Electronic Resources for Economics & 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
         www.economist.com

Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Subject Specialized)

Infotrac Searchbank - Business ASAP
         infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cuny_main/
Use this database to research all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as information on Finance, Trade, New Technologies, Trends and more. Include citations and complete articles from several hundred magazines and journals published since 1980.
[available on campus and to off-campus users with a proxy account]
Titles in Infotrac Searchbank: http://library.iacnet.com/jl/sb5001.html

Wilson Business Abstracts - BUSI (Read instructions for access below.)
         libraries.cuny.edu/lib-cpl.htm
Provides access to 345 leading English-language business magazines published since 1982. Covering accounting, advertising, communications, computers, government regulations and many more topics. Access the CUNY+ Online System through the link above to Wilson Business Index. When asked to select a database, type in BUSI. Type in your social security number when requested (omitting hyphens) and choose a search option.
[Only available to Brooklyn College and other City University of New York students, faculty and staff.]

EconLit

Produced by the American Economic Association. Covers the international literature on economics since 1969. Provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, of journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings, collected essay volumes and full text book reviews. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more.
[Available only in the Brooklyn College Library at CD-ROM workstations.]
 
 

Journal Databases, Indexes, and Abstracts (Multi-Subject)


      Current Contents
                www.isicc.com
           Contains citations to recently published articles in all fields.
           [Available on campus and through proxy server]

Infotrac Searchbank Academic ASAP
         infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cuny_main/
Get magazine and journal articles and citations for many different topics.
[Available on campus and through proxy server.]

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
         web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Find articles from newspapers around the world and legal information for your term papers.
[Available on campus and through proxy server]

Project Muse
         muse.jhu.edu
Research different subjects in over 40 online journals.
[Available on campus only.]

netLibrary
         www.netlibrary.com/free_ebooks.asp
An electronic library containing hundereds of public domain (out of copyright) books.
[Available on and off campus.]

Statistics & Data

Bureau of Economic Analysis
         www.bea.doc.gov

Bureau of Labor Statistics
         stats.bls.gov

Census Data
         www.census.gov

Galileo - Economic Data
         www.peachnet.edu/galileo/internet/business/econdata.html

Stat-USA
         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).

Miscellaneous Web Sites

 
Currency Exchange Rates
         http://www.peachnet.edu/galileo/internet/business/econdata.html#currencyEx

Economists with Web Pages
         http://www.amherst.edu/~jsirons/ewwp.html

Hoovers Directories
         http://www.hoovers.com
Company information, etc.

New York Stock Exchange
         http://www.nyse.com
Select 'Listed Companies' for company information.
 
 


Last Updated: December 7, 1999