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Parrish Library’s Database of the Week for 9/30/11

September 30th, 2011

Database of the Week is a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics. These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

This Week’s Featured Database: OECDiLibrary, from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.

Link: www.lib.purdue.edu/mel, in the pull down Quick Access to Business Databases alpha list right below the Libraries’ search box.

Description/focus: OECDiLibrary offers statistics, full text books, and reports from the OECD, whose focus is the world economy.

Start with this hint: The OECDiLibrary opening page has a menu bar to browse books, papers, or statistics, and a link to the OECD Factbook. The basic search finds your term in several fields, and then you can limit the results to books, papers or statistics. If your subject is a phrase, be sure to use quotation marks: water policies will give different results from “water policies.” See a sample search in our OECD tutorial.  The default for the Advanced Search is to look for your term in all fields, so limit to Title and Abstract to get a manageable number of hits.

Why you should know this database: The statistical databases in OECD iLibrary cover national accounts, economic indicators, trade, employment, migration, education, energy, health, development and innovation in both member and non-member countries. The OECD monitors the impact of the current world financial crisis on developing countries.

How this database can be integrated into the curriculum: Students searching for an international research topic can browse the OECD iLibrary Theme or Country menus for issues in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.  The organization covers economic and social trends, from the labor force in persistently poor areas to the innovation and growth of the Internet economy.

Cost: Paid by the Libraries annually.

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Database of the Week comes to you from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics Library. Our intent is to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know.  If you would like more information about this database, or if you would like a demonstration of it for a class, contact kranlib@purdue.edu.  Database of the Week is archived  at https://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/category/MGMT/.  For more Purdue Libraries news, follow us on Twitter (@PurdueLibraries).

If you would like us to promote your favorite database, send an email to mdugan@purdue.edu.