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Key databases
The databases below (listed in alphabetical order) contain thousands of journal articles that are relevant to your topics. You can do a keyword search to find information that can be quoted in your assignments.
ProQuest is the most frequently used database in this discipline. Current news articles from local and foreign sources can be found on Newsbank.
ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics 
Full Text
Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in full text from 1998.
ABS Help Index
APECLIT: APEC Literature Database Selected Full Text
APECLIT indexes items dealing with Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries and related topics.
APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. | 
CSI: Consumer Sciences Index
Covers topics such as children, clothing, consumer economics, craft, family, fashion, food, health, home economics, housing, marriage, nutrition and textiles.
EconLit Full Text
Covers economic literature, including agricultural and rural issues, demography, country studies, economic history, international relations, and welfare economics.
CSA Help
Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
Useful databases include 'Business and Company Information ASAP' and 'Business Economics and Theory' with more than 150 full text journals.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
IFPRI: International Food Policy Research Institute Selected Full Text
IFPRI conducts research on economic growth and poverty alleviation in low-income countries, means to improve the well-being of poor people, and sound economic policies for developing nations.
Newsbank Full Text 
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ABS Directories — These are ready references to sources of Australian statistical information.
Business Abbreviation Sources — Economic and accounting acronyms, abbreviations and symbols.
Census Dictionary — This ABS publication includes a complete listing of the 1996 Census classifications and a glossary of census terms and definitions.
EDIRC — This is a directory of over 6,500 Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers throughout the world.
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance — A title in the Gale Virtual reference Library
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics — 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
Oxford Economics & Business Reference Works — A subset of Oxford Reference Online.
Web sites and Internet resources
Economic History
Australian Constitution
BOPCRIS — British Official Publication Collaborative Reader Information Service provides mostly abstracts (but some full-text) of key British official documents from 1688 to 1995. Subject areas include national finance; money, banking and financial institutions; agirculture and food supplies; economic policy and planning; employment and industrial relations; and economic relations with Commonwealth and developing countries.
Economic and Business History — WWW Virtual Library resources maintained by the Netherlands Economic History Archive.
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
Internet Resources for Economic Historians
Oxford University — links to economic history sites, and Discussion papers in economic and social history
Productivity Commission, Australia
Economics
ARIC — the Asia Recovery Information Centre (a joint project of the Asian Development Bank and AusAID) provides information about the social and economic impacts of the Asian financial crisis
ABS Statistics — the Australian Bureau of Statistics site where you can access all ABS publications in fulltext from 1998 onwards, over 2,000 spreadsheets and Census Basic Community Profiles.
Bureau of Economic Analysis — produces and disseminates accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic accounts statistics that provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of economic activity in the US. Key issues include US economic growth, regional economic development, and the nation's position in the world economy.
ESCR — free access to all ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) funded research.
FITA — Federation of International Trade Association's international trade/import-export portal.
Global Policy Forum — monitors UN policy
GlobalEDGE — links to international business, maintained by MSU-CIBER (Michigan State University, Center for International Business Education and Research)
ICAC — publications about eCorruption and the public sector
IMF Publications — journals, working papers, country reports, economic issues and policy discussion papers in full-text
International Monetary Fund — IMF publications and Working Papers, many in full-text
Nouriel Roubini's site on global macroeconomic and financial policy
RePEc — Research Papers in Economics, a huge collection of full-text working papers and journal articles, plus software components.
US Economic Census — detailed and authoritative economic data for eighteen areas of US industries, including mining, construction, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, transportation, company management, finance and insurance, service industries and real estate.
VIBES — Virtual International Business & Economic Sources provides over 2,000 links to free web sources in English, including full-text articles and research reports.
WebEc — free information on economics on the WWW
World Bank: World Development Reports
World Trade Organization
General sites
Australian Government Information Management Office — Australian government site with links to government information including items on e-government.
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.
United Nations system of organizations — an alphabetical index of direct links to all of the United Nations organizations, including joint initiatives, special projects, funds, programmes and specialised agencies.
Universal currency converter — Xenon Laboratories
Resource Economics and Agriculture
ABARE — the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ACIAR — Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research which focuses on sustainable agricultural systems and natural resources management in developing countries
ACCC — Australian Competition and Consumer Commission site
FAOSTAT— statistics for agricultural production and trade, food supply, fertilisers and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forestry, fisheries, population and agricultural machinery
IMF Publications — journals, working papers, country reports, economic issues and policy discussion papers in full-text
Meat & Livestock Australia — market information and marketing to benefit the red meat industry.
Productivity Commission, Australia — Reports (in full text) produced since it was formed in April 1998, plus lists of publications by its predecessors (Industry Commission, Bureau of Industry Economics, etc)
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation — a government site shaping Australia's rural and agribusiness future
STAT-USA — Economic, trade, business information for USA. (US Deptment of Commerce)
United Nations system of organizations - an alphabetical index of direct links to all of the United Nations organizations, including joint initiatives, special projects, funds, programmes and specialised agencies.
United States Dept. of Agriculture statistics
USDA Economics and Statistics System
World Bank Monthly Commodity Price Data
Statistics
Australian statistical internet sites — the National Library of Australia's page of links to authoritative Australian statistics, including regional statistics for the States.
ABS Statistics — the Australian Bureau of Statistics site where you can access all ABS publications in fulltext from 1998 onwards, over 2,000 spreadsheets and Census Basic Community Profiles.
Bureau of Economic Analysis — produces and disseminates accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic accounts statistics that provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of economic activity in the US. Key issues include US economic growth, regional economic development, and the nation's position in the world economy.
FedStats — access to official statistics provided by over 100 agencies in the US Federal Government.
ILO Databases — a collection of databases provided by the International Labour Organization
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 Michigan 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
STAT-USA — Economic, trade, business information for USA
US Bureau of Labor Statistics data — time series on US CPI, PPI and payroll data
US Census Quick Facts — demographic and business statistics to US County level with easy access to full Census data.
World Bank basic data — national statistics for countries and regions and also data by topics, such as poverty
World Factbook, CIA