Selected Resources for: Economics (general aspects)

Abstracts and Indexes

Business Source Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. Business Source Premier database includes both scholarly journals and periodicals for practitioners. Locate full-text coverage to more than 2,800 journals in business, economics, political science and public administration. Coverage dates vary by title. Selected Datamonitor company reports and EIU country documents are also available. Results can be downloaded or emailed. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

EconLit Contains bibliographic citations and selected abstracts to the professional and scholarly literature in the field of economics and allied disciplines, including journals, books, chapters in books, conference proceedings and dissertations. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective searches nearly 1200 of the most important journals in these subject areas. Updated, uniform subject headings facilitate your search, with the original subject headings also provided. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

HW Wilson Index Retrospective Indexes seven decades of articles on important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century. Covers more than 2,000 periodicals that include more than 4.5 million articles. An excellent resource for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

National Trade Data Bank Information on international economics and trade from 20 federal government agencies. Also contains the Foreign Traders Index. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

PAIS International Use this index for broad coverage of social science issues worldwide. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 12 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering over 4 million contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. Please note: BGMI allows only one U of M - TC user at a time. If you are denied access, please wait 15 minutes and try again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

LexisNexis Statistical Index to statistical publications from US and state government agencies, international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. Comprised of three indexes--the American Statistics Index (ASI)--Index to International Statistics (IIS)-- and Statistical Resources Index (SRI) that give bibliographic citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text tables and web sites when available. The Government Publications Library has the companion microfiche collections which include copies of almost all the publications indexed in this database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

PolicyFile PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Catalogs and Bibliographies

MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

General Reference Sources

Great economists before Keynes Describes careers and contributions of major economists. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Great economists since Keynes An introduction to the lives & works of one hundred modern economists [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Who's Who in Economics, 2nd ed. A biographical dictionary of major economists, 1700-1986 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Country Commerce from the Economist Intelligence Unit Reference guides from the Economist Intellegence Unit to the operating conditions, commercial laws and business regulations in 55 countries. Guidance on obtaining proper permits and registrations, protecting your intellectual property and complying with local tax laws-including e-commerce rules. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Dictionary of Economics (Rutherfield) [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

HarperCollins dictionary of economics [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

New Palgrave : A Dictionary of Economics Four volume work with lengthy discussion of terms. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2d edition Contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Online Dictionaries Web Site Provides links to more than 400 dictionaries of more than 130 languages. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Encyclopedia of Associations. National organizations of the U.S. Contains information for approximately 22,000 nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Encyclopedia of American Economic History Provides information on all major aspects of American economic life, from colonial times to the 1970s, and includes references for further reading. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics Provides a wide coverage of the field of economics, including definitions and explanations of concepts, terms, theories, institutions, and a comprehensive timetable of economic events. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

PollingReport.com An independent, nonpartisan resource on American public opinion covering politics, business and American pop culture. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Internet Resources

Economics Network Wide variety of economic statistics and charts including stocks, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, inflation, economic indicators, weekly economic analysis, topical studies, cybereconomics, monetary and fiscal policies, economic history, and other related sites [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics Wide variety of economic statistics and charts including stocks, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, inflation, economic indicators, weekly economic analysis, topical studies, cybereconomics, monetary and fiscal policies, economic history, and other related sites [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Primary Source Materials

Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Collection The Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Collection is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Topics include: business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, customer relationship management and more. Economics material includes US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of US and international economic conditions. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Societies, Agencies, and Organizations

Engineering Association and Institute Directory [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Statistics and Data

Economy at a Glance Bureau of Labor Statistics provides current data and graphs on labor force, employment, unemployment, hours, earnings, productivity, consumer and producer price indexes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

FedStats More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. This site provides easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

LexisNexis Statistical Index to statistical publications from US and state government agencies, international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. Comprised of three indexes--the American Statistics Index (ASI)--Index to International Statistics (IIS)-- and Statistical Resources Index (SRI) that give bibliographic citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text tables and web sites when available. The Government Publications Library has the companion microfiche collections which include copies of almost all the publications indexed in this database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Style Manuals and Writing Guides

RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Style Manuals A selected list of sources available in Wilson Reference Services. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Economist style guide The essentials of writing for this discipline. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

QuickStudy -- Citing Sources QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota Department of Economics Includes an Undergraduate Student Guide, information on research centers and link to the department's Economics Research Library. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Library Information

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