ECS 4013 Resources
Economic Development
UCF Library Homepage provides
links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 30,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-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).
- 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:
Other Useful
Resources:
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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.
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World Economic
Factbook [REF HC 59.15.W67]
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Gale Virtual
Reference Library
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