Class Help Page: IDS 493: Seminar in Applied Statistics, Spring 2008

Finding Articles [off campus access] [tips]

ABI Inform (a must-use database):  This database contains many full text articles from hundreds of journals dating back to the 1970s. [more...]

Business Source Premier: This database contains full text articles back to 1990 and in addition to many article abstracts. [more...]

Academic Search Premier:  This is a more general databases that includes business information (as well as articles on almost every subject). You may find enough information in ABI and Business Source Premier without using this source. [more...]

EconLit: This citation only source includes information from economics articles and dissertations [more...]

Yahoo! Finance: This freely available website has a plethora of valuable financial statistics, both current and historical

Europa World Plus: Information and statistics on countries around the world [more...]

Edgar: government website of filings by public companies

LexisNexis Academic:  This is a completely full text database and includes many well known national and international newspapers, including the New York Times. [more...]

        More business sources...

        More economics sources...

If you already have a journal title, use JournaLocator to determine if VU has a subscription.

Reference Resources [tips]

Online --

Selected Reference Resources

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web (U.S. Dept. of Labor)

University of Maryland's Sources for International Statistics

Print -- Christopher Center Reference Stacks, 2nd floor

World development indicators Ref. HC59.15 .W656 (annual) (also online)

World economic outlook Ref. HC10 .W7979 (semi-annual) (also online)

Statistical abstract of the United States Ref. HA202 .U57 (annual) (also online)

State and metropolitan area data book Ref. HA202 .S84

State of the world Ref.HC59 .S734 (annual)

Vital signs : the trends that are shaping our future Ref. HC79.E5 B768 (annual)

World economic and social survey Ref. HC59 .A169 (annual)

Finding Books [off campus access] [tips]

GALILEO - VU Libraries' Catalog resources available at VU libraries [more...]

Library of Congress Classification System [tips]
 H Social Sciences (General)
 HA Statistics
 HB-HC Economics
 HF Commerce
 HG Finance

WorldCat resources available for loan from other libraries worldwide [more...]

Recommended Internet Resources [tips]

Business, Economics, & Finance WWW page http://www.valpo.edu/library/www/bef.html

Best Information on the Internet: Business http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Business/busindex.htm

BEOnline Plus: The Library of Congress's list of useful business/economics websites http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/beonline/

Final Writing and Presentation

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition. LB 2369 .G53 2003

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition. BF 76.7 .P83 2001

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th edition. (Chicago/ Turabian style) LB 2369 .T8 1996

Citing Resources   http://www.valpo.edu/library/citing.html
VU Writing Center  http://www.valpo.edu/writingcenter

Strategy

Librarian for Business
  Prof. Ruth Connell [info]

General library help
  Ask Us!
  All Subject Librarians

Search Strategies

--Keyword Searching
 
--Advanced Keyword Searching
 
--Subject Searching  

Additional Resources

--Interlibrary Loan

--Scholarly Journals

--How Do I ...

--Searching for Information

--Library User Guides

--Library Award for Undergraduate Research

--One- Minute Query: use this if you have any other questions, or would like to learn more about something we covered (or didn't cover) today.