INFORMATION RESOURCES IN ECONOMICS, BUSINESS AND STATISTICS

2. INFORMATION RESOURCES IN ECONOMICS, BUSINESS AND STATISTICS Social Sciences Library October 2018

3. Contents • Search Tool (and UAB Catalogue) • Other Catalogs • E-journals and e-books • Subject Guides • Databases • E-theses • Working Papers • E-repositories • The bibliographic citation • Interesting tools and resources • Access from off-campus

4. 1. Search Tool Tool that allows the simultaneous search of all the resources of the UAB Libraries, both printed and electronic, offering access to the full text. You can search articles, books, book chapters, databases, etc.. CATALOGUE All the documents in thelibrary in any format or support electronic resources subscribed by the UAB libraries, 90% searchables DIGITAL LIBRARY UAB Repository + catalanlanguageand literatura database. Open Access documents DDD + TRACES

5. Search Tool https://www.uab.cat/libraries/

6. Permet: Itallows: • Limit the results according to several criteria • Access the full text (if available) • Manage reservations and document loans through "My account“ • Save lists of documents, send references and export them to the Mendeley bibliographic reference manager Search Tool

7. Examples Request Full text Filter

8. Filterbyfacets See only what is in the UAB libraries: Filter by Library Catalog See only electronic documents: they can be references or full text : Filter by Digital Library See those electronic resources published in impact journals: Filter by Peer Reviewed

9. To limit the results • Press the catalog option

10. Advanced Search

11. Information about printed copies Information on thenumbers of available copies Requestit To be able to export the register to my account, to Mendeley or send it by mail

12. Information about e-resources We do not have always the full text in all the results of electronic resources Full text available Direct access (usually DDD) E-resources Interlibrary loan (usually has a cost)

13. Information about e-resources

14. My account

15. 2. Other catalogs • The University Union Catalogue of Catalonia (CCUC) includes the library collections of catalan universities, Library of Catalonia and other partner libraries. We can access directly trough the Search Tool • WorldCat: it is the world's largest collective catalogue that includes more than 10,000 libraries

16. 2. Other catalogs • Rebiun: spanish university libraries • Madroño: university libraries of Madrid and UNED • CSIC: CSIC libraries

17. 3. E-journals and e-books

18. E-books of business and economics http://pagines.uab.cat/bcsdigital/content/economia-i-empresa

19. Reference works http://pagines.uab.cat/bcsdigital/content/diccionaris-i-enciclopèdies

20. 4. Subject guides A critical reading of the information on the Internet is necessary. Here you find a selection of databases and academic search engines

21. 5. Databases

22. 5. Databases • ProQuest: multidisciplinary full-text databaseplatfformwhichcontainssome databases in the field of economics and business, such as ABI-Inform (journalarticles, theses and otherdocuments, full-textmost of them) and EconLit (references of journalarticles, working papers, collectiveworksandeconomicstheses) • Factiva:currentaffairsandbusinessinformation (prices, financialstatementsandnews) collectedbyReutersandDow Jones. Itincludes full-text newspapersandtrade magazines, andalsophotographies

23. Thomson Reuters Datastream and Eikon: economic, financial and businessstatistical data and economicnews. Wide coverage of worldwideequities, bonds, exchangerates, interestrates, commodities, warrants, futures, options, etc. Installation and passwordrequired • SABI, sistema de análisis de balances financieros ibéricos: businessinformation ofSpanishcompanies.Itincludesannualaccounts, ratios, stock data, shareholders, etc • OECD iLibrary: electroniclibrary of the OECD withbooks, papers and statistics, partially free access. TheUAB has subscribed the database World energy statistics and balances and can also access all monographs and periodicals published until the end of 2011 • Tourism statistics: database of tourist indicators collected by the WTO (World Tourism Organization) since 1995

24. Eurostat Statistics:officialstatistics of UE countriesbysubject [freeresource] • IMF eLibrary Data: all IMF statistics databases, specially International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOP), Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) [free resource] • UNdata:worldwideindicatorsabout all subjectscollectedbythe United Nations [freeresource] • WorlddataBank: worldwideindicatorsabout all thetopicsfrom 1960 collected or generatedbytheWorld Bank [freeresource]

25. Multidisciplinary • ÍnDICEs CSIC: references of journal articles, monographs, papers, theses, etc., about social sciences and humanities • Web of Science: by ISI Thompson which contains Journal citation reports, Social sciences citation index, Book Citation Index, etc • Scopus: group Elsevier database wich contains conference proceedings, scientific webs, bibliographic references and indexes of more than 15,000 journals. Also you may consult the books and journals databases ISBN and ISSN

26. 6. E-theses https://www.uab.cat/web/our-collections/doctoral-theses-1345738248262.html

27. 7. Working papers • EconBiz: Web portal for economics and business studies. It offers articles in journals and books and current working papers– from Germany, Europe and the world. Full text is available if it is Open Access • RePEc (ResearchPapers in Economics): Database of working papers andjournal articles in Open Access • WorldBank: World Bank documents • Recercat: Itis a cooperative archive of digital document that includes the research literature of the universities and research institutions of Catalonia, such as heretofore unpublished articles (preprints), conference papers, research reports, working papers, final theses and technical reports.

28. 8. E- repositories DDD is the UAB institutional repository ddd.uab.cat

29. CBUC Repositories TDX – Theses and dissertations online RACO – Catalan journals in Open Access RECERCAT- Catalan repository of research MDC – Digital memory of Catalonia MDX – Learning materials online These resources are in Open Access

30. 9. The bibliographic citation •The bibliographic citation describes and identifies the documents to make them traceable • It is essential to cite sources in order to recognize the work of others and to document the research conducted •Not citing sources is considered plagiarism •A bibliographic style is the standard indicating how to cite the documents

31. 9. The bibliographic citation • • Information on bibliographic citation is available at • the UAB Library Service website: Citations and • bibliography • • Some bibliographic reference managers enable • an automatically generated bibliographic citation • Mendeley

32. 9. Interesting tools and resources • Google Scholar scholar.google.es Searchengine of specializedbibliography • DOAJ www.doaj.org Database of open accessandmultidisciplinaryjournals full-text

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35. 10. Access from off-campus

36. And that is all! If you have any questionor for further information, please contact the Library staff Thanks! https://ddd.uab.cat/record/81366 Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "El bibliotecario“, c.1566