.
A Dictionary of Economics provides definitions for economic terms and covers topics such as e-commerce and the Euro. This reference covers all aspects of economic theory, from microeconomics to public finance with definitions of mathematical and statistical terms widely used in economics.

