Economics of Reform and Transition

AUBG Library Resources

Gergana Georgieva

Information Literacy Librarian

March 11, 2009

Overview

• Basic Steps of Library Research

• Resources and services available

• A concrete example

• How to get help?

The 7 Steps of Research

• 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?– 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

• 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

Step 2 - Continued

• 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 – 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 Priva

tization

– 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.

– 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

• Global Development Finance

• Global Economic Monitor

• World Development Indicators

• World Bank e-library

Step 5

• Discipline Specific Resources

Ask a Librarian

• At Reference/Circulation desk

Monday-Friday 9.00-17.00

• By e-mail: libmail@aubg.bg

• By phone: 888 341/354

• And more …

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