AYSPS : Research Support : Literature Search

Literature Search
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Tel: 404-413-0020
Location: Ground floor AYSPS Building

Main Menu

Georgia State University Library	Atlanta & Georgia Information
Electronic Journals	Government Sources
Web Search Engines	International
Citation Tracking & Journal Rankings	Working Papers
Public Opinion Surveys	Law Libraries
Tax Administration & Revenue Resources	Development Links
Policy Issues	Employment Links
Data Sources	Finding People
Software Manuals	Nonprofit Resources

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

OCLC Union List of Periodicals GALILEO-> Type OCLC-> click GO

World Cat

Georgia Libraries Journal List GALILEO-> Type Georgia Libraries-> click GO

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.
JAKE - Full Text Journals Index
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)

American Economic Review 1911-1997
- American Economic Association 1908-1910
- Publications of the American Economic Association 1886-1907
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1970-1997
- Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
Microeconomics 1989-1997
Canadian Journal of Economics 1968-1997
- Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 1935-1967
- Contribution to Canadian Economics 1928-1934
Econometrica 1933-1995
Economic History Review 1927-1995
Economic Journal 1891-1995
Economica 1921-1995
International Economic Review 1960-1995
Journal of Applied Econometrics 1986-1995
Journal of Economic Abstracts 1963-1968
Journal of Economic History 1941-1995
Journal of Economic Literature 1969-1997
Journal of Economic Perspectives 1987-1997
Journal of Industrial Economics 1952-1995
Journal of Labor Economics 1983-1995
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 1969-1995
Journal of Political Economy 1892-2000
Quarterly Journal of Economics 1886-1995
RAND Journal of Economics 1984-1995
Bell Journal of Economics 1975-1983
Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 1970-1974
Review of Economics and Statistics 1919-1995
Review of Economic Studies 1933-1997
The Economic Journal

LaLoria Konata - Policy Studies & Political Science library specialist (GSU)
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

Policy Issues

The Southern Growth Policies Board: Regional Economic and Social issues of interest to US Southern states and the nation.
Policy File: Available at GSU campus only/Research databases from Georgia State University Library
Sexual Orientation: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
Tax Equity: Citizens for Tax Justice
Gerontology Institute at Georgia State University - aging sources

Data Sources

DataStream (Forecasting and business data) at GSU University Library reference department
DataStream User Guide (from Princeton)
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 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)