Guides: Economics and Finance: Key resources

Economics and Finance Librarian

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Access to all the economics journals in EconLit is via these databases:

Academic Search Elite
Provides full-text for over 1,200 journals (some back to 1990) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies and education. It also has abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and over 1,700 are peer-reviewed. The Wall Street journal, New York times, and the Christian Science Monitor are also indexed.

EconBiz - for students
Here you can find: Scholarly publications in economics and business studies for your bachelor and master thesis, Highly ranked journal articles and articles from books and Free full texts, e.g. current economics and business studies working papers.
Do you need help with finding information or writing your assignment? In the section "research skills" you can find the Guided Walks: Search and evaluate / Access to full texts / Cite correctly. Get in touch with the team at Research Guide EconDesk for personalised advice.

Use these sources for access to financial data such as company, industry, country or sharemarket data

Security prices, stock indices, bond prices, macroeconomic information, and company financials. Includes the Compustat and Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) datasets

You must register for an account to access this resource. All staff and students are eligible. Any queries, please contact david.taine@vuw.ac.nz or philip.worthington@vuw.ac.nz

Available on a PC in the School of Economics & Finance with 3 userids. Contact the School for access

A Bloomberg Terminal is in the School of Accounting & Commercial Law, RH 655A. Bookable in Outlook as zz_RH655A@vuw.ac.nz