Economics Guide 　 Major Databases Liaison Librarian: Dr. Frederick Nesta nesta@ln.edu.hk Reference Desk: 2616-8571 Circulation Desk: 2616-8586 Library Web: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/ Email: library@ln.edu.hk Library Hours: Mon - Thu 8:30 a.m. - midnight Fri 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Sat 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sun 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Public holidays Closed Library of Congress Classification: HB to HC: Economics HB to HJ: Business & Economics HG: Finance Lai's Classification for Chinese: 550: Economy 560: Finance Lai's Classification books for this area are currently on the 3rd Floor New Books in Economics New Books in Finance Fong Sum Wood Library Lingnan University 8 Castle Peak Road Tuen Mun, N.T. Hong Kong 嶺南大學 鄺森活圖書館 香港 新界 屯門 青山公路 8 號 Indicates that this database is searched by 1-Search Books Articles Data Citations Information Commons Only CD-ROM All of the resources below can be reached from the Library Web page or found in the Information Commons: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/eresources/ AgeLine Provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology - the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. Blackwell Reference Online includes the Handbook of Applied Econometrics and other Blackwell ‘Companions’ to economics. Cambridge Journals Online Provides full text of e-journals covering the fields of arts & humanities and social sciences. CEIC Premium China Database Extensive coverage of over 130,000 statistical data series of China on national, provincial and municipal level. CSMAR (China Stock Market & Accounting Research) 中國股票市場研究數據庫 (Up to 2004 Archive) Company financial information and trading statistics of listed companies in China. Includes both A Shares and B Shares. D & B Major Corporations in Hong Kong Provides access to top 4,000 local and foreign-based corporations in Hong Kong. Datastream Advance major database which provides international financial, economic, stock market and company data. Directory of Open Access Journals Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It has 78 in economics, including many in Spanish and other languages. Dissertations from Hong Kong: Multiple University Search See ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts for theses and dissertations published abroad. Ebrary Provides thousands of online full text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas, including over 120 in economics. EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier Key multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,500 journals, and indexing and abstracts for 3,600 others. Note: in EBSCOhost databases three-word searches are treated as an exact phrase search. A search for moral hazard subprime will not return any results. Use AND between words: a search for moral hazard and subprime will work EBSCOhost Business Source Premier Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, along with country economic reports from the Economist Intelligence, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch, company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies, market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. EBSCOhost EconLit Provides the foremost source of references to economic literature in all fields. It contains over 1 million citations and abstracts to economic research from 1969 to the present. Emerald Fulltext includes Indian Growth and Development Review, International Journal of Development Issues, Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, & the Journal of Economic Studies. Factiva Provides searchable access to full-text information from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data. GreenFile (EBSCOhost) GreenFILE is a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment and what can be done to minimize these effects. HKALL combined catalogue of all eight UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong. Books can be requested for loan and obtained within two days. Hoover's Hoover's Academic provides access to in-depth business information on the world's top 45,000 companies. Its report builder function allows users to quickly tailor make reports on the company financials, history, operations, competitive landscape and company fact sheets. In addition, basic Dun & Bradstreet records of 14 million USA and 290,000 international companies are also provided. IDEAS From RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collection of over 650,000 items including working papers, articles, books and chapters, and software programs. IngentaConnect Provides key word searching of table of contents for over 28,000 journals. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences This Encyclopaedia comprises 4,000 articles and includes 90,000 bibliographic references in social and behavioural Sciences as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes. International Financial Statistics by IMF a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance, with monthly, quarterly, or annual data from 1945 to the present. International Trade Statistics Contains international trade statistics compiled and analyzed by WTO economists and statisticians. JSTOR Provides archives of over 200 selected scholarly journals in business studies, history, literature stdies, philosophy, economics, political science, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. LexisNexis Academic Provides full-text from over 5,600 sources in the areas of news, business, legal, medical and reference information. Lingnan University Online Library Catalogue If a book is not held at Lingnan you can continue your search in HKALL and request a copy to be delivered to you within two days. NetLibrary eBooks Provides access to Lingnan's eContent collection including electronic books, journals, and databases. The New York Times Provides full text of the New York Times from 1851 up to three years ago, including original images. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History Oxford Scholarship Online ProQuest ABI/INFORM Complete Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. ProQuest Academic Research Library Key multi-disciplinary database in various arts & humanities, business and social sciences subjects. ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts Provides 2 million citations and abstracts to doctoral and master's theses accepted by over 1,000 universities in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and other regions. Selected dissertations and theses in business and economics are available to Lingnan in full-text. ScienceDirect Journals Provides full-text access to Elsevier journals. Sociological Abstracts SpringerLink (E-Journal Collection) Business, Social Sciences and Sciences electronic journals from Springer (and titles previously under Kulwer). Statistical Yearbook of China the annual Statistical Yearbook 中國統計年鑒 is available online from 1996 to 2007 but you must use Internet Explorer and not Firefox for access. Data can be downloaded into Excel. Swetswise (E-Journal Collection) Electronic journal collection with about 100 titles with fulltext online. TEJ China Databank (1992-2004) Times Digital Archive 200 years of The Times in full text and image (London). UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics Provides a comprehensive collection of statistical data relevant to the analysis of international trade, foreign direct investment and development, for individual countries and for regional and economic groupings. Wiley InterScience (E-Journal Collection) over 200 journals in business, economics, finance and accounting. Wind China Financial Information Services = Wind 資訊 Financial data and news for China including equity, fund, bond, macro economic data, etc. WiseNews / WiseSearch Provides full-text electronic newspaper clippings from Chinese and English newspapers from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Macau and other countries. World Development Indicators from the World Bank. 　 Print Resources Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Pub., Inc., 1997. [REF] HB3711 .B936 1997 Economic indicators handbook : time series, conversions, documentation. Detroit, MI : Gale Group, c2000 Edition 5th ed. [REF] HC103 .E26 2000 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 Edition 2nd ed. 8 vols. [REF] HB61 .N49 2008 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, c2002. 3 vols. [REF] K487.E3 N49 2002 The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 3 vols. [REF] HC15 .O94 2003. Also available online. Routledge Dictionary of Economics. London : Routledge, 2002. HB61 .R92 2002 　 Other Online Resources at Lingnan Chicago Manual of Style Online: A guide to citation and writing. E-Journal Finder: Use this link to see if a journal is subscribed by the Library in a full-text online database or in print. You can also use it to locate journals by subject. Refworks: An online bibliographic database manager, available to all students and faculty. 　         Internet Resources         Available from the Library’s page at http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/sir/ Dow Jones Indexes Information about the construction of the Dow, historical data, including Dow activity after major new events and tracking of regional and specialized indexes, such as the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index. Economagic: economic time series page a comprehensive collection of economic time series data gathered from US and foreign governmental agencies, trade associations, and private companies. Economic indicators Current Economic indicators: trade, housing starts, household income and more from the United States Census Bureau. Economic Report of the President – United States economic data from 1995 to the present and separate statistical tables from the 1959 to the present. Economist current online version. Archives are available in several Library databases and in print from 1978. Economist.com: country briefings EDGAR Database Corporate filings from the United States Security and Exchange Commission EH.Net "EH.Net operates the Economic History Services web site and several electronic mailing lists to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields." Federal Reserve Board US financial statistics and historical data. Financial Times There an online edition (FT.Com) and several print editions. Current and archive files of various editions of the FT are available on Factiva from 1981 to the present with a one-day embargo on current news. It is also available from ProQuest ABI/Inform and Lexis/Nexis. FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is a database of 20,000 U.S. economic time series. Glossary of Economic Terms from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Hang Seng Indexes Current data on all the HSI indexes, subindexes, factsheets, and downloadable Excel data from its daily and weekly reports. HKEx Statistics and research reports from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department data tables on Hong Kong population, national income and balance of payments, money and finance. Hong Kong Monetary Authority Economic and Financial Data for Hong Kong. InfoNation This United Nations site allows you to select two or more countries and compare social, demographic and economic data. International Economic Trends comparative data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. International Monetary Fund Contains full text publications of IMF working papers, IMF Survey , Finance & Development , Annual Reports and other IMF publications. Liber8: An Economic Information Portal for Librarians and Students Developed by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis librarians. An economic information portal provides a single point of access to the economic information that the Federal Reserve System, other government agencies, and data providers have to offer. Measuring Worth Calculators and datasets for calculating the value of US dollars, sterling, yuan, and yen and tables of Chinese GDP, CPI, or Population from 1952 to the present. National Accounts Statistics database This United Nations database "contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world." National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Economic Indicators and Releases Links to various outside providers of economic data such as the Census Department, BLS, or banks: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, Chain Store Sales Index,Employment Cost Index, Employment Experience Of Youths, Foreign Direct Investment in the United States. OECD Statistical data Economic and social data from 25 Western and Eastern hemisphere countries. OFFSTATS University of Auckland Library site provides links to public, mostly government and central bank, statistical sites around the world. RFE = Resources for Economists on the Internet sponsored by the American Economic Association, this site lists over 2,000 resources. Standard & Poors (S&P) links to S&P indices, ratings, and reports. UNCTAD The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Website has publications and statistical databases on commodity prices and foreign direct investment. Wall Street Journal the Wall Street Journal is available in an online edition, including WSJ Asia and in Chinese. Current and archive files of various editions of the WSJ are available in Factiva from 1979 and in ProQuest ABI/Inform and Lexis/Nexis from later dates. World Bank Group Development Data and Country data Excellent two-page summary statistics on economic development for each country. World Competitiveness Online A scorecard measuring the competitiveness of countries based on domestic economy, internationalization, government, finance, infrastructure, management, science and technology, and people. World Trade Organization (WTO) Yale Global Online Sponsored by Yale University this is an online journal of news and views on globalism and its effect on economics, the environment, health, labor, politics, culture, trade, and other areas.