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FINDING BOOKS
I-Share: Catalog for Lovejoy Library and some other 70 other Illinois libraries. You can submit interlibrary loan requests directly online for many items.
WorldCat: Catalog for more than 44,000 libraries worldwide. You can submit interlibrary loan requests using ILLiad, the electronic request system.
PRINCIPAL SUBJECT HEADINGS or "about" terms to use in I-Share or WorldCat:
Business
Capital
Commerce
Comparative economics
Cost
Econometrics
Economic development
Economic history
Economic policy
Economics
Economics (Mathematical)
Elasticity (Economics)
Employment (Economic theory)
Equilibrium (Economics)
Exchange
Finance
Gross national product
Income
Index numbers (Economics)
Industries
Labor economics
Macroeconomics
Managerial economics
Microeconomics
Production functions (Economic theory)
Profit
Property
Regional economics
Resource allocation
Risk
Statistics
Supply and demand
Surplus (Economics)
Value
Waste (Economics)
Wealth
The Catalog will often suggest additional subject headings.
DICTIONARIES, DIRECTORIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, AND HANDBOOKS
The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ref. HC 102.A66 2003
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management. 12 vols. Ref. HD 30.15.B463 1997
Vol 8 entitled: Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance.
Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia. Ref. HB 3711.B936 1997
Dictionary of Economics. Ref. HB 61.S466 1995
Dictionary of United States Economic History. Ref. HC 102.O57 1992
The Economist’s Handbook: A Research and Writing Guide.Ref. HB 74.5.W97 1994
Encyclopedia of American Industries. 4th ed. Ref. HC 102.E53 2005
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources. Ref. HF5035.E53 2002
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ref. HC 102.G35 1999
Handbooks in Economics – prestigious series published Elsevier/North Holland:
Handbook of the Economics of Finance. HG 173.H345 2003, vols. 1A, 1B
International Encyclopedia of Business and Management. Ref. HF1001.I53 2002
The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics. Ref. HB 61.M491 1986
The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. 4 vols. Ref. HB 61.N49 1987
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. 3 vols.
Ref. K 487.E3N49 1998
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. 5 vols. Ref. HC 15.O94 2003
Quadrilingual Economics Dictionary: English/American, French, German, Dutch.
Ref. HB 61.J64
The Routledge Critical Dictionary of Global Economics. Ref. HB 61.R68 1999
Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy. Ref. HF 1359.R68 2001
Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys. Ref. HG 4961.S75 [latest]—earlier in Book
Collection. Also available online via Library’s subscription to S&P’s NetAdvantage
Wiley’s English-Spanish, Spanish-English Business Dictionary. Ref. HB 61.K323 1996
Balance of Payments Statistics. Yearbook. Ref. HF1014.I5 [annual]
Business Statistics of the United States. Ref. HC 101.A13123 [latest]
Continues Business Statistics HC 101.A13122]
CRB Commodity Yearbook. Ref. HF1041.C59 [annual]
Direction of Trade Statistics. Yearbook. Ref. HF 53.D5 [annual]
Economic Indicators. In Library’s journal collection and also online at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1458
Economic Report of the President Transmitted to the Congress. US Doc Coll. PR42.9: ; online via U.S. GPO
International Financial Statistics Yearbook. Ref. HG 61.I57—latest, and earlier years in Book Stacks [annual]
National Accounts Statistics: Main Aggregates and Detailed Tables. Ref. HC 79.I5U54 [latest]
National Income and Product Accounts of the United States. Latest available online at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2825
OECD Factbook: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics. Ref. HC 10.O34 2005; latest ed. available online at www.sourceoecd.org
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Ref. HA 202.S8 latest (Docs. C 3.134: [older]) Also online at http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Survey of Current Business. Journal Collection, current in print, backfile in microform; online at http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1730
United Nations Common Database (UNCDB). (United Nations, 1971- ) [Accessible via Library’s web site at: http://www.library.siue.edu/lib/research_tools/business_reference_sources.htm. Contains 300+ economic, social, and demographic statistical series on over 200 countries]
World Development Report. Ref. HC 59.7.W659 [latest]
World Economic Outlook. Ref. HC 10.W7979 [latest]
JOURNAL ARTICLES– Online Indexing and Abstracting Services * Indicates database may include full-text or full image.
* Indicates that database includes full-text or full image of some articles.
ABI/INFORM* – Abstracts articles in all subject areas of business and economics; covers both trade periodicals and academic journals. Very good indexing vocabulary. [Available online through Library’s web page: “Library and Information Services—Journal and Newspaper Databases—Business.”
Academic Universe (LEXIS-NEXIS)*
[Within this database click on “Business.”
Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost)* – similar to ABI/INFORM although more appropriate for keyword searching.
EconLit – American Economics Association (AEA). Index to 700+ journals, books, conference papers and dissertations. Compiled from and an expansion of AEA’s Journal of Economic Literature (Ref. HB 1.J6) and of Index of Economic Articles in Journals and Collective Volumes (Z 7164.E2A57). [Available in Library ONLY via controlled login and password—ask at Library Information Desk]
F&S Index United States. (Ref. Index Table HF 4963.F83 1993-2002) (earlier title in Book Stacks) – very good detailed company, product, and industry periodical index.
More listed on Corporations and Industries.
American Economic Review
American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Antitrust Bulletin
Applied Economics
Applied Financial Economics
Applied Mathematical Finance
Asian Economic Journal
Atlantic Economic Journal
Australian Economic Review
Balance of Payments Statistics. Yearbook.
Brookings Institution [standing order for monographs]
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
Bulleting of Economic Research
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Canadian Journal of Economics
Cato Journal
Contemporary Economic Policy
CPI Detailed Report
Developing Economies
Direction of Trade Statistics [print journal and also online]
Eastern Economic Journal
Econometrica
Econometrics Journal
Economic History Review
Economic Inquiry
Economic Journal
Economic Policy
Economic Record
Economica
Economist
Energy Journal
Explorations in Economic History
Far Eastern Economic Review
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Financial Market Trends / OECD
International Economic Review
International Financial Statistics / IMF
International Financial Statistics. Country Notes. / IMF
International Financial Statistics Yearbook / IMF
International Journal of Industrial Organization
International Review of Economics & Finance
International Review of Law and Economics
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Journal of Comparative Economics
Journal of Econometrics
Journal of Economic Education
Journal of Economic History
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Economics
Journal of Economics and Business
Journal of Energy and Development
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Macroeconomics
Journal of Monetary Economics
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics
Journal of Public Economics
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Journal of Socio-Economics
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
Journal of Urban Economics
Kyklos
Land Economics
Managerial and Decision Economics
Manchester School
Metroeconomica
Monthly Labor Review
National Bureau of Economic Research [various standing order monographic series]
NBER Macroeconomics Annual
New England Economic Review
OECD Economic Outlook
OECD Observer
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
Oxford Economic Papers
Public Choice
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
Rand Journal of Economics
Real Estate Economics
Review of Economic Studies
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of Financial Economics
Review of Income and Wealth
Review of Industrial Organization
Review of Political Economy
Review of Social Economy
Review of World Economics
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
Studies in Income and Wealth
Survey of Current Business / U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis [print & online]
World Bank Economic Review
B&E DataLinks: econ & financial data sources—http://www.econ-datalinks.org/ [extremely comprehensive site for sources of business and economic data, organized under the categories of finance, macroeconomics, and labor & general microeconomics]
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept. of Commerce – http://bea.gov/ [important data on national accounts, grouped in four main categories of national, regional, international, and industry]
Congressional Budget Office – http://www.cbo.gov/Index.cfm [U.S. budget and economic information]
Corporate Information—http://www.corporateinformation.com [information on some 60 countries]
Economist.com: Country Briefings – http://www.economist.com/countries/
EDGAR / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission—http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml [For 10-K and other reports that corporations are required to file with the SEC]
FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research – http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ [provides access to historical economic statistical publications, documents, and statistical releases]
Finance Resources on the Web – http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~igiddy/index.bak [excellent directory, sponsored by New York University’s Stern School of Business, for finance information]
International Monetary Fund – http://www.imf.org
The Library of Economics and Liberty – http://www.econlib.org/
National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) – http://www.nber.org
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics – http://repec.org/ [extremely useful directory site for scholarly work in economics and other social sciences]
Researching Companies Online—http://www.learnwebskills.com/company/
RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet / American Economics Association – http://rfe.org/ [resource guide of some 2,100 resources sponsored by AEA
FRED: St. Louis Fed: Economic Data – FRED II – http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ [a database of over 3,000 U.S. economic time series]
Statistical Resources on the Web—http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Stat-USA/Internet from U.S. Commerce Dept.—http://www.stat-usa.gov/ [Available online in Library ONLY via password; ask at Library Information Desk]
U.S. Census Bureau—http://www.census.gov
World Bank – http://www.worldbank.org/ [excellent resource site for international finance, macroeconomics, and economic development]
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