These
guides include both Internet
resources and materials
purchased by the Library
(print and electronic).
All Internet pages selected
for these guides offer
some free research information.
The
Economist / also: Economist (subscription)
A major international
economics publication
based in London with audio and video section. Also
see our subscription
to Economist
Intelligence Unit.
EconomyWatch.com
A commercial site with in news, reports and statistics.
EDIRC / Economics
Departments, Institutes
and Research Centers
in the World
Included are
associations, societies,
economics departments,
research centers and
institutes in universities,
as well as finance ministries,
statistical offices,
central banks & non-profit
institutions. See also- National
Ecomists Club (USA) -
Podcasts.
Intute:
Social Sciences :©
A free
online service providing
access to Web resources
evaluated and selected
by a network of subject
specialists.
NBER (American)
National
Bureau of Economic Research
is a private, nonprofit,
nonpartisan research
organization dedicated
to promoting a greater
understanding of how
the economy works. The
Library has subsciptions
to several publications.
Newsey.com
A multiperspective online video news site. You'll find CNN right next to Al Jazeera, the BBC right next to ABC. Also covers major newspapers, news magazines as well as top blogs from around the world. Hint: keep keywords simple and consider using synonyms eg: auto - rather than automobile or car
OECD (free)
& SourceOECD (subscription)
Reliable
sources of comparable statistics,
and economic and social
data. Also monitors trends,
analyses and forecasts economic
developments and
researches social
changes or evolving
patterns in trade, environment,
agriculture, technology,
taxation and
more.
Penn
World Tablerovides
purchasing power parity
and national income accounts
converted to international
prices for 188 countries
for some or all of the
years 1950-2007.
RGE
Monitor ©Roubini Global Economics
A commercial site with
articles on global economic
issues.
World
Bank - Topics in Development
An A-Z index of links
to a great range of excellent
web pages on projects
undertaken by the World
Bank. See also Business Planet database, an interactive mapping database on doing business around the globe.
Australian
Policy Online
Offers
access to much of
the social,
economic, cultural and
political research available
online.
South
Australia Policy Online
Contains four key sections:
publications; resources;
events and news and opinion.
Use the Search box to
locate documents related
to your project. Updated
weekly.
WebEc
World Wide Web Resources
in Economics
General
Economics Resources
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Agriculture and Natural Resources
Scholarly peer
reviewed articles in
the Business Source Complete
database. See this sample
search result :
econom*
n3 agricultur* and "climate
chang*"
OR the same
search in the
Econlit database
Agriculture
gateways :
Angela Mills (Uni of
Adelaide)
FreshPlaza: Global fresh produce
Latest news on fruit and vegetables, prices, logistics etc
World Agricultural Production Archives (US Dept. Agriculture- Foreign Agriculture Service)
World production, market & trade reports.
World
Food Situation (FAO)
Information
on the state of food
and agricultural production
across the world. The "Analyses
and Reports" area,
includes short, medium,
and long-term reports
on crop prospects, the "Key
Issues" section has
a list of countries in
crisis, learn about food
emergencies, and also
see the FAO Food Price
Index.
A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
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Econometrics
Scholarly
peer reviewed articles
in the Business Source
Complete database. See
this sample search result:
econometric*
n5 statistic* and SU
estimation* and LA english
OR the same
search in the Econlit database
Econometric
Resources on the Internet: by
John Kane; Dept. of Economics,
SUNY-Oswego.
RePEc - Econometric Authors Articles and Papers
WebEc Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
A collection of websites
A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
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Finance (Economics)
- see also our
Finance
Resource Guide
Economic. The
Treasury (Australian
Government)
Economic data and official forecasts and publications, includes information from 1997 onwards. See also Budget.
Scholarly peer reviewed
articles in the Business
Source Complete database.
See this sample search
result :
SU
international finance*
and econom* n3 financ*
OR
the same search in the
Econlit database
The
Economist / also: Economist (subscription)
A major international
economics publication
based in London.
Viewswire Asia / Economist Intelligence Unit (subscription)
At the site - click on Viewswire then, in the left hand frame, on Finance.
IFC -
International Finance
Corporation
IFC provides loans,
equity, structured finance
and risk management products,
and advisory services
to build the private
sector in developing
countries.
IMF / International
Monetary Fund Promote international
monetary cooperation,
exchange stability, and
orderly exchange arrangements;
to foster economic growth
and high levels of employment;
and temporary
financial assistance
to countries to help
ease balance of payments
adjustment. This International
Monetary Fund -
Data & Statistics table shows data that
is available online. See
also the Library
catalogue for print & online
subscriptions.
Penn
World Tablerovides
purchasing power parity
and national income accounts
converted to international
prices for 188 countries
for some or all of the
years 1950-2004.
FEN
(Financial Economics
Network) ©
2008
SSRN
Aims to provide worldwide
distribution of research
to authors and their
readers and to facilitate
communication among them
at the lowest possible
cost. The vast
majority of downloads
of papers from the SSRN
eLibrary are free. The
University is a member.
Reserve
Bank of Australia.
Monetary policy; Market
operations; Financial
systems. Domestic & International.
Statistics -
includes information
on financial institutions.
see also International
data current
and historical.
RBA: Financial
Stability Review
World Bank
Provides financial
and technical assistance
to developing countries
around the world.
A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
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Classics of Political Economy A clollection of books available fulltext online.
See
this Resource Guide produced
by Margaret Hosking on
History Resources
Also this
Resource Guide by Jennifer Osborn for Classics research.
EH.Net a
comprehensive site -
mainly USA & UK.
Global
Price & Income History
Group Prices, income & economic
well being / Pre 1950
Penn
World Tablerovides
purchasing power parity
and national income accounts
converted to international
prices for 188 countries
for some or all of the
years 1950-2004.
Prices,
price indexes and cost
of living in Australia/
by G.H. Knibbs, Commonwealth
Statistician. Published:
Melbourne [Vic.] : Commonwealth
Bureau of Census and
Statistics, 1912.
Includes tables of retail
prices in metropolitan
towns 1901 to 1912 -
eg: currants; pork chops;
candles etc. Request
this book from Joint
Store via the Library
Catalogue.
A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
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Labour
See also this Library Resource Guide
for Work and Social Enquiry
Note a keyword search may require both the British spelling labour and the American spelling labor for example:
workplace.gov.au -
Employment & workplace
relations for Australians
-
Research Statistics
Includes monthly labour
market and vacancy statistics,
plus research on agreement-making
and employee share ownership. See
also - Individuals, Organisations
and information by Category
or Action.
ILOLEX
: Database of International
Labour Studies
A library subscription,
full-text database, containing
ILO documents including;
numerous documents concerning
human rights, employment
policy, working conditions,
industrial relations,
occupational safety and
health, and social security.
A
fair globalization -
Creating opportunities
for all (2004)-
International Labor Organization
(ILO)
Considers future global
governance and international
trade agreements, searching
for innovative solutions
to inequality.
workplace.gov.au -
Employment & workplace
relations for Australians
-
Research Statistics
Includes monthly labour
market and vacancy statistics,
plus research on agreement-making
and employee share ownership. See
also - Individuals, Organisations
and information by Category
or Action.
A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
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Trade
Scholarly peer
reviewed articles in
the Business Source Complete
database. See this sample
search :
trade
agreement* and austral*
OR
the same search in the
Econlit database
Austrade-online
Provides information
about Australian products
and services to the world.
Export Department
of Foreign Affairs and
Trade DFAT
(Australian Government)
A very good place to
start. A-Z
index. see
also the section on statistics External
Trade -
European Commission
Includes - beginners
guide to trade, trade
analysis, trade issues,
news and statistics. Also
links to countries & organizations;
agriculture,
industrial goods.
Global enabling trade report / World Economic Forum
Ranks nations
according to the factors and policies facilitating the free
flow of goods across national borders and to destinations.
Trade / World bank
A range of papers including Distortions to Agricultural Incentives / Lead Researcher: Kym Anderson, DECRG-TR, World Bank.
UN
ComTrade Database
(subscription)
United
Nations Commodity Trade
Statistics Database.Contains
detailed import and export
statistics for over 200
countires from 1962 to
present.
UNCTAD United
Nations Conference on
Trade & Development
Promotes
the
integration of developing
countries into the world
economy. UNCTAD focuses
on ensuring that domestic
policies and international
action are mutually supportive
in bringing about sustainable
development. WTO /
World Trade Organization
Global
international organization
dealing with the rules
of trade between nations.
The goal is to help producers
of goods and services,
exporters, and importers
conduct their business.
A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
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When you need to define
your topic and/or
get some back-ground
reading try consulting
a subject specific dictionary
or encyclopedia (eg:
law, finance, marketing,
computing, business etc).
Coverage can vary from
just short entries to
in-depth essays with
recommendations for further
reading.
Library Reference
Material
This list is
a very small sample of
recent print and electronic
dictionaries,
similar print titles
can be found on the shelves
in the Main Collection
at 330.03 & 330.3.
A selection of economics encyclopaedias and dictionaries ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic. The "The new Palgrave dictionary of economics online" is particularly useful.
Australian economic
terms / C.E. Noble.
5th ed. Longman,
Melbourne. 1995.
Barr Smith
Main collection & Reference. 330.3
N747a.5Grafton,
R. Quentin [et
al] (2001).
Oxford
English Dictionary (subscription)
This web page
lists a number of online
English dictionaries
and a thesaurus
The
Oxford encyclopedia of
economic history.
Joel
Mokyr, editor in cheif.
Oxford University Press,
Oxford ; New York. 2003
Barr Smith Reference
collection (not for loan) 330.03
M716o (5
vols.)
Oxford
Reference Online (subscription)
Has over
175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable
dictionary, language
reference, and subject
reference works. For
example: see the "Economics & Business" link
unders Subject Reference
or the Visual Dictionary
under English language
dictionaries.
Free
Internet Reference
The
free dictionary by Farlex Copyright © 2006 Farlex,
Inc.
A number of dictionaries
and an encyclopedia.
Includes English, acronyms,
computing, finance etc.
Online
Reference Materials -
Copyright 1997-2008,
Authenticity Consulting,
LLC.
American commercial site
- includes links to
dictionaries, glossaries
and encyclopedias, acronyms,
language translators,
news, quotations, thesaurus.
Your
dictionary.com ©1996-2008,
yourDictionary.com Inc.
Links to a vast range
of online free specialty
dictionaries and glossaries:-
accounting, e-commerce,
finance, marketing, business,
labour relations, trade,
etc
Also acronyms, synonyms,
thesauri, translation
dictionaries and an encyclopaedia.
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See this Professional
Ethics Library Resource
guide ( by Alan Keig)
for an excellent list
of Ethics resourses
as well as links to books
and dictionaries.
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The School
of Economics has embargoed
(blocked) access to the
librarys collection
of Economics exam papers. Students
should ask their lecturer
about exam preparation.
There is a generic
library guide on finding past
exam papers.
Books,
Journals, Newspapers
etc
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All resources
purchased by the
Library either print,
electronic/ internet,
DVD, microfilm etc can
be found by searching
the Library
Catalogue. We also have demonstrations on how
to search the Catalogue
To locate a known
journal / newspaper
articles (print or electronic)
search the Catalogue for
the journal / newspaper
title NOT the article
title.
More
info ...
See the
the specific subject
guide with
linked journal article
searches to get you started.
Library
Catalogue topic search
- Subject Heading searches
for Economics:-
Here is a small sample
of searches. Click
a link below then browse
the list (see also previous
and next buttons) when
you click on a Subject
Heading link a list of
titles is displayed.
A selection of ebooks (use Mozilla Firefox) available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
Classics of Political Economy A clollection of books available fulltext online.
Note
University of Adelaide
staff & students
can use the Reciprocal
Borrowing service
for borrowing items from
Flinders & UniSA Libraries
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For
post graduate by
research students & academic
staff
Resources
supporting research
Includes the items
below as well as information
such as journal
alerts , how to
set up an RSS
feeds and
searching other Library
catalogues (eg: Worldcat).
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View
this Journal Alert demonstration
for the Business Source
Complete (EbscoHost)
database (5
mins) - includes
over 2,000 economics publications. NOTE:the navigation bar
top right hand corner.
- The
EbscoHost databases index thousands
of journals from a wide
range of publishers making
it possible to manage
many alerts in one system.
- You can
also set up topic
and author alerts.
- If
the Library has a subscription
to full text there
will be a Catalogue record,
for the journal title,
with a link to the supplier.
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Conference
Alerts: Academic conferences
worldwide
Search for a conference
by topic or place. Add a local conference. get email updates
on conferences. Also see:
All Conferences
Tradeshow week (USA)
Expoworld - international
Confabb conferences - international
ECOMMUNICS.org:
A
free online platform,
for communication and
dissemination of research
in economics. Including,
huge paper database with
more than 250,000 items
from RePEc and
others.
Endnote software for
storing & managing
references.
Interlibrary
Requests
When you need items
not found in our Library
Catalogue make an
Interlibrary Request. Most articles are
supplied in less than
a week direct to your
email.
Journal
Impact Factors (rankings)
Measure of the frequency
with which the "average
article" in a journal
has been cited in a particular
year.
Theses : how
to find them
Other Library Catalogues. In particular Libraries Australia, or Worldcat, to see which libraries have a title you need if we don't have it.
Essay
and thesis writing style
guides
see also: Cryer, Pat.
(2006, 3rd ed) The
research student's guide
to success. McGraww-Hill
Education, Berkshire
UK.
BSL Main Collection 378.170281
C957r.3
Resource
for teaching Mathematics
ME:TAL
- Mathematics
for Economics: enhancing
Teaching and Learning
- An online
question bank of
mathematics teaching
and assessment materials
specifically applied
to the field of economics.
- Five interactive
video units (covering
10 units of study).
- Ten teaching
and learning guides ...covering
all aspects of Level
1 Mathematics
- case
studies which place
mathematical problems
into a real world context.
Research Methods
A selection of ebooks available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic.
A selection of books available via the Library Catalogue, check for more titles on your topic
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These
web guides are intended
as starting points. Staff
and students are
encouraged to contact Bernadine
Hardin for research
assistance beyond the
basics resources listed
here.
Either make an appointment or just drop in to
see me:
- In the Library - Research Librarians office -
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