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Databases

Business Source Complete (EBSCO): Provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Remote access available.
CabDirect: Including the CAB Abstracts and CAB Health, this is the leading database for literature related to agriculture and applied life sciences, including strong international coverage.
DRI Global Economics: Provides access to comprehensive economic and financial indicators for over fifty countries. Locate historical statistics for indicators such as the consumer and producer price indexes, futures and options markets, exchange rates, population, and housing.
EconLit: Contains citations since 1969, with selected abstracts since 1987, of world economic literature from 400 major journals, essays, proceedings, books, reviews, dissertations and working papers.
JSTOR: Consists of a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. JSTOR houses over 40 electronic copies of economics and finance journals that date from the very fuirst issue up until, in most cases, a few years ago. Remote access available.
Lexis Nexis Academic: Offers full-text online news, business, legal, legislative, and regulatory information, updated daily.
MG Financial/Stock Statistics: Provides detailed financial and stock price information on nearly 9,000 public companies on a timely basis. It covers all New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange companies, plus all NASDAQ National Market System companies and select small cap companies. Searches in this database will be conducted by a librarian or library staff at no charge to the patron. Only available in the library.
NBER Working Papers: National Bureau of Economic Research working papers.
Regional Business News: Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
SDC Platinum: Access public and private corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, stock swaps, real estate investment trust transactions, leveraged buyouts, tender offers, privatizations, spin-offs and split offs, and bankruptcy liquidations. Domestic transactions available since 1979. International transactions available since 1985.

Print Resources

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Biographical Sources

Economic Thought Since Keynes: HD87 .B4313 1995 (Stacks)
Fifty Major Economists: HB76 .P74 1999 (Reference) and 2006 edition: NetLibrary E-Book: 157803
Great Economists Before Keynes: HB76 .B54 1986 (Stacks)
Great Economists Since Keynes: HB76.B55 1985 (Stacks)
The Making of Modern Economics: HB75 .S545 2001 (Stacks)
Who's Who in Economics: HB76 .W45 (Stacks) and NetLibrary E-Book: 101740

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Managerial Economics: HD30.22 .B55 1997 (Stacks) and 1999 edition: NetLibrary E-Book: 44485
Dictionary of Economics: HB61 .S466 1995 (Reference)
Dictionary of Environmental Economics: HC79 .E5 D53 2001 (Reference)
Dictionary of Political Economy: HB61 .D4945 1987 (Reference)
Dictionary of U.S. Government Statistical Terms: HA17 .D52 1991 (Reference)
Encyclopedia of Economics: HB61 .E55 (Stacks)
Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics: HB99.7 .E528 1997 (Reference)
Link's International Dictionary of Business Economics: HD30.22 .L56 1993 (Reference)
Macmillan Dictionary of Modern Economics: HB61 .M213 1986 (Stacks)
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics: HB61 .N49 1987 (Reference)
The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics: HB61 .R68 1999 (Reference)
Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy: HF1359 .R68 2001 (Reference)

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Economic Indicators

The Age of Economic Measurement: HA29 .A3585 2001 (Stacks)
The Atlas of Economic Indicators: HC59 .C28 1991 (Stacks)
The Economist Guide to Economic Indicators: HA29 .E28 1997 (Reference)
Guide to Economic Indicators: HC103 .F9 1990 (Reference)

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Handbooks

Econometrics: HB139 .E288 1993 (Stacks)
Handbook of Applied Econometrics: HB139 .H35 1995 (Stacks)
Handbook of Applied Economics Statistics: HB137 .H36 1998 (Stacks) and NetLibrary E-Book: 12673
Handbook of Development Economics: HD82 .H275 1988 (Stacks)
Handbook of Economic Psychology: HB74 .P8 H37 1988 (Stacks)
Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics: HC79 .E5 H3284 1999 (Stacks)
Handbook of Experimental Economics: HB131 .H355 1995 (Stacks)
National Economic Policies: HD87 .N38 1991 (Stacks)
Statistical Handbook on Consumption and Wealth in the United States: HC110 .C6 S73 1999 (Reference)
So You Have to Write an Economics Term Paper: HB74.5 .O33 (Stacks)

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International Economics

Europa World Yearbook: JN1 .E85 (Reference Desk)
Statesman's Yearbook: JA51 .S7 (Reference Desk)

WWW Resources

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Federal Reserves Systems

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Locate FOMC minutes, testimony of FRB officials, speeches of FRB members, the Annual Report and Budget Review, statistical releases, and the Beige Book.
Fed In Print: Locate the links under the heading "Library Collection." Find links to the 1994-1996 editions (text version) and the 1986-1996 searchable index.
Twelve Federal Reserve Districts: Click on the district to go to their specific website.

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Journals and Scholarly Publications

Blackwell Economics Articles Index: Locate articles from Blackwell publications for the years 1993 and 1994, organized by the Journal of Economic Literature classification system.
Economics Journals on the Internet: Access a comprehensive list of economics journals available through the web. Locate abstracts and tables of contents.
Financial Economics Network: Click on the FEN link to access sample copies of working papers series and accepted paper series on these topics: Corporate Finance and Organizations, Banking and Financial Institutions, Capital Markets, Derivatives, Real Estate, and Finance Teaching and Case Abstracts. Access to these and other journals is through subscription-only.
History of Economic Thought: Full and partial texts of works by scholarly economists made available by McMaster University of Hamilton, Ontario's Economics Department. Texts are in ASCII format.
Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: Review the classification systems for books and journal articles. Available at the Journal of Economic Literature Classification Web page.

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Organizations

American Economic Association: This site is basically just a means to keep members informed of upcoming meetings and publications. Other than it is pretty thin.

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Statistics

Bureau of Economic Analysis: Access national (e.g. NIPA, gross product by industry), international (e.g. balance of payments, exports and imports), and regional (e.g. state personal and per capita income) data.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Documents such as the National Transportation Statistics, Transportation Statistics Annual Report, the Commodity Flow Survey, full-text transportation research and planning information in the SMART Library, and statistics from the Office of Airline Information.
Bureau of the Census
Construction Statistics: Building Permits (C-40), Housing Starts (C-20), Housing Completions (C-22), New Home Sales (C-25), Value of Construction Put in Place (C-30), Expenditures for Residential Improvements (C-50). Also available is the Census of Construction Industries.
County Business Patterns: Access the 1993 and 1994 economic profiles.
Current Industrial Reports: Timely data on the production, inventories, and orders for 4,400 products. The various data include monthly, quarterly, annual, and biennial reports.
Current Population Survey: Access the basic monthly survey, data, history and concepts, supplements, punlications, methodology and documentation, and related surveys. Also available is the Annual Demographic Survey
Governments Division: Access financial data for the largest 50 cities and counties, state finance data by state, and government finance estimates, by type of government and by state.
Housing and Household Economic Statistics: Access data on housing starts and household data such as income and poverty, labor force, small area income and poverty estimates.
Minority-Owned Business: Includes black-owned, hispanic-owned, and women-owned enterprises.
1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables: View in HTML table format, frames format, or download into a word processor or database file.
Population Division: Locate population estimates and projections, social and demographic characteristics, and detailed 1990 census data.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (LABSTAT): Access statistical time series covering such topics as the consumer price indexes (all urban consumers), employee cost index, and local area unemployment statistics.
California State University, Fresno, Department of Economics: Find links to data covering topics such as population, labor force and earnings, money, and interest rates. Also includes links for world statistical data.
Census Data for the United States, 1790-1990: Locate data about the people and economy of the United States between 1790 and 1860. Data are available for any county in most states during this time period. Currently, data cannot be downloaded.
Conference Board's Business Cycle Indicators: Locate Leading Economic Indicators and related indexes, business cycle indicators, and the Index of Consumer Confidence (current and historical).
Daily Petroleum Report: Listed under "Current Petroleum Prices," this report includes data on no. 2 fuel oil, unleaded gasoline, crude oil, and natural gas. Through this server, you can also access natural gas and crude oil price histories. This server is maintained by the Gas and Oil Technology Exchange and Communication Highway of New Mexico.
Economic Report of the President: Reports from 1995 forward available through GPO Access
Economic Time Series Page: Access over 100,000 time series data from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Bureau of the Census, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Also access data from the Bank of Canada and trade associations. You can modify series data and run regressions on-line.
Energy Information Administration: Reports include the Short-Term Energy Outlook, International Petroleum Statistics Report, press releases, Annual Energy Outlook, data covering the topics of petroleum, natural gas, coal, nuclear, renewable, electricity, international, multi-fuel, end-use consumption, and financial information.
Experimental CPI Using Geometric Means: The "CPI-U-XG" will cover the CPI for All Urban Consumers. This experimental index will not replace the current "fixed-weight Laspeyres forumla" CPI-U or CPI-W.
Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool: Access statistics from the statistics from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
FedStats: A one-stop shop to locate statistics from more than 70 U.S. Federal Government agencies.
Imports and Exports (SIC Code), 1958-1994 (NBER): Data provided by 4-digit SIC number, year, CIF (cost including freight) import value, and industry shipments.
J. P. Morgan's: Under "Business Groups on the Web," access CreditMetrics(TM) and RiskMetrics(TM).
NBER/Bartelsman-Becker-Gray Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database: This Database contains annual production and cost data for 450 manufacturing industries from 1958 to 1994. These data come primarily from the Annual Survey of Manufactures, but we have added some price deflators and real capital stock information.
NBER Macro History Database: This database contains 3500 monthly, quarterly, or annual economic time-series. This is a searchable index.
Penn World Tables, Mark 6.1: Use the form to retrieve subsets of the Penn World Tables. Access data such as GDP per capita, price level consumption, and residential construction.
STA Research: Access a number of excellent reports including the Weekly Economic Reports, Monthly Economic Reports, and special economic reports such as the Atlanta Fed Survey, Chicago Purchasing Managers Report, Columbia University Inflation Index, National Association of Purchasing Managers index, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment, and U.S. Treasury Auction Results.
Statistics of Income: Access data "compiled from tax and information returns filed with the IRS." Data includes individuals, corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, and excise taxes.
U.S. Stock Market Indices: DJIA (1900-93) and S&P's (1926-93): Be sure and read all the data on the menu.

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International Statistics

Brookings Institute: Under "Economic Studies," access working papers in domestic economics and also discussion papers in international economics.
FINWeb: Financial Economics Web Server lists Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance related topics. You can also access the following databases: Economics Working Paper Archives, National Bureau of Economic Research, and NetEc Archive of Working Papers in Economics (BibEc, WoPEc, and CodEc).
IMF Working Papers: Locate selected papers from the Working Papers series and the Papers on Policy Analysis Assessment.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Access: Search for a list of NBER Working Papers and reprints by keyword(s).
NetEc (Working Paper Archives): There are three parts to this database: BibEc, a bibliography of working papers in economics, includes some 35,000 entries from about 250 different working papers series. WoPEc contains a collection of working papers, which can be retrieved electronically. CodEc is a collection of computer programmes and computational routines that are useful for economists.
Quantitative Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycle Home Page: Access working papers, links to Institutes and research centers with a special focus on Quantitative Macroeconomic, books, and journals.
Working Paper Archive for Economics: Electronic archive of working papers established by the Economics Department of Washington University in St. Louis. Papers are grouped in subject areas with abstracts and different methods of searching for papers. Documents are available in PostScript and Acrobat formats.
World Bank Public Information Center: Access Staff Appraisal Reports, Sectoral Policy Papers, Environmental Data Sheets, National Environmental Action Plans, and much more. Note that this site provides very little full-text documents. The user will need to order the documents through the World Bank.

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