Useful links
General Economics Links
- Economics Departments from IDEAS.
- Economics LTSN - the Economics Centre of the Learning and Teaching Support Network
- Inomics - an international Internet Service for Economists.
- WebEc This is the most comprehensive compilation of everything that is economics-related - mailing lists, computer software, libraries, departments, sub-areas, teaching guides,etc.
- NetEc is an international academic effort to improve the communication of Economics via electronic media.
Online Papers And Journals
- LINK from Springer Berlin Heidelberg - online journals
- Econbase from Elsevier. Full text versions of some Economics journals are now accessible on-line. Available for UoS IP addresses.
- JSTOR - A searchable electronic archive of the backfiles of important academic journals- provided by MIDAS
- Handbooks in Economics (Elsevier)
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - This contains bibliographic details of journal articles and book reviews,books and chapters from selected multi-authored monographs. Use your ATHENS login and password.
- Working Papers Archive
Data Sources
- Data section in WebEc
- UK WWW Census Knowledge Base (from the Census Dissemination Unit at MIMAS)
- MIMAS (Manchester InforMation and Associated Services)
MIMAS is a JISC-funded national data centre offering online access to many significant socio-economic, spatial and scientific datasets, electronic journals and reference material.
Site licences are required for some services, but no charge is made to the individual user for academic research or teaching purposes within the UK academic community. - UK Data Archive The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a resource centre that acquires, disseminates, preserves, and promotes the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.
- Journal of Applied Econometrics datasets
- Penn-World Tables v5.6
- World Bank data and statistics
- World Bank Research Datasets
- World Bank Living Standard Measurement Studies
- Development Gateway
- ICOP Industrial Database
- Financial database
- Barro-Lee Data Set: International Measures of Schooling Years and Schooling Quality
- UNU/WIDER - UNDP World Income Inequality Database
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