Spring 2010 — Dean Ross
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Questions? Need help? Contact Susanna Boylston (704-894-2494).
- Office hours:
- Monday 1:00-3:00 pm
- Tuesday, 3:00-5:00 pm
- Wednesday, 1:00-2:00 pm
Location: Consultation Room (directly behind the reference desk)
- Also available by appointment.
Preliminary questions:
Style Guides | General Works
- Style Guides
The library has copies of all of the major style guides and manuals used at Davidson.
- American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Little Library Reference Desk BF76.7 .P83 2010
See also:
- American Psychological Association. (2010). Concise rules of APA style (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Little Library Reference Desk BF76.7 .C66 2010
- Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago, IL: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003.
Reference R 808.02 C53 2003
Note: up to ten people can search the online version at any one time.
- You can also use RefWorks to generate in-text citations and reference lists in APA format.
- General Works
- Credo Reference
A collection of over 390 full-text reference sources in all subject areas; includes a number of notable economics titles.
- Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas. Ed. Glenn Porter. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1980.
Reference R 330.973 E56
- Dictionary of United States Economic History. James. S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992.
Reference R 330.973 O52d
- Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-class History. Ed. Eric Arneson. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Note: only one person can access this reference e-book at any one time.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of over 200 scholarly reference books in all subject areas.
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. 26 vols. New York: Elsevier, 2001.
Reference R 300.3 I611
- The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. Ed. John Eatwell et al. 4 vols. New York: Stockton Press, 1987.
Reference R 330.3 P16d, 1987
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Ed. Joel Mokyr. 5 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
Reference R 330.3 O98
- The St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide. Ed. Neil Schlager. 2 vols. Detroit: St. James Press, 2004.
Reference R 331.88 S132
Indexes | Data Sources
Indexes
- LexisNexis Statistical
Includes American Statistics Index (1973 to present).
To search ASI, choose the "find a publication" search option.
Tip: truncation symbol !
- FEDSTATS (Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy)
Provides access to official statistics from over 100 federal agencies.
- Statistics Sources. 34th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2010.
Data Sources
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
Current and historical statistical data on employment, wages, benefits, prices, hours, and more. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also provides data from the Current Population Survey. The full text of the Monthly Labor Review (1981 to present) is available on the site.
- Business Statistics of the United States. Lanham, MD: Bernan, 2002- .
Library also has 1995, 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2006 editions.
- Datapedia of the United States: American History in Numbers. Ed. George Thomas Kurian. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Bernan, 2004.
- Economagic
Provides access to over 100,000 frequently-used time series (mostly U.S.). Data may be downloaded into Excel or copied and pasted into another program.
Note: the library has a "level 1" subscription, which gives you access to everything except for the "Forecasts" and "Reporter" sections of the site.
- Economic Indicators, from GPO Access
Provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance. Prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors, U.S. Congress; updated monthly.
- Economic Policy Institute
The EPI provides data and position papers on labor markets, in addition to its other areas of research.
- Economic Report of the President, from GPO Access
- FedStats
Provides access to statistics collected and published by more than 100 U.S. federal agencies.
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
ICPSR archives and provides access to social science data. Davidson is a member of ICPSR; use of the data is restricted to Davidson students, faculty and staff engaged in non-commercial research projects.
- LABORSTA, from the International Labor Organization Department of Statistics
Current and historical data on employment and unemployment, hours, wages, and more. Covers over 200 countries.
- LexisNexis Statistical
Provides the full text of over 100,000 statistical tables (1997 to present) as well as abstracts for other data published by branches and agencies of the federal government (1973 to present).
- Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Reference R 317.3 U54
Government Document Stacks C 3.134
Online (1995 to present)
- U.S. Census Bureau
Includes American FactFinder, a useful tool for finding data from the Decennial Census, Economic Census, American Community Survey, and more. See also Labor Force Statistics, which includes links to data from the American Community Survey.
Note: The Census Bureau conducts the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Bureau of Labor Statistics; CPS data are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics site.
Scholarly Journals | Working Papers
General-Interest Business Periodicals | Newspapers | Trade Publications
General search tips:
- Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
- In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
- Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "
Scholarly Journals
- Annual Reviews
(1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Starting in 2009, this database will include the following new titles:
- Business Abstracts
(July 1982 to present) Indexes over 600 business periodicals, including scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines like Business Week, and newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
- Business Source Premier
(1965 to present) Provides the full text of over 8,800 periodicals, including over 1,100 peer-reviewed journals, over 1,200 trade journals and business magazines, 3,800 industry reports, more than 500 market research reports, and over 140 books.
- EconLIT
(1969 to present) Lists articles from over 750 journals; also includes citations to working papers, doctoral dissertations, books, and conference proceedings.
For information about the subject terms used in the database, see the JEL Classification Codes Guides.
- JSTOR
A collection of the back issues of over 1,200 electronic journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Tip: truncation symbol: +
- PAIS International
(1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers on public policy and public affairs; international in scope.
- Web of Knowledge
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Includes Web of Science (1900 to present), which contains the Social Sciences Citation Index.
- Notable journals include:
- Journal of Labor Economics
- Journal of Labor Research
- Labour Economics
- Labor Studies Journal
- Monthly Labor Review
Working Papers
- EconLIT
Indexes working papers as well as journal articles, books, and book reviews. For details, see above.
- NBER Working Papers
(1994 to present) Full text of working papers published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a private, non-profit, nonpartisan research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), from IDEAS at the Department of Economics, Univ. of Connecticut
Contains nearly 400,000 working papers, many of which can be downloaded.
Note: RePEc records are now being added to EconLIT.
General-Interest Business, Economics, & Finance Periodicals
Includes magazines like The Economist, Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune; the library has long runs of these titles.
- Business Abstracts
(1913 to present) Indexes over 2,000 business, industry, applied science, and technology periodicals, including scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines, and selected newspapers, like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
- Business Source Premier
(1965 to present) Provides the full text of over 8,800 periodicals, including over 1,100 peer-reviewed journals, over 1,200 trade journals and business magazines, including the Economist, 3,800 industry reports, more than 500 market research reports, and over 140 books.
- Readers' Guide Abstracts
(1890 to present) Indexes articles in general-interest periodicals.
Newspapers
- LexisNexis Academic
(Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from national and international newspapers, such as the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Times (London), and The Washington Post, as well as local newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and the full text of newswires, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
Tips:
- Click on "News" on the left-hand side of the page.
- Truncation symbol: !
- Historical Newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post
(1851-2007) Provides the full text of the New York Times with index (1851-2007), Wall Street Journal (1889-1993), and Washington Post (1877-1994).
- Newspaper Source Plus
Contains the full text of articles in over 149 national and international newspapers, including The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and the Washington Post; also contains selected full text from 410 additional U.S. newspapers and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
- Wall Street Journal Index
(1981 to present) Provides indexing and some full text for the newspaper.
Trade Publications
The following databases are good sources for trade publications. To find additional trade publications, consult the Encyclopedia of Associations to identify relevant trade associations and then look for their Web sites and publications.
- Business Source Premier
(1965 to present) Provides the full text of over 8,800 periodicals, including over 1,100 peer-reviewed journals, over 1,200 trade journals and business magazines, 3,800 industry reports, more than 500 market research reports, and over 140 books.
- LexisNexis Academic
(Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from trade journals as well as local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, newswires, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
Tips:
- To search industry publications, click on the "Sources" tab on the left-hand side of the main search page and choose "browse sources" and then "news and business topics."
- Truncation symbol: !
General search tips:
- Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to connect terms/concepts
- In most databases, the truncation symbol is a *
- Enclose phrases in double quotation marks " "
- To find books at Davidson, search the following:
- Library Catalog
Lists the books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in our Library. Tips:
- Truncation symbol: $
- Some relevant subject headings:
- Employment (economic theory)
- Labor disputes
- Labor economics
- Labor laws and legislation
- Labor market
- Labor policy
- Labor unions
- Wages
- Wage and labor productivity
- ebrary
A collection of over 55,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
Note: for full functionality, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
- To find information about books that might be available from other libraries, search the following:
- WorldCat
Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
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