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The newly designed library homepage now offers access to commercial online databases we subscribe to. All electronic resources can be accessed directly via and passwords are to be obtained from our Reference Librarians. Please call the General Reference Unit at 7-4181 or the Specialized Reference Unit at 7-4195 in order to obtain a password.

Access to the following databases is available:

ProQuest

ProQuest provides access to more than 4,000 newspapers and periodicals, and over a million dissertations. Topics cover General Reference, Business and Finance, Newspapers, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine, Dissertations, Education.

Lexis-Nexis Universe

Lexis-Nexis Universe provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

Economist intelligence unit databases

Our subscription covers the following services:

Country Reports analyse political and economic trends in nearly 200 countries. Each report examines and explains the political scene, economic policy, the domestic economy and foreign trade and payments of a specific country and provides concise 18-24-month forecasts complementing the analysis.

Country Forecasts present and explain the EIU’s five-year macroeconomic projections for 60 of the world’s largest economies and provide a forward-looking assessment of the political and business environments. A key feature of Country Forecasts is a set of in-house EIU rankings, which assess the attractiveness of national business environments, allowing to make comparisons across countries and over time.

Country Profiles provides concise analysis and background information on country’s economic and political situation.

EconLit is the American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography of economic literature; it provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to the international literature on economics since 1969. Topics cover economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary theory and financial institutions; business finance; public finance; and international labour, health care, managerial, demographic, regional, agricultural, and urban economics; country studies, and government regulations.

Encyclopaedia britannica – no password required

Encyclopaedia Britannica gives access to the full-text of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the annual yearbook. It contains hundred of thousands of articles on subjects in all fields of human learning and history in all times and places.

Facts on file

Facts on File brings together the content from the Facts on File News Digest since 1940 and selected content from Issues and Controversies On File, Today’s Science On File, Editorials On File, Reuters On-Line News Service, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac Encyclopedia.

Index to foreign legal periodicals

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, produced by The American Association of Law Libraries, is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in approximately 490 legal journals published worldwide. Topics cover public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

Index to legal periodicals and books

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books is an index to legal journals, yearbooks, Institutes and Bar Associations journals, University publications and law reviews, and Government publications from the United States, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It provides coverage of literature on banking, constitutional law, criminal law, environmental protection, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, multinational corporations, public law and politics, securities and antitrust legislation, tax law and estate planning.

Pais international

PAIS is an index to political, economic and social issues in current debate. It provides coverage of the public and social policy literature of business economics, finance, law, international relations, public administration, government, political science, and other social sciences.

Periodical contents index full text

Peridical Contents Index Full text is an online periodical archive, containing the full text of articles published in 200 journals from the late 1700’s to the early 1990s.

For 2003, we plan to enlarge further our range of electronic resources and your suggestions for added services are most welcome. Please direct your recommendations to Mrs. Ruth Hahn-Weinert, Chief, Acquisitions and Cataloguing Unit, tel. 7-3610, email rhahn-weinert@unog.ch.

All new online resources will be posted on our website, therefore check regularly the e-Resources page at .