Economics

Databases for literature

Databases for research literature, in particular journal articles:

• EconLit - international 
• ProQuest One Business – international
• Business Source Ultimate – international
• EconBiz – international and German-speaking countries
• WISO – German-speaking countries and with practical relevance

Databases for current press releases:

• Factiva
• Nexis Uni

Statistical databases

General information on economic data, statistical information and country reports:

• Macro data
• Micro data

Overview and access to Corporate and financial databases

Overview and access to publications by statistica offices and international organizations:

• Destatis
• Eurostat
• OECD
• IEA, Terms of Use 
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund

More databases

Use the database information system (DBIS) to find more databases on Economics, in particular statistical databases, and other subject areas.

In the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and the Primo catalog, you will find e-journals on Economics.

In our Primo catalog, you will find the e-books on Business or Economics which we licensed for you.

For more information on the terms of use, please refer to the Information on using e-books and databases.

Selected e-book packages

• Springer
• Oxford University Press
• Edward Elgar
• Emerald
• De Gruyter
• Nomos
• World bank
• OECD 

Publishing research data makes research transparent and reproducible. Universities, publishers and research funding organizations increasingly expect researchers to publish their research data.

The website forschungsdaten.info and the publication “Auffinden – Zitieren – Dokumentieren” offer introductory information.

If you are looking for repositories for research data, the re3data service might help. The DataCite service might be helpful for researching individual data sets internationally.

At the University of Mannheim, you can use MADATA to publish research data. For Economics and Social Sciences, GESIS operates the SowiDataNet/datorium platform. 

Subject-specific portals for Business and Economics

EconBiz – Research and subject-specific portal of the ZBW (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)
RePEc – Research Papers in Economics
SSRN – Social Science Research Network
RFE – Resources for Economists on the Internet
INOMICS – the Site for Economists

Overview on research institutions

Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC)

Internet resources for subject-specific advice

Research tips for writing assignments – Materials provided by the ZBW (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics)
STW – Thesaurus for Economics

In the Schloss Ehrenhof Library, the Hasso Plattner Library, you will find literature on Economics which you can use on site. The items are freely accessible and organized according to subject area. Borrowing from this collection is only possible for academic staff of the University of Mannheim.

The Central Lending Library Schloss Westflügel hosts more literature on Economics which you can borrow with your ecUM or your library card.

The textbook collection in the Central Lending Library Schloss Westflügel hosts multiple copies of the most important textbooks. Students of the University of Mannheim and cooperating institutions are eligible to borrow from the textbook collection.

In the Primo catalog, you can search for the literature available at the University Library.

School of Law and Economics, Department of Economics 

Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

The rankings in the Journal Citation Reports including the “impact factors”, which are recalculated every year, are internationally renowned. Please note: Select the relevant subject, for example Economics, by clicking on “Select Categories” on the left.

The Handelsblatt ranking is a comprehensive ranking of persons and departments. The evaluation is based, inter alia, on publications in journals which are weighted based on the SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR) from the Scopus database. The SCImago Journal Ranking, for example, takes the number of citations and the prestige of the journal into account.