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Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

• Business Source Complete
  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

For Researchers

• Scopus
  Large index to scholarly literature which includes Economics. When you view the results of a search, you will need to click on the full text button to access the full text of a required article.
• Web of Knowledge
  ISI highly ranked journals
• Google Scholar

Media sources

• Factiva
  1000s of Australian and overseas full text newspapers, including The Age, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal. The Business Fairfax sources such as Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly are in Factiva in summary format only. You will need to refer to the print sources in the Library for the full articles.
• Business Source Complete
  EBSCOhost has many full text news sources
• afr.com
  Subscription based service, various levels of access are available, including a 14 day free trial, but Swinburne does not subscribe. Use Factiva to locate articles and abstracts and the print copies for full text.
• Business Spectator
  Free to register to Australian business news, analysis and commentary from Alan Kohler, Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz
• TVNews (Informit)
  Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format.
• The Economist is available on Ebscohost

Economic Indicators and Market Statistics

Australian Sources

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
• National Australia Bank's economic commentary page, includes monthly business surveys and property surveys
• see also Companies subject starter guide
• Benchmark your Business - financial ratios from ANZ
• various reports from the Australian Industry Group
• Sensis Business Index surveys SMEs in Australia
  

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
• OECD Papers available from OECD iLibrary
• International Monetary Fund 
• EconPapers

Country Economic Overviews

• World bank Data
  High quality national and international statistics, and global statistical programs
  Research
  Cross-country, cross-sector, thematic research outputs from the World Bank's main research unit
  Prospects
  Information, analysis, and advice on global trends in the world economy
• World Economic Outlook 2010
• OECD Economic Surveys available from OECD iLibrary
• 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; Business Monitor International, Countrywatch Inc., Datamonitor PLC, EIU: Economist Intelligence Unit
• CountryWatch
  Covers 191 countries; provides political, social and economic reports and newswire items for these countries.