Research : Subject Guides
Economics Resources Online (Listed in Alphabetical Order)
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global,
ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text
journals, dissertations, working papers, key newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial
Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers
a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Academic Search
Premier (through EBSCOHOST)
Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest
scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for
academic institutions. With the most valuable and most numerous collection of peer-reviewed full text journals, Academic
Search Premier offers critical information from many sources found in no other
database. This resource contains full text for over 3,600 scholarly
publications. Academic Search Premier includes full-page images as well as
color embedded images. This scholarly collection provides full text journal
coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and
linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
For 85 years, Barron's has been the source that
America's business and financial leaders turn to every week for authoritative
market analyses and insights on companies, industries, sectors, the economy and
financial markets in the U.S. and around the world. Barron's delivers
comprehensive statistics on the preceding week's trading and financial
activities that are unmatched by any other publication, and its feature stories
and columns look ahead at what's likely to happen to companies and to the market.
Business Census of the United States
Business Source
Premier (through EBSCOHOST)
Business Source Premier provides full text for over
8,350 business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting,
international business and much more. This database is updated on a daily
basis.
Census Information on
Hawai'i from DBEDT
The CQ Researcher explores a single "hot"
issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social issues to
environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports
produced each year including four expanded reports. The CQ Researcher web site
offers online access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991.
The official summary of
statistics on the social, economic, and political organization of the State of
Hawaii.
Ebrary Academic Complete Electronic Book Database
Academic Complete is a highly interactive electronic
book database from ebrary that covers all academic
subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 book titles
from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic, scientific, technical,
medical, and professional publishers. Coverage includes business, marketing,
and economics; computers and information technology; education; engineering and
technology; health, biomedical, and clinical sciences; the humanities; life and
physical sciences; and, the social and behavioral sciences.
You will need to install the ebrary
reader to use the collection. It is at the ebrary
website.
EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners,
researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant
state and substate socioeconomic data. The site aims
to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the
vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web.
Economic Census of the United States
Prepared and published monthly for the Joint
Economic Committee, by the Council of Economic Advisors
An index to Federal Reserve
Bank economic research. Has links to the full-text.
FedStats is the new window on the full range of official statistical information
available to the public from the Federal Government. Use the Internet's
powerful linking and searching capabilities to track economic and population
trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy
use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and
published by more than 70 Federal agencies without having to know in advance
which agency produces them.
Financial Accounting Standards Board - FASB
The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and
reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers,
auditors, and users of financial information.
Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles - GAAP
The common set of accounting principles, standards
and procedures. GAAP is a combination of authoritative standards set by
standard-setting bodies as well as accepted ways of doing accounting.
An index to magazines and journals published in or
about Hawai'i and the Pacific.
Hawai'i State Government Home Page
Stanford University Libraries' HighWire
Press began in early 1995 with the online production of the weekly Journal of
Biological Chemistry (JBC), the most highly cited (and second largest)
peer-reviewed journal. Scientists and societies rapidly saw the potential for
new forms and features of scientific communication, and Science and Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences soon joined JBC online.
International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of the Social &
Behavioral Sciences is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and
behavioral sciences on a grand scale. It is the largest reference work ever
published for the social and behavioral sciences.
Country reports, world economic outlook, statistics,
and other publications.
Research areas in LexisNexis™
Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign
language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company
financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts;
accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S.
Code; and state legal research.
The National Academy Press (NAP) was created by the
National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of
Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and
the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the
Congress of the United States. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide
range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most
authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. Browse by
subject area or search the full-text in any of over 2,500 NAP books.
This publication provides statistical data on Native Hawaiian communities
throughout the state, offering a numerical representation of the social and
economic status of the Native Hawaiian population.
NetLibrary provides access to electronic books. There are several hundred
University of Hawai'i Press titles as well as several thousand public domain
titles available.
NewsBank
Access World News (Newspapers from the United States and all over the world)
The world’s most comprehensive collection of full-text
newspapers, Access World News provides full text coverage of 850 American
newspapers as well as 1,100 international newspapers. Coverage varies by title,
with the earliest dating back to 1977. There are more than 150 million current
and archived articles users can search, browse, print, or email.
Newspaper Source Plus
(through EBSCOHOST)
Newspaper Source contains full text for regional
U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns as well
as other sources. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for
national newspapers.
Oxford Reference
Online Collections
The Oxford Reference Online Core and Premium
Collections bring together more than 120 language and subject dictionaries and
reference works containing well over 60,000 pages into a single
cross-searchable resource.
Rand Abstracts and Subject Indexes
Despite the title of this entry, many titles are
full-text. Search by keyword or browse by topic. Topics include: Child Policy;
Civil and Criminal Justice; Education; Environment and Energy; Health;
International Policy; Labor Markets; Methodology; National Security; Population
and Regional Studies; Science and Technology; Social Welfare; Transportation.
New areas of research not traditionally part of its agenda include The Arts and
Latin American policy research
Regional Business News
(through EBSCOHOST)
This database provides comprehensive full text
coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News
incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from
all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is
updated on a daily basis.
Resources for Economists on the Internet
This guide is sponsored by the American Economic
Association. It lists 1,305 resources in 93 sections and sub-sections available
on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those
interested in economics.
Since its commercial launch in 1999, ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier
Science journals into one of the world's largest providers of scientific,
technical, and medical (STM) literature. Our subscription covers the following ScienceDirect collections:
- Electronic Access to current Elsevier print holdings
- Electronic Access to current Academic Press print holdings
- Subject Collections:
- Medicine
- Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Agricultural Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Economics
- Materials Science
- Environmental Science
Statistical Abstract of the
United States
As the national data book, it contains a collection
of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected
international data are also included. The Abstract is also your guide to
sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and
private organizations.
On USA.gov, you can search millions of web pages from
federal and state governments, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories.
Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites. USA.gov has the
most comprehensive search of government publications and government sponsored
research anywhere on the Internet.
Voyager
online catalog for UH system libraries
Search for items in any library in the University of
Hawai‘i system. Catalog includes books, journals, electronic books, audiovisual
materials, manuscripts, government documents, microfilm and maps. Find items by
title, author, journal title, subject heading, call number, or keywords.
Voyager
online catalog for UH West O‘ahu and Leeward CC
libraries
Search for items located in the UH West O‘ahu and Leeward libraries only.
Full-text coverage of The Wall Street Journal, the
world's leading financial newspaper, is now available on the web through ProQuest. Coverage dates back to 1984 and is updated daily.
Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so researchers can easily access not only top
news stories but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and
popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, and letters
to the editor from well-known people are indexed. For each article cited in the
database, an abstract of up to 75 words helps the researcher know if the
complete text will meet his or her needs.
Wilson Business
Full Text covers Accounting, Acquisitions & Mergers, Advertising, Banking,
Building & Construction, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Communications,
Computers, Cosmetics Industry, Economics, Electronics, Entertainment Industry,
Finance, Financial Services, Government Regulations, Health Care, High
Technology, Hospitality and Tourism, Human Resources, Industrial Relations,
Insurance, International Business, Investments, Management, Marketing, Mass
Media, Occupational Health & Safety, Oil & Gas, Paper & Pulp
Industries, Public Utilities, Publishing, Purchasing, Real Estate, Retail
Trade, Small Business, Taxation, Technology, Transportation.
Once you are at the
WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
to OmniFile Full Text Select to search any or all of
these databases.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select is a multidisciplinary, 100%
full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying
indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art
Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological &
Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities
Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature &
Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full
Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Coverage begins in 1994.
Once you are at the
WilsonWeb database search page, click in the box next
to OmniFile Full Text Select to search any or all of
these databases.
World Factbook (Comprehensive Country Profiles by the CIA)