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Economics

Reference

 

Oxford Reference Online: Economics and Business

Encyclopedia of Political Economy - 2 vols. 
Location: Ref HB61 .E554 1999 

Encyclopedia of the Global Economy - 2 vols. 
Location: Ref HF1359 .O28 2006 

The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics - 4 vols. 
Location: Ref HB61 .N49 1987

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy - 3 vols. 
Location: Ref HF1359 .R68 2001

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Articles - Economics

Core Resources:

Academic Search Premier
Scholarly journal and popular magazine articles in all subject areas, many of which are available in full text online.

EconLit
Coverage: 1969-present.
Comprehensive index to the world's economic literature from over 300 major economic journals and collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.). Produced by the American Economic Association.

Web of Science
Coverage: 1984-present.
Includes the Social Sciences Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. In addition to cited reference searching, the Web of Science can be searched by topic, author, source title, and address.

NBER Working Papers
Coverage: 1994-present.
View and download the full text of NBER working papers. The National Bureau of Economic Research is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals and the academic community.

Business Source Premier
Coverage: 1965-present.
Includes nearly 3,600 full text scholarly publications in the areas of management, economics, finance, accounting and international business. Also provides indexing and abstracts nearly 4,400 journals and includes detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies and country economic reports from the EIU and CountryWatch.

Wall Street Journal
Coverage: 1984-present.
Full-text articles from the world's leading financial newspaper. The library's subscription includes the Eastern edition only.


Additional Resources:
 

For more, consult the library's economics databases page.

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Books

ALEX
Hamilton College Library's catalog. Use our call number locator to find items from your catalog search.

WorldCat
Catalog with more than 60 million records for books and other materials owned by libraries around the world. Use the Find It. button to request items through interlibrary loan.

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Industry Information & Case Studies

 

Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys
Overviews of over fifty major North American and global industries.
Location: Ref HC106.6 .S74

BERA: Business & Economics Research Advisor
A series of guides to business & economics topics from the Library of Congress.

Harvard Business School Cases
Case studies are sold in print and via electronic download to individuals only, and cannot be purchased by libraries or borrowed through interlibrary loan.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Cases
Many of the case studies are available for purchase through Harvard Business Online.

Competitive Solutions: The Strategist's Toolkit
Location: HD30.28 .M3815 2002

Strategic Management and Business Policy: Concepts and Cases, 10th ed.
Location: HD30.28 .W43 2006

Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts, Cases, 4th ed.
Location: HD 30.28 .Q53 2003


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Citing Sources

Ask your professor if he or she has particular citation style preferences. The Writing Center also provides some information on departmental preferences.

The following resources can be especially helful:

The Chicago Manual of Style
Also available in print: Ref Desk Z253 .U69 2003

Citing Sources
The library's guide to documenting sources includes general subject area preferences and examples of citations for books, journals, and other commonly used resources.

RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based program that allows you to collect citations and format them into footnotes and bibliographies for your research papers and writing assignments.

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Get Help

For further assistance, contact:

Lynn Mayo
Reference Librarian
Burke Library
315-859-4746
lmayo@hamilton.edu

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(Reviewed: August 20, 2008)