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Economics 442

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Reference Books

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2008. 9 volumes. Reference 300.3 In82
    "This 9-volume study of social sciences is a successor to the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (ESS, 1930-1935) and the initial set of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (IESS, 1968) - two groundbreaking Macmillan works that "established standards for knowledge in social science research and practice" (CHOICE, 2001)...highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features nearly 3,000 entirely new articles and important biographies contributed by thousands of scholars (including several Nobel prize winners) from around the world on a wide array of global topics."
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  • The Europa world year book.  2006. REF 341.184 Eu74
    This is a very useful source for contemporary history regarding a country.  (See a sample page from the entry on Botswana.)
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  • Statesman's year-book. 2007. REF 310 St1 2007
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  • Political handbook of the world.  2007. REF 320.2 P757
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  • World bank country studies.  (These are located at various call numbers.)
    This is a series of publications on various economic aspects of a single country.  To discover if there is a title in this series on the country  you are researching, search in the Zondervan Library under "world bank country study x" -- where x is the name of the country for which you're searching-- and select Keyword search.  (Note the World Development Indicators Database as a source for country data from World Bank research and other sources.)
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  • World economic outlook: REF 330.9 W89e
    a survey by the staff of the International Monetary Fund. Washington, D.C.: The Fund, 1980-. 
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  • United Nations Statistical Yearbook REF 310.58 Un3
    Some of this data is available online at: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/social/default.htm


Finding Books

  • Zondervan Online Catalog
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  • WorldCat
    88 million+ resources including books, audio-visual materials, dissertations, government documents, research reports and other resources cataloged in over 57,000 libraries.  WorldCat is an important resource for identifying reputable and substantive web sites.


Finding Articles

Primary Database Sources

  • Business Source Premier
    [Full Text]: contains indexing and full-text to over 3,200 business periodicalsof which more than 1,100 are scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.  These periodicals cover fields such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.  It also includes country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch, especially useful resources for development economics research.
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  • JSTOR
    [Full Text]: a collection of peer-reviewed journals, digitized and indexed usually back to the inception of the periodical title.  In some cases this is the only basis for electronic indexing to those older volumes.  To browse the list of journals in JSTOR by subject click here.  Everything in JSTOR is full-text. One way to find successful results is to search Google Scholar.  In the Google Scholar search box, type your desired search terms adding "JSTOR" after.  (See, for example, a search on "Haiti Economic Development"  which limits your search to full-text journals within JSTOR.)
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  • Columbia International Affairs Online
    CIAO bills itself as "the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs."  It lists materials from a wide variety of sources, such as think tanks and NGOs, in addition to coverage of selected books and periodicals.
  • EconLit
    an index to journals, books, and working papers on economics
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  • Library PressDisplay
    With more than 500 newspapers from Algeria to Zimbabwe available the day they are published, PressDisplay offers current world news coverage like no other service out there. There are more than thirty newspapers from the UK alone. Not only can you read the latest edition of these papers online, you can print, email, or even blog an article. "Smart navigating" is available for select newspapers, a feature which allows you to activate an audio version of an article and create an English (or other) translation. (The title list indicates these options through an icon.) You can also search for keywords across the newspapers available through PressDisplay. For example, a search on "Putin and Iran" returns over 500 articles. The up-to-date coverage goes back 60 days, thus providing only the most current news.

Secondary Database Sources

  • Academic Search Premier
    [Full Text] - provides indexing and abstracts to over 8,100 periodicals with full-text to nearly 4,500 periodicals.
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  • Wilson Omni File
    [Full Text] - an index/database to over 1,400 periodicals.  All citations here include the full-text.


Internet Resources


Other Sources


Statistical Sources


Policy Studies, Working Paper, etc.

  • RePEc
    [some Full Text] (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 41 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. Any institution is welcome to join in contributing its research materials. All RePEc material is freely available. The RePEc database leads to over 200,000 full-text documents available online.
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  • Columbia International Affairs Online
    [Full Text] (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.


Country-Based Resources

Internet Resource Portals, Clearinghouses, etc.


Citation Help

  • RefWorks
    A citation management program that allows you to collect and organize citations, create bibliographies and works cited pages, and format papers and bibliographies to a specific citation style. To access RefWorks from anywhere off Taylor's campus, Ask-A-Librarian for the group code.

    Note the citation capabilities available in WorldCat: "Cite this item"

 

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Created by Dan Bowell, University Librarian
Last revised October 06, 2009 - 06:30 PM