Books and Journals in Print | Journal and Newspaper Articles | Country Information
Data and Statistical Sources | Internet Resources

Books and Journals in Print

Tripod: to find books, journals (not articles), sound recordings, videos, etc. held at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore College Libraries.

WorldCat: combined catalog of thousands of academic and public libraries worldwide; contains records for more than 36 million items. Items found here can be orderd via Interlibrary Loan (see Tripod Main Menu for ILL request form).

Interlibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow - The books and articles you need for your research may not be available within the Tri-Colleges. We have two systems available to help you retrieve the materials you need. See this page to place your requests.

Journal and Newspaper Articles

EconLit: A comprehensive, international, partially annotated bibliography of the literature of economics. Indexes over 400 journals as well as books, dissertations, working papers and collective volumes. 1969 to the present. Updated quarterly.

ProQuest Research Library: Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Includes many trade publications.  Covers 1971 - present.

JSTOR: Full-text and page images from the top scholarly journals in many fields, including almost 50 economics titles. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

Access World News: Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe.

LexisNexis Academic: hundreds of newspapers and magazines -- foreign, domestic and local -- dating back to the 1980s and earlier. Also includes business information and law reviews.  Some sources available in Spanish, German, Dutch, French, and German languages.

Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index): Find articles published since 1956 that cite any published article or book, and find items which share cited references.

Country Information

CIA World Factbook: provides historical, political, geographical (including maps), economic, technological and military information about most countries of the world.

Economist Intelligence Unit reports: available at Penn's Lippincott Library.
Search Franklin (the Penn Library Catalog), using Relevance Ranked search, for "Economist Intelligence Unit" and "Country Profile" and your country's name.

OECD Economic Surveys: available at Haverford and/or Swarthmore (depending on country). Search Tripod by title: "OECD Economic Surveys. (name of country)."  Click the Request button to have the item sent to Bryn Mawr.

STAT-USA/Internet: contains GLOBUS and National Trade Databank (NTDB). Includes industry country commercial guides, sector analysis reports, and foreign exchange rates for hundreds of countries.

Data and Statistical Sources

LexisNexis Statistical - entire contents of American Statistics Index, and full text of documents including Industry Trade and Technology Review; World Factbook (CIA); U.S. Foreign Trade Highlights; Background Notes on the Countries of the World (State Dept.).

International Financial Statistics (print and online; hard copy is better for a small set of numbers) - from International Monetary Fund (monthly, quarterly, annual - exchange rates, fiscal info, monetary, national accounts)
Locations for print publication: Current Periodical Room for current; HG3883 .I626 - folio (floor B) for past years.

World Development Indicators - from World Bank. Annual only, includes mortality, literacy, structure of production, other indicators.
Print version is available in Canaday:Reference and stacks: HC59.15 .W656

International Trade by Commodities Statistics (ITCS, from OECD) - annual data on quantities and values of imports and exports for OECD member countries, plus (for recent years) China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Data are provided by partner country and commodity, down to very detailed SITC codes.
See this handout for installation instructions and other hints on using this CD.
Location: CD-ROM (on 1st floor, near door) HF1016 .I582

International Statistical Agencies - Census bureaus and other official data gatherers from around the world.

Internet Resources

Major organizations:

Evaluating Internet Resources- from the University at Albany Library

Citation and Style Guides - from the BMC Library - includes information on creating an annotated bibliography