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/
Elsevier Science Journals (WebLUIS Index) - 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,
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.
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.
Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) - a primary resource from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. 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+
Universe Databases: Academic Universe 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 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 Universe 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 1970 forward.
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: 1977+
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/
JSTOR - Provides full text, page image from over 100 scholarly
journals, including Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (1969-1994) and Journal
of Business (1922-1994).
http://www.jstor.org/jstor/
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.
http://www.prsgroup.com/yearbook/
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.
http://www.ciaonet.org/
Foreign &
International Government Resources and Resources for Statistics
& Demographics
http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/international.htm
http://library.ucf.edu/govdocs/statistics.htm
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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/content/resources.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 of Michigan)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stecon.html
UCF Office of Research
http://www.research.ucf.edu/
GrantsWeb
(Society of Research Administrators)
http://www.srainternational.org/cws/sra/resource.htm
Foundation
Center
http://fdncenter.org/
Federal
Government Resources - Grants, Contracts, and Auctions (Univ of Michigan)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/fedgt.html
Instructor's Website (UCF - Dr.
Julie Ann Elston)
http://www.bus.ucf.edu/elston/
rgause@mail.ucf.edu
(407) 823-2563
Last modified: February 15, 2000
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