Subject Guides for Web Resources
Economics
- BRIE (Berkeley
Roundtable on the International Economy) is an 'interdisciplinary
research project that focuses on international economic
compeitition, development and application of advanced
technologies'. Their web site has BRIE working papers (selected
papers have the full text attached) and research
papers.
- EconWPA is created by
Washington University. 'Devoted to the free distribution of
working papers'. You can obtain a working paper by sending to your
email address or by ftp.
- IDEAS (Internet Documents in
Economics Access Service) allows searching for many working papers
from WoPEc, BibEc, EconWPA and other archives.
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Monetary Authority of Singapore Publications have made their publications
available under the section Economic Research and Resources are largely in PDF.
Includes their occasional papers, reports and consultative papers, newsletters and annual reports.
- National Bureau of Economic
Research or NBER's Web site has bibliographic details of their
publications, including books and working papers.
- UNU/WIDER, World Institute for Development
Economics Research is the first research and training centre
established by the United Nations University.
The Web site has details of their activities, including their publications.
Some research papers and working papers are available in PDF.
- WoPEc
(Electronic Working Papers in Economics) collates working papers
from many sources and which can be queried together. WoPEc is part
of NetEc 'which is
a volunteer effort to improve the communication of research in
Economics via electronic media'
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- ASEAN has information &
news about ASEAN activities.
- Asian Development Bank
provides information about its activities, publications,
statistics on ADB, including its annual report.
- G-8 Information Centre
contains information about G-8 in newspapers, G-8 meetings and
other scholarly publications on G-8. Maintained by the University
of Toronto.
- European Union
contains news, activities, official documents, institutions of EU and
information sources that includes statistics and publications.
- International Monetary Fund gives
information about IMF, news and publications with full text for
selected publications. Also contains the Directory
of Economic, Commodity, and Development Organizations with
detailed information about related organizations.
- OECD:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
contains information on OECD's activities, OECD statistics with
some free online publications.
- United Nations has links to Official WEB Site Locator for the
UN System of Organizations and UN
Documentation: research guide which "provides an
overview of the various types of documents and publications issued
by the Organization...and guidance on how to work with them."
- World Bank
"provides a wealth of
knowledge and information on developing nations throughout the
world. It containing a wide array of rich and timely resources
including financial and economic data, regional, country-specific,
and topical information, as well as information on World Bank
publications and projects." -- Sue O'Neill Johnson.
- World
Trade Organisation provides information about WTO activities,
news, online documents, resources with statistics, research and publications.
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- EconLit is a
major index in the field of economics. Available to NUS staff and
students only with a guide to
using EconLit.
- Social Science
Citation Index is a multi-disciplinary index which includes
economics. Available to NUS staff and students only with a guide to
using Web of Science.
- Bibliography of
Asian Studies is an index covering East, Southeast Asia and
South Asia. Available to NUS staff and students only.
- Northern Light
Publication Search allows searching of about 5,000 journals,
reviews, books, magazines and news wires. Includes book reviews.
Date coverage is mostly from 1995. Document delivery through
Northern Lignt is not free. Check the NUS Library catalogue LINC to see if we have
the publication.
- Ingenta offers free
searching of journal articles. Document
delivery through Ingenta is not free. Check the NUS Library
catalogue LINC to see
if we have the publication.
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- The Nobel Prize for
Economics where you can get a list of all the winners in
Economics, with links to more information about the winner where
available. Maintained by the Economics Department in University of
Quebec at Montreal.
- Nobel Prize Internet
Archive where you can look for the winners in all fields,
including Economics. Information collated for the winner can be
substantial. Maintained by Alamaz Enterprises.
- Brookings Institution is a
well-known American think tank for public policy, economic studies
and foreign policy. Their Web site has many of their staff
publications in full text.
- Economist Intelligence Unit offers
samples from their latest publications with executive summaries
and some full text available. Browse their catalogue and check the
NUS Library catalogue LINC to see if we have
the publication.
- Dr
Ed Yardeni's Economic Network offers charts on the global
economy and economic indicators of various countries. Maintained
by Ed Yardeni who is the Chief Economist and Global Investment
Strategist of Deutsche Bank Securities in New York.
- McMaster
University Archive for the History of Economic Thought has
full text of selected authors works.
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You can also find other sources of information using search engines such as
AltaVista | HotBot |
Excite | Google | InfoSeek |
Ixquick | NorthernLight
Content by: Lim-Yeo Pin Pin
Last modified: 08-08-2001
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