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Full Text Journals & Indexes

 

Online Reference Sources

  EconLit
ABOUT     Economic Handbook series from Elsevier Press.
Great way to start your research.
  Lexis Nexis Academic ABOUT    

Oxford Reference Online - Economics & Business.
Four Oxford dictionaries online

  Mergent Online ABOUT     Encyclopedia of Finance.
A online encyclopedia to basic financial information
  Business Source Premier     NBER Working Papers.
National Bureau of Economic Research
  PAIS International ABOUT     Wall Street Journal.
Full text from 1984 on
  ABI/Inform U.S. and International business and management articles    

Value Line (not accessible outside the state of Maine)
Provides independent investment information, analyzing over 1,700 stocks

Hospitality and Tourism Complete

Multi-Database Search : Economics

Web Resources

Resources for Economists on the Internet
Bill Goffe maintains this guide, sponsored by the American Economic Association, which lists more than 900 resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists.

WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics
A broader array of business and economic links.

Finance Resources on the Web
Detailed directory to financial web sources maintained by Ian Giddy of Stern School of Business, New York University.

Economics departmental links
Links from the Bates Economics departmental page.

AnnualReports.com
Boasting the most complete and up-to-date listings of annual reports on the internet. All free and in pdf format.

Eldis Gateway to Development Information
Information on development issues, providing free and easy access to wide range of high quality online resources.

Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE)
GDAE is a research institute at Tufts University dedicated to promoting a better understanding of how societies can pursue their economic and community goals in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner.

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
Gund Institute from the University of Vermont includes many of their publications for downloading from this site.

FindLaw: Law and Economics
Links to working papers, journals, bibliographies, directories of economists, associations, centers/academic programs (Japan, Germany, U.S. ESLE), publishers, etc.

Hoovers
Contains links to thousands of corporate web sites and basic company financial information.

Data

Online

International Statistics

Liber8
An indispensable portal to economic information designed at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Research Division includes international, national and regional data.

Stat-USA (Ask a Reference Librarian to log you in. It must be used in the Library.)
U.S. Department of Commerce, "one stop" shopping for business, trade, and economic information. Includes National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), Survey of Current Business, and the Economic Bulletin Board (EBB)

FRASER: federal reserve archival system for economic research
Historic statistical publications from the Federal Reserve.

Leading Economic Indicators and Related Composites
Files and tables of statisical series from the Conference Board including GNP, GDP, CPI, PPI, and other business cycle indicators. Most series go back at least to the 1940's, many much earlier, and are given in constant dollars for easy comparison.

Statistical Resources on the Web
Statistical files from a variety of primarily governmental sources: federal, academic, foreign, etc.

B&E DataLinks
The Business and Economic section of the American Statistical Association provides this site with a searchable index of statistical data. Each link is annotated, with the date last modified, and is rated by the ASA. Browse by categories including finance, macroeconomics, and labor and general economics, or use the site's keyword search.

Print

Global Development Finance
HJ 8899 .W672 1999-, most recent edition available electronically

Employment, Hours and Earnings
Govt L 2.3:, 1909-, most recent in Govt Reference

National Income and Product Accounts
Govt C 59.11/5:, 1929-, most recent in Govt Ref.

World Development Report
HC 59.7 .W659, 1978-, most recent edition available electronically.

Subject Guides at Bowdoin and Colby Colleges.

Reference Works

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Reference HC15 .O94 2003, 4 vols.

New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics
Reference HB 61 .N49 1987, 4 vols.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law
Reference HB 61 .N49 1998, 3 vols.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance
Reference HG 151 .N48 1992, 3 vols.

Financial Times A-Z of international finance
Reference HG 3880 .M33 1997

Handbook of North American Industry
Reference HF 1746 .H37 1998

Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics
Reference HD 8051 .A63 1997

Economic Report of the President
PR 42.9: - Most recent in Govt. Ref. or from web site, older ones in Govt. stacks.

Library contact:

For more information, contact:

Laura Juraska
Associate Librarian for Reference Services
207-786-8324
e-mail: ljuraska AT bates.edu

The George and Helen Ladd Library • Bates College
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Page author: Laura Juraska
Date: 11/20/07


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