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Economics and Finance Information Sources

Articles

    Best Sources for this Subject

  ABI/INFORM Complete Available in Full Text 
    1971-current
Index to business periodicals with most in full-text. Database details.
  EconLit
    1969-current
Indexing and abstracts for 400 economics journals, papers, proceedings, etc.Database details..
  General Business File ASAP Available in Full Text 
    1980-current
Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals, and company directory listings. Database details..
  Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index
    1978-current
Indexes articles and cited references from peer-reviewed journals in the social sciences. Database details..

    Find Articles in Other Databases

  HighWire Press
Full-text articles from HighWire journals + Medline Searching
  JSTOR Available in Full Text 
    Varies by title
Full-text access to back issues of scholarly journals in many fields. Database details..
  ScienceDirect Available in Full Text 
    1997-current
Provides indexing, abstracting, and full-text to thousands of journals from Elsevier, Academic Press, Cell Press and others. Covers sciences, medicine, social sciences and humanities. Database details..

    Journals, Magazines, Newspapers

  Economics Journals- Walker Library's holdings Available in Full Text 
  LexisNexis Academic Available in Full Text 
Covers general news and information, legal, business, and biographical resources. Database details..

Business Research

    Company and Industry Data

  ReferenceUSA
Detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses. Database details..
  SDC Corporate Restructuring
Contains data on corporate restructuring. Database details.
  SDC Global Public Finance
Contains data on corporate project financing. Database details.
  SDC Mergers & Acquisitions Available in Full Text 
Contains data on corporate mergers and acquisitions. Available in the library on EIC computers 'Scott' and 'Shakespeare'. Ask at Reference Desk for password. Available in the BAS Lab on computers 81-90. Ask BAS Lab staff for password. Database details.
  SDC New Issues
Contains coverage of global equity issues. Database details.
  Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Available in Full Text 
A comprehensive, professional source of proprietary analysis with tools to better understand the structure and dynamics of industries, companies and financial market trends. Database details.
  Thomson Banker Analytics Available in Full Text 
Global company information. Database details.

Selected Resources

    Dissertations and Theses

  Dissertations and Theses Full-text from Proquest Available in Full Text 
    1861-current
Index to dissertations and theses published in the United States with many in full-text. Database details..

    Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

  Oxford Reference Online: Economics & Business
Reference sources for business and economics. Database details..

    Laws, Courts & Legislation

  Westlaw Campus Research
Access to federal and state case law, the United States Code Annotated (USCA), the Code of Federal Regulations, as well as newspapers. Database details..

    Statistics & Data

  American FactFinder
Population, housing, economic, and geographic data.
  Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data
  CenStats
Collection of census databases from the U.S. Census Bureau.
  Economic Indicators
  Federal Reserve Economic Data
  STAT-USA In-Library use only 
Coverage includes current and historical economic data, international market research, and the National Trade Data Bank. Ask at Reference Desk for access. Database details..
  Statistical Sources on the Web
Links to statistical sources compiled by the University of Michigan library.
  USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
Reports and data sets on the economics of food, farming, natural resources, and rural America.
  Value Line Investment Survey.In-Library use only In Print 
Using one of the largest independent research staffs of investment analysts and statisticians in the world, Value Line provides independent research on 1,700+ stocks -- with tracking, analysis and rankings in 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Location: 1st Floor - Reference, 332.67 V24r

    Web Search Engines

  Wolfram Alpha New resource 
Resource Temporarily Unavailable
As of now, Wolfram|Alpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains. Built with Mathematica—which is itself the result of more than 20 years of development at Wolfram Research—Wolfram|Alpha's core code base now exceeds 5 million lines of symbolic Mathematica code. Running on supercomputer-class compute clusters, Wolfram|Alpha makes extensive use of the latest generation of web and parallel computing technologies, including webMathematica and gridMathematica. *From Website.

Websites

    Academic Department

  Vanderbilt University's Business & Economics Government Information Site
Excellent and comprehensive Website for government information for Business & Economics topics. The author of this site has won awards from the American Library Association for Government Documents Librarianship. *Note - Remember that you are in Vanderbilt's site and that it will not recognize your IP address as authentication for databases for which Vanderbilt pays subscriptions.

    Associations, Agencies & Organizations

  Bureau of Economic Analysis
Promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner.
  Export.gov
Anyone may use it. Registered users have access to country and industry market research reports.
  Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Publications include: EconSouth, Economic Review, working papers, circular letters, Financial Update, etc.


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