ECO 2013 Resources
Principles of Economics I

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

WebLUIS - UCF library catalog and gateway to electronic resources, such as:
http://webluis.fcla.edu/

• Business Index - Contains citations to articles in over 800 journal titles including business, management, and trade journals; some 80 regional and local journals and newspapers; and business-related articles from over 3000 other publications. Includes topics such as business, management, industry, world affairs, case studies, technology, and industry profiles. Provides access to ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+

• Academic Index - Indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+

• Elsevier Science Journals - Provide the electronic full-text version of approximately 650 of Elsevier's research journals, including approximately 85 economics and business titles.  Dates of coverage: 1997+

• ABI/INFORM (ProQuest database) - provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety of other topics. It gives you informative indexing and substantive abstracts to articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. Provides access to the full text, page image of articles from over 600 journals. Dates of coverage: 1971+

• EconLit (FirstSearch database) - Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers. Dates of coverage: 1969+

• FactSearch (FirstSearch database) - is a guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and documents such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, Congressional hearings, Daily Press Briefings of the White House, State Department and Department of Defense, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates. Web links to free full text are included frequently.

• Social Sciences Abstracts (FirstSearch database) - Covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations. Dates of coverage: 1983+

• WilsonSelect (FirstSearch database) - Contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database includes records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1994+

• PAIS International (FirstSearch database) - Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Dates of coverage: 1972+

• Britannica Online (Encyclopedia Britannica) - The online version of the encyclopedia Includes maps, articles, and statistics on individual countries, and weekly background articles for news and current events.

• Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) - a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts (SOPODA) is also included as a subfile, providing additional literature on policy issues addressing violence, abuse, neglect, aging, health, energy, environment, housing, education, women and development, disaster preparedness and risk assessment. Dates of coverage: 1963+

• Academic Universe (CIS/Lexis-Nexis) - provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources, including access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world.  

• Statistical Universe (CIS) - provides the full text of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS). 

• Web of Science - identifies recent citations to an author's work. Dates of coverage: 1992+

Other UCF Electronic Resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/resources.htm

• STAT-USA (U.S. Dept of Commerce) - State of the Nation provides current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. GLOBUS & NTDB provide current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
  http://www.stat-usa.gov/stat-usa.html

• EBSCOhost - Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
  http://search.epnet.com/cpidlogin.asp?custid=ucf

• Dialog@CARL - offers 250+ databases in a wide selection of subjects, including article indexes, full text newspapers, directories and more. Approximately 30 databases are identified for the topic "Social Science: Economics", including ECONBASE: TIME SERIES & FORECASTS.
  http://dialog.carl.org:3017/

• Untangle the Web! - Internet Workshop Series
  http://library.ucf.edu/Internet/

UCF Interlibrary Loan
http://library.ucf.edu/ill/

UCF Quick Reference provides links to useful Internet sites, telephone reference (407-823-2562), and electronic reference service via a Web form or by e-mail.
http://library.ucf.edu/quickref/

Other Useful Web Sites:

• Economics Resources on the Net (UCF Economics Dept)
  http://www.bus.ucf.edu/economics/resource.htm

• Resources for Economists on the Internet (WWW Virtual Library - Economics)
  http://rfe.wustl.edu/

• The Scout Report for Business & Economics (Univ of Wisconsin-Madison)
  http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/bus-econ/index.html

• Statistical Resources on the Web - Economics (Univ Michigan)
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stecon.html

• International Government Resources (UCF - Rich Gause)
  http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rgause/international.htm

• ECO 2013 Course Site (UCF - Dr. Elston)
  http://www.bus.ucf.edu/elston/eco2013.html

rgause@mail.ucf.edu
(407) 823-2563
Last modified: September 3, 1999
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~rgause/classes/eco2013.htm