Finding Tools
Catalog:
An online
database that provides the citations and locations of all materials
in the library.
Electronic
Journals Portal:
This portal serves as a catalog for finding e-journals that are
contained in the databases subscribed by the library. When searching
for specific title, it shows you in which database/s you can find it
and its holdings. This portal also classifies journals by subject so
you can see how many and which titles are available for a specific
discipline or topic.
Print Resources
Key to Locations
To
find print materials, search the library
catalog, write down the Call Number and use it to find the
material on the shelves. To locate materials use the Library Floor
Plans mounted next to the elevator on each floor, or the Guide
to Call Numbers and Subject locations that you can find on the
library webpage.
Reference Sources:
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks.
These
sources are located on the ground floor. They are for in-house usage
only. Selected titles:
Ref
HC 15.W675 2002
Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies Vol. 1-4
Ref
HC 59.15.W656
World Development Indicators
Ref
HF1001C73 2006 Oxford Dictionary of Business and
management
Ref
HB61 .N49 1987
The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics
Ref
HB61 .C647 2008
The concise encyclopedia of economics
Ref
K487.E3 E53 2000
Encyclopedia of law and economics
Books
The
Library uses Library of Congress classification scheme, which
organizes books according to subject. This means that books stacked
together cover the same or closely related subjects. You can find
the Library of Congress classification scheme on the walls of the
basement and Ground floor or online. The Library's collection of
economics books is located in the basement
- H section. Here are some useful subjects in the area of
business and economics.
HA Statistics
HB Economic theory
NC-HD Economic history
HF Business
HG Finance
However,
material relating to Economics can also be found in several other
parts of Library including:
History
(Basement - sections D, E,
F) includes topics on economic and social history.
Law – K - includes material on the European Union.
Geography (basement) GE - for additional material on development and
environmental economics.
Newspapers
The
library subscribes to several Bulgarian and several American daily
newspapers in print including Financial Times and
Wall Street Journal. The current issue can be located on
the Ground floor. Recent issues can be found in folders on the
shelves behind them. Back issues have to be requested at Circulation
Desk. Newspapers cannot be checked out.
Journals
The
library subscribes to around 250 scientific journals and popular
magazines in print. They are searchable by the library catalog.
Recent issues are located on the Ground floor and are organized
alphabetically by title. A list
of all subscriptions is available on the library
webpage (www.aubg.bg/library), as well as a
list of all circulating ones. Most popular magazines can be
borrowed for a period of 3 days but scientific journals are for
in-house use. Back issues of newspapers and magazines are stored in
Compact Shelves in the Basement and have to be requested at the
Circulation Desk. Here are some suggestions for titles in business
and economics:
American
Economic Journal,
American
Economic Review,
Business
Week,
California
Management Review,
Economics
of Transition,
Forbes,
Fortune,
Harvard
Business Review,
Journal
of Common Market Studies,
Journal
of Economic History,
Journal
of Entrepreneurship,
The
Economist etc.
Key
to Locations
Electronic
resources can be accessed from any computer in the AUBG network
(computer labs and personal computers located in the Main Building,
NAB, Dormitories, Library and Elieff Center). Some electronic
resources can be accessed off-campus. Students not living in
Skaptopara can contact reference librarians for further information.
A
list of links to databases organized alphabetically is available on
the library web page. A short
description of all the databases can be found in Research
Help » Databases A-Z.
Reference
Sources
Encyclopedia
Britannica.
One of the most trusted sources of information on any topic used in
research to provide background information.
Oxford
Reference Online
Premium
Collection contains
about 175 + dictionaries, language reference, and subject reference
works published by Oxford University Press, plus
all 20,000 quotations from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
E-Books
E-brary. An e-book collection of over 47,000 full-text books of
all academic subject areas and from leading publishers.
E-Journals
Full-Text
Databases
ProQuest
Central It serves
as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the
market today totaling more than 12,665 titles—with over 9,745 titles
in full text.
EBSCOhost
Databases EBSCOhost offers a variety of proprietary
full-text databases and popular databases from leading information
providers that range from general reference collections to specially
designed, subject-specific databases.
Business
Source Premier It is the industry’s most used
business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300
journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed
titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable
cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is
superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines
of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting,
finance and economics.
Academic
Search Premier This
multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600
journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one
hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for
more than 1,000 titles.
EconLit
, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is
the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature.
The database contains more than 1,010,900 records from 1969-present. EconLit
covers virtually every area related to economics.
Regional
Business News This database provides comprehensive full text
coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News
incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications
covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
JSTOR
An electronic
archive of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences,
and sciences, starting with the very first issue. It has a moving wall
policy that keeps a 2 to 5 year gap between current articles and
articles in JSTOR.
CEEOL
An online
archive which provides access to full-text PDF articles from
humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents
pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
DOAJ
This directory
covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly
journals that aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Science
Direct Freedom Collection
offers a
collection of high-quality journal articles online. Content includes
access to over 2500 full-text scientific journals and e-books dating
back to 2003.
World Bank Databases
-
The
World Bank Data World
Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Africa Development
Indicators and Global Economic Monitor.
-
The World Bank e-library is an online, fully cross-searchable
portal of over 5,000 World Bank publications and Policy Research
Working Papers.
Indexing
and Abstracting Databases
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research
literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze
and visualize research.
ISI
Web of Knowledge
It is a research platform to quickly find, analyze, and share
information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Company information
Can
be found in Proquest Central database and EBSCO – Business Source
Premier
Internet
Sources
You
can find selected Internet sources by discipline at the home library
webpage. The box is called “Discipline-specific resources” and
allows you to select disciplines from a menu.
National
Statistics Online National
Statistics
Eurostat: Gateway to a huge
amount of EU information.
RePEc:
Large database of economics working papers, journal articles and
software.
Wiwi:
Helpful information for students of economics.
Research
Help
All
Subject Guides can be found on the library webpage. You can also find
guides to the catalog, to the Library of Congress classification, to
databases, and information literacy presentations on the webpage.
If
you need help with your research you can contact Reference librarians.
There are several ways to do this: You can come to the
Reference/Circulation desk during regular working hours to talk to a
librarian in person. You can use the virtual reference tool Meebo,
where you can chat with the librarian in real time. You can also send
an e-mail to libmail@aubg.bg, use
the @ask a librarian link on the library home page, or call 888 354.
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