Economics databases

British Humanities Index

  • An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

Business Source Ultimate

  • UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
  • Included in the main library search.

Data Archive

  • Provides access to over 5,000 computer-readable datasets for research and teaching purposes for many different disciplines in the UK.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

ECONLIT

  • Over 600 journals, collected volumes, books, dissertations, and working papers.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

EThOS

  • British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Eikon

  • Specialist database which includes global economic, listed company, financial data.
  • An integrated news, content and analytic trading platform which allows you to monitor the markets and perform in-depth research.
  • Eikon includes access to the data that was previously available via Datastream.
  • NOT included in the main library search

FAME

  • Company accounts, ratios, activities, ownership, and management for the largest 2.6 million UK and Irish companies plus summary information for a further 1 million smaller businesses.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Fitch Connect

  • Provides financial data on banks, insurance firms, corporates and sovereigns.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

Marketline Advantage

  • An international database giving full-text, in-depth reports.
  • Covers 50,000 companies worldwide, 2,000 industries and 215 countries.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Nexis

  • Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
  • Includes access to the Financial Times.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Orbis

  • Comparable global data resource on private and public companies.
  • Contains 10 years of historical data.
  • NOT included in the main Library Search.

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) iLibrary

  • Access to the full text of some of the OECD publications including working papers, statistics, journals, and books.
  • Included in the main library search.

OSIRIS

  • Information on listed companies around the world, including banks and insurance companies.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

  • An authoritative dictionary covering a wide range of economics topics written by the world's leading economists.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Passport

  • A business information resource providing intelligence on industries, countries and consumers.
  • Economic data and analysis for the economies of 68 countries, covering 177 industries.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

RePEc/IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)

  • An international database of freely-available working papers, journal articles and book chapters in the economics field.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

ScienceDirect

  • Explore scientific, technical, and medical research from over 1,000 electronic journals.
  • Includes business, economics and social sciences.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

UK Data Service

  • This service provides access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, spanning many disciplines and themes.
  • Included are a wide range of quantitative, qualitative, multi-media and non-digital data, and census data from 1971 to 2011.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

UK Parliamentary Papers

  • Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005, with supplementary material back to 1688.
  • UKPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

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