Economics

• The collection
  • Books
  • Journals
  • Electronic databases
  • Working Papers
  • Statistics
  • Internet sources
• Search assistance
• Contact

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The collection

Books
The Economics collection (JBECO) is located on the second floor of the Law library. The classification scheme of the books collection is derived from the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classification.

• Classification scheme
• New acquisitions

Journals 
A steadily increasing number of journals is available in full-text electronic format. The economics journals are mentioned on the list "Journals: Economics". You can use the search engine "Omega" to search for articles published by Elsevier, Springer and JStor.
Printed journals in the field of economics available in the Law Library can be found on the first floor in alfabetical order on journal title.

Electronic databases
Within the university economics databases are available through "Electronic databases - Economics". An overview of all databases is available at the page "Electronic databases".
Some databases can only be used at Utrecht School of Economics (USE): the Thomson databases "Datastream" and "Mergers & Acquisitions", and the WSA data files.

Working Papers 
The library is subscribed to the online version of the NBER Working Papers and the CEPR discussion papers.
Other Working Paper archives are available on the internet, like:

• IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research
• Economists Online 
• ECONOMICS Working Paper Archive
• DEGREE (Dutch Economic Working Papers on Economics)

Statistics 
The Dutch CBS statistics are available in the StatLine database.
Statistics of Eurostat are available on the website of Eurostat and via the DSI database.
The library is subscribed to several international statistical publications. They can be found in the collection in sections JBECO: A40 to A44.
Many international statistics (UNIDO, IMF, OECD, etc.) are also available in the DSI database. See also the World Bank database World Development Indicators Online (WDI).
See also our collection internet sources with statistical information.

Internet sources 
A collection of internet sources is available at the page: "Information for economists on the internet".

Search assistance

During the year library instructions are held for economics students. For these instructions an electronic self-instruction has been developped:

• Looking up Information for Economists 

Contact

Informatiespecialists
Luuk de Graaf 
Ingrid van der Heijde
Cora Pieffers 
Phone: (030) 2536115
Email: library@uu.nl

Reference librarian 
Henk Zonneveld