Articlces (Databases) - ECO 151 - Principles of Macroeconomics - Clark - 2022

Library Minute Video: Academic Journals

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What is a Database?

A database is a collection of articles which are accessible online, but which (in most cases) first appeared in print sources such as scholarly journals, magazines written for the general public, or newspapers. The articles have been placed online so that they can be easily searched and accessed.

A database normally lets you search for articles in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject or author. Some of the articles you retrieve will only be article abstracts, or summaries. Other articles will appear in full-text form, meaning the entire article is available to you. Most databases have a full-text option you can choose so that only full-text articles will appear in your search results.

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Databases to search to find articles and background info. on countries

The databases below are useful to find country profiles, articles, background information, news and more. These are databases available to currently-enrolled students, faculty, and staff of St. Louis Community College through a library subscription. Some articles are full text; for others, you may need to use the Journal Finder or ask a librarian to help you track it down.

The first four databases listed below are especially useful for information on countries. (See Also: CIA World Factbook listed under the Web Resources tab in addition to other identified websites under this area.)

Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
Change the default search option from "Company" to COUNTRY and then type the name of the country you are researching to get a country profile report. Key indicators are provided, including GDP. A recent country insight report may also be available. These reports appear under the heading "Country Essays" and may load slowly. These detailed reports identify risks, opportunities, list exchange and interest rates, provide short term economic outlook and long term economic potential, etc.
International business, company, and industry content including periodical and news articles and press releases; detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures; company financials and earning estimates; investment reports; corporate chronologies and company histories; brands and product information; industry and company rankings; Market Share data; industry overviews; and HR Law Case Digests.

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Columbia Gazetteer This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedia of geographical places and features.
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World includes information on demography; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings. Article length varies from a brief notation on a small village to an essay on a country or region. The Gazetteer includes every incorporated place and county in the United States, along with several thousand unincorporated places, special-purpose sites, and physical features. There are a total of 40,000 entries for the United States. Historically noteworthy locations, such as archeological and biblical sites and ancient cities, towns, trade routes, and geographic features, supplement the coverage of the modern world.

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CultureGrams Online This link opens in a new window
Cultural information for countries, states, and provinces.
Cultural information for over 200 countries is included in the World Edition. U.S. States and Canadian provinces are also covered. In addition to the country/state/province reports, the database includes a photo gallery with thousands of images, downloadable slideshows, downloadable and streaming videos, interviews with native children and adults from countries around the world, five recipes for each country, short biographies of five to ten famous people for each country, maps and flags, sound files providing national anthems and country name pronunciation, state bird sound files, and more. The database is keyword searchable.

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Business, General Purpose, News, and Science Databases:

Note: Performing a variety of searches in several different databases will yield interesting and useful results. Examine search results for ideas for new searches. Examples: GDP and Brazil / "aggregate supply curve" / currency and china and macroeconomics / unemployment and Italy / "market economy" and turkey

Business (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Information on companies, markets and industries.
Provides information on companies, markets and industries from market trends, mergers and acquisitions, to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

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Economics and Theory (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics.
Coverage includes access to more than 450 full-text journals along with video feeds that contain business news coverage and interviews with CEO's.

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Plunkett Research, LTD This link opens in a new window
Includes industry research, contacts & business development data.
Business research database that provides industry statistics, trends and in-depth analysis of top companies, including industry research, contacts, and business development data. Covers industry sectors such as health care, financial services, retailing, entertainment, energy and information technology.

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Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Extensive coverage of all academic disciplines.
Extensive coverage of all academic disciplines including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences. Indexing is from 1977; full-text coverage from 1983. Academic OneFile also includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, full indexing of some of the world's greatest newspapers, and access to wire services covering worldwide current events. Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML, including full-text coverage of the New York Times since 1995.

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.
Academic Search Premier includes 4645 magazines and journals in full text, of which 3855 are peer-reviewed. The database indexes and abstracts a total of18,999 magazines & journals.

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ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Provides a business-focused interface which intuitively guides users to content like journal articles, books, and company, industry and country reports.
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ProQuest One Business contains:

• Company, industry and country reports from providers such Fitch Solutions and Economist Intelligence Unit; and in-depth analyst reports from J. P. Morgan
• Scholarly journal and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers
• Full text of the three major global business news sources: the Wall Street Journal, the Economist and the Financial Times
• A robust collection of video – including interviews with business leaders, case studies and trainings
•Hundreds of thousands of reports from J.P. Morgan, Hoovers, BMI Research, EIU, Plunkett Research and others.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
High-quality, peer-reviewed journal articles in physical science and engineering, health sciences, life sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
ScienceDirect includes more than 2000 journal titles in the collections Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Social Sciences and Humanities. These journals are exclusive to ScienceDirect and not available anywhere else online.

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Newspapers

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Articles from local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, as well as international newspapers from around the globe.
Five full text databases are included. NewsBank Academic Library Collection provides contemporary articles from national and international newspapers, wire services and magazines from 1986 forward. Newsbank Retrospective covers 1970-1991 and focuses on contemporary American History. MOREnet offered Full-Text Newspapers includes local, regional and national newspapers in one searchable database. The Kansas City Star covers 1991-Current and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers 1988-Current.

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Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from the world's leading financial newspaper.
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Journal Finder

Journal Finder can be used to find out if certain titles are included in databases available through STLCC Libraries. Click on the links below to see a list of titles and how to access them. Requires login from off campus locations.