Useful Links

(Lists and search engines are presented at the beginning of each section and are marked with a *)

LSE Information Resources
LSE Economics Research Centres
Other Economics and Social Science Resources
Institutions and Research Centres Worldwide
Data Sources
Journals and Working Papers
News
Foreign Exchange
Web Search Engines

LSE Information Resources

• British Library of Political and Economic Science
• Data Library
• ScienceDirect - resource for research journals, abstract databases and reference works.

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LSE Economics Research Centres

• LSE Research Laboratory (RLAB)
• CEP: Centre for Economic Performance
• CREFSA: Centre for Research in Economics and Finance for Southern Africa
• FMG: Financial Markets Group
• STICERD: Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines

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Other Economics and Social Science Resources

• FINWEB: Financial Economics WWW Server
• Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN): Economics, based within the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol.
• Nereus - access to the economics resources of key libraries, academic publications and other online resources in Europe and beyond
• REGARD: national database service containing in-depth information on social science research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
• intute: social sciences
• intute: repository search
• WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics

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Institutions and Research Centres Worldwide

• Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC): list maintained by Christian Zimmermann, CREFE, University of Quebec at Montreal*
  
  
• Bank of England
• Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
• Europa (European Union's Web Site)
• Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
• Institute for Employment Research (IER), Warwick.
• Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
• International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG): international non-profit organization that works to promote economic growth and human development in developing and transitional countries.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, MA.
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• OXONIA, The Oxford Institute for Economic Policy
• Royal Economic Society
• Santa Fe Institute
• United Nations
• World Bank
• World Trade Organisation

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Data Sources

• Data on the Net: the easiest way to find online data*
• Council of European Social Science Data Archives*
• BIDS: Bath Information and Data Services
• CIA World Factbook
• The Data Archive at the University of Essex
• Eurostat
• ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (Michigan)
• MIMAS: Manchester Information and Associated Services: JISC-supported national data centre run by Manchester Computing at the University of Manchester, providing a free service for higher education throughout the UK.
• Penn World Table
• SSDC: Social Sciences Data Collection (San Diego)
• UK Official National Statistics:
  • StatBase - online encyclopaedia of official statistics
• US Bureau of Economic Analysis
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics
• US Census Bureau
• US Department of Agriculture
  • National Agricultural Statistics Service
• US Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy

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Journals and Working Papers

• EconPapers*
• IDEAS: Internet Documents in Economics Access Service*
• JSTOR: access to pre-1993 issues of journals, including The American Economic Review, Econometrica, and Journal of Applied Econometrics. Full access is limited to School machines.
• WebEc: Economics Journals on the Internet*
• The Econometrics Journal Online
• ScienceDirect - resource for research journals, abstract databases and reference works.

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News

• Ambito Financiero
• BBC
• BusinessWeek
• CNN
• The Economist
• Electronic Policy Network
• Electronic Telegraph
• Financial Times
• The Guardian and The Observer
• The Hindu (daily online edition)
• The Independent
• International Herald Tribune
• Libération
• Le Monde
• Le Monde Diplomatique
• La Nación
• NBC
• New York Times
• El País
• PBS
• El Periodico de Catalunya
• Reuters
• The Sunday Times
• The Times
• Washington Post
• Die Welt
• Die Zeit

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Foreign Exchange

• World Currency Exchange
• Yahoo! Quotes

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Web Search Engines

• Alta Vista
• Excite
• FAST Search "All the Web, all the Time"
• Infoseek
• Google
• Lycos
• MetaCrawler (a search engine of search engines - searches several Web search engines simultaneously)
• Webcrawler
• Yahoo (All Sites)
• Yahoo (UK Sites Only)