Research Databases

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AMECO is the annual macro-economic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
The database is used for analysis and reports produced by the directorate general. It contains national accounts data and other country data such as interest rates, exchange rates and sectors for the member states of the European Union. The data is updated twice a year, in spring and fall.

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The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is a search engine for academic web documents.
The index contains more than 400 million records, e.g. journal articles, preprints, digital collections, images/videos or research data from over 11,000 data providers.
BASE sets strict requirements for the inclusion of content providers in terms of quality and relevance and maintains a list of content providers for reasons of transparency.
It is operated by the Bielefeld University Library in Germany.

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Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles is an extensive collection of online journals covering social sciences, life, health and physical sciences and the humanities.
Blackwell/Wiley Online Library hosts a broad collection of online resources. Its business and management titles include Journal of Accounting Research, The Journal of Finance, Production and Operations Management and Strategic Management Journal. Our license provides access to a backfiles collection of 242 titles.

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Business Source Complete is a very comprehensive full text collection of peer-reviewed journals, books, case studies and seminar videos.
Business Source Complete provides a large full text collection for the most important scholarly business journals. Many of them are available in full text from the very first issue, and over 1200 are in full text from 2003 onwards. Additionally, the database provides access to books, case studies, faculty seminar videos, interviews and SWOT analyses. It covers all areas of business, including accounting, banking, computer science & MIS, economics, human resources, insurance, law, management, marketing, operations management, public administration and much more. It also gives access to company-, industry-, market research- and country reports from Datamonitor and Business Monitor International.

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S&P Capital IQ (Compustat) platform provides an extensive collection of standardized financial, statistical and market data on companies throughout the world, dating back to 1950.
Standard & Poor's (IQ Capital) Compustat holds financial, statistical and market information on companies throughout the world. It provides an extensive collection of standardized, consistent and comparable data on companies, industries and business cycles, available back to 1950. This resource provides tools, data and research for students, researchers, investors and analysts:

• Global Company Data: financials, fixed income, estimates and ownership, covering 99%+ of market cap globally
• Qualitative Data: key developments, transactions, profiles, people, relationships, private equity
• Macroeconomic and commodity data
• Search and screening tool to extract data via the platform or excel

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Clarksons offers two platforms:  the commercial intelligence system, Shipping Intelligence Network, and the online register, World Fleet Register. Data offered are timely information on all aspects of shipping: over 135.000 vessels in service or on order, 40.000 companies and 600 shipyards as well as trade and commercial data, and over 100.000 time series. Access also includes the Shipping Intelligence Weekly.

Shipping Intelligence Network
A web-based intelligence system and source of commercial data on shipping and the shipping markets. The system includes wide ranging data, intelligence across most aspects of the shipping industry including vessel earnings, vessel values, fleet, newbuilding, market supply / demand, macro-economic data, trade flows and environmental technology.
World Fleet Register
A data and intelligence platform tracking Fleet, Eco Technology, Environmental Regulation and Markets. The functionalities and data include coverage of the world shipping fleet and companies, environmental technology (including alternative fuels and ESTs), newbuilding and ship repair market intelligence, insight and analysis across the maritime segment.

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CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides bibliographic information on open access research papers from various repositories and journals.
The database indexes research papers from data providers including institutional and subject repositories, preprint servers, and open access and hybrid journals. It currently contains 314 million open access articles collected from 12,000 data providers around the world. While most entries link to the Full Text article on the original publisher's site, or to a PDF available for download, five million records are hosted directly on CORE.

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de Gruyter / Research Now (former Bepress/Berkeley Electronic Press Academic Journals) is a selection of more than 100 prominent peer-reviewed e-journals on Business, Politics and Law.
Research Now publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed and current e-journals in the fields of Business, Politics and Law, including the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Business and Politics, Global Economy Journal, Journal of Time Series Econometrics, Review of Law & Economics and Review of Marketing Science. Available via the publisher de Gruyter, who acquired bepress’s journal portfolio.

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The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a directory of electronic journals that are freely accessible on the internet in accordance with the principles of Open Access.
It currently lists over 20,970 journals and over 10.5 million articles from 136 countries and 80 languages covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and the humanities. The directory was launched in 2003 at the Swedish University of Lund; since 2013 it has been operated by the British non-profit organization IS4OA (Infrastructure Services for Open Access).
Access to publications is provided via links to full texts.

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EBSCO Business Collection eBooks provides full access to a selection of business and economics eBooks on the EBSCO platform.
The Business Collection, provided by EBSCO, offers more than 21,700 e-book titles selected to assist in business research and to provide students with a better understanding of general business concepts. Content within the collection encompasses a variety of business topics, such as marketing, finance, computers and technology, human resources and public relations, with additional focus on career development, business ethics, leadership and management. New titles are regularly added to the package.

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EBSCO General Collection eBooks contains full access to a selection of business, economics and management eBooks on the EBSCO platform.
The General Collection, available via the database provider EBSCO, offers more than 10,700 e-book titles. The database covers several topics in research, such as leadership and organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, economic development and risk management, international trade and investment and many more. New titles are regularly added to the package.

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EconBiz is a research platform that provides bibliographical data on more than 12 million publications in the field of economics and is operated by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics.
It offers searches for specialist journals, working papers and conference proceedings in business administration and economics.
The section "Research skills" contains tips on literature search, citations and academic writing.
Around 2 million publications are directly available as Open Access full texts.

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The Economist is a newspaper covering world news, politics, economics, business & finance. New issues are published weekly.
The Economist is an international newspaper printed in magazine-format and published digitally. Its primary focus is current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture, but it also runs regular sections on science and technology as well as books and the arts.
A print version of The Economist is also available in the library.

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EconStor is a repository for economic research material, operated by the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics.
It provides open access to research literature, including working and discussion papers, conference contributions, articles from specialist journals, and dissertations. The majority of the publications originate from economic institutions in Germany and are made available on the basis of user agreements. In addition, individual researchers also have the opportunity to upload their academic work to EconStor.
With more than 280.000 full texts, EconStor is one of the largest repositories in its scientific discipline.

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The Edward Elgar e-book archive provides access to econometric e-books, published between 1993 and 2015.
The Edward Elgar E-Book Archive is part of the online content platform Elgaronline for Edward Elgar Publishing. It includes scholarly research monographs, Research Handbooks, companions, dictionaries, encyclopedia and journals covering a variety of subjects:  Business and Management, Development Studies, Economics and Finances, Environment, Innovation and Technology, Law, Research Methods, and others.