Databases are a good a place to begin research. They may contain articles
in journals, papers in conference proceedings, newspapers, chapters in
books, reports and reviews.
EconLit
,1969-
Librarian's take: Major resource for Economics. A comprehensive
index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective, working papers
and dissertations. While only some articles are available in full-text,
this is perhaps one of the most comprehensive databases for searching for
Economics articles.
Guides for searching EconLit available at: OvidSP
Online Help.
International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences 1951-
Librarian's take:
From London School of Economics and Political Science, based on the core
disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology,
this database indexes the information contained in over 2,600 social
sciences journals and 6,000 books each year.
Guides for searching International Bibliography of the Social
Sciences available at: OvidSP
Online Help.
Scopus
Librarian's take: Scopus is one of the largest abstract and
citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Updated
daily, Scopus covers 29 million abstracts of over 15,000 peer-reviewed
titles from more than 4,000 publishers, 265 million references. In many
ways similar to
Social
Science Citation Index , use them for a broader interdisciplinary
search.
Guides for searching Scopus available at Scopus
Help.
Social
Science Citation Index (via Web of Science), 1988-
Librarian's
take: Indexes thousands of academic journals in virtually every discipline
in the social sciences, including demography, economics and statistics.
Its unique feature is the ability to trace related articles, using a
citation as a starting point.
Guides for searching Social Science Citation Index available at:
Web of Science
Tutorial (The Publisher)
Social
Sciences Abstracts 1984-
Librarian's take: Provides
comprehensive abstracting and indexing of more than 518 English-language
periodicals in the areas of anthropology, criminology, economics, law,
geography, policy studies, psychology, sociology, social work, and urban
studies.
ABI/Inform
Complete
Librarian's take: A comprehensive business database
offers nearly 3,000 full-text titles covering business and economic
conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, as well as
competitive and product information.
Business
Source Premier
Librarian's take: A database covering several
thousand business, management and economics journals. Contains many case
studies, industry reports and country profiles and reports.
Tip : For reports on country X search for any one or all of the
following publications. "X Country monitor", "X Country review", "X
country profile", "X country review", "X Economic studies", "X economic
competitiveness" or "Country commerce X" where X is a country.
Tip : For reports on a particular industry, select "Industry
profile" for Publication type in the basic search.
Factiva
Librarian's
take: Full-text news articles and business information including market
research, investment analyst reports and stock quotes from global news
agencies. Newswires include Dow Jones, Reuters, Associated Press, Asia
Pulse, and over 120 other continuously updating industry, press release
and local newswires.
Guides for searching Factiva available at: How to
Search Factiva (LION)
Statistical Databases
EIU
CountryData
Librarian's take: EIU CountryData provides data for
317 series on 150 countries running from 1980 onwards through a powerful,
yet intuitive interface. For the 82 most important markets, key variables
are additionally projected to 2030 in order to facilitate business
planning.
Eurostat
Key resource to European statistics covering general and regional
statistics, economy and finance, population and social conditions,
industry, trade and services, agriculture, transport, environment, science
and technology and energy. Special themes - Euro indicators, structural
indicators, Eurostat yearbook, sustainable development and government
finance.
Global
Market Information Database (GMID)
Librarian's take: Good for
statistics on countries markets, consumer lifestyles and companies. Some
are exportable to spreadsheet format.
Frost
& Sullivan
Database of market research reports and
forecasts. Strong in medical and information & communication
technology research. Coverage: varies.
Industrial
statistics database [electronic resource] : 4-digit level of ISIC code
(revision 2and 3)
Librarian's take: Contains data on domestic
output, countries imports and exports. The data pertain to manufacturing
and are arranged according to Revision 3 (or Revision 2) of ISIC at the
4-digit level, which comprises 127 manufacturing industries (or 81
industries).
International
Financial Statistics
Librarian's take: Produced by IMF. Good
source for data on foreign direct investments, supply of money etc.
Contains time series data and provides international statistics on
international and domestic finance from as early as 1945 (for selected
time series).
International
Statistical Yearbook
Official statistics and publications
relating to market analysis, forecasts, and economic research in European
Union, OECD, United Nations, World Bank, World Trade Organization,
Business Monitor International, DSI Data Service & Information,
Enerdata, Experian, Statistics Canada, Stat-USA.
International
Trade Statistics
Produced by World Trade Organisation, it
provides detailed analysis and tables for leading traders, trade by sector
and product, regional trade, LDCs, etc.
ISI
Emerging Markets
Librarian's take: ISI Emerging Markets
aggregates news, financials and company data for over 55 countries in a
multi-language format.
Guides for searching ISI Emerging Markets available at: ISI Emerging
Markets Help Pages (The Publisher)
Monthly
bulletin of statistics = Bulletin mensuel de
statistique
Produced by the United Nations Statistics Division,
coverage includes global statistical information, statistical methods,
classifications and definitions. Many of the Division's databases are also
available on this site including Monthly Bulletin of Statistics,
Statistical Yearbook and World Statistics Pocketbook.
Orbis
Librarian's
take: A global database with information on 16 million companies and has a
wealth of information provided for companies including financial
information, annual reports, board members, mergers and acquisitions, and
stock data. Peer analyses are also available.
SourceOECD
Librarian's
take: Good source for FDI. Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books
and Periodicals. This database allows the user to select the data (partner
country, inflows, outflows, inflow position, outflow position, reporting
country, and number of years) and select the download format.
Statistics
Database (World Trade Organisation)
Provides access to
statistical information on trade profiles, tariff profiles and Time Series
on merchandise and commercial services trade.
UNIDO industrial
statistics database (CDROM)
see Industrial statistics
database [electronic resource] : 4-digit level of ISIC code (revision 2and
3)
United
Nations Common Database (UNCDB)
As of 1 May 2007, use of the
Common Database is free of charge. Produced by the United Nations
Statistical Office, it provides access to hundreds of statistical series
for all countries and areas of the world. Data coverage: balance of
payments, financial statistics, income, consumption and wealth, and
national accounts
World
Development Indicators (WDI), 1960-
Librarian's take: Good
source FDI. Offers the World Bank's comprehensive database on development
data, covering more than 600 indicators, 208 economies, and 18 regional
and income groups. The extensive collection of development data includes
social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental
indicators.
World
Economic Outlook Reports
Surveys by the IMF usually published
twice a year. Presents IMF economists' analyses of global economic
developments during the near and medium term.
Also refer to Statistics on
Asia-Pacific and International
Statistics.
NBER Working Papers
Librarian's take: Founded by the National Bureau of
Economic Research, a leading US nonprofit economic research organization.
Areas of research includes developing new statistical measurements,
estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects
of public policies on the U.S. economy.
Guides for searching NBER Working Papers available at: NBER Help: Working
Papers (The Publisher)
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
RePEC provides a large database of over 500,000 bibliographic
citations including over 230,000 working papers. It is particularly useful
for finding unpublished or yet to be published working papers.
Social Science Research Network
This database requires online registration but is otherwise
free. It includes both an abstract database containing abstracts on
over 180,000 scholarly working papers and a full text database of about
140,000 journal articles.
More databases available at:
NUS Libraries> E-Resources> Databases
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NUS Theses
Selected theses & academic exercises received from the
NUS
Economics are kept in the Library's Closed
Stacks under the call number
HD30.
More on how to search NUS theses available at:
http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/l/wtheses.html.
Foreign Theses
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database(E-Resource)
A comprehensive database of dissertations and theses records from around the world. Where available, the database provides 24 page previews as well as full text of selected documents.
Guides to searching ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database available at: ProQuest help pages.
Index to Theses with Abstracts accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland (E-Resource)
It has listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
More on how to search foreign theses available at: http://libpweb1.nus.edu.sg/lion/l/wtheses.html
More foreign theses databases are available at:
NUS Libraries> E-Resources> Databases by Type> Theses & Dissertations
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This is a list of customized "How to search" Library sessions teaching
users how to search specific databases, Library catalogue, etc. It may
include notes on how to use specific resources.
Comprehensive guides to online Economics resources
WWW Virtual Library Economics
A section of the WWW Virtual Library, it consists of the following two sites. RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet and WebEC: WWW Resources in Economics (see next two entries). Collectively, they make up the WWW Virtual Library Economics.
Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE)
Sponsored by the American Economic Association, this site links to over 2000 economic resources for academic and practicing economists.
WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics
This was maintained by the Helsinki School of Economics. Though no longer updated after June 2007, it still contains perhaps the most comprehensive guide to Economics resources on the net.
WWW Virtual Library Economic and Business History
The site is maintained in Amsterdam by the Netherlands Economic History Archive. Coverage: economics information by geographical listings, discussions lists, conferences, journals, associations and societies, research institutions, archives and libraries, museums, reference data archives and web resources.
See also Other related WWW Virtual Libraries.
Intute: Economics
High quality links evaluated and classified by subject experts from a consortium of United Kingdom universities.
Custom World Wide Web Search Engines for Economics
This page lists two search engines, one searches WebEc (above) and the other uses a custom
Google engine that searches across Economics related. There are
other custom Google engines for
Economics.
EDIRC (Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World)
The index is organized by countries and fields covering economics departments, research centers and institutes in universities, as well as finance ministries, statistical offices, central banks, think tanks, and other non-profit institutions where mainly economists are working.
Internet Economist
Provides a useful listing of sites relevant to Economics. It is a subset of the Intute: Virtual training suite.
Economics Network of the UK's Higher Education Academy
Provides resources to support teaching of Economics at University level.
Internet Site for Economists(INOMICS)
This site provides conference announcements, job openings, a directory and a search engine for economic information.
Academic Blog Portal : Blogs on Economics
Blogs on Economics is a subsection the Academic Blog Portal. Its a kind of an invisible college that is useful to academic bloggers and academics.
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Factiva(E-Resource)
A reputable business information resource that allows searching for timely news articles from major national and international newspapers, trade journals, and wires, including The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.
LexisNexis Academic(E-Resource)
Provides full text of hundreds of news sources including newspapers, magazines, and newsletters.
More E-Newspapers available at: NUS Libraries> E-Resources> E-Newspapers
Press Clippings
Located in the Singapore - Malaysia Collection, Central Library. A useful source for topical and current information, not available in journal articles or books. Articles on Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN from The Straits Times and Business Times are arranged by broad subjects.
More on Press Clippings collection available at: http://libpweb1.nus.edu.sg/lion/n/presclip.html
Guides to broad Subject Headings for Press Clippings collection
available here
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