Econs honours year 2008

Economics Honours Year Tutorial
by
Aaron Tay [email_address]

Objectives
To show you how to:
Use Library portal to access resources, services.
Search Economics databases to retrieve articles.
Obtain Economics Statistics
Use of Endnote Desktop to track citations

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the session, you will:
Know where to access resources & services from library portal
Be able to locate relevant library materials of different formats (books, journal articles, theses, newspapers)
Be able to search effectively Economics databases for:
Journal articles
Statistical data

Table of contents
Introduction
Endnote
Search Strategy
Search Books
Search Journals
Search Newspapers
Search Theses
Search Statistical Sources
Search Internet resources
Other useful information

Sources Search Books Articles and Working papers Theses Newspapers Statistical data Other internet sources Authoritative Quite recent cutting edge work In-depth treatment Recent, reactions Pre-publication, interesting ideas Quantitative data

Where to find them
Only for checking if a certain source title such as journal title, database or newspaper title is available but not for searching for article titles .
Other relevant databases can be found in Economics subject guide .
Other sources of thesis can be found in LION .
See also Statistics on Singapore .
Microforms LINC / LINC 1 + Factiva, Lexus-Nexus Newspaper articles Other resources (particularly Singapore statistics) 4 Statistical databases such as Singstat, EIU Country data 2 Statistics Wikis, Citeulike Blogs Mailing lists Other internet sources Theses databases 3 such as ProQuest Dissertations and Theses LINC/LINC+ Theses Google scholar LINC / LINC 1 + or Infogate Databases 2 such as EconLit, Scopus, Web of Science, Perind Articles, conference paper Google books LINC/LINC+ Books Source 3 Source 2 Source 1 Item type

Endnote

EndNote Desktop
Software that stores & organizes references
Can import references directly into a Word document in a preferred citation style
Procedure to Install EndNote X2
Import saved citations from other sources into EndNote X2
Insert Citations from EndNote into Microsoft Word

Endnote Screenshot

Search Strategy

Case Study
National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) research grant
“ Reimbursement of direct expenses incurred on the research up to maximum of $1,000 for Honours or equivalent degree students.”
“ Cash award of $1,000 and it will be given out each application year to the most outstanding thesis”
More here

Potential topics
Social costs of gambling
Cost-benefit analysis of gambling industry
Impact studies of casino industry

Mechanics of searching
Use natural language
List keywords, synonyms & variant spellings
May have to refine or broaden search with
AND, OR, NOT, * , ( )
Formulate a keyword search statement
Can limit search by language, by date
Sort by relevance and times cited if available
Edit search statement and refine search again.
Mark, save, print, email, export results
Retrieve full-text if necessary

Search Strategy
Boolean operators
Truncation
Grouping using parentheses
Proximity search - e.g. “near 4”,
Keywords & Concepts
Search statements

Build your search: Boolean operators
AND is used to indicate that both terms must be present
OR is used to indicate that either terms may be present
NOT is used to indicate that one term must not be present
Casino AND gambling casino gambling Gambling NOT online online Gambling Casino Gambling Casino Gambling

Build your search: Truncation *, Round parentheses ( )
Use * for variant forms of term
Gambl* = gambl ing , gambl ers
casino * = casino s ,
Use ( ) to execute commands inside innermost parentheses first
“ social cost” and (casino or gamblers)
= social cost of casino
= social cost of gamblers
“ social cost” and (casino* and gambl*)
= social cost of casinos HIT!
= Social cost of gambling HIT!
HIT!
HIT!

Proximity operators (advanced AND)
Proximity operators allow you to retrieve items where one search term is within n (where n is a number) words of another.
Near Operator — finds words within x number of words from each other, regardless of the order in which they occur.
Example: cost n2 gambling would find “ cost of gambling " or “ gambling on cost " but not “ The cost of very long term addiction to gambling “
Within Operator (Wx) — finds words within x number of words from each other, in the order they are entered in the search.
Example: cost w2 gambling would find “ Cost of gambling ” but not “ gambling cost ”

Consistency of search operators?
And , OR , NOT , are standard symbols and can be used in almost all databases.
This is less true of the multi-character wildcard * ! For example EconLit, use $ instead.
Use of proximity operators varies even more.
Be careful! For most databases, there is no difference between using “AND” versus “and” , but a few might.
Therefore please consult specific search guide for each database.

SAMPLE SEARCH QUERY What are the economic impacts of Legalized casino gaming? “ Economic impact*” or Cost* Casino* or gambl* (“Economic impact*” or Cost*) and (casino* or gambl*)

Searching for books
DEMO
Search using LINC, keyword search
Show expansion of search using subject headings
Import into Endnote desktop
Look for limited previews in Google books

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Search for Journal articles
Searching article databases
Getting the full-text articles (online or print)
What to do when you can’t get the full text article – Document Delivery Service

E - RESOURCES

E-Resources
Databases
E-Journals
E-Books
Newspapers
Exam Papers
E-Reserves
Statistical Data

Ways to access databases from Library portal Search under E-Resources Click on More Databases Select E-Resources

Comprehensive article search
Look for “pure” Economics papers – papers written from the Economist’s point of view = EconLit , NBER Working Papers
Supplement with closely related business and social science databases = Social Sciences Abstracts , ABI/Inform Complete , Business Source Premier
Further supplement with cross-disciplinary papers using comprehensive databases = Web of Science , Scopus , Google Scholar .

Databases (articles) we will cover
EconLit
Scopus
Web of Science
PERIND

EconLit

EconLit
Producer: The American Economic Association
Coverage: 1969 – present
Provides bibliographic references and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters/reviews, working papers from RePEC , some dissertations, etc. More details .
Contains more than 350,000 records on accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing etc.
One of the major resources for Economics , mostly citations, some full-text.

OvidSP Test Database Use http://ovidsp.ovid.com to access EconLit

Basic Search
“ Natural language” search, do not enter boolean operators (And, Or, Not)

Refine/narrow search

Accessing record

Exporting results

Let’s search ECONLIT! (For advanced ovid search and multi-field search only) What are the economic impacts of Legalized casino gaming? “ Economic impact$” or Cost$ Casino$ or gambl$ (“Economic impact$” or Cost$) and (casino$ or gambl$)

Basic Search
Natural language search
Do not enter Boolean operators, wildcards, truncation in search box
Click on “include related terms”
Apply a database limit(s) – optional
Use search aid for “narrow search”
Advanced Ovid Search
Allows for more complex and exact searches
Use Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOT
Use * for multi-character wildcard (truncation)
More information can be found on the “Database field guide” on the top of the screen.
Really advanced – use indexes (see next screen)
Search tips for EconLit

Ovidsp Multi-field search
New interface added recently, “searcher builder” for multi-field search

Other search options
Find Citation
Uses for searching for full details of a specific known existing article.
Search Fields
Search using specific indexes such as country, isbn, year of publication etc.
Example – In Advanced Ovid search, search using ct.singapore and casino.
See me if you want to know more.
Sliver Platter Search
To be dropped by OVIDSP, not recommended

Other generic tips
Search History
Use ‘ Search History ’ to combine the searches with Boolean search operators OR and AND
Sort by score, year of publication etc
“ Find citing articles”, to find articles quoting the target article.

Scopus

Scopus
Producer: Elsevier
Coverage: 1841-1996 (17 million records) , 1996- (16 million records)
Largest abstract and citation database covering science, technical, medial, social science
Use this to supplement your search to go beyond Economics for multi-disciplinary papers.

Let’s search Scopus! What are the economic impacts of Legalized casino gaming? “ Economic impact*” or Cost* Casino* or gambl* (“Economic impact*” or Cost*) and (casino* or gambl*)

Scopus Basic Search

Scopus results

Exporting downloading Scopus results

Export citations to Endnote

Emailing citations

Formatting citiations

Search tips for Scopus
Basic Search
Use Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOT, also multi-character wildcard *
Default search in “Article title, Abstract, Keywords”
Use Limit fields
Use Refine results
Combine Search History

Advanced Search
Command Line search
Not really recommended
Other features relates to citation and are not that relevant for searching.

Web of Science

Web of Science
Producer: Thomson Scientific
Coverage: 1980-
Competes with Scopus
Don’t be fooled by name, includes Social Sciences Citation Index, provides access to
multidisciplinary & scholarly journal literature of the social sciences
author abstracts
cited references
full text articles

Web of Science

Search tips for Web of Science
- search subject words (topic), author name(s) or affiliation, journal title,…
- requires search field tags e.g. ts=topic
- enables restricting items from your search with “not.”
- allows for combining previous searches
Viewing search results
- click on title to view full record
- for combining search result sets
- saving search strategies for future use.

PERIND Periodical Index to Articles relating to Singpaore, Malaysia, Brunei and ASEAN

PERIND
Periodical Index to articles relating to Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei & ASEAN
Producer: NUS Libraries
Coverage, 1980-
Humanities, social sciences, business, medicine architecture, building, science, law
Journal articles, book chapters & book reviews, conference papers
Search tips
Use drop-down menu for Boolean operators & fields
Enter keywords, subject terms, phrases…
Save selected records using IE toolbar
File> Save as> html format.

Perind Screenshot

Newspapers

E-Newspapers
Major international & local newspapers:
New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Times, The Straits Times, more…
Access via Library portal>E-Resources> E-Newspapers
Two major databases
Factiva
Lexis/ Nexis Academic
Note at this time, you cannot export citations from these two databases.

Newspapers
Press Clippings
In-house collection of articles from Straits Times and Business Times
Articles about Singapore, Malaysia, ASEAN
Check LION under Press Clippings Collection - Subject Headings List
Available from Singapore-Malaysia Collection
Microfilms
The Straits Times from 1880 -

Factiva Search vs search 2.0

Example of Factiva search

Factiva results

Materials Not Found in Library
Document Delivery Services (DDS)
Journal articles, book chapters, conference Papers
Request via E-Forms (Library Portal)
All requests must be approved by Supervisor
Free, but maximum 3 requests for Honours years

THESES

NUS Theses & Academic exercises (PRINT)
Search LINC, by
Under Find ,
By call no : HD30* and choose Theses Collection (optional)
Search LINC+, by keywords :
m soc sc Economics national university singapore
academic exercise economics national university singapore

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Online)
Producer: Proquest UMI
Includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year from Universities in United States and Canada.
Provides full text access for many items.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
Search for North American Dissertations & Theses

STATISTICAL SOURCES

Statistical Sources
Access via E-Resources>Databases>By type>Statistical Data and Economics subject guide
International
EIU CountryData , EIU CityData , EIU Market Indicators and Business Forecast
International Financial Statistics
World development Indicators Online
SourceOECD (OECD Stat)
Statistics Database (World Trade Organisation )
Demo Intro Demo Intro Time series on international trade of service and commodities, trade and tariff profiles

Statistical Sources II
Business/industry related/Finance
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
ISI Emerging Markets
Frost & Sullivan
Orbis and Osiris
Excellent business database, draws data from IFS as well. IT industry related industry reports Covers 35 countries only Specific Company related information.

Statistical Sources III
Singapore
Yearbook of statistics, Singapore (print & web )
SingSTAT Time Series
Statlink
Singapore 1000 (CDROM)
Statistics on Singapore : annotated bibliography
Standard statistics reference, latest version is always online Other statistics from Dept of Statistics- request with supervisors permission Singapore Trade Stats Company Info on biggest S’pore companies

More statistics database

Statistics basics
Select the following
Geographic coverage : Region, Country or Country aggregate (e.g ASEAN)
Statistic series (e.g. Real GDP : US$ at 2005 prices)
Chronological coverage ( e.g. 1980-2000 monthly )

EIU Country data
Producer: Economist Intelligence Unit
Geographic Coverage: 150 countries, 45 regional aggregates (e.g ASEAN).
Chronological coverage :1980- (annual) , 1993- (monthly, quarterly).
317 series (statistic data on macro indicators – Inflation, GDP, interest rates, trade balance of payments, demographics etc)
Includes forecasts (figures will appear in green )
Help file
Other EIU databases include
EIU MarketIndicators & Forecasts
EIU CityData
EIU Commodities

EIU Citydata

EIU marketindicators & forecasts

International Financial Statistics
Producer: IMF (Statistics Department of the International Monetary Fund)
Geographic Coverage: More than 200 countries and areas
Chronological coverage :1948-
“ contains approximately 32,000 time series” international liquidity, IMF fund accounts, money supply etc.
Help file

IFS Tip : Change retrieval period first , before entering other data such as country and statistical series.

Other “all-rounders” to try
World development Indicators Online (by World Bank)
Data statistics from 1960s onwards, geographic coverage.
World Development Indicators (WDI) database, 800 development indicators, with time series for 209 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2007
SourceOECD (OECD Stat)
Currently in beta
Covers OECD countries (30 countries) plus selected non-member economies e.g. China, India.
1960 onwards

Country statistics
Country Report Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Commerce Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Profile Datamonitor Plc
Country Review CountryWatch Incorporated
Country Monitor Global Insight Inc.
Global Competitiveness Report
World Competitiveness Report
Search for E-Resources on “Economic studies”, “Economic Competitiveness”, “Forecast”
print print pdf pdf pdf pdf

Country statistics
Search the site of the countries' official body (e.g. department, ministry, bureau, agency etc ) responsible for statistics
http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
http://isi.cbs.nl/directory.htm

List of statistical agencies

Tips for looking for statistics
If subject is topical and/or country, you can try looking at websites of international or regional organizations devoted to the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_organizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intergovernmental_organizations

Tips for looking for statistics
Don’t neglect print! Search LINC with subject heading . e.g China statistic

INTERNET RESOURCES

Resources on WWW http://www.citeulike.org/ http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/EconVLib.html http://academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Economics . Citeulike WWW Virtual Library Economics Blogs on Economics

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

Subject Guides
Good starting point for research

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