ECONOMICS via IBSS I L The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is the essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. It includes over 2.5 million bibliographic records covering the four core social science subjects of sociology, economics, politics and anthropology. This leaflet focuses specifically on IBSS’s coverage of economics. Economics coverage overview IBSS is one of the most comprehensive and specialist online databases for economics with over 740,000 economics records dating back to 1951. The database covers articles and reviews from 670 economics journals as well as books and book chapters. The online database is updated weekly to ensure that researchers have access to the very latest information relating to their particular field of interest. International coverage One of the unique benefits of IBSS is its extensive coverage of international material with over 50 per cent of journals published outside the US or UK and with 25 per cent of references in languages other than English. Records include material from 100 countries and in 60 languages. This helps economics researchers to give a truly international perspective to their work. Where journal and book titles are in languages other than English, IBSS includes both the original language title and also provides an English translation of the title. Historic coverage What also sets IBSS apart is its coverage of historical material with records dating back to 1951, further than most other online bibliographies. This means that in addition to the 670 economics journals being regularly indexed, IBSS also contains records from a further 300 economics journals which are no longer current. Journals IBSS covers 670 current economics journals from every region of the world (for a full list click on the coverage quick link at www.ibss.ac.uk). In addition to printed journals IBSS also indexes electronic journals. Journal coverage includes articles, reviews, research notes, responses and short essays. Listed below are just a few examples of the key economics titles covered by IBSS: • Accounting review • Annales de l'économie publique sociale et cooperative • Applied economics • Cambridge journal of economics • Defence and peace economics • Econometrica • Economia & lavoro • Economics of transition • Ekonomisk debatt • ce economics Environmental & resour ics • Feminist econom • Finanzarchiv • Hacienda pública española • International journal of transport economics zation it and banking ic review n management es such as development studies, human geography and business tudies. • Journal of African economies • Journal of development economics • Journal of economic behavior & organi • Journal of money, cred • Journal of world trade • Manchester school • National institute econom • Osteuropa Wirtschaft • Pacific economic bulletin Post-communist economies • • Tijdschrift voor economie e Interdisciplinary resource IBSS adds value to its core economics coverage by including carefully selected complementary material in related subjects which reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the social sciences. For economics this includ ubjects s s Books and book chapters IBSS adds value to its coverage by including not only journals but also books and selected chapters from multi-authored books. For economics there are currently approximately 121,000 book records and 11,000 chapter records in the database, with approximately 1,500 new book and chapter records added ach year. e Abstracts in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian Abstracts are provided in English for over 75 per cent of current journal articles. Since 2003 IBSS has enhanced its international coverage by including abstracts in French, German, Spanish and Italian. Abstracts are now included in any or all of these languages (as well as English) whenever they re available. a Full text Links from IBSS records to the full text of journal articles can be set up by site administrators at individual institutions. By clicking on these links users can ccess the full text of articles in journals subscribed to by their institution. a IBSS quality assurance All records included in IBSS are indexed by a team of eight editors, who all specialise in one or more core subject areas and in several languages. The IBSS Editorial Advisory Board and IBSS editors carry out regular reviews to ensure that journal coverage remains current and relevant to the needs of the ocial sciences community as a whole. s High quality content The majority of the journals covered are taken from the significant holdings of the Library of The London School of Economics and Political Science which is recognised as a centre of excellence for social science resources by the European Union. Additional material is collected from the libraries of: School of Oriental and African Studies; School of Slavonic and East European Studies and University College London; Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris; German National Library of Economics in Kiel; Hungarian Parliament; Finnish Parliament; Japanese Sociological Institution and Polish Academy of Sciences. Keywords Each record in IBSS is assigned a number of keywords chosen from a large but fixed vocabulary. These are included in the subject heading field in the online database and in a browseable thesaurus to make it easy for users to access all records relating to a chosen topic. Searches can also be carried out for geographic terms to find all records relating to specific countries. A few exam s ke ples of economic ywords are: Agrofood industry as n Free trade are Optimal taxatio Business ethics Globalization Pension funds Consumer demand Industrial concentration Privatisation Economies of scale Inflation controls Space economics Exchange rate Intellectual property Stock market Financial reporting Microfinance Technology transfer Foreign direct investment Multinational enterprises Transition economies Example of IBSS record Author Schulmeister, Stephan [Authorship]. Title Acceleration of global economic growth, uncertainty about crude oil price and exchange rates remains high. Medium-term forecast of the world 2010. economy until Original Title Weltwirtschaft wachst rascher - hohe Unsicherheit uber Erdolpreis und Weltwirtschaft bis 2010. Wechselkurse. Mittelfristige Prognose der Source WIFO Monatsberichte. Osterreichisches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung. 3. 79(5) 2006, 359-37 ation Type Public Article Abstract ABSTRACT IN GERMAN: Mittelfristig durfte sich das Wachstum der Weltwirtschaft merklich beschleunigen. Zwischen 2005 und 2010 sollte das BIP insgesamt real um 4,4% pro Jahr expandieren. Die Dynamik wird in den Industrielandern geringer sein als in den Entwicklungslandern und hier am grossten in China (+8,0%) und Indien (+7,1%)... (cont.) ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: The two biggest elements of uncertainty of a medium-term forecast of the world economy, concern exchange rates, particularly between the Euro and the dollar, as well as crude oil prices. The WIFO basic scenario makes the following assumptions... (cont.) ission of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. Reprinted by perm Subject Heading Area studies. World economy. Economic forecasts. Oil price. Economic growth. Exchange rates. Uncertainty. International trade. Economic s. Data analysis. dynamic cs Subset Economi Language German uage of Summary Lang English 9898 ISSN 0029- ear of Publication 2006 Y Access to IBSS r: For further information on access to IBSS users should eithe • nic Resources page of their institution’s consult the Electro Library website, or visit www.ibss.ac.uk and click on the Access Routes box. • Free of charge to UK HE/FE users and government departments As a result of funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) access to IBSS online is available free of charge for users at UK HE/FE institutions, research institutes recognised by the ESRC and UK entral government departments. c IBSS subscriptions for UK commercial and non-UK subscribers Access to IBSS for UK commercial and for all non UK institutions is available on subscription via a number of service providers (see details at www.ibss.ac.uk). 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