E-RESOURCES IN ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS

Social Sciences Library

October 2012

1. CatalogueSearching the catalogue we know:

• How many documents there are.

• In which library and which area they are.

• If they are available, loaned, reserved or not available for loan.

We find all the documents:

• In any format: books, journals, maps, audiovisuals, theses, research literature… and

• In any documentary support: paper, digital, microform, etc.

Access:

1) Library’s Service Webwww.uab.cat/libraries:

2) Directly from catalogue’s site www.uab.cat/libraries/catalog

On the right of the main page

Results: they can be saved, printed, exported to RefWorks and shared on social media

List of results

Searching optionsOrder and filterSave records

Formats

Reserve

Items

Disponibilitat de préstec

Order code on the shelf

Location

Loan availability

Loan type

Journals

Access to the digital format

Location

Paper collection

1) My account:- Reservations (of documents which are loaned and

available)- Renewals- Loan history- My lists- Preferred searches- E-mail alerts (through the preferred searches)

2) Buttons 2.0

3) RSS for new acquisitions

Personalize

- Searching tips- Instructions for any kind of search: title,

author…- Help to personalize: renewals, preferred

searches, my lists…- Video tutorials

Help

2. Other catalogues

More catalogues at www.bib.uab.cat/catalegs.htm

University Union Catalogue of Catalonia (CCUC)

puc.cbuc.cat: the integrated catalogues of the Catalan universities, the Biblioteca de Catalunya and other institutions

Rebiun: Spanish university libraries

Madroño: university libraries of Madrid and the UNED

CSIC: libraries of the CSIC

CCUC: search screen

CCUC: results screen

Consortial borrowing

Gateway to all the available electronic resources in the UAB Library service

www.uab.cat/libraries/trobador

3. Trobador

1. Quick search

Localitza recursos i fa cerques simultànies

Resources bycategory

Find and make simmoultaneous searches in different e-resources

It allows you to find:

• E-journals

• Databases

• E-books

• Web resources

By category

By title

By typeof document

2. Find database

List of e-resources

Type of resource

Multisearchableresource

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More informationabout the resources

3. Multisearch

Resources bycategory

Resources where you search

Multisearch: results screen

Results list

Abi-Inform: journal articles, theses and other documents, full-text most of them, about economics, accounting, companies, business, human resources, marketing…

Econlit: references of journal articles, working papers, collective works and economics theses.

Lexis-Nexis: full-text of company financial reports and economic analysis by countries, press screening and biographies, etc.

Economics and Business

4. Databases

Factiva: current affairs and business information (prices, financial statements and news) collected by Reuters and Dow Jones. It includes newspapers, trade magazines and full-tex, and also photographies.

OECD iLibrary: full-text monographs, journals, estatistics and databases of the OECD until 2011. The topics are various: labor, agriculture, education, environment, energy, etc.

StatisticsSABI: business information of Spanish and Portuguese companies. It includes activity reports and annual accounts, ratios, shareholders, financial developments...

UNdata: worldwide indicators about all the topics collected by the United Nations [free resource]

World dataBank: worldwide indicators about all the topics from 1960 collected or generated by the World Bank [free resource]

CSIC-ISOC (1976--): references of journal articles, monographs, papers, theses, etc., about social sciences and humanities

Francis (1984--): citations and abstracts of journal articles about social sciences and humanities

ISI Web of Knowledge: database of the Institute for Scientific Information: Journal citation reports, Social sciences citation index, Current contents, etc.

Scopus: group Elsevier database wich contains conference proceedings, scientific webs, bibliographic references and indexes of more than 15,000 journals.

Also you can consult the books and journals databases ISBN and ISSN.

Multidisciplinaries

5. E-journals and E-books

E-journals:

E-books:

Harvard-Deusto, Foundations and trends, Emerald,

ScienceDirect, Ebsco, Kluwer Academic, Wiley,

Oxford Scholarship Online (economics and finance),

Ebrary,

SpringerLink, JSTOR, PIO…

SpringerLink, MyiLibrary

•Palgrave Dictionary of Economics: specialized dictionary of economics and finances that includes the articles of the most prestigious economists (emphasis on United States)

•Oxford reference online: e- dictionaries about different subjects

Reference works

TOC Premier (EbscoHost):Provides the summaries of 23,000 journals and has more than 18 milions of bibliographic registres from 1995. You can create alerts.

Dialnet:Database of journals, theses, chapters of books and miscellaneous material that provides the full-text when it is available. You can create alerts.

6. E-summaries of journalsThey are a good idea to be updated on latest news

TOC - Ebsco

Database of summaries DIALNET plus

7. E-theses• Dissertations and theses (1861 USA, 1988 internat.--): theses

citations and research literature on the world stage. Directly UAB access from the Internet.

• TDX: doctoral theses presented at Catalan universities and some Spanish regions. Full-text available.

• Teseo (1976--): bibliographic reference of the doctoral theses presented at Spanish universities.

• Redial (1980--): doctoral theses about Latin America presented at European universities.

• DART-Europe: gateway of the European theses. Full-text available.

8. E-repositories

DDD - Digital Deposit of Documents UAB ddd.uab.cat

TDX – Theses and dissertations online

RACO – Catalan journals in Open Access

RECERCAT- Catalan deposit of research

MDC – Digital memory of Catalonia

MDX – Learning materials online

These resources are in Open Access

CBUC Repositories

9. Interesting tools and resources

Google Scholar

scholar.google.com

Search engine of specialized bibliography.

RePEc

repec.org

Database of working papers and journal articles in Open Access.

Web 2.0 tools

Blog BCS Economics, Business & Statistics: blogs.uab.cat/bcseconomia

News and RSS:www.netvibes.com/bibsocialseconomia

Web resources:delicious.com/bibsocials/tag_bundle/economia_estadistica

Library Twitter: @bcsUAB

RefWorks: online manager of citations and bibliographies

www.refworks.com/refworks

10. Bibliographies

Helpandtraining site

The virtual private networks service (VPN) allows access to the Internet payment resources from outside the Campus:

databases e-journals e-books

How to connect to VPN?: main web of Libraries Service, direct link Remote access

11. Remote access

If you have any question or for further information, please contact the Library staff

Thanks!

And that is all!

Help:Libraries Service Web > Request forms > FAQs and help guides

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, "El bibliotecario“, c.1566