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• Avalon Project, Yale University Law School. Seeks to "mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." Documents are presented both chronologically and by topic (under Major Collections).
• BibEc, a service for finding information about papers in economics. Collection of archives that supply information about economics working papers, journal publications and software. BibEc is limited to printed documents. From NetEc.
• Company Data Direct, company information database that provides you with fully searchable data on more than 10,000 NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchange companies, including all SEC (EDGAR) filings. All financials are "as reported." Data is organized to facilitate research and is updated weekly to provide the most current information for your investment and research decisions. Company Data Direct/International provides the same kind of information on a global level. Added features to this subscription include three other resources: Corporate Fact Sheets, Domestic Annual Reports and Country Profiles. proxy server access instructions. (Click on "Sign In" under "Member Services." Restricted to one user at a time.)
• Cost of Living Calculator
• Economics Internet Resources, from Western Connecticut State University.
• Economics Journals on the Web
• Economics Resource Guide, from the Mining Company.
• Economics WPA, working papers archive, from Washington University.
• Economics WWW Resources, from the WWW Virtual Library.
• Economist.com Country Briefings, news stories, fact sheets, and links to official government sites.
• Factiva provides access to the fulltext of several newspapers, magazines and newswires going back two weeks. Business sections of leading regional newspapers are available for the past 90 days. Also includes company and industry reports. Available from UK campus machines only. Limited number of simultaneous users; please logoff after use (upper left-hand corner).
• Favorite Economic Sites, from Krislyn's Strictly Business Sites.
• IDEAS, Internet Documents in Economics Access Service.
• The Inflation Calculator, adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to the present.
• New Economic Papers, announcement service which filters information on new additions to RePEc into edited reports. These reports are generated by subject-specific editors and are circulated via email. The goal is to provide subscribers with up-to-date information on new additions to the research literature.
• Research Papers in Economics, series of interoperating electronic archives of academic economics papers. From NetEc.
• Resources for Economics on the Internet
• STAT-USA, access to Department of Commerce trade resources. Includes information from the National Trade Data Bank, Global Business Procurement Opportunities, Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information, and Economic Bulletin Board databases. Access limited to UK faculty, staff, and students who access the web from a machine with a UK i.p. address or users accessing the web from the UK campus.
• VIBES, Virtual International Business and Economic Sources.

Specific Resources

• AERE, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
• AmosWorld, instructional economic information.
• Association for the Monetary Union of Europe
• ATP, Advanced Technology Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, invests directly in the nation's economic growth by working with industry to develop innovative technologies with strong commercial potential.
• Budget of the US Government
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• CCER, Center for Community Economic Research at UC-Berkeley.
• Center for Business & Economic Research, University of Kentucky.
• County Business Patterns
• EconEdLink, created by the National Council on Economic Education in partnership with MCI. Portfolio of web sites offering academic content for classroom activities.
• The Economeister, presents articles from Market News Service, real-time financial information provider covering macroeconomic indicators, monetary policy, U.S. Treasuries and other bond markets, foreign exchange, and derivatives.
• Economic Census Database
• Economic Encounter, providing links to sites dealing with the field of economics and the social sciences, including institutions in Latin America. Also presents new articles and papers in economics.
• Economic Growth Resources, from the Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford University. Includes data sets, journals, literature surveys and working papers.
• Economic Indicators, Daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau.
• Economic-Indicators.com
• Economic Policy Institute
• Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• The Economic Statistics Briefing Room, from the U.S. Government.
• EDIN, the Economic Democracy Information Network, sponsored by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research.
• Economists with Web Pages
• The Euro, European Union Web Directory.
• FAIRMODEL, computer-based economic forecasting system of the United States economy made up of 131 equations and actual and predicted economic data covering the years 1952 to 2001. Created by Yale University professor Ray C. Fair.
• Federal Budget & Economic Report of the President
• Federal Budget Resources
• Financial Economics Network
• G8 Information Centre, from the University of Toronto.
• Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, from the Bureau of the Census, with demographic statistics concerning the nation's housing, income, and poverty.
• Inflation Index Adjustor
• The International Economics Study Center, developed by Steve Suranovic, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University.
• Kentucky Revenue Cabinet
• National Budget Simulator, from UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research.
• National Bureau of Economic Research, non-profit foundation engaging in academic research on the US economy. Official source for business cycle (recession) dating in the US.
• Working Paper Access
• National Debt, updated current amount.
• National Economic, Social & Environmental Databank
• OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
• Regional Economic Information System
• Socioeconomic Data And Applications Center, from the CIESIN Information Network.
• Statistical Resources on the Web Pertaining to Economics, from the University of Michigan's Documents Center.
• Statistical Resources on the Web Pertaining to Foreign & International Economics, from the University of Michigan's Documents Center.
• Trade Compliance Center Trade and Related Agreements Database (TARA), developed by the Department of Commerce to aid US exporters.
• U. S. Economy at a Glance, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• VIBES, Virtual International Business and Economic Sources.
• The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, covers the economies of Central and Eastern Europe.
• Weekly Economic Update, electronic newsletter providing articles and original research reports on the U.S. stock market giving suggestions about companies to buy or sell and providing brief summaries of risk factors for each company.
• WoPEc limited to downloadable versions (but not necessarily free) of the latest research results in economics.

• Business Electronic Information Resources, available through the UK Libraries.
• Carol Martin Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky.
• Department of Economics

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