Economics Research Guide
Library Catalogs
Look in the following catalogs for books, videos and other types
of audiovisual items held in libraries.
- COD Library Catalog: the
COD Library only
- I-Share (formerly Illinet Online):
a catalog of items in 65 Illinois libraries
- WorldCat:
this country and around the world
- To find items at the COD Library about the Economic History of some country/state, go to the Library Catalog page, do a KEYWORD search, where the name of the location goes in the first box, and then type ECONOMIC CONDITIONS in the second box, and then click on the Submit button.
- Click here for a list of Electronic Books in the COD Library about economics.
Outline of the Library of Congress Classification System (what COD uses to shelve its books).
Other Nearby Public and Academic Libraries
List of Economics DVD's at the C.O.D. Library
List of Economics VHS tapes at the C.O.D. Library
Reference Works
Related C.O.D. Library Research Guides
Online Texts
Berkeley Law and Economics Working Papers.
Brookings Press Full-Text Books Online.
EconPapers Online (includes full-text books, chapters, and journal articles as well)
Environmental Effects of Agricultural Land Use Change: The Role of Economics and Policy. (U.S.D.A., 2006)
A Financial History of the United States.
Home Economics Archive from Cornell University Library. (Free online books and journal articles, from 1850 - 1950).
Library of Economics and Liberty. (Full-text classic books of economics online)
The National Academies Press.
Plan B 3.0, by Lester R. Brown.
The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
Article Indexes
You must have a valid College of DuPage library
card to access the electronic indexes and databases from off-campus.
- Academic OneFile (formerly Expanded Academic Index ASAP). An index to over 2500 magazines and journals covering a variety of topic areas including anthropology. This database provides references, abstracts, and many times the full-text of articles. A COD library card is required for off-campus use.
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) (1990-present) Magazines and journals.
Some full-text.
- Blackwell Synergy. This is an index of articles published in journals that are printed by the Blackwell company. A wide variety of topics and journals are covered, but you only get bibliographic citations, no full-text articles. You can select a particular subject area to search in, or you can select a specific journal to search in by clicking on the broad subject, then selecting a small subject area from that next page, then selecting the particular journal title on the third page. You can move through the categories by clicking on the plus sign [+] to the left of the category name.
- Chicago
Tribune(1985-present).Full-text.
- CQ
Researcher (Nov. 1991-present).Full-text articles covering
topics of current interest and controversy.
- Electronic Journals in Economics list.
- Environmental Economics journal. Many of its articles are free online full-text.
- FindArticles.com. Citations to millions of journal articles.
- Foreign Relations/Diplomatic History/International Relations index of recent articles, no full-text.
- The Free Library. A database of free magazine and journal articles.
- Google Scholar. This provides access to many free full-text articles, as well as citations to many other articles.
- GPO
Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) (1976-present) Catalog of
U.S. Government publications.
- H-NET Scholarly book reviews.
- IngentaConnect. This is an index to millions of journal articles, book chapters, reports, and more. Most are not available as full-text online items.
- JSTOR: Scholarly Journals Archive of Older Issues.
- Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC). No full-text articles.
- Military and Government Collection of articles.
- The
New York Times
- Newspapers
(ProQuest) (1980's-present).Full-text of four major national
newspapers including the New York Times.
- Open Access Journals Directory (free full-text journal articles)
- Project MUSE. This database provides citations and abstracts only.
- Research Papers in Economics. This tool indexes working papers, book chapters, and journal articles.
- SCIRUS. A search engine for citations to journal articles and links to web pages.
- The
Wall Street Journal
- The
Washington Post
- SocIndex Full Text. This includes citations and full-text articles in sociology, economics, and other related social science
disciplines.
- More COD Library journal and newspaper article databases.
- Does the C.O.D. Library own the journal that I need?
- Explanation
of the Difference Between Magazines and Journals
- Identifying Peer - Reviewed Scholarly Journals, Trade Publications, and Magazines (from ProQuest).
- How
to Read a Research Study Article
Internet Sites
- College of DuPage Economics Academic Program
- Agricultural Economics
- The Borderlands Encyclopedia: A Digital Educational Resource on Contemporary United States-Mexico Border Issues. (University of Texas at El Paso)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://www.bls.gov/
- Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
- City Data.com. This site has lots of different statistics for nearby cities.
- Community Statistics by Zip Code.
- The Consumer Expenditure Survey. http://www.bls.gov/cex/
- The Consumer
Price Index. http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
- The Consumer
Price Index for the Chicago Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical
Area.
- County and State Employment Dynamics from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators.
- Dollar Times Financial Calcluators.
- DuPage County Department of Economic Development and Planning.
- Econdata.net for U.S. data.
http://econdata.net
- Economic Freedom of the World Report.
- Economic Indicators,
http://www.economicindicators.gov/
- Economic Information Portal ("Liber8" - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).
- Economic Policy Institute.
This site has many online articles about economic issues, data,
and various online calculating functions.
- Economic Report of
the President. (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop) Printed copies
available in the General Collection at HC 106.5 .A 272.
- Economics.
Librarian's Index to the Internet.
- Economic Statistics. (http://econstats.com)
- Economy Track: U.S. Labor Market (from the Economic Policy Institute)
- Employment Dynamics from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators for States and Counties.
- Environmental Economics resources, from EnviroLink, online environmental community.
- Environmental Economics and Indicators, from the World Bank. (data and publications)
- FDIC
State Economic Profiles. http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/stateprofile/
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
- Financial Calcluators from Dollar Times.
- FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research. Lots of statistics.
- Freelunch.com. From Moody's, this site presents data on a variety of topics in spreadsheet form.
- GAPMINDER.org. This organization creates online charts and graphs for various socio-economic statistical topics.
- HEARTH: Home Economics, Research, Tradition and History, full-text archive of materials from Cornell University.
- How Much is That Worth? A database of statistics that compares the costs/monetary value of items and services across many different years.
- Illinois Data
- Illinois Department
of Commerce For state data.
- Illinois Economic Development Directory.
- Illinois
Economic Facts Database.
- Illinois Prevailing
Wage Rate . For Public Works projects, by county.
- Illlinois Statistical Abstract.
- Illinois Statistical Sites Online.
- Illinois Statistics Arranged by Subject and Agency.
- Immigration Debate Research Guide (COD Library)
- JobWatch.org. This sites
tracks trends and conditions in the labor market.
- Links
to government statistical websites
- MapStats. This site allows one to find statistics by geography, and retrieve statistics in tablular format.
- Midwest Economic Information from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. '
- Moody's Economy.com. With lots of statistics and research reports.
- National Association for Business Economics (NABE). Lots of statistics.
- National Bureau of Economic
Research
- National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
- NIBIDC: Northern Illinois
Business and Industry Data Center
- Northeast-Midwest Institute.
- Official
US Executive Branch Web Sites
- Researching Private Companies, from the U.S. Library of Congress.
- Resources for Economists on the
Internet.
- Social / Demographic / Economic Statistics. Subdivided into local-, county-, and state-level electronic and printed COD resources. Although developed for marketing classes, it can certainly be utilized for other purposes as well.
- State and County Local Employment Dynamics from the Quarterly Workforce Indicators.
- State and Local Government web sites directory.
- State Economic Data Official Sources. (Association for University Business and Economic Research)
- State Facts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- StateMaster.com. Lots of figures arranged by state and topic area.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Statistics selected by your Geography from Fed Stats/Map Stats.
- United States Bureau of the
Census Lots of economic and demographic statistics.
- U.S. Economy at a Glance.
- USA.GOV. This is the primary gateway to U.S. government information online.
- United
States Legislative Branch
- Virtual Library:
Economics
- Yahoo!
Economics . Keyword searching for economic topics.Good place
to start your Web searching. http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Economics
Foreign Economic Information Resources
Reference Books
Look up countries in the reference books listed here to read
about recent economic conditions and trends, along with recent
statistics.
Africa South of the Sahara . Reference DT 351 .A 37.
Central and South-Eastern Europe . Reference D 1058 .C
46.
Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia . Reference D1058
.E 37.
Economies of the World. Reference HC 59.3 .E 27 2005.
The Europa World Year Book . Reference JN 1 .E 85. This
is the best one, as it comes out every year.
The Far East and Australia . Reference DS 1 .F 3.
The Middle East and North Africa . Reference DS 49 .M
5.
The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance.
South America, Central America, and the Caribbean . Reference
F 1401 .S 68.
The USA and Canada . Reference E 838 .U 83.
Western Europe . Reference D 1050 .W 4.
Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies. Reference
HC 15 .W 675 2003.
The latest editions of these books are in the Reference Collection
on the main level of the library, while older editions may be
upstairs in the General Collection under the same call number.
Economic Freedom of the World. Reference HC 10 .E 3746. This item provides statistics and analysis of countries' economic situations.
Guide to the World's Major Emerging Economies . Reference
HC 59.7 .B 87 2000.
Index of Economic Freedom. Reference HB 95 .I 48. For each country, there is a brief discussion of the country's tade policy, fiscal burden of government, property rights, government intervention in the economy, wages and prices, capital flows, and business regulations.
International Historical Statistics . Reference HA 154
.M 51.
International Marketing Data and Statistics
. Reference
HA 42 .I 56.
International Trade Statistics (W.T.O.) . Reference HF
1371 .I 584.
OECD Economic Outlook . Reference HC 10 .O 18.
OECD Employment Outlook . Reference HD 5701 .O 215.
Statistical Yearbook (U.N.) . Reference HA 12.5 .U 63.
Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific . Reference
HA 1665 .S 73.
World Cost of Living Survey . Reference HD 6977 .W 67
1999.
World Economic and Social Survey . Reference HC 59 .A
169.
The sources below are indexes to where statistical data can be
found:
Global Data Locator Reference HA 36 .K 87 1997
Statistics Sources Reference HA 154 .M 51.
To find regular books in the General Circulation Collection, CLICK HERE to do a KEYWORD search then in the first line change the drop down menu to SUBJECT, and in the search box type in ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, then on the second line change the drop down menu to SUBJECT, and in the search box type in the name of the country that you want to find books about.
Internet Sites
Asian Development Bank.
Atlas of Global Inequality. This site allows for the comparison of one country to another, with statistics for the period 1960 - 2000.
Center for Latin American Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
Central Eurasian Interactive Atlas. This also includes statistical data and other types of information.
CIA World Factbook.
Country Background
Notes from the U.S. State Department.
Country
information via Yahoo.com (Just
select the name of the country from the list provided, and then
select either "Business and Economics," or "Government").
Country Reports.org. A collection of cultural, historical, statistical, and geographic information about countries.
Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
EUROSTAT. Statistics from the European Community.
Fedstats
(Search engine to find statistics from U.S. government agencies;
just type in the country's name in the search box).
Foreign
Government Web Sites
Foreign
Statistical Agencies
GAPMINDER.org. This organization creates online charts and graphs for various socio-economic statistical topics.
GeoHive: Global Statistics.
Handbook of Latin American Studies. Citations-only database from the U.S. Library of Congress.
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).
International Economic Indicators (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
International Economics
Gateway from Alta Plana
International Economic Statistics database (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Terminology: A Multilingual Directory.
NationMaster.com
This site allows one to generate rankings and maps of nations.
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD)
Structural Adjustment - A Major Cause of Poverty. From GlobalIssues.org.
UC Atlas of Global Inequality. This site allows for the comparison of one country to another, with statistics for the period 1960 - 2000.
United Nations
Economic and Social Development
United States Overseas Loans and Grants, a.k.a. "The Greenbook".
The
Virtual Librarian Regional Studies. From here you can
select a region and country.
The World Bank.
The World Factbook (CIA)
Checklists & Worksheets
Interlibrary Loan
The Library can obtain copies of articles or books from other
libraries for you. Inquire at the Reference Desk. You may also
consult journal title lists from other libraries in the area.
Economics Faculty Internet Homepages
Rosa Lea Danielson
Mitchell B. Fisher
Lewis R. Jones
Reference Desk: 630-942-3364
Dan Blewett, Reference Librarian
(630) 942-2279
Office: SRC 3035
blewett@cod.edu
