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Economics

Resources for Economics

Economics definitions, facts, figures and overviews

  • Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
  • Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
  • Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts

Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Oxford reference Online

General reference, business, arts. Fulltext of dictionaries and other reference books.

OneLook.com

Links to a wide range of dictionaries and glossaries including languages other than english

The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of business ethics

Business ethics

Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Dictionary of economics

330.03/34

Dictionary of financial terms

330.03/31

The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of managerial economics

658.1503/1

The New Palgrave dictionary of economics and the law

REF/K/233/NEW

Dictionary of health economics

362.103/3

The handbook of economic methodology

330.01/50

To find additional reference items

  1. Search the Library Catalogue
  2. Select advanced keyword search
  3. Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**

    economics AND dictionar**

    economics AND encycloped**

    economics AND handbook**

  4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **

    e.g. organisation** will retrieve organisations, organisational

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Economics books and more

Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs

If you know the exact title

  1. Select title search
  2. Type in the exact title
  3. Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection

If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area

  1. Select advanced keyword search
  2. Type in keywords from your topic
  3. Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords

    e.g. economics AND environment

  4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **

    e.g. organisation** will retrieve organisations, organisational

Catalogue search tips:

  • Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. economics AND environment AND australia
    Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
  • Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
  • Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location

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Economics journal articles

Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports

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Business Source Premier Business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. * EBSCO search tips

Econlit

International coverage of economics

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Ovid search tips

Emerald

Provides access to the full text of articles

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Emerald search tips
FinAnalysis A 12-year history of detailed financial information for all companies listed on ASX. Australian [None]  -

Proquest5000

Management, marketing, business & financial information

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Proquest search tips

Factiva

Full text coverage of a wide range of international and national newspapers, including SMH, and the Australian

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Factiva search tips

Complete list of Commerce databases

Found a useful reference?

Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.

Database search tips:

  • Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
  • Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
  • To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords

    e.g. economics AND environment
  • To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords

    e.g. principles OR economics

  • Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword. Symbols vary between databases

    e.g. organisation* retrieves organisations,organisational

  • Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
  • Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search

Need help?More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial

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Economics Internet sites

It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.

Try the following sites as a starting point

Environmental Economics

Financial Economics

Health Economics

History of Economic Thought

International Economics

Organisations

Statistical and research data

Trade

Search engines

Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.

Try these first:

Directories

Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.

WWW Virtual Library

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