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Business Source Complete (Info)
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| Producer: | Ebsco | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Business Source covers business journals, magazines, and newspapers. About 7,000 publications, over 2,000 of which are peer-reviewed journals, as well as other resources, including financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. | |
| Usage Tips: | Here is help with searching, navigating, printing, and more. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics and Business - General Accounting Company Information Marketing Economics International Trade Business Administration | |
Country Commercial Guides (Info)
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| Producer: | U.S. Department of Commerce | |
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| Description: | Reports on foreign countries' commercial environments, provided through the Federal Government's U.S. Commercial Service. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | International Trade | |
| Producer: | American Economic Association | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. It is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) covering both economic theory and application, and indexes journal articles, working papers, books, articles (chapters) in collective works, and dissertations. The index covers over 750 journals. Over 80% of all current records include abstracts. Book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature since 1993 are provided in fulltext. Coverage of some titles extends back to 1969. Updated monthly. | |
| Usage Tips: | Combining Terms
To find records containing two or more terms, type the words in separate boxes connect by "and." (The boxes connected by "or" are used for searching for synonymous terms.)
Phrase To search for a multi-word phrase, simply type the words in the proper order. Example: economic development Truncation You may search for variations on a term by entering a minimum of the first three letters of the term followed by an asterisk (*). Example: inflat* finds inflated, inflation, inflationary, etc. Want to know more about EconLit? A 28 page EconLit Database Guide is available. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics and Business - General Economics International Trade Poverty Studies Latin American and Caribbean Studies | |
Mintel Reports (In Huntley Hall Only) (Info)
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| Description: | Mintel Reports offer comprehensive market reviews including both analysis and data. Access to this database is limited to Huntley Hall; it is a subscription of the Williams School (not a Library subscription). It is recommended that you use Internet Explorer for Mintel. This database may be used for academic research only. | |
| Usage Tips: | To access this database, you must use one of the computers in Huntley Hall and it must be connected by Ethernet (not wireless). You must accept the Academic conditions of use and create an account on the system to access Mintel. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Marketing International Trade Business Administration | |
P.A.I.S. (Public Affairs Information Service) International (Info)
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| Producer: | Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) / ProQuest | |
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| Sources: | Sources | |
| Description: | Contains continually updated records for over one million journal articles, books, government documents, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more from about 120 countries on all aspects of public policy and social issues.
Coverage extends back to the 1910's. | |
| Usage Tips: | Please note the "Figures and Tables" search option, near the top of the screen, which allows you to look for graphs, tables, and other forms of images.
For more help with using the ProQuest database interface (searching, printing, etc.), see this page. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Economics and Business - General History -- United States Government -- U.S. Federal Government -- U.S. State and Local Government -- Foreign and International Politics -- American Politics Politics -- Foreign and International Politics -- Congressional Research Politics -- General Economics International Trade African-American Studies Poverty Studies Latin American and Caribbean Studies | |
| Producer: | Washington and Lee University Library | |
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| Description: | This is the W&L University Library's collection of respected resources which provide overviews of each country in the world, including political issues, history, government, economic issues and policies, demographics, etc. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Sociology Journalism and Mass Communications Government -- Foreign and International Politics -- Foreign and International Economics International Trade Poverty Studies History -- Outside U.S. Latin American and Caribbean Studies | |
Encyclopedia Of The Global Economy, Volume I (Info)
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| Producer: | Greenwood | |
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| Description: | Two-volume set (2005) "examines the key people, institutions, current issues, and historical events that shaped the global economy." Volume I contains about 165 encyclopedic entries on such topics as "Regional Trade Agreements" and "Development Economics." Volume II consists of important historical documents and statistical data. | |
| Usage Tips: | Browsing An alphabetical arrangement of the contents is displayed in the Table of Contents in the left-hand column; click on any letter to see the entries beginning with that letter.
The alphabetically-arranged Index (lower-left of screen), which covers both volumes, offers more precise browsing. Searching The "Quick Search" option, located near the top of the screen, allows you to search through the text of "This Title" (volume). To find entries containing a multi-word phrase, place the words within quotation marks. Example: "poverty reduction" To search for forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for one or more letters. Example: financ* will find finance, finances, financial, etc. To find entries containing two or more words, connect the words with AND. Example: poverty AND education* | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Politics -- Foreign and International Economics International Trade | |
Encyclopedia Of The Global Economy, Volume II (Info)
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| Producer: | Greenwood | |
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| Description: | Two-volume set (2005) "examines the key people, institutions, current issues, and historical events that shaped the global economy." Volume II consists of important historical documents and statistical data. Volume I contains about 165 encyclopedic entries on such topics as "Regional Trade Agreements" and "Development Economics." | |
| Usage Tips: | Browsing The Table of Contents is displayed in the left-hand column; click on any topic to see associated primary documents.
The alphabetically-arranged Index (lower-left of screen), which covers both volumes, offers more precise browsing. Searching The "Quick Search" option, located near the top of the screen, allows you to search through the text of "This Title" (volume). To find entries containing a multi-word phrase, place the words within quotation marks. Example: "poverty reduction" To search for forms of a word, use an asterisk (*) to substitute for one or more letters. Example: financ* will find finance, finances, financial, etc. To find entries containing two or more words, connect the words with AND. Example: poverty AND education* | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Politics -- Foreign and International Economics International Trade | |
History Of World Trade Since 1450 (Info)
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| Producer: | Macmillan | |
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| Description: | Two-volume set (2005) contains over 400 entries on historical and commercial concepts (commodities, countries, economic terms, individuals and families, etc.) dating from the beginning of the Age of Exploration, through the establishment of colonies in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, the Industrial Revolution, capitalism and imperialism, through the 20th century. | |
| Usage Tips: | You may find material in this ebook either by browsing in the table of contents or in the index, or by searching for a particular word.
Table of Contents You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged table of contents by clicking on the eTable of Contents option, which is divided into 2 volumes, beginning with "A to K." You may open any of the article listings by clicking on the appropriate plus-sign (+). Index You may browse through the alphabetically-arranged index by clicking on the eBook Index option, which opens a list of hundreds of references, each of which is clickable. Searching You may want to use the Search this eBook option to find obscure references or to find articles which contains two or more particular terms.
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| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | History -- United States International Trade History -- Outside U.S. | |
Direction Of Trade Statistics (DOT) CD-ROM (Info)
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| Producer: | International Monetary Fund | |
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| Description: | The DOT database is available on CD-ROM at the Information Desk. The Direction of Trade Statistics provides import and export statistics between partner countries. The current disk provides data back to 1980 and second disk provides data from 1948 to 1979. | |
| Usage Tips: | The data in this database contains the same data that is published in the printed publication of the same name (shelved in Periodicals). Having the Direction of Trade Statistics Yearbook may be helpful as you retrieve data from the database.
Historical Data is also available from UVA's Geospatial and Statistical Data Center (restricted access to the W&L community) Data from 1948-1979 is also available on CD-ROM, which is available at the Circulation Desk. Faculty, Staff and Students may access this data using one of the computers in the library. The disk must be in the DVD drive, then the software can be accessed from the Start menu, select "Research and Statistics," then select "IMF Data," and then select "DOTS." | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics International Trade | |
| Producer: | U.S. Department of Commerce | |
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| Description: | Portal to U.S. Government information relevant to U.S. exporters, including news, market reports, trade assistance programs, and more. | |
| Usage Tips: | Several important publication series, including Country Commercial Guides, and statistical compilations are available here.
Please note that our link takes you to the "Market Research" portion of the Web site. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | International Trade | |
FREDŽ (Federal Reserve Economic Data) (Info)
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| Producer: | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | |
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| Description: | FREDŽ (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is a database of over 18,000 U.S. economic time series. With FREDŽ you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics International Trade | |
| Producer: | US Federal Government | |
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| Description: | FedStats provides access to official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics International Trade | |
International Financial Statistics (IFS) (Info)
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| Producer: | International Monetary Fund | |
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| Description: | International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a excellent source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic economics. It reports, for most countries of the world, data needed in the analysis of international payments, consumer and producer prices, exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, interest rates, production, government accounts, and national accounts. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics International Trade | |
International Trade Statistics (Info)
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| Producer: | World Trade Organization | |
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| Description: | Interactive access to the most up-to-date WTO trade statistics as well as PDF, MS Excel, and HTML files of the annual publication International trade statistics. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | International Trade | |
Connect to: TradeStats Express
| Producer: | International Trade Administration; U.S.Department of Commerce | |
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| Description: | TradeStats Express displays the latest annual U.S. merchandise trade statistics at the national and state levels through maps, graphs, and tables. Available data includes exports, imports, and trade balances. National data is available back to 1989, and state data is available back to 1999. Emphasis is on goods trade: aggregate exports and imports, U.S. commodity and country/regional trade balances, and shifts in the commodity composition of U.S. exports and imports with major trading partners and regions. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | International Trade | |
| Producer: | U.S. Department of Commerce | |
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| Description: | THIS W&L SUBSCRIPTION CEASED 1 MAY 2010.
For access, W&L researchers must contact John Tombarge or Dick Grefe. This sub-set of the STAT-USA system provides recent and historical data on over 18,000 commodities traded worldwide. | |
| Usage Tips: | The database is updated monthly. | |
| Librarian: | Dick Grefe | |
| Descriptors: | Economics International Trade | |
USITC Interactive Tariff And Trade Dataweb (Info)
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| Producer: | United States International Trade Commission | |
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| Description: | The USITC Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb provides international trade statistics and U.S. tariff data.
U.S. import statistics, U.S. export statistics, U.S. tariffs, U.S. future tariffs and U.S. tariff preference information are available. International trade data are available for years 1989- present on a monthly, quarterly, annual, or year-to-date basis and can be retrieved in a number of classification systems, including the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), or the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). | |
| Usage Tips: | Registration is required, but there is no charge. | |
| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Economics International Trade | |
World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance (Info)
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| Producer: | The World Bank | |
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| Description: | The World Development Indicators (WDI)& Global Development Finance (GDF) provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960. Print editions of the World Development Indicators are available online and on paper in Leyburn under the call number: HC59 .W62; the most recent edition is located in the Reference collection on the main level. The WDI is also available on CD-ROM at the Circulation Desk. Leyburn Library has the disks from 2001 and 2003 to 2009. | |
| Usage Tips: | The CD-ROM database may be loaded on any of the machines in the computer labs or on the laptops available at the Circulation Desk. The software will install directly from the CD-ROM. The following instructions are to install the software in the computer labs.
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| Librarian: | John Tombarge | |
| Descriptors: | Environmental Studies Economics International Trade | |
World Economic Outlook (WEO) (Info)
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| Producer: | International Monetary Fund | |
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| Description: | The WEO database contains selected macroeconomic data series based on IMF staff analyzes and projections. It contains global and regional data and data for many individual countries, from 1980 to the present, and projections for the next two years. The WEO is updated annually. | |
| Librarian: | Carol Karsch | |
| Descriptors: | Economics International Trade | |