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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

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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*)

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EconLit ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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

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$)

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

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Statistical Sources ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Demo Intro Demo Intro Time series on international trade of service and commodities, trade and tariff profiles

Statistical Sources II ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],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 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],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

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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

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