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Databases for School of Economics

Research Librarian: Bernadine Hardin

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). 

 

CONTENTS ||   Main databases ||  Newspapers || Australia || Statistics || Other & New ||

        ||  Access issues   || Abbreviated journal titles  ||  Restricted  ||  Economics Resource Guide  ||

 

Major Databases

Research databases
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.

APA-FT  - Australian Public Affairs Information Service 
One of the largest article indexes in Australia and a most useful index for finding out about Australian business and economic matters.

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.


Statistics

See also:   Statistics - a Guide to Library Resources

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

AusStats  Australian Bureau of Statistics website
Everything on the ABS web site is accessible free of charge. Special access arrangements apply to Confidentialised unit record files (CURFs).

2006 Census (ABS)   SA stats ABS cat no.1345.4   ABS Publications 1804-1998 (print & microfiche)
Instructions - Library Skills workbook - 6.7.1 Australian Bureau of Statistics publications

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

Finance - Reserve Bank of Australia © Reserve Bank of Australia
An A-Z listing - also try the "Search" function to find the data you need.

International Monetary Fund - Data & Statistics
This table shows data that is available online.  See also the Library catalogue for print & online subscriptions.

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).

UN Comtrade
Delivers international trade statistics. See also the Statistics database of the World Trade Organization.

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

World economic and social survey
UN analysis of long-term social & economic development issues with a significant statistical annexe. Also available in print format

Sample size calculator    ©Copyright 2008 by Venture Data, LLC
Use the calculator to determine how many people you need to interview in order to get results that reflect the target population.  Has explanation  and instructions.

Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
Lists free multi-platform statistical software as well as online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software.

Wolfram Mathematics (Wolfram search engine)
For example: statistics; finance; socioeconomic data etc

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Newspaper databases

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.  

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Other Databases / Interdisciplinary

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 t
ip - 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.

Expanded Academic Index  - see Academic OneFile  

Gartner Core Research [ subscription ]
A database of reports and briefings for IT professionals, technology companies and investors.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Search for working papers, reports etc - many publications are free. See also the Library Catalogre for print and online subscriptions

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.

Wiley Interscience
Includes over 70 well-respected business/commerce related journals as well as books.  Most of the journals are indexed in Ebsco Business source complete.

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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

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Access issues

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 Check full text options 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. 

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Abbreviated journal titles.

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.

Journal Impact Factors

DATABASES

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.


 

Restricted Databases
  - 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.

SSRN Social Science Research Network - Copyright © 2008 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc
A free internet e-library of business, finance, economics, e-commerce and accounting, academic research papers  (authors can submit their own papers). The Faculty of Professions has subscribed to some " Research Networks " in SSRN. 
Some articles may require payment.  Search the University of Adelaide Library Catalogue for the journal/serial title to see if the Library has a subscription.  Alternatively, search the article title in one of the main databases to see if the article was published in another journal.   

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)

[ref: email- 15/5/09 JR]

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last updated 24 September, 2009 by Bernadine Hardin