Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

Joyner Library recently subscribed to Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage. This database includes the information contains in the print Industry Surveys, Corporation Records, Bond Reports, Stock Reports, Outlook and other S&P titles. Connect to it from the Databases page or from http://media.lib.ecu.edu/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=473

Mergent Corporate Manuals

Joyner Library received end-of-year funds for one-time purchases. One of our purchases was the Mergent/Moody's Corporate Manuals in digital format. Mergent's history spans more than 100 years. Dating back to 1909, the Manual collection encompasses year by year company information including financials, a detailed textual business and history description, listings of officers and directors, stock and dividend information, listings of subsidiaries and more. All manuals except Municipal & Government are contained in the online Corporate Manual database. Connect to it from the Databases list or from http://media.lib.ecu.edu/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=468

SourceOECD

Joyner Library has converted its standing order for OECD materials from print to online. To sweeten the deal, OECD agreed to give us access to ALL books, periodicals and statistics contained in the database. The database, SourceOECD, includes

• Main Economic Indicators database


• National Accounts database


• International Trade database


• Economic Outlook database


• Economic Surveys


• Working papers


• "At a Glance" publications

Connect to SourceOECD from the Databases list or from http://media.lib.ecu.edu/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=383

International Monetary Fund Databases

International Financial Statistics and Direction of Trade Statistics from the International Monetary Fund are now available online as subscription databases.

The Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) database presents figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports by trade partners as well as area and world aggregates showing trade flows between major areas of the world. DOTS provides access to monthly, quarterly and annual trade data from 1948 to the present for about 180 countries and geographic areas. Connect to it from the Databases list or from: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=469

International Financial Statistics includes exchange rates, fund accounts and the main global and country economic indicators for more than 200 countries in about 32,000 time series going back as far as 1945. Retrieve series and download in CSV, Excel, HTML, or tab delimited files. Connect to it from the Databases list or from: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=444

Book Series Added to ScienceDirect

This summer, we added the Elsevier Business, Management and Economics Book Series to the ScienceDirect database. To access a list of the books, connect to ScienceDirect, then select Browse. Select the options to include Full-Text Available and All Books. Titles include:

• Advances in Applied Microeconomics
• Advances in Econometrics
• Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources
• Advances in Financial Economics
• Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
• Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis
• Research on Economic Inequality
• Research in Labor Economics
• Research in Political Economy
• Research in Transportation Economics

Each book series has a stable URL, so you can link to individual titles in Blackboard, your online syllabus, other web pages, etc. Connect to ScienceDirect from the Databases list on the library homepage or from this URL: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=311

Conference Board's Research Online Collection

Joyner Library converted the standing order for Conference Board publications from print to online. The online collection goes back to 1998 for some titles - coverage that far back is not comprehensive, though. Here is the description of the online collection, called Research Online:

The Conference Board's Research Online Collection is a searchable collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, corporate citizenship and sustainability, corporate governance, ethics, human resources, operations and business process, productivity and more. Executive summaries and special PowerPoint encapsulations are available for selected reports.

You can connect to the Research Online database from the Databases list or from this URL: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=455

We will be withdrawing most of the print Conference Board reports from the Joyner Stacks, after verifying that they are in fact available online.

Welcome to the Economics News Blog

Greetings!

This is my first attempt at creating a blog. I hope it will be a good way to share information about new resources at Joyner Library with faculty, staff and students in the Department of Economics at ECU. Please send me your comments and suggestions. I hope that you will share information about resources that you find useful, too.

We've recently converted a number of print subscriptions to online. I will try to cover these changes in a series of postings.

Jan