WISER Economics Mark Janes Social Sciences Subject Consultant

WISER Economics Mark Janes Social Sciences Subject Consultant mark. janes@ouls. ox. ac. uk

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Task 1 Searching for academic articles and books …

n Bibliographic and e-book Resources: n n n Google Scholar (quick and easy but not up-to-date) Re. PEc (working papers online) Econ. Lit (largest index of economic literature) Web of Knowledge (the most cited economics articles) Scopus (general search, can limit to economics) E-Books (Elsevier and Blackwell handbooks, OUP Economics, Google Books)

Task 2 Searching news, analysis and other full-text reports …

n News, analysis and reports (grey literature): n n n n Financial Times Online (full-text and searchable back to 2001) Lexis-Nexis (newspapers, reports, business news) Factiva (similar product to Lexis Nexis) RGE Monitor (blogs, views and news from leading economists) ABI Inform/Proquest and Business Source (full-text business, finance, industry and economics serials) Emerging Markets Information Service (news, reports and data on emerging markets) Source. OECD (full-text of all OECD publications and databases)

Task 3 Searching for economic history …

n Historical sources: n JSTOR (many classic journals back to early 1900 s, most recent years not usually available) n Economist Historical Archive (1843 -2003, full -text, images and post 1983 - data) n Making of the Modern World (full-text of books and papers from the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450 -1850) n Global Financial Data (extensive historical and current data for over 200 countries)

Task 4 Searching for data …

n Data services: n n n n n SSL Data page: www. ssl. ox. ac. uk Source OECD databases ESDS International (IEA, IMF, OECD, UN and World Bank macro data, requires ATHENS password) Global Financial Data (extensive historical and current data for over 200 countries) UN Comtrade and UNCTAD (UN commodity and trade data) ICPSR and UK Data Archive (US and UK research data) Nuffield Data Library (holds key macro and survey data on local network, access to all members of the University) Global Market Information Database (countries, consumers, lifestyles, markets and companies) Wharton Research Data Services (financial and market data, via Business School)

Now your turn …. n Task 1 Search for academic articles and books on Econ. Lit n Task 2 Search for news, analysis and other full-text reports on Business Source Complete n Task 3 Search for economic history on the Economist Historical Archive n Task 4 Search for data on Global Financial Data