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MEL’s Database of the Week for 1/14/11

January 14th, 2011

Welcome to Database of the Week — a feature from the Management & Economics Library (MEL). These database snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources.

If you have a suggestion for a topic or a database that should be promoted, please let us know.

This Week’s Featured Database: OECD iLibrary, from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation 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: OECD iLibrary offers statistics and full text books and reports from the OECD, whose focus is the world economy.

Start with this hint: The OECD iLibrary replaces SourceOECD.  It has the same resources but has an updated interface with more speed and more tools.  The 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.  On the other hand, the default for the Advanced Search is to look for your term or terms in all fields, so limit to Title and Abstract to get a manageable number of hits.  If your subject is a phrase, be sure to use quotation marks: water policies will not give the same results as “water policies.” The statistical databases in OECD iLibrary cover national accounts, economic indicators, trade, employment, migration, education, energy, and health.

Other common tools available in this database: results presented in downloadable PDF or Excel; citation help; session search history; limit to type of document (book, working paper, statistics); RSS feed; limit by date; option to sort by date or relevance.  For use of these tools in this database, contact Mary Dugan

Why you should know this database: The reports and statistics in OECD iLibrary cover key areas of the financial sector, the real economy, social policy, environment, development and innovation in both member and non-member 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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