Introduction:
Use
databases (indexes)
to search
a range of resources
and publishers (i.e.:
journals articles, books,
conference papers, newspaper
articles, government
reports etc) for your
research topic.
The databases, recommended
here are just a few of
the hundreds subscribed
to by the Library. Some
are subject, or country,
specific; others are
interdisciplinary and
may have an international
focus. To maximize results look at the Library
Skills Tutorial section
on Search
Technique (including videos with sound).
Econlit
Index to economics journals and working papers. Search
tip -
use quotation marks if you need to find a phrase eg: "interest rates" and when
results are displayed
use the subject headings
in the left hand panel
to refine your results.
Also search in Business
Source Complete
Academic
OneFile Has combined searching
of a number of databases
including Expanded
Academic ASAP. Specific
Business related databases
titles are, Business & Company
ASAP, General Business
File ASAP and Small Business
Collection.
Business
Source Complete
A very large database
covering all aspects
of business; economics; finance etc
related subjects for
over 1,200 journals some
indexed back to 1886. contains a
high percentage of active,
peer-reviewed, business
related journals Additional
full text, non-journal
content includes financial
data, books, conference
proceedings, case studies,
investment research reports,
industry reports, market
research reports, country
reports, company profiles,
SWOT analyses and more. Search
tip -
use quotation marks if you need to find a phrase eg: "interest rates". Post graduate students should investigate the cited references. See also help
guide
Australian
Databases
Attorney
General's Information
Service (AGIS)
Indexes 400+ legal
journals and includes
documents from Australian,
New Zealand and Pacific
law journals, and selected
articles from major law
journals from the United
States, Canada and the
United Kingdom. Subject
coverage includes all
aspects of law including
administrative law, banking,
companies and securities,
constitutional law, international
law, legal aid, and trade
practices.
Australia/New
Zealand Reference centre
Combines Australia and
New Zealand specific
magazines, newspapers,
newswires and reference
books to create the largest
collection of regional
full text content. Does
not index Fairfax newspapers.
Business
Australia
A collection of Australian
databases including AIMMAT from
the Australian Institute
of Management, IREL and WORKLIT for
industrial relations
topics, AATD and VALISE for
accounting and auditing,
and TAXABS and TAXINDEX for
taxation. Click
on Databases to select
an individual database.
GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) [NEW! subscription]
GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.
CEIC -[NEW! subscription]
Macroeconomic, industry and financial time series database for global emerging and developed markets. product information
Maddock,
Rodney & McLean,
Ian eds. (1987) The Australian
economy in the long run.Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge. BSL
339.994 M179a (The appendices
include statistics for 1901-1981)
Knibbs, G.H., Prices, price indexes and cost of living in Australia / Commonwealth Statistician. Published : Melbourne [Vic.] : Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1912 .... Includes tables of retail prices in metropolitan towns 1901 to 1912. Joint Store
Vamplew,
Wray. ed. (1987) The Australians
a Historical Library.
Broadway, N.S.W., Australia
: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon
Associates. BSL
*Reserve* 994 A9425
10
Eco5.com by McKinsey & Company An American site that has a historical data section for : Japan, Germany, UK; France; Americas; Europe; Asia; Africa
SourceOECD
A major source of international
statistics and reports.
Hint: click on Advanced
search (under the Search
for box) to add limits
by date, field name or
format (eg: statistics,
working papers etc).
UNdata United Nations statistics page. includes agriculture; health; education; industry; energy and more.
ViewsWire
- Asia - E I
U. UK
Analyses (including
Excel spreadsheets) for
each country under
the following headings:-
Politics / News
analysis, Background,
Political structure,
Outlook. Economy / News
analysis, Background,
Economic structure, Latest
indicators, Outlook,
5-year forecast, 5-year
summary, Country risk
rating, Background Data. Finance/ News
analysis, Outlook, EIU
currency forecasts, Consensus
currency forecast, Interest
rate forecast, Equity
prices, Euro exchange
rate, Daily US dollar
exchange rates Business / News
analysis, Background,
Business environment,
Outlook, Corporate strategy,
Industry overview Regulations / News
analysis, Investment,
Competition and price,
Licensing and IP, Trade,
Foreign exchange, Tax Country forecasts
/ Country Risk Summary
/ Country briefing.
World
development indicators
online (WDI) World
Bank Obtain country time
series (spreadsheets)
such as: consumption,
savings, education, employment,
banking, health, roads,
agriculture, stocks,
markets etc. (see
the online help).
WTO
(World Trade Organization)
Statistics database The Trade Profiles
section provides standard
information on the structural
trade situation and trade
policy measures of members,
observers and other selected
economies. The profiles
are complemented with
general macroeconomic
indicators. The Time
Series section provides
a searchable database
on international trade
in merchandise and commercial
services.
Penn
World Table
The Penn World Table
provides purchasing power
parity and national income
accounts converted to
international prices
for 188 countries from
1950-2004
Factiva
An international, interdisciplinary database primarily indexing newspapers. Provides "facts and numbers from nearly 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and newswires." Search tip-
"headline and lead paragraph". enter your search terms with an AND between each keyword Introduction to Factiva.
NOTE: Click on the Companies/Markets link to investigate the stock market, stocks, funds, currencies etc over the last 5 years.
Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre
Full text. Search for your topic then on the results screen click the "Narrow results by" for Au/NZ Newspapers. Note - does not include the Fairfax titles (eg: AFR & BRW).
Elibrary -
try Factiva first. Elibrary
covers more than 2,000
full-text magazines,
newspapers, books, and
transcripts-delivering
full text on line. 150
newspapers, including
major, and local Australian
newspapers.
Academic
OneFile Has combined searching
of a number of databases
including Expanded
Academic ASAP. Specific
Business related databases
titles are, Business & Company
ASAP, General Business
File ASAP and Small Business
Collection.
Academic
search Premier(EbscoHost)
This multi-disciplinary
database covers virtually
every area of academic
study. Full text
is available for nearly
4,500 journals, including
full text for more than
3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
PDF back files to 1975
or further are available
for well over one hundred
journals. Search
tip -
type AND between
keywords.
Current
Contents Connect
Current Contents Connect
is a service by ISI (the
Institute for Scientific
Information) which provides
access to the last 4
years of more than
8,000 science, social
sciences, arts and humanities
leading scholarly journals.
If you are undertaking
very comprehensive research,
such as a thesis, you
may want to use this
database.
Econlit
Index to economics journals and working papers. Search
tip -
use quotation marks if you need to find a phrase eg: "interest rates" and when
results are displayed
use the subject headings
in the left hand panel
to refine your results. Also search in Business
Source Complete
Economist Intelligence Unit - Asia
Provides independent, authoritative analysis and forecasts on country, industry and management analysis. Note: the Library provides access to other Economist Intelligence Unit titles via the Factiva database (click on Source and search for Economist Intelligence)
Emerald
fulltext
This is a publishers
index page to over
100 management journals subscribed
to by the Library. The
site offers full text
archives back to 1994
and abstracts back to
1989. It covers major
management, marketing,
human resources, information
management, quality control
and operations management. About
80% of the journal titles
are indexed in the Ebsco
Business Source Complete database.
Jstor
Collection from volume
1 onwards of over 270
core journal titles in
many disciplines. currently
only has around 45 journals
directly relevant to
commerce students. Coverage does
not include the last
few years.
Psycinfo (EbscoHost)
This psychology database,
is useful for behaviour
in organizations and
human resources courses.
RePec
A collaborative effort
of hundreds of volunteers
in 62
countries to enhance
the dissemination of
research papers in economics.
All RePEc material is
freely available. See
also these links to
author details and how
to contribute papers.
Scopus
A very large multi-diciplinary abstract
and citation database
of research literature
with international coverage
and updated daily. It
includes indexing of
journal articles, conferences,
books and web pages. Unfortunately
it does not have a subject
index/ thesaurus for
Social Sciences records.
Web
of Knowledge (Institute
for Scientific Information)
Select "All Databases
tab to do a combined
search of several major
databases: Web of Science;
Current Contents; Cab
Abstracts; Inspec; Medline).
Has a small percentage
of business / commerce
related material. As
well as standard topic
searches, it allows searches
for articles that have
cited a given author,
article, book or other
item. If you are
undertaking very comprehensive
research, such as a thesis,
you may want to use this
database.
Web of Science (see above) - Postgraduate students may investigate the cited references and citing references functions. Use this to find out which articles cite articles you already know about.
NEW - Feedback from Uni of Adelaide staff and students would be appreciated - Bernadine
Mint Global [Bureau van Dijk]
Mint Global is the ORBIS database of over 50 million companies from around the world. Includes listed and unlisted companies. The information is presented in five modules: companies, news, market research, directors and scanned reports. Export data to spreadsheets.
Osiris [Bureau van Dijk]
A fully integrated public company database ... Financial information [is included] on 57,000 listed and major unlisted/delisted companies worldwide (45,500 are non-US companies). The information includes: standardised and "as reported" financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, images of annual reports, corporate actions and dividends, detailed earnings estimates including recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings
ZEPHYR [Bureau van Dijk]
containing M&A, IPO and venture capital deals with links to detailed financial company information. ZEPHYR now contains information on over 600,000 transactions (as of December 2008). Up to 100,000 new deals are added per year. ZEPHYR has nine years of global coverage and includes deals involving European companies going back to 1997.
Business Who's who of Australia (by Dunn & Bradstreet)
[subscription]
Search this database by product, employees, address, company name etc and download records to a spreadsheet.
GMID (Global Marketing Information Database) [Euromonitor]
GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.
CEIC -
Macroeconomic, industry and financial time series database for global emerging and developed markets. product information
Journal titles may
be found by searching
the Catalogue and
an "electronic
resource" record
may link you to full
text articles on the
publishers website.
Where
a databases
does not provide links
from the article record
to the online full text;
the library's Article
Linker program enables
you to via
other sources available
through the library catalogue.
If
the journal title you want is
not in the Catalogue and you are either staff or a postgrad by research student,
see the Interlibrary
Request web page.
Some
references/citations
have abbreviated journal
titles, these are standardized
and may be found in print
resources in the library,
or on the internet by
using the Abbreviations.com web
site. If the citation
has an ISSN (International
Standard Serial Number)
you may be able to search
for the number. The
Ulrichs International
Periodicals database
may also help to locate
the correct journal. Guessing
the full title can waste
time as you may not find
the journal
even though we may have
a subscription. Please
contact your Research
Librarian Bernadine
Hardin or the
Library Research Help Desk
on 83035372
Another interesting
site for journal information is Journal Info this site is provided by Lund University Libraries.
If
access to any databases on
this web page have failed
try using the link in the Catalogue record.
Most of the university's
licence's for databases
include a limit on
the number of simultaneous
users, ranging from
1-8, if you do see a note about access limits try again in about
30 minutes.
Your university authentication is required in a similar
way when you are using
our system through your
own Internet Service
Provider (ISP) from
home, or from a workplace.
If you use the University
of Adelaide as your service
provider, your student
number and password are
requested to enter that
system too.
In all cases, you
will need always to approach
the (subscription) databases or journals
by using our website -
your access privilege
depends on coming through
the Library website.
RestrictedDatabases
-
Access is only available
to staff and postgraduate
students in
School of Business and
School of Economics
This list is for
information only - no
access is provided
from inside the Library
or from this web page. Business
and , Economics postgraduate
students must see their
supervisor
regarding these
resources.
Fin Analysis (Huntley).
Provides
a 12-year history of
detailed financial information
for all companies listed
on ASX. More than 400
data items are provided.
Innovative
web-based research functions
for
searching and interpreting
the data.
Thomson IBES analyst
forecast. Contains
detailed earnings forecast
by individual analyst
dating back to 1982 for
U.S. firms and 1987 for
Non U.S. firms.
S&P Compustat-
accounting data for all
NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ
firms in the U.S. over
the past 20 years.
S&P
Execucomp Information
on executive compensation
including executive stock
options, stock grants,
and other perks.
CEIC Asian Database. Contains time-series
macroeconomic statistics,
with a special focus
on Northeast and Southeast
Asian economies.
SDC Platinum (with access to mergers and acquisitions)
via
other sources available
through the library catalogue. 