Searching Tips for Economists
or
How to Find the Working Paper
You Ever Needed but Didn't Have The Slightest Idea Where You Could Get
It?
Most of the time, we grab our head on our hands wondering where in the
world we can find more reference on the subject we are studying or writing
about. If you don't, you're lucky to have someone to do this job for you...
Times ago, libraries were the only place you could try to find reference.
Then, came the INTERNET. You no longer have to pull of your hair everytime
the journal you want is not in the library shelf. Most of the time, the
newest papers are also published online, and their writers are increasingly
allowing them to be downloaded from the web.
Now you know the secret of the universe, you must be thinking on how to
do it. So, I prepared a list of suggestions you could use on your next
task. It's no final method on researching through the internet, but it's
the way I've been doing and I'm still alive.
1) Get straight to the author
This must be the first step for the ones of you that know exactly what
you're looking for. That means: the paper name and author(s). Why don't
you try locating the author's webpage?
First of all, try his university or working place. For example, you're
looking for, let's say, Barry Eichengreen's "Managing Financial Crises
in Emerging Markets". You go to UC at Berkeley's (the place Eichengreen
works) homepage (you must know how to find it, if you don't, try my
EconLinks
and figure it out) and find the page for the Department of Economics. Once
there, click on "faculty homepages" and then find his homepage. Then try
on "research papers" and voilą, the downloadable paper in PDF format.
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