Some high-use periodicals are duplicated in microform. Some binding copy subscriptions are maintained. The economics bibliographer selects materials for purchase, with priority being given to faculty requests. The University Libraries maintain an approval plan for books from many university press and significant trade publishers and standing orders for many important serials. Significant gifts of materials not already owned are rarely received, but duplicate copies of frequently used titles are sometimes added by gift.
Retrospective purchases are limited to filling in journal holdings or adding important older titles.
Federal documents from a variety of agencies provide primary data and secondary materials of interest. More periodicals and serials, especially those published by the United States Government, continue to appear in online versions as time progresses. Law materials and looseleaf services, as well as the legal online databases WestLaw and Lexis-Nexis are heavily used by economics students and faculty. Lower division college textbooks are not ordinarily purchased. Upper division textbooks are acquired selectively.