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Watch the 3 minute video SUMMON HELP to learn how to use the search engine Summon to find both books and articles from UNE University Library.  For more extensive research use the databases listed below... 

• Key databases
• Encyclopedias and dictionaries
• Web sites and Internet resources

Key databases

Newsbamk includes The Economist and other Financial Journals.

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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 with dictionaries and encyclopedias in the Business, Economics and Accounting fields.

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Web sites and Internet resources

• Economic History
• Economics
• General sites
• Resource Economics and Agriculture
• Statistics

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.
FAOSTAT - FAO is granting free and open access to its central data repository, the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, and hunger.  

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.
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

ABARES — the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
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
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.

FAOSTAT - Free and open access to the FAO central data repository, the world's largest and most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, and hunger.

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
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

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