Introduction
This is a manual about how to access
and use online resources for Economics and Finance. It gives instructions on
how to use the internet for the benefit of your studies. However, it does not
provide all the available internet
sources since that it is impossible given the plethora of the web pages on the
internet. Nevertheless, it gives instructions for the most commonly used and
most popular sites, along with some references to other sites. Our web pages
include links to most of the sites that are listed in this manual. If one of
the links that is listed in the manual does not work, you are advised to access
it from these web pages. This is a hard copy and since the web sites change
addresses often, you may find this manual is not up to date after a couple of
months. Nevertheless, our web pages are updated almost daily
Constructing a Subject Search
Journals online
University
Library
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library
The
web page of the University Library has been recently updated and upgraded. It
is easy to use and provides an excellent starting point when searching for
information and resources on the internet. It also provides information about
what is available in other nearby libraries (postgraduate and research students
are able to use the facilities of nearby universities’ libraries as well as to
borrow books[1]).
Moreover, there is a page dedicated to
Economics and Finance. Click on ‘Subject Information’ at the top left of
the next page and go to ‘Economics and Finance’, which will take you to this
page:
The
scope of this page is to be a “Library Home Page” for economics students.
Most
information which is relevant to you concerning the University can be found
here.
On
this site, you will be able to access the journals that the Library possesses.
Most of the journals in hard copy are available in electronic form as well.
However, not all journals are available in full text or provide access to
Durham users. In some cases, you will only be able to browse the titles and the
abstracts. Nevertheless, you will be able to find all the information that you
need regarding the journal on the library’s web page. In order to have full
access, you will need user names and passwords if you do not already have them.
To continue your search, click on the E-journals link and then once you have
reached the next page click on the Electronic Journal link. The following
page will allow you to search for the journals you wish to access. You
will be able to search either by name or by subject. In searching by subject,
you will be presented with almost the entire list of all the journals that are
available in Economics and Accounting (please note that Economics, Finance and
Accounting journals are classified in the same category). The following screen
will appear:
Note
that you will have two options: ‘Connect’ and ‘Info’. With ‘Connect’ you will
be directed to the pages of the journal. ‘Info’ provides you with all the
information about the journal. You will be able to find the user name and
password if needed or if available to any Durham University user. Hence, direct
connection to sites with full text journals is only possible by PCs that are
connected to the university network or which stand alone with the network
access provided by the University. If you wish to access the journal pages from
outside the university go to ‘Info’ and click on ‘Online services for offsite
users’. In the window that appears
you will be asked to type your IT user name and password. You will then be
transferred to a page that will give you all the information that you need in
order to access the journal pages outside the university.
Most
of the downloadable journals are available only in PDF format, available from
all the network PC’s of the University. However, you may not be able to read
them from your home PC. You will need to download ACROBATâ READERä. Go to page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
Finally,
the library has put on-line a comprehensive guide on how to discover
information in Economics:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/subject/econfin_resource.htm
Economics
Journals on the Web
http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/journals.htm
A
complete list of all the Economics journals. Please note that the University
does not provide access to all of them. You would not be able to obtain
documents from some of the journals listed. For a complete list of what the
University provides you should visit our library web page provided above. Moreover
you should be able to access other journals through search engines specialising
in Economics, Finance and Business journals. Links are listed on the next few
pages.
Web
of Knowledge
http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/
Web of Knowledge (WoK) is a citation data base. You will need
your ATHENS password. With the WoK you
can:
Search the databases for published
works. View full bibliographic records and add them to your Marked List, from
which you can export them to bibliographic management software, save them to a
file, format them for printing, email them, and order the full text. Link
directly to other articles on the same topic as the one you are viewing, even
articles that have been published after the article you are viewing. Save your
search statements, which can be opened later and run again. Moreover, through
ISI Links, the WoK also offers access to electronic full-text journal articles,
genetic information, and chemical and patent databases.
After that you
log in (click on the red button WoK), the following screen will appear:
Go to ISI Web of Science
(WoS) and by using the “Full Search” option you will succeed in
obtaining the most complete retrieval.
You can e-mail marked records
(click on the button “mark" and then click on “mark list”.
Moreover, you will be able to save into a text file (.txt) the results
of your search by clicking on “save to file”. By clicking on “notices” you will find new information about the WoS.
Suppose that you select full search:
By default all the databases will be searched,
unless you define which database you want to search at the top of the page.
Then the dates that you want to look up have be entered and then press general
search. You will be transferred to the next page. There type in your search
statements separating the words with “AND” or “OR”.
Example: Say that you want to find out about the
paper by Fama “Efficient Capital Markets”. Type in the box that says “topic”
a keyword such as “efficient”. Then, type in the authors box “Fama”. You will
presented with 2 papers by Fama that
contain in the keywords the word “efficient”. You can mark them all and press
the arrow that points to the right to continue or click on the paper that you want to see. Then you will be able
to see how many papers have been cited and where the article is cited. You can
also have access to some of the papers that the paper is cited. From there you
will have the option to see related records by clicking on the button at the
right top of the page.
You can now e-mail marked
records -- look for the new button on the "Marked Records" page.
Please do not forget to log off when you finished your search.
A tutorial of how to use the
WoS can be found at:
http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/webofscience5/
EconLit
With EconLit you can search
for reference of papers and journals on line. You can access it through the
Library’s web pages at:
http://aesica.dur.ac.uk/delores/databases/databasessubject.asp?Subject=Economics
At the “select a topic or
database” scroll down to EconLIt and then press search.
You will be presented with
the basic search screen. You can go to the advance search page by clicking the
“advance” button on the left blue column. Similarly you can use the
“expert” search. As in other search engines you have to type in the keywords
and the author. The advance search option allows you to search within a time
period that you require, to put more keywords and author phrase, codes etc, so it gives you a
more inclusive search facility.
Example: Say that you want to find out about the
paper by Fama “Efficient Capital Markets”. At the advance search, type in the
box that says “topic” a keywords such as “efficient”, and in an other
“capital”. Type in the authors box “Fama”, and then put the years that you want
to search (1980-2000) .You will presented with 6 papers by Fama that contain
the words efficient and capital. The two papers that you are interested in are
the “Efficient Capital Markets: “ A Review of Theory and Empirical work” and
the “Efficient Capital Markets II” . You can mark them and email them to your
account, or if you click on the paper you will have the abstract and the
downloaded format (if they are available). Moreover, you will be able to access
related topics by clicking on the topic that you are interested in on the “descriptor”.
Further, by clicking on the right pointed arrow at the bottom of the page, you
will be able to check if the article that you want is available in the
university’s library, and which other libraries possess this article. You will
also find any other information that you need (journal that is published, ISSN,
etc) so that you can order this article if not available in Durham.
Jstor
http://www.mimas.ac.uk/jstor
JSTOR® is
a unique digital archive collection of core scholarly journals starting with
the first issues and made available to participating UK higher institutions
via the World Wide Web. 117 journals in a variety
of fields are accessible in the Arts & Sciences I collection, which
contains some 4.6 million pages of journal
literature from these titles. Use
your Athens user name to gain access
to their web data base.
Click on the “Access
Jstor ” (top left) at the bottom of
the web page click on “Access via Athens” to log in.
After
you grant access the following screen will appear:
From this page you
can access and download all the backdated papers of the Jstor database, either
by searching individual papers, click on
“search Jstor” or by browsing the Journals “Browse the
Journals”. In addition news and
information regarding Jstor are available.
Examples: Click on “Search Jstor” you will be
presented with the basic search screen. Type in the boxes the keywords that you
want to search and then specified the desired database of journals to search.
(All economic journals and/or all finance journals). If you click on “go to
advance search” button you should put quotes”,” between the words that you
want to search. Then you should specify the desired journal and then click ”search”
on the top or the bottom of the screen.
Alternative, you can
browse the paper that you want by the Journal if the journal is known. Click on “Browse the Journals” then
click on the category of the journal that you want to search, say, “Finance”
and
then
click on the desired journal.
Economic
and Finance Journals participating in JSTOR
Economic:
American
Economic Review
Econometrica
Economic
Journal
Journal
of Applied Econometrics
Journal
of Economic History
Journal
of Economic Literature
Journal
of Economic Perspectives
Journal
of Industrial Economics
Journal
of Money, Credit, and Banking
Journal of Political Economy
Quarterly
Journal of Economics
Review
of Economic Studies
Review
of Economics and Statistics
Finance:
Journal
of Business
Journal
of Finance
Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Journal
of Money, Credit, and Banking
Review
of Financial Studies
Ingenta
http://www.ingenta.com
Ingenta
gives you a great choice of searching the available journals of line through
BIDS. To log in you should type in your ATHENS username and password. After log
in, you will be presented with the following screen:
You
have two options to conduct the search the basic and the advance search. Use
the service as any other search engine.
Social
Science Research Network
http://www.ssrn.com/
A comprehensive source to download
papers. A great variety of papers for all the topics in Economics and Finance.
You also have access to abstract of
papers related to economic, financial, and accounting issues. Click on
the “search &download papers” . You will presented with the following
options:
To search and download abstracts and
full text of research papers in law, economics, finance, accounting, and
management, use the QuickSearch on the left side of the page, or to search for
specific items Title and/or Abstract Text, and/or Author Name. Moreover, to
browse through journal or topic and to view sample issues of their email
journals, click on the "journal or
topic" button on the left side of the
page and wait for the middle frame to finish loading. Also you can see the top
50 authors (in downloads) and download their papers, and finally to download
the top 10 papers as well all the papers
available for download.
In addition, you will be able to
search for papers by their JEL classification, by the date that has been posted
to the Electronic Library, by the abstracts, the authors , by the paper series,
and by numbers of downloads.
For example, if you want to see the
top 10 papers in downloads click on the SSRN Top Ten downloads . The following
screen will come up:
Click on the network links
to access each network and the individual journals in them. If you, for
example, click on the Financial Economics Network, you will presented with a big number of financial
economics topics. From them you will be able to access all the topics that you are interested.
Web
Economics
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WebEc/WebEc.html
A very good effort to
gather together many information and links to various economic and financial
issues. It contains links to data, journals, working papers etc. Very easy to
use, just click on the link that you are interested and follow the links
that you want.
Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econworld/menu.htm
All Elsevier Economic
Journals for free. Just click on the journal that you want and if the “complete
papers” appears you will have access to full text articles.
CatchWord
http://www.catchword.co.uk/
It gives you access
to online journals and to full text articles. However, the lists in economics
and Finance is limited. Click on the journals on line and then go the letter
that journal that you are interested begins. If you find the journal that you required, then you will be able to access
to full text articles.
Departmental
Web Page
http://www.durham.ac.uk/Economics
This page lists all
the web pages of almost all the journals. However, you will not be able
to have a full access to the papers of the journals, unless they are provided
free or the University subscribes to them. If you are using a networked PC, you
should not have a problem of accessing them if the University subscribes to
them . If you are connected from home, you will not be able to have access to
these facilities. You will be only presented with the initial page and sometime
with the abstracts of the papers.
NetTec
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk
Search to find
working papers online. Click on the “BobEcC” and you will be able to
find online working papers in full text and abstracts. Two search engines are
available: the “SWISH++
search”and the “mySQL search”. The
later is easier to use, but both perform the same and it likely that you will
end up with the same results.Alternative you can browse
articles, authors and journals.
Click on “WoPec”
and you will find data for articles that you may be interested.
Science
direct
http://www.sciencedirect.com
All the web pages of the
economic and financial journals.
ResearchIndex
http://www.researchindex.com/
ResearchIndex is a
scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination
and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in
functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency,
and timeliness. Rather than creating just another digital library,
ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in
other digital libraries. ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research
articles on the Web, and provides the following features: Autonomous Citation
Index, all cited documents, reference linking, citation context, alerts and
tracking, related documents, full text indexing, queries summaries, search engine and other
facilities. All services are free fro non-commercial use.
Bibliography and Journal for readers of Value at
Risk (VaR)
http://www.gloriamundi.org/
The most comprehensive page
on the internet about VaR. Journals, papers, alerts for conferences. All free
available to VaR readers.
Libraries
on line Libraries
of the UK Institutes of Higher Education
http://www.niss.ac.uk/lis/opacs.html
In this page you have access
to all the G. Britain and Northern Ireland catalogues. You will presented by the telnet services of the
chosen University and some time you will have to put a username and/or password
that it is provided by the library that
you are accessing in the “info” section. However, please note that with
this service you will not be able to
access the full text document. You will be only able to see if the library that
you are searching possess this item and you should order it with via our
library
Example: Say that you want to search the library of
the London Business school. Scroll to the “London Area” and click on the
“London Business School, University of London” , then click on the
highlighted “use the Library catalogue”
Similar to our Library OPAC system , you can search by keywords, titles,
subject, authors etc…. Just click on the desired search option and then type in
the words that you want to search.
The
OSU Virtual Library
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/overview.htm
Free information for
students, lecturers, researches, investors, etc. The data is provided by the
Department of Finance of the Ohio state University (USA). It is a very
comprehensive page, easy to follow links and provides big amount of data and
information.
Online
Data[2] Datastream
http://www.datastream.com
Datastream provides online
economic and financial data. In the web page you will not find data. Only information about the Datastream organisation
and some financial news as well as few
codes of accessing Datastream. You will be able to access Datastream from
dedicate terminals within the university. The department has produced a users
guide and it can be found at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Economics/pg/pdf/MANUALS/manual.PDF
A more detailed manual can be found
at:
http://www.princeton.edu/~econlib/ds/index.html
This is a Princeton University’s
user manual, and contains more search examples and more access codes.
The
FTSE International
http://www.ftse.com
Data for the FTSE world
indices. Links to other economic and financial site with data also available.
For most of the data the service is free. However, for some data you may have
to pay, do not be surprised if the premium is high. Follow the links in the web page.
The
London Stock Exchange
http://www.londonstockexchange.com
A big source of information
mainly for the UK market.
News for the UK indices,
share prices, UK companies listed in the UK’s FTSE indices, press realises,
etc. Downloads in spreadsheet format for companies listed on the exchange
Data available for major UK indices, quoted on London Stock
Exchange (LSE) i.e. FTSE indices. The data is provided “almost live” with 15’ minutes
delay. Go to page: http://www.prices.londonstockexchange.com/home.asp
For those that keep up with
the latest technology, WAP service is also available:
Go to page: http://www.prices.londonstockexchange.com/priceinhand.asp
London
International Financial Futures and Option Exchange
http://www.liffe.com
Data for Futures, forwards
and options. Moreover, information about
the biggest UK derivative markets.
UK
Government Statistics
http://www.statsbase.gov.uk
This site contains
the latest comprehensive range of official UK statistics and information about
statistics as well as providing free access to a selection of recently released
publications in downloadable pdf format.
Chicago
Broad of Trade
http://www.cbot.com
The web of the
Chicago Broad of trade, contains data and information regarding futures and
option prices. Moreover, some help for those that are first entering the
derivatives world by providing glossary and get started packages.
Chicago
Merchantile Exchange
http://www.cme.com
Data and information about the
financial derivatives in US.
OECD
http://www.oecd.org/
Statistics for the OECD member
countries, working papers, country’ reports
The
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
http://www.nber.org/data/
Maintained by the National
Bureau of economic research, online data available mainly for the USA, but some
world data also available, links to other data sources available:
Data available:
macroeconomic
data, Industry data, consumer expenditure surveys, consumer expenditure data
http://www.nd.edu/~keating/forecastinghome/marketdata/market.html
Links
to other sites with financial data. Some links have not been updated.
http://www.Economagic.com/
Good
source of the US data, as well as some international data.
Data
available: Inflation, unemployment, national reserves,
stock price indices etc.
Economic and Financial Institutes
Bank
of England (BoE)
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk
At this web page you will be
able to find publications and working papers
issued by the BoE, press realises, data and other information regarding
financial and monetarist sectors in the UK
International
Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org
The
web page the IFM. World data, news, press realises, publications etc..
The
World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org
The World bank on-line. Reports about
countries, some data available, publications.
The
European Central Bank
http://www.ecb.int
Information about the Euro, national
statistics , publications etc…
Manuals and Guides of Econometrics
packages Microfit
http://www.intecc.co.uk/camfit
Information
about the microfit.
Rats
http://www.estima.com
You
can subscribe to internet mail list
of how to use RATS. Go to page:
http://www.estima.com/techindx.htm
Matlab
http://www.math.utah.edu/lab/ms/matlab/matlab.html
Eviews
http://www.eviews.com/
Subscribe to mailing groups
Inomics
http://www.inomics.com/
Alerts for economic news,
conferences, jobs and search engine for economic
Information.
To subscribe go to page
: http://www.inomics.com/query/alert
and fill the information required. You also
have an option to receive some information by email.
Elsevier
Email
to : ECONBASE-E@ELSEVIER.NL
Buy on line
Bookshops:
Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk
Blackwell
http://www.blackwell.com
Bookfinder
http://www.bookfinder.com
New and second hand books
along with rare books can be found in this electronic bookshop.
Dealtime
http://www.dealtime.com.uk
There you can compare book prices and
order them online from all the English speaking electronic bookshops. Also a
comparison of prices for a lot of other goods….
Other search engines
The following search engines are commonly used
by every one that uses the internet. It is suggested to use them as a last
resort since that are not specialised in economics and finance issues. You
should not be surprise if you find useful things but you also going to find a
lot of irrelevant things to your search.
http://www.google.co.uk
http://www.yahoo.co.uk
http://www.altavista.co.uk
http://www.ask.co.uk
Bibliography on data online:
Pettijohn,J
(1996): “A Guide to Locating Financial Information on the Internet” Financial
Practice and Education (fall/winter). Pp. 102-110.
Zaher
T (1999): “How to access financial data of the internet and use for research in
Finance and Economics” Financial
markets, Institutions & Instruments, Vol. 8, No. 5.pp 63-78.
[1] More information can be found at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/use/vis_riding.htm
[2] Please note that some data, can also be found at the Economic and
Financial Institutes section.
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