LibGuides: Social Science & Public Policy: Politics and Economics

Databases and Ebook Collections

These are a few other databases and ebook collections that you can access through the King's Libraries and Collections subscriptions. This is not an exhaustive list, but a few selected useful platforms.

EconLit
EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. It is searched using the Proquest platform.
Elgar Online
Elgar Online is an ebook platform. It has good coverage in both political science and economics and finance.
Emerald Insight
Emerald Insight allows you to search journals and ebooks through this platform. It has good coverage in public policy and economics.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American economic research organization that undertakes and disseminates research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community. Projects are organised into a series of nineteen research programs and fourteen working groups.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Each Oxford Handbook is a set of essays covering a wide range of aspects of the field mentioned in the title.

Within the King's collections, we have access to 26 handbooks in the field of economics and finance, and 35 in political science.
Oxford Scholarship Online
The complete text of selected Oxford books. King's has subscriptions to both the political science, and economics and finance packages.
Proquest Social Science Premium Collection
Proquest Social Science Premium Collection is a platform through which a number of separate databases can be searched, many of which are useful within the School.

Key examples of useful databases in this collection include PAIS, Policy File Index, IBSS, Political Science Database, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

The databases have strong coverage in economics, international relations, political science and public policy.
Springer Link
Springer Link is a platform allowing you to search journal and ebook collections that we have through Springer. It also searches conference papers and other material types.

There is good coverage of economics, political science, and international relations in Springer Link.
Taylor and Francis Journals
King's subscribes to large sections of the Taylor and Francis Journals. This includes subject coverage in economics, finance, business, and industry; and politics and international relations.

Other Resource Types

Faculti
Faculti is a platform with short videos providing academic insight into key subjects and questions. Subjects covered include political science and economics.

Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports Archive
The Economist Intelligence Unit has published Country Reports since 1952, covering almost 200 countries. Each report presents detailed statistics alongside expert commentary and forecasting from the EIU’s analysts. This database presents the historical reports up to 1995, with all data from the statistical tables fully captured and downloadable in spreadsheet form.
FAME
Fame is a database for searching company information. Users can research individual companies, search for companies with specific profiles, and do detailed analysis.
OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics
The OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics database includes a range of annual labour market statistics and indicators from 1960 broken down by sex and age as well as information about part-time and short-time workers, job tenure, hours worked, unemployment duration, trade union, employment protection legislation, minimum wages, labour market programmes for OECD countries and non-member economies.
Orbis Bank Focus
Orbis Bank Focus offers detailed information on listed, and major unlisted/delisted, companies around the world. Includes country profiles and outlook from the EIU, directors and contacts and M&A details and rumours.
Passport Euromonitor
Passport is Euromonitor International's syndicated market research database. It provides data and insight on industries, economies and consumers worldwide, helping our clients analyse market context and identify future trends.
UK Data Service
The UK Data Service is a comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. Here you will find a single point of access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, international macrodata, business microdata, qualitative studies and census data.

UK Press Online
UKPressOnline is an online database containing as-published pages from the back catalogues of some of the world's leading newspaper titles, including the Daily Express and Daily Mirror. The content covers a date range from 1835 to present and is searchable using headlines, keywords or date.