EC831 Library Resources http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/

1. The Library catalogue

http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/ (classic catalogue)http://encore.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/?lang=eng (Encore search box)

The catalogue is the definitive record of what the Library holds in print form, and has access to in electronic form, including all of our print and online books and journals, as well as all databases that the Library subscribes to.

Using the new Encore search (a simple Google style search box), you can type in anything: author names, book titles, journal titles, keywords.

For a search on a particular topic select keyword search in the classic catalogue (or use Encore). If you don’t get many results, use fewer keywords, more general terms, or try truncation (e.g. typing in econom* will retrieve records containing economic, economics, economy, etc.). Think about synonyms (words that mean essentially the same thing) & use the OR operator, e.g.: work or labor or employment.If you are finding too many results, then use more keywords and/or more specific terms.

The Library catalogue does index the contents (chapter headings) within books, but browsing the shelves in the relevant classified sequences will also help locate titles of interest. For an outline of the classification, see the appendix at the end.

To find a periodical or journal do a periodical title search. The catalogue record will tell you the classmark and also what print & online holdings we have, and provide a link to the online version. Printed journals are for reference use in the Library, and mostly shelved at HB 1, HC 1, & HG 1.

If we don’t have a journal that is on your reading list, then we should have a xerox of the article in the XD collection at the circulation desk, so do a search for the author or title of the article. Please ask at the circulation desk for the XD number of the article you want. It will be issued to you as a short loan item.

In Encore you have the additional option of searching for journal articles on a topic. Simply switch the tab at the top from “catalogue” to “article” mode. This is a rough and ready way of quickly finding some articles. For a more detailed literature search better results will be obtained from searching individually some of the databases listed in section 5.

The Online Reading Lists facility on ORB is at: http://orb.essex.ac.uk/ec/

Clicking on the hyperlinked classmarks within a reading list will take you straight to the appropriate record in the library catalogue. You may need to type campus\ before your network login to access the online lists.

You can renew your books online, book short loan items, and reserve titles that are currently on loan (click on the Recall/Request a hold button at the top of the catalogue record to do this).

2. Reference Material

Dictionaries & encyclopaedias can be useful starting points for your research, giving you an idea of key concepts, terminology, and often providing some references as well.

General language dictionaries are shelved in the Student Collection on floor 1, along the lakeside (Reference Dictionary). There are multilingual dictionaries for Economics & Finance at the beginning of this section, Ref. Dict. HB-HG. Relevant reference books can be found interfiled with the loanable books on floor 3, notably:

Economics dictionaries Ref. HB 61Finance dictionaries Ref. HG 151

Good comprehensive sources are:

New Palgrave dictionary of economics. 2008 Ref. HB 61.N4 & OnlineNew Palgrave dictionary of money & finance. 1992 Ref. HG 151

(another set is kept in short loan)Oxford encyclopaedia of economic history. 2003 Ref. HC 15

3. Library Web Pages - Electronic Resources (ebooks, ejournals & databases)

The library subscribes to thousands of electronic journals and books relevant to Economics, and also provides access to an extensive range of databases.

Always check the library catalogue & access e-resources through the Library web pages. Access through Google or other browsers is not recommended, as you need to be verified as a University of Essex student – this happens when you type in your password as you access an e-resource through the Library webpages.

Read the notes Accessing e-Resources if you are having difficulty accessing a resource. If the problem persists please let me know.

The catalogue will indicate whether we have online access to an individual online journal, & will also say what volumes are available online. The quickest way to search for online journal articles on a particular topic (the literature search) is by using the

Encore catalogue (articles tab), but better results will be obtained by searching databases individually - the most useful ones are mentioned below.

4. Library Webpages - Subject Guides

There is a library web page for Economics. You may also find the one for Accounting/Finance useful for sources of company financial data. As well as access to library databases, they include links to reputable internet resources, especially relevant sources of freely available economic & financial data. This may save you time and offer more reliable information than searching via Google, etc.

5. Library Webpages – Databases

Access from the Economics subject page or from the eResources & Databases homepage http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/search/h * - indicates key database

A. Electronic Books

Dawsonera All subjects (esp. reading list books)Ebrary Social sciencesEBSCOHost All subjects (esp. reading list books)Oxford Scholarship Online Economics & FinancePalgrave Connect Business & management

All e-book titles are listed in the catalogue. You can search for specific titles, or do a keyword (subject) search limited to e-books, and search within the full text of e-books.

B. Journal Articles (full text) http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/search/m?Economics

*Business Source Complete Thousands of journals c.1950-Covers business, economics, finance, etc.EIU country profiles & reportsOECD economic surveysDatamonitor company & industry profiles

EbscoHost EJS Thousands of journals c. 1997-All subjects

*JSTOR Around 100 journals c.1900- (4/5 year moving wall)Economics, finance & other social sciences

News Vault Historical archive of the Economist & theFinancial Times. 1843-

*ScienceDirect Hundreds of Elsevier journals, c.1970-Social science & science, esp. accounting,finance & economics

These databases all include journals to which the Library does not subscribe. Check the ASL catalogue to see if we have access to a journal – we may have it in print form, or online via a different database.

C. Working Papers

These are important in economics, as they are often the vehicle for reporting current research, usually prior to publication in academic journals. The Library subscribes to two major series:

CEPR discussion papers Online no. 2050- 1999-NBER working papers Online 1994-

Hundreds of thousands of working papers can be searched collectively through two excellent freely available databases: RePEc and SSRN. Both offer the full text of the majority of papers. RePEc also includes journal articles (not all full text).

D. Company Data. Business & Financial News. Market Research

http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/Subject_Guides/Accweb.htm#Companies

*Bankscope Information & accounts for 30 000 banks worldwide

Business Source Complete Company profiles, selected international companies. Many trade publications.Datamonitor market research reports

*Datastream Access from ASL only (Reading Room ground floor). Equities time series data. Global coverage

*FT.Com 5 year archive of the FT. Business news, analysis and data for recent years.

*Morning Star Company Intelligence UK companies (listed & private). 5 years of data

Nexis Company reports & profiles (ICC,Extel, etc.)Data usually just for most recent years.FT online from 1982- & other papers

Passport GMID Detailed information on industries, countries & consumers worldwide, from Euromonitor. Selected company profiles

*PI Navigator Archive of over 14 million financial documents, notably annual reports for UK companies (1990-), & good coverage of Europe (reports since 1996), US (top 4000 companies 1999-) & Asia (1997-). M&A data, IPO prospectuses & bond documents are also available.

6. Economic, Financial & Statistical Data

http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/Subject_Guides/econweb.htm#economicfinancialdata

The majority of this data can also be accessed through a number of library databases:

BankScope Major source of bank data globally

CNTS (Cross National Time Good source of historical data (1815-) asSeries Data Archive) used by the Statesman’s Yearbook. Access from

ASL only (Floor 1 & Reading Room ground floor)

*Datastream Access from ASL only (Reading Room ground floor). World wide time series data for equities, equity indices (eg FTSE 100), interest rates, exchange rates, futures & options, & a huge range of macroeconomic data from national statistical agencies, ILO, IMF, OECD, UN, UNIDO, World Bank, etc.

*ESDS InternationalEurostat, ILO, IMF, OECD, UN, UNIDO & World Bank data. 1950- (countries + time series)

National Statistics Official UK statistics website. Time series data

*UK Data Service Macro time series data for countries (c.1950-)

(incorporating ESDS) from Eurostat, IEA, IMF, OECD, UN, UNIDO, World Bank. Thousands of datasets in the social sciences. Register to access data

See the Library statistics webpage for further resources:http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/Information_Skills/statistics.htm

Statistical publications are listed in the catalogue (use periodical title search). A few of the major series we subscribe to are:

International trade statistics yearbook (UN) 1950- HF 1.Y4 & onlineWorld development indicators (World Bank) 1998- HC 59.A1 & onlineWorld development report (World Bank) 1978- HC 1.W65 & onlineUN statistical yearbook 1959- HA 1.S7 & online

7. Inter-Library Loans & Further Help

In the course of your research you may come across references to books, journal articles, conference papers, theses, or other publications not in the Library. If these are essential to your work, then we will obtain the material for you from other libraries. Please bear in mind that this is an expensive service for the Library to provide, and should be used sparingly.

You need to fill out a form (available at the ILL counter on floor 1) for each item & then get your supervisor to sign the request.More information can be found at: http://libwww.essex.ac.uk/ill.htm

For further help feel free to contact me directly.

Sandy Macmillen 01206 87 3181 Oct. 2013Social Sciences Librarian amacmi@essex.ac.uk

APPENDIX - Outline of parts of the classification relevant to Economics

HA Statistics1 Periodicals29 Statistics textbooks33 Special aspects – modelling, probability, decision theory, etc.175-4026 Collections of statistics, by country

HB Economic theory1 Periodicals

31-34 Collected writings71 Economics as a discipline

71.5 Econometrics71.6.G2 Game theory71.6.P2 Panel data analysis71.6.T5 Time series analysis

74.C55 Economics of natural resources74.E4 Economics of education. Human capital74.E6 Environmental economics (theory)74.F2 Economics of the family74.P8 Psychology. Behavioural economics74.S3 Economics, science & technology74.S6 Economics & society

75-87 History of economic theory91-100 Schools of thought95 Neoliberalism. Laissez-faire99.5 Institutional economics100 Socialist economics101-129 History of economics & economists, by country

151-172 Textbooks172 General works 2000-172.3 Microeconomics 2000-172.5 Macroeconomics 2000-

195 Economics of war199 Economic dynamics201-205 Value. Utility221-236 Price301 Labour. Wages501 Capital. Capitalism531-549 Interest601 Profit. Income615 Risk. Uncertainty701-751 Property. Public goods. Commons771 Welfare economics. Distribution801-845 Consumption

849-3700 Population. Demography

3711-3840 Crises. Business cycles3716-3717 History of economic crises3723-3725 Financial & banking crises

HC Economic history1 Periodicals30-59 Economic history by period60-62 Aid. Developing countries

79 Special topics in economics79.C6 Consumption79.E5 Entrepreneurship79.E6 Environment. Sustainable development79.I5 Income. Inequality79.I55 Information technology79.P6 Poverty79.T4 Technology & innovation79.W4 Wealth

95-699 Economic conditions, by country101-110 USA131-239 Latin America240-409 European countries251-260 Great Britain411-499 Asian & Middle Eastern countries426-430 China500-699 Africa & Oceania

HD Management. Production. Industry 1 Periodicals

21 Industrial economics. Industrial organisation

31 Management, general textbooks

45 Innovation

2341-2346 Small business (economic aspects) 2709-2930 Companies. Corporate governance 3611-4730 The state and industrial organization 4801-8942 Labour. Employment. Industrial relations 9000-9999 Specific industries

HF Commerce. Business. Accounting 1-3 Periodicals. Company reports 1401-4040 Trade

5351-5352 Business (general works) 5415-5416 Marketing. Consumer behaviour 5548.2-5548.3 Electronic commerce

HG Finance 1 Periodicals 171-188 General works

176.5 Statistical methods178.3 Microfinance

201-1486 Monetary theory & policy

229 Inflation1501-3540 Banking3701-3781 Credit

3811-4000 Foreign exchange 4001-4495 Company finance 4501-6270 Investments. Options. Futures. Derivatives. 8011-9970 Insurance

HJ

Public finance 2005-7983 Income. Expenditure. Taxation 9000-9995 Local finance. Public accounting