Databases
Librarian: Steve Cramer
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Articles
- Indexes and abstracts over 700 economics journals. Also indexes books, dissertations, and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE).
- Provides Journal Finder links to full text options.
- Covers economic history and theory, microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, production, welfare, inflation, accounting, international trade, consumer finance, and more.
- Covers 1969-present
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- Our largest database for full text business and economics articles.
- Covers over 8,200 journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Also provides country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch.
- Covers 1984-present, with earlier coverage for hundreds of top business journals.
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EconLit & Business Source Premier
- Search both databases.
- Because the two databases use different indexing, the search options are more limited than when searching each database individually.
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Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest)
- Provides the full text of the publication from 1982 to present.
- We also have Wall Street Journal Historical, which covers 1889-1989.
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- Provides the full text of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Covers 1995-present.
- Indexes working papers and articles in economics.
- Provides links to the full text, when possible.
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics is a volunteer project with the goal of "enhancing the dissemination of research in economics."
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SSRN: Social Science Research Network
- Provides an abstracts database of working and forthcoming papers.
- Also provides a "Electronic Paper Collection".
- Some content requires a subscription.
- UNCG doesn't have an institutional subscription, but check Journal Finder for any fee-based article you would like to see.
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- Covers ejournal websites, institutional and disciplinary repositories, and books.
- Provides links to Journal Finder. (From off-campus, select "Scholar Preferences", search for "UNCG", select all the options, and "Save Preferences.")
- On-campus users will often get straight to the fulltext (if we subscribe to that ejounal).
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Covers over 7,930 journals .
- Covers 1984-present.
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- Provides full text articles from business newspapers, press releases, newsletters, and some trade magazines.
- Especially strong in international and U.S. regional publications, and articles about specific markets and industries.
- A weak source for articles from general business magazines and scholarly journals.
- Covers 1975-present.
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- Provides citations and abstracts on global public policy and social issues, especially concerning agriculture, economics, defense, international relations, and the environment.
- Coves periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, publications from all levels of government, Internet resources, and other publications from 120
countries and in many languages. - Covers 1972-present
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- Provides the complete digitized text of over 100 scholarly journals in business, economics, and finance.
- Coverage begins with the first issue, but usually does not include the last 3-5 years.
- Search Journal Finder to see options for accessing recent issues of journal in JSTOR.
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- Indexes over 2,200 social science journals, including many in economics.
- Also provides access to cited references, the footnotes to a scholarly article.
- Covers 1955-present.
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Countries & International Affairs
- Provides journals, statistics, working papers, reports, and ebooks published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
- Covers economics, health, public policy, social issues, education, the environment, agriculture, technology, trade, taxation, and more.
- Covers 1998-present
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- Provides "how to do business" information for over 54 countries.
- Includes coverage of trade regulations and tariffs, investment conditions and regulations, e-commerce and intellectual property law, taxes, financial incentives, labor trends, and more.
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- Provides full text descriptions of countries and international organizations, as well as multinational comparative statistics.
- Covers recent political and economic affairs, a statistical survey, and a directory of government and politics, society and media, and business and commerce.
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MarketLine Business Information Center
- Provides 50 country profiles, which include economic data, trends, and analysis.
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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
- Covers foreign policy and international affairs, including global issues, world politics and political science, religions, nationalism, terrorism, diplomacy, security, and the world economy.
- Provides full texts and/or abstracts of books, journals, conference proceedings, research reports, working papers, and teaching materials.
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Economic Indicators
World Development Indicators Online (WDI)
- Provides statistics on countries.
- From the World Bank.
- Covers 550 indicators for over 200 countries and 18 county groups, from 1960 to one year ago.
- Includes social, economic, financial, natural resource, and environmental data.
- Video on getting started with WDI
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FRED II: Federal Reserve Economic Data
- A database of over 2,900 U.S. economic time series.
- Data can be viewed as text, graph, or a spreadsheet.
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Historical Statistics of the United States
- Gathers statistics from over 1,000 sources and includes over 37,000 data series.
- Tables can be downloaded into Excel and viewed as graphs.
- Major sections include Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure and Performance, Economic Sectors, and Governance and International Relations.
- Provides over 70,000 data series on many topics, including population and demographics, economics, social indicators, health and mortality, voting and elections, geography, intellectual property, social services, and libraries.
- Covers the U.S., U.S. states, counties, cities, and other Census-designated places (more than 30,000 places total).
- Data can be downloaded into Excel, or formatted into a PDF file for printing.
- More info on Statistical Warehouse
Euromonitor Global Market Information Database
- Provides marketing statistics and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers from over 200 countries.
- Particularly useful for projections; covers 1977 to 2020.
- Video on getting started with GMID
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- Provides the full text of economic indicator publications from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- Covers 1998-present
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- Provides access to more than 300 statistical series.
- Includes United Nations Statistics Division information on merchandise trade, national accounts, demography and population, energy, status of women and industrial commodities production
- Dates vary by series; most begin in the 1970's.
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