Economics of Reform and Transition
AUBG Library Resources
Gergana Georgieva
Information Literacy Librarian
March 11, 2009
Overview
• Basic Steps of Library Research
• Resources and services available
• A concrete example
• How to get help?
The 7 Steps of Research
• Identify and develop your topic• Find background information• Use the online catalog to find books• Find periodicals articles (print and electronic)• Find Internet resources• Evaluate what you have found• Cite what you find using a standard format for
your bibliography
Identify and develop your topic
• State your topic as a question.
• Find keywords that describe your topic
• Test the keywords
Background information
• Common background sources
• Why background sources?
• How to use background sources effectively?
• Bibliographies
Books
• Use the on-line catalog
• Ebrary
• Why do we consult books?– Authorship – Analysis – Multiple viewpoints– Additional resources
Evaluate
• S – Scope – are all aspects of the topic covered• T – Treatment – is the information free from bias• A – Authority – are the authors qualified to
provide this information• R – Relevance – does it address your topic• T – Timeliness – Is the information current for
your purpose
Cite
• Most common styles of citing
– Modern Language Association (MLA)– American Psychological Association (APA)
Searching: How to be Effective?
• Narrow your search – Be more specific– Use phrases – Add a discriminating or qualifying word or
phrase
• Broaden your search – Use lower case – Use truncation
Keywords
• Privatization • Denationalization• Privatize• Southeastern Europe • Agriculture• Economics • Reform• Transition
• State owned enterprises (SOE)
• Ownership • Democracy • Efficiency
Step 2
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Oxford Reference Online – A Dictionary of Economics – A Dictionary of Business and Management – The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the
World
– A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
Step 2 - Continued
• The World Bank Glossary
• Encyclopedia of Economics
• The Fortune encyclopedia of Economics
• A Guide for the Young Economist
• Английско-български учебен речник по икономика
Step 3
• On-line catalog – Privatization – Privatization -- Balkan Peninsula. – Privatization -- Bulgaria. – Privatization -- Europe, Eastern. – Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Case studies. – Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Case studies. – Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.– Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses
Step 3 - continued
• Ebrary– Agricultural Research Policy in an Era of Priva
tization
– Transition--The First Ten Years : Analysis and Lessons for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
– Privatization in Central & Eastern Europe : Perspectives & Approach
Step 4
• Print Periodicals – Economic Review– Review of Development Economies– Eonomist– The Rand Journal of Economics – South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics – Икономика– Икономически алтернативи– Икономически преглед
Step 4- Continued
• Electronic Periodicals – Electronic Journals Portal
• Databases
ABI/Inform / ProQuest Central
• Information on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers and more.
• 60,000 company profiles. • The Wall Street Journal full text
– Publications– Topics: Economics and Trade > Economics > Economic
Policy > Economic Development > Privatization– Advanced search – Author Search
CEEOL
• An online archive of full text PDF articles from over 300 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
– Advanced search – Periodicals search – Author search – Google Scholar search
DOAJ
• It covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
• Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
EBSCOHost
- Business Source Premiere• Business Searching Interface • Regular Searching Interface
– EconLit – Other databases
Business Source Premiere
• Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
• Superior in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, production and operations management, accounting, finance and economics.
• 350 of the top scholarly journals • Country economic reports from the EIU, Global
Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch• Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000
largest companies.
EconLit
• The world's foremost source of references to economic literature.
• Covers virtually every area related to economics.
• More than 1,000,000 citations and abstracts: 1969-present.
• Links to full text articles
JSTOR
• Comprehensive archive of important scholarly journals
• Business and Economics journals dating back to their inception
ScienceDirect
• The ScienceDirect College Edition provides colleges with affordable access to dedicated subject packages in the physical, social and health sciences
• Freedom Collection
World Bank Databases
• Global Development Finance
• Global Economic Monitor
• World Development Indicators
• World Bank e-library
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• By phone: 888 341/354
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