Searching for data should be part of defining and narrowing your topic. Take into account access to data while you are designing your project – not after you’ve done all the other work.
Reviewing the literature – don’t skimp. Begin the literature review early. Investigate the topic inside and out.
Search more than one database.
Be selective. Evaluate what you find. Is it scholarly? What do you know about the author? Is the information useful for your topic? Can you actually get the material?
Be organized. Keep track of articles and notes and include all the information that will be needed for a citation. Consider using Refworks or Zotero.
Covers business, marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Offers Datamonitor company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies, and the full-text of over 2,300 journals.
Database from the American Economics Association provides full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, economic forecasting, labor economics and monetary theory. 1969 to present.
Covers about 2,600 peer-reviewed journals in medicine, health, life sciences, psychology, arts, humanities, education, business, economics, and social sciences. Most articles are full-text. Use Advanced Search mode. Elsevier.
ICPSR, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, offers a large social science data archive. It acts as a global leader in data stewardship and providing rich data resources in sociology. ICPSR.
