Tools
Subject Guides
Economics
- Glossaries/Dictionaries
- Journal and Magazine Articles
- Newspaper Articles
- Key News and Current Events Publications
- Working Papers
- Major Resource Finding Aids
- Exchange Rates
- Economic/Financial Statistical Data
Glossaries/Dictionaries
| Glossary of Economics Terms | Maintained by an academic in the USA |
| Glossary of Business terms | |
| New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance | Ref HG 151.N48 1992. Renowned 3 vol. set with detailed entries |
| Oxford Reference Online | Oxford Economics and Business dictionary |
Journal and Magazine articles
| International | Scholarly business journals and business magazines Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. | |
| Specializes in scholarly articles in accounting, economics and finance. |
Newspaper Articles
International |
Factiva |
Up to five years of fulltext articles from Australian newspapers such as the Australian Financial Review and the Australian and up to twenty years for some major international newspapers |
Key News and Current Events Publications
| The Australian | Forbes |
| Australian Financial Review | Fortune |
| Business Review Weekly | Time |
| Business Week | London Times |
| Economist | Wall Street Journal |
| Far Eastern Economic Review |
Working Papers
| International | Economics Research Network (ERN) |
Many working papers freely available. Articles not freely available but many are fulltext in Ebsco |
| International | EconPapers | Provides access to RePEc the worlds largest collection of on-line Economics working papers and other resources |
Major Resource Finding Aids
| International | WebEc (see also RFE) | Provides links to a very wide range of usually specialized national and international resources according to subject or sub-discipline. Many sites have at least some freely available data. |
| International | RFE aka Bill Goffe links (see also WebEc) | Provides links to a wide range of resources that are described, including glossaries, dictionaries, jobs and grants advice and data |
Exchange Rates
| International | Pacific Exchange Rate Service | Current and historical exchange rate data |
Economic/Financial Statistical Data
| Australia | Australian Bureau of Statistics | ABS database includes current and historical economic and financial statistics |
| Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) | Current and historical financial statistics including financial market data. Some overlap with Australian Bureau of Statistics | |
| Economic Society of Australia | Provides information about events and links to state branches | |
| Parliament of Australia | Monthly statistical bulletin | |
| International | International Financial Statistics | Major resource for current and historical country-based statistics. Held in print at: REF HG3879 .I576 |
| Parliament of Australia | Statistical information on the internet | |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Includes official IMF financial and economic data on a country by country basis | |
| International | World Bank Data | Selected socio-economic tables are freely available |
| International | OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) |
Selected data and analysis for OECD countries is freely available by country or topic |
| International | Penn World Tables |
Provides purchasing power & national income accounts converted to international prices for 179 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000 |
| International | EconData | USA National/Regional and selected International time series economic data |
| USA | American Economic Association | Provides research and educational links |