Along with the library catalogue, the databases listed below are useful for finding academic articles in Economics and Finance published in reputable peer-reviewed journals. Using these resources (rather than Web sources) will improve your chances of producing high quality work.
Review articles are extremely helpful if you are doing a literature review for a dissertation, as they summarise research & literature on the topic being discussed. They are published in many journals, including Journal of Economic Literature from the American Economic Association.
Annual Review of Economics only publishes review articles and you can search for relevant articles from it through the Annual Reviews database.
You can use the filter "review articles" in Library search, and in Scopus you can filter to "Reviews" to limit results to review articles.
Another method of finding them is to use "review", "overview" and similar words alongside your keywords when searching.
Two freely available databases with good coverage of Economics are:
Working papers, discussion papers and preprints are quite important in economics. They often present initial research thoughts and findings, and may later be published in modified form as a journal article. They are not peer-reviewed, but may be moderated by portals like SocArXiv that host them. They are nearly all free (open access), except for a few prestigious series like CEPR and NBER papers. Some useful sources of them include:
