Literature Search
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Georgia State University Library — Galileo Business and Economics

• ABI Inform Complete (business & management journals) Public Affairs & Law
• Brookings Institute Policy Briefs
• EconLit Index of journal articles on Economics
• Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Database Search for theses
• Elsevier Economics and Finance (Elsevier - Economics Direct - Full Text)
• PAIS International (via GSU Library) journal article index public administration
• The Urban Institute

Public Affairs and Law

• PAIS International

Economics

• American Economic Association
• Resources for Economists

City Planning and Neighborhoods

• American Planning Association - Neighborhood Related Resources
• Community Oriented Policing

References

• Ulrich's Intl. Periodical List
• World Cat
• Georgia Libraries Journal List

Electronic Journals

• Electronic Journal Locator (GSU Library) We have indexes of which e-journals are available to us! Subscription contracts may change - so try another source if not available.
• Factiva : Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, Reuters & other Newswires
• Factiva Help
• JSTOR — core economics journals archive (not current years, but great backfiles)
• Elsevier Science journals (Science Direct)
• Economic Letters
• European Management Journal
• International Review of Law  and Economics
• Journal of Economics and Business
• Law Libraries & Law Resources - Georgia State, Emory, and Duke
  • Heinonline - Law Journal Library & docs of Federal Register, Treaties, U.S. Supreme Court
• Wiley Interscience journals - John Wiley and Sons (Don't login, just search for journal title. Not all journals are accessible, check the index above.)
• International Journal of Finance & Economics
• Journal of Political Analysis and Management
• Oxford University Press
  (Only selected journals that are subscribed to.)
• Cambridge Journal of  Economics
• Oxford Economic Papers
• EBSCO HOST
  GALILEO-> Databases -> Business and Economics -> Business Source Elite
• Wall Street Journal

Web Search Engines

• Google - An all-purpose document finder
  • Google Scholar - A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature
• Yahoo - An all-purpose document finder
• FirstGov - United States Government

Citation Tracking & Journal Rankings

• ISI Web of Knowledge - find who cited your article in their publication
• Cited Reference Search
• Journal Citation Reports - Ranking Journals importance

Public Opinion Surveys

• The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Tax Administration & Revenue Resources

• Budget of the U.S. government
• Budgeting and Financial Management - ABFM
  
• EIU Country Commerce - from on campus only (Select a Country: then Corporate or Personal Taxes)
• IRS Web Site
• National Tax Journal
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers Worldwide - tax summaries online
  
• Public Finance Review
• State and Local Government Current Receipts and Expenditures - BEA US Commerce Dept. - 1929- current NIPA
• State Tax Notes - (U.S., Georgia, Florida, N.J., through Lexis-Nexis.)
• Tax Notes International - (through Lexis-Nexis.)
• Tax Notes - (U.S. federal news through Lexis-Nexis)
• Tax Policy Center (U. of Michigan) Tables and Tax Facts Database
• Tax Foundation - tables - federal, state, local government
• Tax rates for countries: Doing Business / Benchmarking Business Regulations for countries, then Paying Taxes / Select an economy
• U.S. Treasury Web site
• World Tax Database, Office of Tax Policy Research

Conferences on taxation issues

• Andrew Young School International Studies Program
• Office of Tax Policy Research

• Datastream -- stock markets, market indices, economics data at GSU University Library Research Support desk, 2nd floor, Library North.
• Data Stream User Guide (from University of Chicago)
• IADB - New Data on Debt - G7, Latin America, Transitional Counties - Open
• ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) - Licensed
• IMF World Economic Outlook Database - September 2006 Edition
• Labor Statistics
• Population Research Center at NORC and the University of Chicago - Open
• Poverty Data - R Rojas Archive - Open
• Stat USA for American data - Licensed
• Statistical Universe of Lexis Nexis - Licensed
• Wharton Research Data Service - contact Liz Talamas at Robinson College of Business
• World Development Indicators (Online) from the World Bank Group at GSU Library GIL catalog
• World Marketing Data and Statistics - summary data of tax revenues & expenditures on spreadsheet - Licensed
• World Resources Institute - environmental and economic data - Register

More Data - global lists

• Statistical Data - List of date resources collected by University Librarian Loria Konata - both licensed and open

Even More Data sources

• Resources For Economists - AEA Government Finances of most countries, with time series. - both licensed and open

Software Manuals

• EndNote Help
• EndNote Help - Georgia State University Library
• Gauss Official Website
• Limdep Manual
• SAS Help
• Stata 9 changes and sample code

EBSCO EconLit Export into EndNote
The best way to pull citations into Econlit from Endnote is to use the direct export function within Econlit. Here are the steps:

1. Open endnote & create empty library/ file
2. Do the search in EconLit
3. Mark the records you want
4. View folder and select save to disk
5. Click bibliographic manager and choose citations in Direct Export format

It should pull them right into Endnote once you select your Endnote library.

Atlanta & Georgia Information

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution - current seven days online - free.
• Atlanta Constitution: backfiles see Galileo / Lexis-Nexis / Newspapers / News / General / Narrow Term: Atlanta Constitution and Keyword Ivan Allen (for example)
• Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
• State of Georgia
• Georgia 2000 Information system ITOS, University of Georgia
• Georgia Spatial Data Infrastructure (Mapping and GIS tools/data)
• Report of the State Auditor of Georgia
• Schools close to downtown Atlanta
• Ultimate Atlanta School Guide
• The New Georgia Encyclopedia
• Zoning Atlanta

Government Sources

• Georgia Department of Revenue
• Government ACIR sites (Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations)
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
• Report of the State Auditor of Georgia
• SUNY- Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
• UGA - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
• University of Michigan-Documents Center
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• U.S. Census Bureau
  • Resident Population States
• U.S. Commerce Department -- all sites
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• U.S. Treasury Department
• IRS - Internal Revenue Service for tax forms and research

International

• AFRICA Live Database
• Bank for International Settlements (central banks of 55+ developed nations)
• Brookings Institution, Washington, DC 
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development / Publishers of the Transition Report (www.ebrd.org)
• Harvard Institute for International Development 
• Human Development Index / Report - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• IMF Government Finance Statistics Manual 2001
• IMF - A Guide to International Financial Statistics CD-ROM
• International Monetary Fund
• IRIS - University of Maryland (Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector) 
• Joint Library of IMF and World Bank -- all sites
• OECD (SourceOECD) - GSU Licensed access
• OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• PRS Group Political Risk Service (Online) through the GSU Library GIL catalog
• United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)
• UN Foreign Direct Investment Statistics
• World Bank Data & Statistics
• World Bank - Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations & Local Financial Management Program
• World Bank Research Site

Working Papers

• Economics Research Network 
• IDEAS Paper Series Working Papers using RePEc data
• National Bureau of Economic Research: Cambridge, MA
• RePEc Research Papers in Economics
• SSRN eLibrary/ Browse/Econ Research Papers/CESifo working papers

Law Libraries

• Duke School of Law Library
• Emory School of Law Library
• Georgia State University College of Law Library
• Harvard Law School Library

• IRIS - University of Maryland (Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector - International Development)
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
• Russian Economic Trends - Publication has ceased, but data may be requested.
• Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics
• Transition - The Newsletter About Reforming Economies (For subscription, contact Jennifer Prochnow at prochnow@worldbank.org, or 202-473-7466)
• Yegor Gaidar - Institute for the Economy in Transition

Employment Links

• International City County Management Association
  • ICMA JobCenter
• JOE (Job Opening for Economists)
• Economics Research Network
  • Weekly Job Listing

Finding People and Addresses

• Google Maps
• Switchboard

Questions?? Please contact Gardner Neely at:

Research Support
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
phone: (404) 413-0020
fax: (404) 413-0004
prclgn@langate.gsu.edu

Mailing address:
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3992
Atlanta, GA 30302-3992

In person address:
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
14 Marietta Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30303-2813