Economics
Library Subscription Services
The following sources may be accessed through computers on campus or by current PVCC faculty, staff and students from off campus.
Journal Articles and Books
Factiva allows searching of 6,000 full-text news and business publications by word or phrase and date.
Business Source Complete is a source for articles from scholarly business journals.
Mergent Online offers information on domestic and international companies, including annual reports and historic price data.
Mergent Horizon is a comprehensive source of information for companies, industries and the stock market.
CSA Illumina provides access to EconLit, a database with citations and abstracts for economics-related literature. Book reviews published in the Journal of Economic Literature since 1993 are available in full text.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books. The database relevant to business is Worldscope.
Wiley InterScience has full-text articles available through the advanced search feature.
Reference Works
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance provides information on finance and banking as well as other business-related topics.
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiles and geographic profiles.
A Dictionary of Economics provides definitions for economic terms and covers topics such as e-commerce and the Euro. This reference covers all aspects of economic theory, from microeconomics to public finance with definitions of mathematical and statistical terms widely used in economics.
Internet Resources
Resources for Economists on the Internet links to the Table of Contents of an extensive list of economics resources.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
Bloomberg has information on stocks, the markets and personal finance.
World Bank Indicators has statistics on international transactions for World Bank member countries' national accounts.
Survey of Current Business has monthly and quarterly cyclical indicator statistics. From the Bureau of Economic Analysis Web site, enter "Survey of Current Business" in the search box on the right.
