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Economist Intelligence Unit Cancellation

Our subscription to the Economist Intelligence Unit, including EIU Country Indicators, will end on March 30, 2013.  We apologize for this inconvenience.

EIU has been provided by Kresge Business Library.  The Kresge Library suggests these alternatives to EIU after 3/30/13:

Country Overview Reports (available across the U of M)


Economic Data Sources (available across the UofM)

 

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II Journal

Alternative Titles
International Institute Journal
Description

The International Institute Journal is an open-access serial produced jointly by the University of Michigan's International Institute (II) and Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS), and published online by MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library. The II Journal is published twice a year, and includes features on cultural change, language, literature, communications technology, political and economic development, human rights, and global security. It aims to be relevant across regions and accessible to a broad audience.

Type
E-Journal(s)

OECD iLibrary

Alternative Titles
Source OECD SourceOECD OECD i Library
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
Description

Online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Includes full-text of all books, papers, 24 periodicals and OECD statistical databases. Includes access to International Energy Agency (IEA) statistical books but not IEA databases.

Type
Subject Gateway

Peace Research Abstracts (EBSCO)

Description

THis database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 115,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

Type
Article Index
Access
Authorized UM users (+ guests in UM Libraries)Authorized UM users (+ guests in UM Libraries)

Africa Development Indicators

Alternative Titles
Africa Development Indicators (ADI)
ADI
African Development Indicators
Description

Africa Development Indicators contains over 1,600 indicators and time series from 1961 to the present for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. The ADI Data Availability Query shows where data is available for a given country, series, and year. It contains the value "1" for available data and ".." for missing data.

Type
Numeric Data
Coverage
1961-

UN ODS

Alternative Titles
United Nations Optical Disk System ; UNODS online
Official Document System of the United Nations
Official document system of the United Nations ; United Nations Official Documents
Description
Comprises the full text of all United Nations parliamentary documents since 1993 and resolutions issued since 1946. In addition to parliamentary documentation, all currently valid United Nations administrative issuances (ST/AI/-, ST/IC/- and ST/SGB/-) are included in the database. Does not include press releases or sales publications.
Type
Database
Coverage
1946-
Access
Authorized UM users (+ guests in UM Libraries)Authorized UM users (+ guests in UM Libraries)

FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports

Alternative Titles
Foreign Broadcast Information Service 1941-1996
FBIS
Description

Provides CIA translations of newswires and broadcast services from around the world in full-text from 1941-1996.

"The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence." -- Readex.

For full text after 1996, see World News Connection.

FBIS available on microfiche in the Graduate Library, MICRO-F X208 to X215.

Type
Newspaper(s)
Coverage
1941 - 1996 Covers eight regions: Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Caribbean, Middle/Near East, North American and South America.

Government Finance Statistics (GFS)

Alternative Titles
Government Finance Statistics
GFS
IMF Stats, IMF Statistical Databases, International Monetary Fund
Description

GFS Online contains detailed annual statistical data on revenue, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries going back to 1990.

No "sign in" is necessary to view content. If individual users want to download data, please create a personal account. 

Type
Statistics
Coverage
1990-

HathiTrust Digital Library

Alternative Titles
Hathi Trust Digital Library, HTDL, HT
Big Ten/CIC Shared Digital Repository
Description

A massive digital library bringing together materials digitized by Google, the Internet Archive, libraries at HathiTrust partner institutions, and other commercial digitization schemes.  Includes searchable access to over 9 million volumes, including over 5 million books and over 240,000 serial publications, with full text access to 27% of these materials (over 2.5 million volumes).

Type
E-Journal(s)
Coverage
Current cumulative file. (Digital copies of library-held materials dated from prehistory to the present.)

E-STAT

Alternative Titles
E STAT, E-statistics, E-STAT for Education
E-STAT pour l’éducation
Description
A dynamic interactive tool providing reliable and timely statistics about Canada and its ever-changing people, including Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System (CANSIM), census and Search map 2001 data.
Type
Statistics
Coverage
Historical Censuses of Canada, 1665-1871##1871-

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