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Title: Finding Information in Economics


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Finding Information in Economics
  • Moorgate Library

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Analyse Topic Type of Information
  • Journal and trade articles
  • Newspaper articles
  • Facts / figures - statistics
  • Government / EU legislation

3
Analyse Topic Location of Information
  • Printed sources journals, reference books, text
    books, reports and statistics
  • Electronic Library databases, electronic
    journals
  • Web sites

4
Finding statistics printed
  • National Statistics Guide to Official Statistics
  • Unofficial statistics directory (in Q/R)

5
Finding statistics electronic
  • http//www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/tsdintro.asp
  • OECDhttp//www.oecd.org Mainly subscription but
    some freehttp//www.statistics.asp
  • International Labour Officehttp//laborsta.ilo.or
    g/
  • Datastream
  • Statistics section in annexe on 3rd Floor

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Using statistics remember
  • Units , , millions, 000s, etc.
  • Index or values
  • Constant / current prices
  • Base year for indexes / constant prices
  • e.g 1985 100
  • Look at footnotes e.g series may be redefined
  • Classification systems
  • Ask for help

7
Statistics (UK)
  • Economic Trends Annual Supplement statistics
    also available on Statistics.gov and Datastream
  • Note Statistics.gov does not always give example
    units. Useful to use the printed table for
    reference
  • Also has articles
  • For example, you could find statistics for the
    unemployment rate in the UK since the
    introduction of the National Minimum Wages Act
    1998

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Blue/Pink Book
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Statistics (UK)
  • Labour Market Trends printed, and labour market
    statistics are on Statistics.gov
  • More detailed statistics on unemployment rate,
    for example, by age and region
  • Also articles
  • The Low Pay Commission strategy for monitoring
    and evaluating the national minimum wage,
    December 2000 pg 549.
  • Pay structures of the low-paid and the
    national minimum wage, March 1999, pg 129.

10
Statistics (UK)
  • New Earnings Survey
  • For ExampleCompare the average earnings before
    the introduction of the minimum wage to after.

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Statistics (International)
  • ILO Yearbook of Labour Statisticsprinted ILO
    statisticshttp//laborsta.ilo.org/
  • For exampleCompare wages in different countries
    - those with a minimum wage and those without.

12
Statistics (International)
  • OECDprinted statistics selection of OECD
    publicationswww.sourceoecd.org all OECD
    publications plus a statistical database
  • For exampleOECD Employment Outlook

13
Statistics Datastream
  • Online Database
  • Economics information for most countries
  • Information from international organisations eg
    IMF, OECD and from National Statistical Offices
  • Can download into Excel format

14
Finding journal articles Indexing and
abstracting services - for references
  • Printed Journal of Economic Literature
  • Electronic Zetoc
  • IBSS

15
Finding journal articles full text articles
  • Subject search Business Source Premier)
  • JSTOR (archive)
  • Science Direct
  • Journal title search Millennium
  • Electronic journals list on libraries
    website

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Research topic
  • e.g
  • The effect of the National Minimum Wage on the
    labour market in the UK

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Analyse topic keywords
  • words to describe your topic
  • synonyms
  • plurals
  • alternative spellings (American vs British)

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Analyse topic keywords
  • National Minimum Wage / minimum wage / wage(s)
    / earnings
  • labour market / employment / work force
  • United Kingdom / UK

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Searching Techniques
  • Are essential in enabling you to extract relevant
    information from the databases.
  • Take the same search the effect of the national
    minimum wage on the labour market in the UK

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Identify the keywords
  • Keywords are minimum wage/ labour market /
    United Kingdom
  • Consider other keywords and variant spellings
  • United Kingdom/UK
  • labour market/labor market/employment
  • minimum wage/wages

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Use link word AND
  • narrows down a search
  • looks for articles containing both keywords
  • minimum wage AND United Kingdom


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Using AND
United Kingdom
Minimum wage
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Use Link word OR
  • broadens a search
  • looks for articles containing one or other or
    both keywords
  • United Kingdom OR Britain
  • Labour market OR Labor market OR employment

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Using OR
Labour market
Employment
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Using Link word NOT or AND NOT
  • excludes terms from a search
  • Employment AND minimum wage NOT Europe
  • Labour market AND minimum wage AND NOT Europe

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Using NOT or AND NOT
Europe
Minimum wage
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Truncation ? or or !
  • Allows searching for any words starting with that
    word stem
  • With some databases, you can replace a letter
    within a word to account for variant spellings
  • Replace (Wage OR Wages) with Wage / Wage?/Wage!
  • Replace (Labour OR Labor) with Labo?r / Labor

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Final searchTopic Effect of the national
minimum wage on the labour market in the UK
  • Minimum wage
  • AND Labour market OR Employment
  • AND NOT Europe
  • Minimum wage
  • AND Labour market OR Employment
  • AND United Kingdom OR UK OR
    Britain

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Searching for journal articles
  • Business Source Premier (Full Text)
  • Jstor (many articles full text)
  • Science Direct (Full Text)

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Sources of government information
  • Government Expenditure Plans
  • Government Web site www.ukonline.gov.uk
  • Statistics http//www.statistics.gov.uk/statbas
    e/mainmenu.asp

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Newspaper sources
  • Lexis Nexis Executive
  • Full text international news
  • updated daily
  • Over 800 worldwide sources Financial Times, The
    Times, New York Times, India Today
  • Printed newspaper collection (1 Week)

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Other useful sources
  • Reference collection/Electronic reference
    collectionDictionaries, encyclopaedias,
    directories, Country reports
  • Working PapersPublishing recent research often
    prior to journals
  • European Documentation CentreEuropean Access
  • World Wide Web

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Remote Access
  • Most databases are available off-campus via
    Athense.g. Amadeus, Bankscope, Business Source
    Premier, Jstor, Lexis Nexis Executive, Science
    Direct
  • Ask Non Athens usernames and passwords
  • Or login to the catalogue and access them from
    there

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Finding information in economics
  • Systems Services,
  • Dawn Kinnersley
  • Moorgate Library, City Campus
  • Chris Lamb
  • Holloway Road Library, North Campus
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