LibGuides: Economics & Business: Databases & Internet Search Tips

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Concordian Database Passwords (Updated November 2020)
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Britannica School This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Global Issues in Context This link opens in a new window Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
World History: The Modern Era This link opens in a new window
1500-1700 (Emergence of Modern Europe); 1500-1776 (The World Beyond Europe); 1700-1800 (The Age of Reason); 1776-1825 (A Time of Revolutions); 1776-1914 (Spheres of Influence); 1815-1914 (The Rise of Nationalism); 1800-1914 (The Rise of the Industrial Revolution); 1914-1945 (The World at War); 1945-1991 (The Cold War); 1991- Present (A New Millennium)
World Geography: Understanding a Changing World This link opens in a new window
CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
Harvard Business Review This link opens in a new window
The Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
New York Times This link opens in a new window
South China Morning Post This link opens in a new window
Free resource

BBC This link opens in a new window
Free resource
Databank - World Bank This link opens in a new window
Free resource
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and makes it available on four platforms: German, English, French and Spanish.
CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new window
Free resource.The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Possible Search Terms for the Study of Economics

Remeber to put phrases in quotation marks: "environmental economics"

To be a successful searcher, you just need to know three little words: AND, OR, NOT.

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Creative Commons
Creative Commons is the BEST place to search for images without fear. This site brings images from everywhere that are not copyrighted, ones that you can use AND cite with some freedom.