A short presentation on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

1. Learning Resources – Information Research
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development
Learning Resources
Regent’s University London

2. Segment Five – OECD
Online Research Induction
Cluster
Bretton Woods Institutions
Segment 1: International Monetary Fund
Segment 2: World Bank
Segment 3: General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Segment 4: Alternative / Critical Research on the Bretton
Woods Institutions
Segment 5: OECD

3. Segment Four – Alternative / Critical Research
Online Research Induction for Students of
• International Management
• International Political Economy
• International Business
• International Relations

4. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD)
 to promote policies that will improve the economic and social situation around
the world
 provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences
and seek solutions to common problems
 works with governments to establish what drives economic, social and
environmental change
 cooperation with a variety of civil society organisations.
 commitment to market economies backed by democratic institutions
 measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment

5. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
OECD work flow

6. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Glossary of Statistical Terms
(http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/)
Very helpful definitions of terms to be used
in any Assignment or Essay

7. Type in the
word/phrase and
press ‘Search’
Search
alphabetically

8. Example:
words/phrases
for letter ‘D’
- Foreign equivalent
- Definition
- In which context
- Where was it used first
time
- Statistical theme
- First created when
- Last update

9. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Publications from the OECD
 OECD Publishing (www.oecd.org/about/publishing/whatsnew.htm)
• one of the world’s largest publishers of books in the fields of economics and
public affairs.
• publication of more than 250 new books, 40 updated stat. databases, and
thousands of new stat. tables, working papers & journal articles each year
What's New @ OECD is OECD's monthly e-newsletter highlighting key new books,
reports, and statistics from various OECD sources.
To sign up to receive the monthly e-newsletter each month, sign up at
www.oecd.org/about/publishing/oecddirect.htm

10. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Publications from the OECD
 OECD iLibrary (http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/)
the full range of OECD books, papers, and statistics in PDF, WEB and XML
formats to online users including find, use, and cite of OECD information
 OECD Bookshop (www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/index.asp?lang=EN)

11. Look for
- Books
- Papers
- Statistics
- Factbook
- Glossary Search for phrase or keyword
Browse by
‘Theme’
Browse by
‘Country’
Newly
published
material

12. Search by ‘Statistics’

13. Identified ‘Educational Database’
Exportable into Excel,
readable as a .pdf sheet,
new webpage or online

14. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Publications from the OECD
 Key Publications
• Factbook
• At-a-Glance books
• Insights
• Outlooks
• Economic Surveys
• OECD Observer
• Better Policies Series
• OECD Insights Blog

15. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Publications from the OECD
 Finding Publications
• Sales Agents
• OECD iLibrary Subscribing Institutions
• Online Bookshop
• OECD iLibrary
• Conference Centre Bookshop
• OECD Centres
• Depositary Libraries
• OECD Archives

16. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Publications from the OECD
 Services
• Rights and Permissions
• Corrigenda
• OECDdirect e-mail alerts
• What's New
• Librarians
• Multilingual Summaries
• OECD Archives

17. OECD
(www.oecd.org)

18. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
OECD Statistics (http://www.oecd.org/statistics/)
List of statistics key tables on health include data on
Key Tables on Health
health expenditure suicides
practising physicians cancer
hospital beds tobacco consumption
life expectancy overweight or obesity
infant mortality

19. Information can be
downloaded into an
Excel document or
used as a real-time
dataset

20. For further information
Please contact in the Library
Sven Griesenbeck
higgens@regents.ac.uk