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Finding Journal Articles

• Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost Business database with over 1300 titles in full text. Good source of country economic reports and profiles. Examples are EIU Country Reports and Profiles, and research from Datamonitor
• EconLIT on EBSCOhost Indexes and abstracts 450 international economics journals. Produced by the American Economics Association
• Business, Economics & Management on Informit Online Searches multiple Australian databases, including GIBLIN Working Papers
• Scopus is a large index to scholarly literature which includes Economics. Click on the full text button to access the full text.
• Web of Knowledge to search ISI highly ranked journals
• Google Scholar

Newspapers and audiovisual

• Factiva 1000s of Australian and overseas full text newspapers, including The Age, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal
• Business Source Complete on EBSCOhost has many full text news sources, including The Economist
• Audios and Videos from the Economist

Economic Indicators and Market Statistics

from the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
• Business indicators (quarterly) includes company profits, inventories, sales, wages and salaries
• Overview of finance sector information resources
• International trade information
• National accounts
• Prices overview
• Reserve Bank of Australia
• Australian Economic Reports from Westpac
• CommSec (Commonwealth Bank Securities) news and research
• see also Company Financials
• Market Wrap from the Australian Financial Review
• Benchmark your Business - financial ratios from ANZ
• various reports from the Australian Industry Group
• Sensis Business reports
  

Gateways for Economics Information

• Liber8 An economic information portal for librarians and students
• Resources for Economists
• Inomics the Internet sight for Economists
• Virtual Finance Library  Ohio State University 
• WebEc WWW Resources in Economics   is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW
• BUBL Link 330 Economics 

Working Papers

• Bank for International Settlements
• Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)
  • OECD Papers (with embargo on current 6 months)
• International Monetary Fund 
• EconPapers

Country Economic Overviews

• Country Information Subject Starter Guide
• Various country reports are available from Business Source Complete click on the link to Country Reports and search or browse by country, region or publisher. Sources include The Economist Intelligence Unit, Datamonitor
• OECD Economic Surveys available on Source OECD

Author: Jane O'Donnell (jodonnell@swin.edu.au)