Library Econ Databases
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EconLit
Index to research materials in economics from over 400 journals, over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.
Coverage Dates: 1969 - present -
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier 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. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Coverage Dates: 1965 - present -
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Coverage Dates: 1975 - present -
JSTOR
An archival collection of journal articles that includes over 140 titles in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. It does not provide access to the most current issues of the journals. JSTOR's agreements with publishers include a gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years.
Coverage Dates: Varies by Journal
Library Stats Databases
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LexisNexis Statistical
Contains more than 30,000 tables from statistical compendia and compilations issued by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. The tables are linked to abstracts, which in turn link to the full-text source document.
Coverage Dates: 1970's - present -
STAT-USA
A service of the Department of Commerce, STAT-USA is the online source for current and historical U.S. business, trade and global economic information, providing authoritative information from the Federal government.
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Statistical Abstract
A collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also a guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.
Coverage Dates: 2006
Finding Books in the Library Catalog
OSU Catalog
The OSU catalog lists all the books held in the Valley Library or storage. For visual instructions click here .
Summit
The Summit catalog lists books at other regional libraries that can be retrieved for you and delivered within 3-5 business days.
WorldCat
WorldCat lists books that are available at other libraries in the United States, and sometimes in other countries. If you find a book you want, fill out an interlibrary loan request and the book will delivered to the library (and you'll be sent an email alerting you to its arrival). This service usually takes 2-3 weeks.
Finding Newspaper Articles
The Wall Street Journal Full-text of the Wall Street Journal from 1986.
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Journal of Productivity Analysis
The Journal of Productivity Analysis is an official journal of the Productivity Analysis Research Network. It publishes theoretical and applied research addressing the measurement, analysis, and improvement of productivity. The journal’s empirical research papers apply theory and techniques to the measurement of productivity and set forth implications for managerial strategies and public policy to enhance productivity.
Web of Science (Citation Searching)
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Web of Science
The web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
Web Resources
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004.
EconData
Provides over 1,000 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the Web’s premier data collections, and their own list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data.
Economagic
More than 100,000 economic time series data files, with charts and excel files for each. The majority of the data is USA data. The core data sets involve US macroeconomic data (that is, for the whole US), but the bulk of the data is employment data by local area – state, county, MSA, and many cities and towns.
Economic Data-Fred II
Database of over 1000 US economic time series. Download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data.
Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
EPI’s Datazone provides access to about 50 time series dealing with labor market earnings and income data organized in four areas: Wage and compensation tends, Family Earnings and Income Trends, Prices, and Low Wage Labor Market Indicators.
FDIC Regional Economic Conditions
Provides economic information at the state, MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), and county levels. Updated 8 times a year.
Free Lunch
Access to over 900,000 economic and financial data series.
ICPSR
The Inter-University consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) located at the University of Michigan is the world’s largest data archive. ICPSR acquires, processes and distributes social science data collected by government agencies and other researchers. The data holding cover a broad range of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law. As OSU is a member of ICPSR, Oregon State University students, faculty and staff have access to these data at no charge.
Population Reference Bureau Datafinder
This database contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the U.S. states. (Not all countries have data on all variables).
National Burea of Economic Research (NBER)
NBER working papers and datasets
The Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
The Geostat Center houses University of Virginia’s collection of electronic statistical and social science data. All the resources are classified and those items are available only to the UVA community are noted as such.
State of the Cities Data Systems
Access to the original electronic data sets generated by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUDS median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.
USDA Economics and Statistics System
Contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly.
Last Update: October 01, 2009 13:30
