Research Resources
Economics and Business
Electronic
Journals
Journal
Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Subject Specialized)
Journal
Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)
Statistics
& Data
Miscellaneous
Web Sites
Electronic Journals
The Economist
http://www.economist.com
Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Subject Specialized)
Business Source Premier
- offers full text for 2,260 scholarly business journals covering management,
economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Business
Source Premier contains periodicals ranging from Business Week, Forbes,
Fortune and American Banker to journals such as Harvard Business Review,
Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review, and many more.
[available on campus and through proxy
server]
Dialog@Carl
- Offers access to full-text databases SEC Online and U.S. Patents
Fulltext.
[available on campus and through proxy
server]
EconLit
- Topics include: Accounting, administration, agriculture, business
finance and Investment, consumer economics, country studies, development,
domestic, monetary and financial theory and institutions, economic growth,
fluctuations, general economics, health economics, history, industrial organization,
industry studies, international economics, labor, marketing, natural resources,
planning, population, quantitative economic methods and data,
systems, technological change, theory, urban and regional economics, and
welfare programs.
Indexes and abstracts of the contents of over 400, primarily English-language,
journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings,
etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations; also includes working papers licensed
from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics.
Emerald Library
- Full-text sources on marketing, human resources, and general management.
[available on campus and through proxy
server]
ScienceDirect - Offers
full-text journals for accounting, administration and Marketing, business
management, econometrics, economics, finance, human resources, and organizational
behavior. Coverage varies with each journal title. Click 'Group-wide
login' then begin searching.
[available on campus and through proxy
server]
Standard
& Poor's Register - Corporate
- Standard & Poor's Register provides extensive personal
and professional data on key executives affiliated with public and private,
U.S. and non-U.S. companies with sales of one million dollars or more.
Offers important business facts on 55,000+ public and private U.S. companies.
[available on campus and through proxy
server]
Thomson Risk Management Directory
(Select Thomson Risk Management Directory from the Dialog@Carl
database list.)
- Directory contains the latest information on institutions involved
in securities risk management. These institutions include banks, brokers,
and dealers. This is a directory file providing listings for type of firm
(bank, broker, dealer, etc.), job function of contact person (sales, back
office, operations, etc.), geographic area, and officer type and rank.
Firms included in the file have demonstrated their activity in the markets,
either through reports in periodicals or other publications, memberships
in exchanges or associations, or direct contact with Thomson.
[Available on campus and through proxy
server]
Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)
EBSCO
- Includes Academic Search Premier, a scholarly, multi-disciplinary,
full text database designed specifically for academic institutions.
Coverage includes nearly all academic areas of study - social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics,
arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.
[Available on campus and through proxy
server]
Ethnic
NewsWatch
- Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of
the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native
press.
[Available on campus and through proxy
server]
IDEAL (International Digital Electronic
Access Library)
- Browse tables of contents, abstracts, and full text from over 175
journals in 30 subject areas, including: Biomedical Sciences; Economics,
Business, Law, and Finance; Life Sciences; Physical and Environmental Sciences;
Psychology, and Social Sciences.
[Available on campus and through proxy
server]
JSTOR
- Offers full-text articles from the humanities and the social sciences.
[Available on campus and through the proxy
server.]
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Universe
- Find articles from newspapers and magazines around the world and
legal information for your term papers. Business Information is plentiful.
[Available on campus and through proxy
server]
netLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp
- An electronic library containing hundreds of electronic books.
[Available on and off campus.]
Project Muse
Research different subjects in over 100 online journals.
[Available on campus only.]
ScienceDirect
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Full-text journal articles in all fields. Click on 'group-wide
login' at the site's home page. Topics covered are the arts and humanities,
the social sciences, the physical sciences, environmental sciences, etc.
WorldCat
Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
[Available on campus and through the proxy
server.]
Accounting Pages
American
Accounting Association's Links for Accounting Students
http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aaa/links/superlinks.htm
Career
Sites for Accountants
http://www.nysscpa.org/useful_links/cpamanager.html
CPAnet
http://www.cpanet.com/index.asp
CPAnet Tax and Legal
Resources
http://www.cpanet.com/tax/index.asp
IRS
Forms and Publications
http://www.irs.treas.gov/formspubs/display/0,,i1=50&genericId=10204,00.html
New York State Society of Certified
Public Accountants
http://www.nysscpa.org/
- has pages for future CPAs, continuing education, an accounting terminology
guide, information about New York legislation affecting accounting, FASB,
and GASB, and several online journals.
Rutgers
Accounting Web
http://raw.rutgers.edu/raw/internet/internet1.htm
- Useful links.
Statistics & Data
Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.doc.gov
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov
Business Cycle Indicators
http://www.tcb-indicators.org/
Census Data
http://www.census.gov
European Central Bank
http://www.ecb.int/
- Useful statistics and ECB Publications on European banking.
Federal Reserve Bank
http://www.federalreserve.gov
- Statistics and publications from the Federal Reserve Bank.
The site offers transcripts of testimony and speeches by Federal Reserve
officials.
Income Data
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income.html
International
Data Base - U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbnew.html
National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org
- A private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated
to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Useful data
and links to other data sites.
Stat-USA
http://www.stat-usa.gov
- From the U.S. Department of Commerce, access either State of the
Nation, for current and historical economic and financial releases and
economic data or GLOBUS & NTDB for current and historical trade related
releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis,
and the trade library, the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
University
of Georgia Libraries' Economic Data Page
http://www.peachnet.edu/galileo/internet/business/econdata.html
Other Economics Resources on the Web
Antitrust Policy
http://www.antitrust.org.
- Current Antitrust policy in the U.S.
Association for Southeast Asian
Nations
http://www.aseansec.org
CAROLWorld
http://www.carol.co.uk/
- Annual reports for U.K., Asian and European companies.
A
Comparative Chronology of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/amser/chrono.html#time
- Chronology of currency around the world.
Consumer Price
Index (CPI) Inflation Calculator
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateCPI.html
- This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one year
to another using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation index. This inflation
calculator is based on the average inflation index during the calendar
year. This inflation calculator will compute inflation rates between 1913 and 1999.
The CPI represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased
for consumption by urban households.
CPAnet Finance
Resources
http://www.cpanet.com/finance/index.asp
Country
Commercial Guides
http://www.usatrade.gov/website/ccg.nsf/ccghomepage?openform
- Prepared annually by U.S. embassies with the assistance of
several U.S. government agencies. These reports present a comprehensive
look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and
market analysis.
Current
Value of Old Money
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
- Links to online tools that help answer the question, "How much
would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be worth
today?"
Currency
Exchange Rates
http://www.usg.edu/galileo/internet/business/econdata.html#currencyEx
- Provides current exchange rates. It also has historical data for
several years.
The Dismal Scientist
http://www.economy.com/dismal/
- Source for economic data and links to other useful pages.
Economics
Departments and MBA Programs Pages
http://www.dismal.com/toolbox/link_table2.asp
- Annotated list of noted economics departments and MBA Programs.
Select 'Universities' from list of links.
Economists
with Web Pages
http://wwwcgi.amherst.edu/jsirons-cgi/searchewwp.pl
- Provides alphabetical listing of economists with links to their web
pages.
Fairmodel
http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/
- The site allows visitors to perform stock market experiments, download
model data sets, or work with a U.S. macroeconometric, or a multicountry
econometric, model to forecast, do policy analysis, and examine historical
episodes.
Gross Domestic
Product Deflator Inflation Calculator
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateGDP.html
- This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one year
to another using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Deflator Inflation index.
This inflation calculator is based on the inflation rate during the US
Government Fiscal Year, which begins on October 1 and ends on September
30. This inflation calculator will compute inflation from 1940 to 2005.
The
History of Economic Thought
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca:80/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html
- Represents an attempt to gather all material for the study
of the history of economics at one site. This includes both primary texts,
studies of those texts and of their authors.
The Inflation Calculator
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
- The form allows the user to adjust any given amount of money for
inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2000.
Institute of the Americas
http://www.iamericas.org
- External links on community, health, mining, telecommunication, transportation,
and water.
International Energy Agency
http://www.iea.gov
- Publications and statistics about energy resources and policies around
the world.
International
Price Index (IPI) Inflation Calculator
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflation/ipi/inflateIPI.html
- This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one
year to another using the International Price Index (IPI) inflation index.
This inflation calculator is based on the average inflation index during
the calendar year. This inflation calculator will compute inflation rates between 1982 and 1998.
Intellectual Property Network
http://www.delphion.com/
- A patent database offering 26 year coverage and access to both image
and text files.
International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org
- Noted for publishing yearly economic surveys of the global economy
and other economic and econometric research papers. The site has
links to IMF documents.
NASDAQ
http://www.nasdaq.com/
- Provides extensive information on publicly held companies.
NetEc
http://netec.wustl.edu/NetEc.html
- Consists of economic data, working papers, and humor.
New York Stock Exchange
http://www.nyse.com
- Select 'Listed Companies' for company information.
Occupational Outlook Handbook,
2002-03 Edition
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
- Online version of the classic reference source.
Organisation of Economic Cooperation
and Development
http://www.oecd.org/
- Provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect
economic and social policy. The site has publications from the organization,
statistics, and useful links to other web sites.
Organization of Women in International
Trade
http://www.owit.org
- A non-profit professional organization designed to promote women
doing business in international trade by providing networking and educational
opportunities. Useful links.
People Tracker
http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/
- Research public companies and their executives. Registration
required.
Resources for Economists
on the Internet
http://rfe.wustl.edu//EconFAQ.html
- Useful links.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
http://www.sec.gov
- Searchable EDGAR database of SEC forms filed by public companies.
The site also contains historic rules and regulations and current enforcement
decisions.
Thomas Register of American
Manufacturers
http://www.thomasregister.com
- Find American and Canadian manufacturing companies by brand, service
or company name. Free membership is required to search.
[When on the campus access this database through Dialog@CARL.
]
What
is a Dollar Worth?
http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html
- Online tool that uses the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to calculate
the value of goods and services in different years.
World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org
- Provides access to research on the relationship between inadequate
infrastructure, education, human rights, women's rights, and poverty reduction.
World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org/
- Find full text legal decisions and other economic research
on global trade issues.
Comments?
Questions? Sites that should be added? Contact Professor James Castiglione
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