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Economics of Reform and
Transition
AUBG Library Resources
Gergana Georgieva
Information Literacy Librarian
March 11, 2009
Overview
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Basic Steps of Library Research
Resources and services available
A concrete example
How to get help?
The 7 Steps of Research
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Identify and develop your topic
Find background information
Use the online catalog to find books
Find periodicals articles (print and electronic)
Find Internet resources
Evaluate what you have found
Cite what you find using a standard format for
your bibliography
Identify and develop your
topic
• State your topic as a question.
• Find keywords that describe your topic
• Test the keywords
Background information
• Common background sources
• Why background sources?
• How to use background sources
effectively?
• Bibliographies
Books
• Use the on-line catalog
• Ebrary
• Why do we consult books?
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Authorship
Analysis
Multiple viewpoints
Additional resources
Find periodicals articles
• Paper format
• Electronic
– Databases
– Electronic Journal Portal
Find Internet resources
• Search engines
• Directories
• Discipline-specific resources
Evaluate
• S – Scope – are all aspects of the topic covered
• T – Treatment – is the information free from bias
• A – Authority – are the authors qualified to
provide this information
• R – Relevance – does it address your topic
• T – Timeliness – Is the information current for
your purpose
Cite
• Most common styles of citing
– Modern Language Association (MLA)
– American Psychological Association (APA)
Searching: How to be
Effective?
• Narrow your search
– Be more specific
– Use phrases
– Add a discriminating or qualifying word or
phrase
• Broaden your search
– Use lower case
– Use truncation
Step 1
• Privatization of Agriculture in Southeastern
Europe
Keywords
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Privatization
Denationalization
Privatize
Southeastern Europe
Agriculture
Economics
Reform
Transition
• State owned
enterprises (SOE)
• Ownership
• Democracy
• Efficiency
Step 2
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Oxford Reference Online
– A Dictionary of Economics
– A Dictionary of Business and Management
– The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the
World
– A Dictionary of Environment and
Conservation
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The World Bank Glossary
Encyclopedia of Economics
The Fortune encyclopedia of Economics
A Guide for the Young Economist
Английско-български учебен речник по
икономика
Step 3
• On-line catalog
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Privatization
Privatization -- Balkan Peninsula.
Privatization -- Bulgaria.
Privatization -- Europe, Eastern.
Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Case studies.
Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Case studies.
Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
Privatization -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses
Step 3 - continued
• Ebrary
– Agricultural Research Policy in an Era of
Privatization
– Transition--The First Ten Years : Analysis and
Lessons for Eastern Europe and the Former
Soviet Union
– Privatization in Central & Eastern Europe :
Perspectives & Approach
Step 4
• Print Periodicals
– Economic Review
– Review of Development Economies
– Eonomist
– The Rand Journal of Economics
– South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics
– Икономика
– Икономически алтернативи
– Икономически преглед
Step 4- Continued
• Electronic Periodicals
– Electronic Journals Portal
• Databases
ABI/Inform / ProQuest Central
• Information on advertising, economics, human
resources, finance, marketing, computers and
more.
• 60,000 company profiles.
• The Wall Street Journal full text
– Publications
– Topics: Economics and Trade > Economics > Economic
Policy > Economic Development > Privatization
– Advanced search
– Author Search
CEEOL
• An online archive of full text PDF articles from
over 300 humanities and social science journals
and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central,
Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
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Advanced search
Periodicals search
Author search
Google Scholar search
DOAJ
• It covers free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals.
• Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
EBSCOHost
- Business Source Premiere
• Business Searching Interface
• Regular Searching Interface
– EconLit
– Other databases
Business Source Premiere
• Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including
1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
• Superior in full text coverage in all disciplines of
business, including marketing, management,
production and operations management,
accounting, finance and economics.
• 350 of the top scholarly journals
• Country economic reports from the EIU, Global
Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch
• Detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000
largest companies.
EconLit
• The world's foremost source of references
to economic literature.
• Covers virtually every area related to
economics.
• More than 1,000,000 citations and
abstracts: 1969-present.
• Links to full text articles
JSTOR
• Comprehensive archive of important
scholarly journals
• Business and Economics journals dating
back to their inception
ScienceDirect
• The ScienceDirect College Edition
provides colleges with affordable access
to dedicated subject packages in the
physical, social and health sciences
• Freedom Collection
World Bank Databases
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Global Development Finance
Global Economic Monitor
World Development Indicators
World Bank e-library
Step 5
• Discipline Specific Resources
Ask a Librarian
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