Economics & Public Policy Extra

“As you may know, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has funded a new national service that will consolidate and incorporate four established data services and websites:

• Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
• Census.ac.uk
• Secure Data Service (SDS)
• Survey Question Bank (SQB)

This week the new UK Data Service launched its website, which will affect how you find and access data and related resources. Most notably:

• The ESDS website will remain during the transition, however content there will not be maintained and could become out of date.
• These remaining websites will have automatic redirects to the new UK Data Service website, however those redirects may not exactly match the pages you currently use.
• Survey Question Bank (SQB)

We encourage you to visit the UK Data Service website and get acquainted with what you can find there. Here are the main links you should be aware of. All links are live as of Friday 22 March 2013:

We appreciate your patience as we transition services to the UK Data Service. We also encourage you to read the FAQs for answers to specific questions and concerns that will affect regular users. As always, get in touch if you need personal support.”

We now have trials to two e-book platforms – ebray and Safari Business Books.  Ebray provides to access over 12,000 economics & business titles: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucl

Safari Business Books Online includes over 1,630 professional textbooks, “delivering instant, reliable answers to important topical business questions and research needs.  It covers a wide range of critical business skills ranging from communication and problem-solving to leadership, customer service and employee performance.  Safari Business Books Online includes imprints from well-known publishers such as Addison Wesley, Alpha Books, Financial Times – Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall PTR, QUE and Sams Publishing”: https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=N6CC9X0RADOYWVEYKNXP

The trials will end on 18th April.

Dismantling public policy : preferences, strategies, and effects / edited by Michael W. Bauer … [e Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
PUBLIC POLICY JF 1525 BAV

Gibler, Douglas M. The territorial peace : borders, state development, and international conflict / Douglas M. Gibler. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS XB GIB

Legg, Andrew, 1983- The margin of appreciation in international human rights law : deference and proportionality / Andre Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
HUMAN RIGHTS A 7 LEG

Pasqualucci, Jo M. The practice and procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights / Jo M. Pasqualucci. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
HUMAN RIGHTS HB 820 PAS

Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946- From pleasure machines to moral communities : an evolutionary economics without homo economicus / Ge Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
ECONOMICS A 12 HOD

Burgin, Angus. The great persuasion : reinventing free markets since the Depression / Angus Burgin. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2012.
ECONOMICS B 40 BUR

Valdez, Stephen. An introduction to global financial markets / Stephen Valdez & Philip Molyneux. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
ECONOMICS J 10 VAL

Taleb, Nassim. Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / Nassim Nicholas Taleb. New York : Random House, c2012.
ECONOMICS R 13 TAL

“Members of the Public & Commercial Services Union (PCS) have voted for a one day strike on Wednesday 20 March 2013 over changes to pay, pensions and working conditions in the public sector.

The British Library at St Pancras plans to be open as usual for visitors to its public areas and exhibition galleries, but there is likely to be significant disruption to our Reading Room services with the potential of late opening and some rooms likely to remain closed.

Further, we may only be able to facilitate a maximum of five requests per person in Reading Rooms that are open on 20 March, and no transfers will be possible between Reading Rooms in St Pancras. There may also be delays in the delivery of collection items held off-site.

Although every effort will be made to maintain opening hours of available rooms until 20.00, there is a possibility of early closure at 17.00.

We plan to open the Boston Spa Reading Room and the Newspaper Library at Colindale but there may be disruption to our services.

We urge all Readers to check any changes to the Library’s opening hours and available services. We will keep you updated on our website – please see the home page at  www.bl.uk“

The EuroPhoto project aims to digitise historical pictures from the archives of 10 leading European News Agencies and to make them available to Europeana.  Pictures will be free of charge for educational or private use.  Partners include: Agenzia Ansa, Italy; Agence Belga – Agence telegraphique Belge de presse sa Belgium; Berlingske media a/s Denmark; Dpa Deutsche presse agentur gesellschaft mit beschrankter haftung Germany; Magyar tavirati iroda rt Hungary; Expert system s.p.a. Italy; Polska agencja prasowa sa Poland; Lusa – Agencia de noticias de Portugal sa Portugal; Agencia efe s.a. Spain; Stichting Anp Foundation the Netherlands; European Pressphoto Agency b.v. epa the Netherlands.  Available already are many historic images relating to the Cold War, Spanish civil war, and women participating in political movements and campaigns.
Source: LIS-SOCIALSCIENCE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Falahati, Kazem. New paradigms in financial economics : how would Keynes reconstruct economics? / Kazem Falahati. London : Routledge, 2013.
ECONOMICS D 20 FAL

The role of elites in economic development / edited by Alice H. Amsden, Alisa DiCaprio, and James A. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
ECONOMICS D 30 AMS

Falahati, Kazem. New paradigms in financial economics : how would Keynes reconstruct economics? / Kazem Falahati. London : Routledge, 2013.
ECONOMICS D 20 FAL

Endres, Alfred. Economics for environmental studies : a strategic guide to micro- and macroeconomics / Alfred Endres Heidelberg ; London : Springer, c2012.
ECONOMICS N 35 END

John, Peter, 1960- Analyzing public policy / Peter John. London : Routledge, 2012.
PUBLIC POLICY H 97 JOH

Ahmed, Amel. Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice : engineering electoral dominance / Amel Ahmed Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
PUBLIC POLICY JC 423 AHM

The politics of the new welfare state / edited by Giuliano Bonoli and David Natali. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
PUBLIC POLICY JC 479 BON

Coalition Britain : the UK election of 2010 / edited by Gianfranco Baldini and Jonathan Hopkin. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
PUBLIC POLICY JN 956 BAL

A trial of EMIS will be available until Wednesday 27th February.  Please go to http://site.securities.com/ and then select a country of interest on the right side of the screen.

“ISI Emerging Markets was founded in 1994 and acquired by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC in 1999. Specialising in the emerging markets we deliver hard-to-find information on more than 100 emerging markets across CEE, SEE, Asia, LATAM, Middle East and Africa. We aggregate data from over 20,000 sources (including our own proprietary news service) our core strength lies in the local knowledge; we have a network of 29 offices through these regions enabling us to provide local information sourced by local people.

This is our flagship product and delivers information from a company, sector, and macroeconomic viewpoint, together with the latest news and financial data directly from the local offices. 　

On the top of the news, you can compare the performance of companies between each other and access research and analysis articles, ratings, analytical commentaries…

The product covers both public and private companies (over 1.7 million companies) and all information is delivered via an extremely user-friendly interface.　

Furthermore, there are various options to customise searches and personalise e-mail alerts. 　

The news is available in both English and the local language. We translate the local articles and reports into English.

Information provided in EMIS are aggregated from different local and international sources, including reports from Datamonitor, Euromonitor, Business Monitor International, Dun & Bradstreet, Esmerk, Intellinews…

Dealwatch Add-on

M&A and ECM news and deals, widely considered as the most comprehensive emerging markets deal available. Also unique DealMonitor application summarizes and projects future emerging market M&A activity, and goes a step further by providing a list with company profiles of possible matches for bidders and targets!

In short, EMIS offers comprehensive business information and market intelligence in a convenient and easy to use way.”

20^th Feb, 2-3pm, 66/72 Gower Street, B.01 – Graduate School Cluster Room
Sources of socio-economic data

 27^th Feb, 2-3pm, 66/72 Gower Street, B.01 – Graduate School Cluster Room
Legal sources for human rights

6^th Mar, 2-3pm, 1-19 Torrington Place, 113 – Public Cluster
Nexis UK (newspaper database)

Would you like to know more about how to find books, journal articles, etc.?

If so, why not come along to the following training sessions.  No need to book, just turn up.

Tuesday 22nd Jan, Chadwick 2.33 – Public Cluster
1pm-2pm Legal resources for non-lawyers

 Wednesday 23rd Jan, Chadwick 2.33 – Public Cluster
12pm-1pm Introduction to Explore
1pm-2pm Resources for Arts & Humanities

 Friday 25th Jan, Chadwick 2.33 – Public Cluster
12pm-1pm Introduction to Explore
1pm-2pm Resources for Social & Historical Sciences

Please note that places will be allocated on a first come basis, but if demand is high we will run further sessions.

Oxford Business Group is a publishing, research and consultancy firm providing information, analysis and advice to the global investment, academic and government communities through our series of economic intelligence reports.　　

As part of our investment in Academia, we are pleased to offer students and academics free, online access to all our content.  This subscription regularly retails for £500 per year, however we are offering students 3 years of free access to support your studies. Some key features of this subscription are:

• Over 40,000 articles from 7 years of primary research in over 30 global markets, searchable by keyword.
• Interviews and viewpoints from Heads of State, Ministers and key individuals in each sector
• Overviews from our experienced analysts, who are embedded in each country up to a year to produce the reports.

Register with your UCL email address at: https://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/content/ucl-library