ECS 4003 Resources
Comparative Economic Systems

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: 1971+
• Business & Company Resource Center (Gale database) provides company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals articles covering company and industry news. Reports and forecasts prepared by top Wall Street and international brokerage firms. More than 11,000 U.S. and international companies and 53 industries are covered. Includes PROMT, Newsletters, and Investext Plus.
• 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.
• CCH Internet Research NetWork includes information on U.S. banking, trade regulations, and global securities.
• Citation Management Options 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.
• Columbia International Affairs Online is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
• 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.
• Corporate Affiliations Online provides online access to the Directory of Corporate Affiliations with information about more than 174,000 parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions - all the way down to the seventh level of reporting relationships.
• DataMonitor Library Service (Reuters database) provides international market research covering 6 sectors: automotive; consumer; energy; financial services; healthcare and technology.
• Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest database) covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Dates of coverage: 1861+
• 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 Business Resources (GaleNet database) contains detailed information on 448,000 U.S. and international companies, thorough histories and chronologies of major companies, and in-depth coverage of over 1,000 major U.S. and global industries including full-text essays, rankings, market shares, trade and professional associations, and statistical analyses.
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Eureka database) is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide. Also analyzed are the contents of legal essays, festschrifts, melanges, and congress reports. The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals covers international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. Dates of coverage: 1985+
• JSTOR provides full text, page image from approximately 300 scholarly journals, including International Economic Review (1960-1998), Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (1969-1997), 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.
• netLibrary provides over 45,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 4-hour checkout.
• PAIS International (FirstSearch database) indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Dates of electronic coverage: 1972+ The UCF Library has the print indexes at Index H1.P8 for 1915+
• 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.
• 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+
• Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) is a primary resource from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Dates of electronic coverage: 1963+  The UCF Library has the print indexes at Index HM1.S67 for 1953+
• 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).
• United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) provides over 40,000 treaties treaties and international agreements published by the Secretariat since 1946. Treaties are presented in their original language, along with translations into English and French, as appropriate.
• 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]
• Web of Science - ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available in the science and social sciences source material, and cited references from the world's most influential journals. Dates of coverage: 1965+
• WorldCat (FirstSearch database) is the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with 36 million bibliographic records representing 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge.
• 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).

Other Useful Web Sites:

• Foreign & International Government Resources and Resources for Statistics & Demographics

• Economics Resources Online (UCF Economics Dept)

• Global Legal Information Network (Library of Congress)

• National Accounts Main Aggregates Database (United Nations) and other United Nations databases

• 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. Julie Ann Elston)

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]

• Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest [REF K526.5.M37]

• World Development Indicators [REF HC 59.15.W656] - World Bank's Data Query offers free access to a segment of the World Development Indicators (WDI) database, an extensive collection of data about development. This segment includes 54 timeseries indicators for 208 countries and 18 groups, spanning the latest 5 years available.

• 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.

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

  • Countries and Their Cultures [REF GN 307.C68]

  • Countries of the World & Their Leaders Yearbook [REF G 123.C68]

  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations [REF G 63.W67]

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