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Economics & Finance

Listed here are some of the major Reference, Print and Electronic resources for Economics and Finance. 

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Background Information (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks)

Banking & Finance Terminology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HG151 .B268 1999

Bloomberg.com Financial Glossary
Free Website: http://www.bloomberg.com/invest/glossary/bfglosa.htm

Dictionary of Health Economics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks RA410 .A3 c85

Encyclopedia of Banking and Finance
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HG151 .M8 1994
Also available online through netLibrary

Encyclopedia of busine$$ and finance
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF1001 .E467 2001
(2 volumes)

Dictionary of Economics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB61 .B554 2002
Oxford University Press.

Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB172.5 . E55 2002
Edward Elgar

InvestorWords.com
Free Website: http://www.investorwords.com

Islamic Finance and Economics: A Glossary
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB61 .K46 2003

The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB61 .N49 1987
(4 volumes)

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law
Location: JPL Reference Stacks K487.E3 N48 1998
(3 volumes)

New Palgrave Dictionary of Money & Finance
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HG151 .N48 1992

Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HC15 .O94 2003
(5 volumes)

Reuters Financial Glossary
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HF1001 .R48 2000

Value of a Dollar: Colonial Era to the Civil War, 1600-1865
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB235 .N48 U6 D47

Value of a Dollar: Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-2004
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB235 .N48 U6 V35

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Books

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Databases & Article Searching

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General Databases

Academic Universe via LexisNexis (UTSA subscription)
Full text of 6,000 news, business and legal publications. Includes U.S. and foreign newspapers, company profiles and financial reports, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, accounting and tax information . Updated continuously. Source List available online. Full Text

Business Source Complete via EBSCO (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text coverage for over 9,400 general and scholarly business journals and other sources covering marketing, management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. Also includes full-text business books; case studies; investment research, industry, market research, and country reports; and SWOT analyses. Some coverage begins in 1886.. Full Text & Full Image

EconLit via EBSCO (UTSA subscription)
American Economic Association's database for references to economic literature back to 1969.  Indexes and abstracts journal articles and books on economics, as well as Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. Also provides citations for dissertations and articles from collective volumes and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature. Updated monthly. Full Text

JSTOR (UTSA subscription)
Provides full image access to a comprehensive archive of over 600 scholarly journals older than five years. Includes titles in economics, finance, statistics, and history. Full Image

Kluwer Online (UTSA subscription)
Full text access to journal titles from Kluwer Academic Publishers, Kluwer Law International, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, and Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press.  The subject areas most represented in Kluwer Online are in the sciences, the social sciences and business. Note: All Kluwer journals are now only available via SpringerLink. Coverage: 1997-current. Full Text

NBER Working Papers (UTSA subscription)
Full text access to research papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, including titles from the Working Papers, Technical Working Papers, and Development of the American Economy series. Coverage: 1994-current. Updated regularly Full Text

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) (UTSA subscription)
Subject index to current literature in economics, political science, legislation, government, and social conditions.  Includes selective indexing to more than 1,000 periodicals published in English throughout the world including books, documents, pamphlets, reports, and journal articles. Citations Only

ProQuest (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to journal articles in a number of databases across all subject areas, with particular strengths in business and the social sciences. Also includes 9 major national newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Complete content of the following databases is included: ABI/INFORM Dateline, Global, and Trade & Industry; Accounting & Tax; Criminal Justice Periodicals; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, and ProQuest Research Library. More than 5,500 titles are indexed and abstracted from at least 1971 to the present with Full text and/or images for more than 2,000 titles. Selected list  of economics and finance journals available full text. Full Text & Full Image

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 700 journals published by Elsevier Science, including economics and finance journals. Full Text & Full Image

SIAM Journals Online (UTSA subscription)
Full image access to journals published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 1994 to the present. Full Image

Wall Street Journal (via ProQuest) (UTSA subscription)
Full text of the Wall Street journal from 1995 to present available through National Newspapers. For full image archive see Historical Newspapers (1889-1989). Full Text

Wiley InterScience (UTSA subscription)
Full image access to John Wiley journals in the areas of Business, Finance and Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics,   Physics, and Psychology.  Includes full text of such Economics and Finance titles as: Health Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Managerial and Decision Economics, Journal of Futures Market and Journal of Forecasting. Full journal title List. Full Image

Statistical and Financial Information

Academic Universe (LexisNexis) (UTSA subscription)
Full text of 6,000 news, business and legal publications. Includes company profiles and financial reports, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, accounting and tax information. Updated continuously. Source List available online. Full Text

Compustat (via WRDS)
Highly specialized and comprehensive source for financial data. Has the ability to compare different companies, create specialized reports, charts and graph. Full Text

Current Index to Statistics (UTSA subscription)
Indexes journals, books and proceedings in probability and statistics. Over 160 core journals are fully indexed, with selected articles indexed from an additional 1,200. Coverage: 1975 to present. Citations only.

Economic Indicators (via GPO Access)
Free Website: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html
Monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors and provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance. Coverage: 1965 to current. For older data see FRASER. Full Text

FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)
Free Website: http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/ei/
This publication prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers supplies monthly updates related to the economic conditions in the United States. Economic Indicators provides statistical data both in tabular and graphic form and includes information on consumer and producer prices, employment, production, and money and banking. Tables typically display 10 years of annual data with the most recent 12 to 15 months broken out in detail. Coverage: 1948 to current. Full Text

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
Free Website: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
A database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. You can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series. Full Text

GPO Access
Provides free online access to the official published versions of United States government publications. Includes publications from the Legislative Branch (Congressional Bills, Congressional Hearings, United States Code), the Executive Branch (Budget of the United States of America, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations), and the Judicial Branch (Supreme Court Decisions), in addition to U.S. laws, administrative decisions, and the Core Documents of U.S. Democracy. GPO Access Training Manual available online. Full Text

Mergent Online (UTSA subscription)
Provides extensive business and financial data on more than 10,000 NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq companies as well as 11,000 international companies in more than 100 countries. Also provides direct access to EDGAR, the SEC website, which includes all annual, quarterly, and special corporation records. Lists subsidiaries. Updated weekly. Full Text

International Financial Statistics (UTSA subscription)
Provides international and domestic finance statistics produced by the International Monetary Fund for over 200 countries. View time series data at the country level and the world level, including data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Coverage is from 1945 to the present. Updated monthly.

Investext Plus (UTSA subscription)
Full-text collection of more than 700,000 current company, product and industry reports from brokerage firms, investment banks and trade associations worldwide as well as fundamental financial information from Moody's Investors Service.  Reports are available in the original image formats complete with charts, tables, photographs and graphics.  Coverage is 1996 to the present.  Updated weekly. Full Text

Statistical Universe via LexisNexis (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to statistical information produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Includes indexing/abstracting and tabular data from 1973 to the present. Significant full text content from 1995 to the present is availabl. All documents are available on microfiche; inquire at the Reference desk for assistance. Online version of American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics.Tipsheet Full Text

STAT-USA (UTSA subscription)
US Department of Commerce site for economic data, international trade data, and government publications such as the Commerce Business Daily and Country Reports and Country Commercial Guides. Full Text

TableBase (UTSA subscription)
Specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics. Includes market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and more. Data is culled from the more than 1000 trade and business publications, privately published statistical annuals, trade associations, government agencies, non-profit research groups, and investment research group industry reports. Content is from 1996 to the present. Updated frequently. Full Text

WDI Online (World Development Indicators Online) (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to more than 550 statistical development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups for 1960 to 2002. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Updated regularly

For country statistics, see the UTSA Country Statistics Subject Guide
For a complete list of electronic databases (indexes) at UTSA see our Databases & Article Searching

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General Current Awareness

ArticleFirst (UTSA subscription)
Citations to journal articles in a variety of subject areas including the sciences, social sciences, business, humanities, and popular culture. Coverage is 1990-present and it is updated daily. Most records provide a list of library print/microform holdings. The journal may also be available in an electronic database, but these will not be listed in the holdings. Citations Only

Ingenta (UTSA subscription)
(formerly Uncover)
Ingenta (UnCover) contains brief descriptive information for over 8,800,000 articles which have appeared since 1988 in multidisciplinary journals. Easy to use interface.  Updated daily. Search by keywords.  Check UCAT to see if we own the journal cited or obtain material through Interlibrary Loan. Citations Only

Uncover - see Ingenta (above)

Web of Science (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 8,400 journals from 1989 to the present in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Print equivalents published by The Institute for Scientific Information are Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index.  For a topic search, choose "Easy Search" and search by general keywords. Citations Only

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News

Economic and Finance topics frequently show up in the news.  For information on databases to news and news sources, see our Subject Guide: Finding News Articles at the UTSA Library.

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Biographies and Directories

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (UTSA subscription)
Indexes more than 2,270,000 biographical sketches in current and retrospective works.  Covers both living and deceased persons in every subject area worldwide.

A biographical dictionary of dissenting economists
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB76 .B5 2000

A biographical dictionary of women economists
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB76 .B535 2000

Great economists before Keynes : an introduction to the lives & works of one hundred great economists of the past
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB76 .B54 1986

Great economists since Keynes : an introduction to the lives & works of one hundred  modern economists
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB76 .B55 1998

Who's Who in Economics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HB76 .W47 1999

Winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Free Website: http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/index.html

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Further Research

WWW Virtual Library : Economics
Free Website: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/EconVLib.htmll/
Includes WebEC: Web Resources in Economics and RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet.

WWW Virtual Library: Finance
Free Website: http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/overview.htm