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The Economist

 

Current Articles 

Access: UCI
Geography:  GlobalGale Global Issues logo showing many nations' flags.

The UCI Libraries' license the Global Issues in Context database from the Gale publishing company, and that includes access to articles from The Economist magazine. The UCI Libraries do not sponsor a premium subscription directly to the economist.com website.  

  • Coverage: 1998 - current
  • Articles are text-only (i.e. no images)
  • Learn this search!  < Browsing and finding Economist articles. (Please give the pages several seconds to load.)

 


 

Historical Articles 

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Geography:  Global

These are available through the UCI Libraries' license to the Economist Historical Archive from the Gale publishing company.  

  • Coverage: 1843-2015
  • Articles are PDF scans of the print version of the magazine.
  • This page from Gale offers more information about the archives.