hillary campbell & ellen safley september 4, 2003 eco 2301 – macroeconomics

Hillary Campbell & Ellen Safley

September 4, 2003

ECO 2301 – Macroeconomics

Session Goals

• Library Services

• Basic Economics Resources

• Finding Periodical Articles in Economics

• Finding Useful Statistics

McDermott Library - Hours

• Building Hours

Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - Midnight

Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Sunday 1:00 p.m. - Midnight

• Hours Vary for Each Department

http://www.utdallas.edu/library/hours.html

http://www.utdallas.edu/library/hours.html

McDermott Library – Comet Card

• Your UTD ID card

• Must be activated at Library Circulation Desk

• Required from home

http://libproxy.utdallas.edu/login• TexShare Cards—Access to other University

Libraries https://www.utdallas.edu/library/callier/texshare.html

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McDermott Library – Reference Services

• Reference Desk

• Ask-A-Librarian

http://www.utdallas.edu/library/reference/erefform.html

• Ask – A – UT System Librarian Virtual Reference Service

http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/students/ask.html



http://www.lib.utsystem.edu/students/ask.html

Ask-A-Librarian

Ask – A – UT System Librarian Virtual Reference Service

RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet

• http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/index.html

• An online guide sponsored by the American Economics Association

• Provides links to dictionaries, biographical information on economists, data, teaching resources, jobs, economic forecasts and more

http://www.aeaweb.org/RFE/index.html

RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet

Print Resources – General

• MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics – Ref HB61 .M49 1992

• Dictionary of Economics – Ref HB61 .S466 1995

• Dictionary of Economics – Ref HB61 .B554 1997

• Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Managerial Economics - NetLibrary

Print Resources - Specific

• Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics – Ref HB172 .5 .E55 2002

• New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law – Ref K487 .E3 N48 1998

• Survey of Social Science: Economics – Ref HB61 .S94 1991

Periodical Articles in Economics / Finance

• Print Titles – Listed in Catalog, Located on 2nd floor

• Microfilm / Microfiche – Located on 2nd floor, Most listed in Catalog

• Electronic – Available in Electronic Databases, accessible from library or home

Database #1 -EconLit

• THE MAJOR INDEX COVERING ECONOMICS LITERATURE

• Produced by the American Economic Association

• Indexes and provides Citations for over 600 journals, books, working papers in the area of economics and finance

Database #1 - EconLit

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• Searching can be limited by date, full-text and peer-reviewed

• Abstracts provided back to 1965 or date of first publication


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• Indexes major journals in economics and the other social sciences

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