Economics

Economics Databases

• EconLit
  International literature on economics since 1969.
• Business Source Premier
  Full text for more than 2,300 journals on subjects including accounting, finance and economics.
• Emerald Fulltext
  An independent scholarly publisher of journals in business and management.

Social Sciences Databases

• Expanded Academic ASAP
  Multi-disciplinary full-text database.
• SCOPUS
  Indexes 2,700 Social Sciences and Economics titles.
• Social Sciences Citation Index
  (via Web of Science) 1700 major social science journals covering all social science disciplines.

Working Papers on the Internet

• CESifo Working Papers
  Papers from the Center for Economic Studies and Institute for Economic Research
• IZA Discussion Papers
  A leading resource in labour market economics
• NBER Working Papers
  Papers from the National Bureau of Economics Research.
  Papers over 3 years old can be downloaded from the SSRN website.
• New Economics Foundation
  An independent think tank that aims to improve economic well-being.
• New Economics Papers
  Provides information about new additions to RePEc.
• Research Papers in Economics RePEc provides access to working papers on economics, banking and finance.

Finding data: lecture

Learn how to find data by watching this lecture.  The lecture has been split into 3 and each section last @ 20 minutes.  They were accurate at the time of recording.

• Company accounts data
  Find data using Mergent Online and company websites
• Macroeconomic and demographic
  Find data using Passport, the UK Data Service and Bloomberg.
• Datastream
  Learn how to use Datastream

Note: after an interface change 'Advanced Search' is now called 'Criteria Search'.

Company data

• Bankscope
  Up to 16 years financial information (annual or quarterly) of banks worldwide.  Tutorial
• FAME
  Financial, descriptive and ownership information of the top 150,000 UK companies.  Tutorial
• Mergent Online
  Company financials, annual reports, stock prices and ownership information of companies worldwide.
• Zephyr
  Mergers and acquisition reports, IPOs and venture capital deals.  M&A tutorial  IPO tutorial

Macroeconomic data

• Bloomberg
  News & company, stock, commodity and macroeconomic data.
• Datastream
  Stocks, bonds, commodities and macroeconomic indicators.
• International macrodata
  From the UK Data Service
  
• Passport (formerly GMID)
  International market, macroeconomic and demographic data.
• OECD iLibrary
  Text, Access to OECD Banking, Health and Insurance datasets

Development

• African Capacity Building Foundation
  Virtual library of publications on poverty redution in Africa.

• International Monetary Fund
  The IMF works to reduce poverty around the world.

• Open Knowledge Repository
  Open-access repository of documents and data from the World Bank.