ECO 3203 Resources
Aggregate Economic Condition Analysis

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information

UCF Library Homepage provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:

• 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: 1905+
• Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost database) provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
• Conference Board's Research provides full-text research reports on business management and US and global economics. Includes studies of Fortune 500 companies, business trends, HR, productivity, and economic factors.
• EconLit (EBSCOhost database) provides subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers, covering capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.. 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.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library provides the full text of some encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Historic Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present includes downloadable Excel files.
• History Resouce Center: U.S. provides a collection of primary documents and secondary reference sources, including Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History.
• JSTOR provides full text coverage of over 300 scholarly journals, including International Economic Review (1960-2000), Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (1969-2005), Journal of Political Economy (1892-2000) and Journal of Business (1922-2001).
• LexisNexis Databases: Academic 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 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).  Congressional gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress, including full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward, and indexing & abstracting from the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1789 forward.
• National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers provides full text reports back to 1973.
• netLibrary provides over 52,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-hour checkout.
• Political Risk Yearbook Online contains unbiased detailed political risk assessment for 100 strategic countries based on the research & knowledge of political & economic analysts & consultants. Includes social & economic conditions, business climate, forecasts, trade information & more. Data is updated annually in January.
• RefWorks help researchers: * Collect citations from online sources; * Organize references by subject, project, author, or other schemes; * Create bibliographies formatted according to MLA, APA, or other widely used citation styles.
• Science Direct 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+
• 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).
• Wall Street Journal (ProQuest database) Online full text access is 1982+.  Microfilm full text is available by title in the Newspaper files, 1925+. Bound paper index covers 1958+ [Index HG1.W26]
• World Development Indicators provides direct access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2005, where data are available.
• World News Connection provides Full text English-language translations or summaries of newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, conference proceedings, and reports. Strong coverage of local media sources. Created by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).
• xreferplus provides full text encyclopedias, dictionaries, and subject-specific books, including several economics dictionaries.

Other Useful Web Sites:

• Foreign & International Government Resources including links for U.N databases and trade data

• Resources for Statistics & Demographics including links for labor/economic data for the U.S. and Florida

• Economics Resources Online (UCF Economics Dept)

• Fed in Print provides an index to Federal Reserve economic literature

• FRED II (Federal Reserve Economic Data) - a database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series

• FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) provides scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents

• Resources for Economists on the Internet (WWW Virtual Library - Economics)

• Statistical Resources on the Web - Comprehensive Economics (Univ of Michigan)

• Instructor's Website (UCF - Dr. O. Mikhail)

Other Useful Resources:

• International Business Information: How to Find It, How to Use It [REF HF 54.5.P33 1998]

• International Government Information and Country Information: A Subject Guide [REF ZA 5050.M67 2004]

• World Economic Factbook [REF HC 59.15.W67]

• World Trade Annual [REF HF53.W6] and Supplement to the World Trade Annual: Trade of the Industrialized Nations with Eastern Europe, the former USSR and the Developing Nations [REF HF53.W6 Suppl.]

• Some printed Starting Point handouts available in the UCF Library include: Business International, Economics, and Political Science International.

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