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Economics Books

The Main Library is located at the Badia Fiesolana .

The Economics Departmental Library is located at the Villa San Paolo .

 


Economics Books at the Badia Library 

The Economics Collection at the Badia Fiesolana is located on the entry-level floor of the Main Library. Consult the Catalogue  for shelfmarks and this map for directions .

Books on Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics and Statistical Theory are located at shelfmarks 330 to 659. The classification table is at the foot of this page.

Reference works in Economics and Statistics are listed on this page, with direct links to online versions .

Read the Economics Collection profile here .

Read about the Statistics Collection here .

 


Book Delivery Service (Main Library to Economics Department) 

Economists may request books for delivery  from the Badia Library to the Villa San Paolo by completing the VSP Book Delivery form . Books are issued for 30 days, renewable online (if not requested by another reader). Free-standing DVDs/CD-roms, older working papers, and photocopies of journal articles not online, may also be requested.

Books can be returned to the Badia Library via the white book-drop box outside the VSP Porter's Office.

Book delivery requests received before 11:00 on weekdays are fulfilled the same day. Requests received after 11:00 are fulfilled the next weekday. Books arrive at the VSP Porter's Office at 13:00.

Economists may order photocopies of articles not available online, by sending the title, author and issue number to econlibrary@eui.eu .

 


Departmental Library (VSP) 

The Economics Department Reference Library  is located on the ground floor of the Villa San Paolo, beside the elevator shaft. 455 course texts, software manuals, dictionaries and heavily-used monographs are available. Check the Catalogue  for shelfmarks. These books can only be consulted in the Departmental workspaces (VSP and San Paolino). It is not permitted to keep books in workspaces or offices overnight. All users should be familiar with the VSP Library Rules .

– Readers must complete the Check-out / Check-in form for each book

– Books cannot be taken out of the VSP complex

– There are no overnight or weekend loans

– All books must be available at the VSP Library each morning

– Books used at the adjacent Villa San Paolino must be returned to the VSP book case each day

– These rules apply equally to Researchers, Fellows, Professors and TAs.


New Economics Books in the Library 

All new acquisitions in Economics and Statistical Theory are announced to members of the Department in a Friday email Bulletin. Economists in the Max Weber Programme and the RSCAS also receive the e-Bulletin. Scholars in other departments can send a signup request to econlibrary@eui.eu .  The e-Bulletin is only delivered to eui.eu mail accounts.

Cover photocopies of all new Economics books are displayed on the Departmental Library notice board each Friday.

 


Suggesting Books for Acquisition 

Economists are welcome to make suggestions for new acquisitions by sending details to econlibrary@eui.eu .

Books in any language may be suggested. TAs and Professors are requested to signal new requirements before the beginning of each term. Requests for transfers of extra copies from the Badia Library to the Departmental Library should be sent to econlibrary@eui.eu .

 


Interlibrary Loan Service 

Before placing an interlibrary loan request, send the title to econlibrary@eui.eu  so the book can be considered for acquisition.

To request economics books or articles via interlibrary loan , readers should complete the book request form or the article request form on the lower left of this page . Check the Catalogue  before placing a request.

 


e-Books 

The number of e-Books in Economics and Statistical Theory is steadily increasing, and now includes the Oxford Scholarship Online  Economics collection from OUP; all books from the OECD  since 1998 and a selection of e-Books on the EBL platform .

 


Bibliographical & Citation Databases 

Lists of books may be exported from the Library Catalogue  by using the 'Save Marked Records' and 'Export' functions. 

EconLit  is the most comprehensive online bibliography of economics literature.  This global database provides abstracts, chapter lists of edited works and full bibliographical information.

Full-text e-Journal databases can be used to compile bibliographies and search for book reviews. Among the most important in Economics are: Science Direct , Springerlink Ingenta , JSTOR Sage  and Wiley Online .

The Web of Science  – a component of the Web of Knowledge – is an indexed database of scholarly literature with tools for bibliography-building, citation analysis and rankings' reports.  View the 2011 upgrade video .

Google Scholar  can be used to search for articles, working papers, reports and Economics blog content, and can be configured  to access EUI subscription journals. Google Scholar Citatations  was launched in November 2011.

Economics reference works are listed on this page .

The online New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics  provides scholarly introductions and bibliographies for major topics in Economics.

RePEc  (Research Papers in Economics) and Economists Online  can be used for bibliography-building and locating the full texts of working papers, preprints and open access literature in Economics.

Cadmus  is the EUI publications' database (institutional repository). All Economists at the EUI – Professors, Researchers and Fellows – are requested to submit details  of works published during their time at the EUI to the Cadmus  database. This includes articles, working papers, books and edited books. Where possible, full texts are included.
 

Classification System: Economics & Statistical Theory 

330-339

Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

380-389

Commerce

 

 

510-519

Mathematics and

Statistical Theory

 

 

650-659

 

330 Economics: general works

331 Labour Economics

332 Financial Economics

333 Economics of Land and Energy

336 Public Finance

337 International Economics

338 Production Economics

338.5 Microeconomics

339 Macroeconomics

381 Domestic Trade

382 External Trade

384 Communications, Telecommunication

388 Transportation

511 General principles of Mathematics

512 Algebra

515 Analysis

519 Probability and Applied Mathematics

519.3 Game Theory

658 Business, Organisation 

Contact: Thomas Bourke at econlibrary@eui.eu 

Page last updated on 06 February 2012