New Licensed Resources: Global Financial Data; Source OECD

By Ellen Meltzer, CDL Information Services Manager

UC campuses now have access to these electronic resources as part of CDL consortial licenses.  (Some campuses may have already had access to these titles through previous local campus subscriptions):

Global Financial Data (Systemwide access [minus UCSF] via Global Financial Data)
http://uclibs.org/PID/106641

Contains long runs of historical data (over 6,000 series) on security markets and macroeconomic trends for more than 200 countries.  Includes Long-term Financial, Interest Rate, United States Daily Stock Market, Global Stock Market, Total Return, Annual Data, and Dow Jones Industrial Average Intraday.  Includes online encyclopedia that describes the database.

Source OECD (Tier 2 resource does not include Berkeley, Santa Cruz and SF.  Berkeley and Santa Cruz receive through other vendors; Santa Cruz will join this license next year.  An optional add-on product, IEA Statistics, has been selected by 3 campuses:  Irvine, Riverside, and San Diego)
http://uclibs.org/PID/21193

Full-text publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including country studies, forecasting publications, reports, and socioeconomic datasets.  The statistics section includes data in the areas of international trade, telecommunications, foreign aid, migration, and many other categories.