ONLINE PUBLICATIONS:

• PUBLISHED SOURCES OF GENERAL INFORMATION:
  

Britannica Online is the Encyclopedia Britannica in an easily searched, but unfortunately not free, online form ( ). Alternatively try the free online Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the enormous open-source web-based encyclopedia, the Wikipedia ( ).  The CIA's World Fact Book (no joke) is better than any World Almanac, has more economic information, and is in an easily searched online form ( ). The Hypertext Webster Interface provides a convenient dictionary search capability. But if you are looking for a technical or otherwise obscure word, you can search a large collection of hundreds of dictionaries simultaneously at OneLook Dictionaries .



• ONLINE JOURNALS AND LISTS OF JOURNALS:
  

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics , which was the first online journal in the field of economics, is a journal worth watching ( ). It is associated with the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. You can find a link to the society's home page at its journal's home page. Originally published by MIT Press, the journal now is published by The Berkeley Electronic Press, which publishes many online journals.


Macroeconomic Dynamics is a journal launched in 1997 by Cambridge University Press. This journal was the first economics journal to be published simultaneously online (out of Cambridge, England) and on-paper (out of New York). If you are here at the University of Kansas, you can access the journal online, since the University of Kansas has an institutional subscription.  The primary web site for the journal is maintained by the editor, but less elaborate home pages for the journal also are maintained by Cambridge University Press in the US , and Cambridge University Press in the UK . As a result of an obvious conflict of interests (the editor is yours truly), I am not assigning a stars rating to these links.


Economics Bulletin is a "letters" type journal, with rapid turnaround time, publishing short papers very fast.  But this journal publishes only online and currently is free to all, both to authors and to readers.  All submissions are refereed, and the journal's Editorial Board is excellent.  The founding editor was Myrna Wooders.  According to the journal's Mission Statement, the journal eventually will begin charging a "modest" submisson fee, but there never will be a subscription fee.  Hence access to readers always will be free.  This journal's potential for readership is formidable. ( )

Economics Journals contains information on all of the journals published in the field of economics, mostly on paper (zero stars, for wasting trees).
For another such list of economics journals, see Economic Journals on the Web .

Since Elsevier publishes a disproportionate number of economics journal, their online journals site merits frequent reference, so long as your institution has the requisite subscription needed to permit you to access Elsevier's ECONbase .

• ECONOMIC COMMENTARY:
  
  Economic Principals, edited by David Warsh, contains intellectually serious commentary and in-depth reporting on economics.  His weekly online column is the successor to his similar column that appeared in the Boston Globe for about 18 years and has sometimes been controversial.  He is a two-time recipient of UCLA's Gerald Loeb Award for financial writing and was a recipient of the J. P. Morgan International Prize in Finance Policy and Economics.  He is a former Forbes magazine editor and has reported for many American publications, including Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal.  He is author of three books.  Warsh's economicprinciples.com is a valuable column for serious academic economics ( ).
  
  Also see the Milken Institute Review, edited by Peter Passell.  He has a Ph.D. from Yale in economics, was an economics columnist for the New York Times for eight years, and is among the most highly qualified journalists working the economics beat.  His publication is quarterly, and its character is different from that of Economic Principals.  The two online publications are complementary in their different ways.  Unlike Economic Principals, which is entirely online, subscriptions to the Milken Insitute Review are available as a hard copy magazine ( ).
  
  For an excellent blog of blogs in economics, see the Economics Roundtable, currently hosted by William R. Parke at the U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
  
  Also see Tyler Cowan's blog, Marginal Revolution.  Tyler Cowan is a professor at George Mason University's Center for the Study of Public Choice and is Director of the James Buchanan Center and the Mercatus Center there.  You will be surprised by how much you can find at that blog.  He also maintains a blog on Avian Flu.
  
  
  
• LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES:
  

If you are looking for a publication that is not available to you locally, you can search the web sites of other academic and nonacademic libraries at Libweb. Instead of using interlibrary loan, you may wish to search Books in Print and perhaps even buy the book.  If so, you can do both at the famous Amazon.con online bookstore.  You can campare book prices from online bookstores at Bookfinder or Chambal.com.  If you are here at the University of Kansas, you can use the KU Library Online Catalog or go to the University of Kansas Libraries homepage.



• ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS:
  

To find the home pages of the major publishing companies that publish economic research, see this List of Publishers .