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Use this guide as a starting point to find information for your assignments. Discover the best keywords and databases to use for your topic by asking a librarian for a Subject Search.Use the search engine SUMMON to access articles and books on your topic.
For more extensive research these databases are listed in alphabetical order. Read the description of each one to determine the most suitable source of material for your research. Proquest Business is the key international database. Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS Statistics is the most important resource for Australian Data and statistical reports. Business Collection from Informit is the key source for Australian topics.
ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics 
Full Text
Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in full text from 1998.
ABS Help Index
ABS Resources for University Students. Use this link to findout special resources available to university students and researchers.
Business Collection Full Text
This database covers fields such as accounting, e-business, HRM, marketing, commercial law and corporate governance.
CCH Online Full Text
CCH Online covers taxation law, corporations, torts, the family and trade practices. Demo
CSI
The Consumer Science Index covers published materials on topics such as children, clothing, consumer economics, craft, family, fashion, food, health, home economics, housing, marriage, nutrition and textiles.
Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
NewsBank Full Text
NewsBank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.
Proquest Business includes:
- EconLit : bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature.
- Oxresearch : analytical articles on world and regional economic and political developments
- Proquest Australian and NewZealand Newsstand: leading Australian and New Zealand news
- ProQuest Central:the central resource for researchers at all levels
- Sociological Abstracts:literature of sociologyand the social and behavioral sciences
STATSnetBASE Full Text
STATSnetsBASE contains the full text of more than 120 works on statistics, including biostatistics, statistics for psychology, social science and law, statistical theory, and statistics for the biological sciences.
Census Dictionary — This ABS publication includes a complete listing of the 1996 Census classifications and a glossary of census terms and definitions.
Business abbreviation sources — Economic and accounting acronyms, abbreviations and symbols.
Gale Virtual Reference Library titles relevant to economics and accounting include:
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Full Text
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. Note: Internet Explorer users require the free MathPlayer plugin for display of equations
SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Knowledge is a set of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Accounting and Financial Management
ASIC— Australian Securities & Investments Commission
Australian Accounting Standards
Australian Government Information Management Office — cost effective business processes and tools for government agencies.
CPA Australia — the Home Page of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants
ICAC — publications about eCorruption and the public sector
IMF Publications — journals, working papers, country reports, economic issues and policy discussion papers in full-text.
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
Nouriel Roubini's site on global macroeconomic and financial policy
Taxation Institute of Australia
Australian Share Market
Australian Stock Exchange
Stock Exchanges Worldwide Links
Sydney Futures Exchange — information on the SFE, statistics, links to other exchanges and sites with trader information
Yahoo Finance — ASX stock quotes, business news highlights, financial news, financial glossary
General Sites
Country Commercial Guides — full-text reports prepared annually by US embassies. They present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis.
Universal currency converter — Xenon Laboratories
Statistics
Handbook of International Economic Statistics 1998 — basic worldwide statistics for comparing the economic performance of major countries and regions.
OECD Statistics — these include economic statistics, agriculture, energy, development co-operation, public management, education, labour, social affairs, science, technology, industry, health and transport.
Offstats — Official statistics on the web provided by University of Auckland Library. Search by country, region or topic, including agriculture, banking, commodities, debt, development, economic growth, finance, income distribution, savings, tariffs and more.
Statistical Resources on the Web — University of Wisconsin site for international economic statistics.
Statistics Norway — providing links to official statistical agencies throughout the world, including Australia's ABS, Japan, China, Iceland, Brazil, USA, Canada and Turkey.
Statistics.com — a comprehensive directory of links to data sources.
World Bank basic data — national statistics for countries and regions and also data by topics, such as poverty.
World Factbook, CIA