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Data and facts finder, academic items, patent and trademark, citation search, secondary references, open courses, English usage... 该指南提供商业与经济学科相关的资源及通用学习工具,主要涉及:数据与事实、学术文献、专利与商标、引文工具、公开课资源、英语学习资源等。

Fact finders/checkers and Statistic finders

  • ArcGIS provides mapping and spatial data.
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Library
  • Census Business Builder (CBB) provides selected demographic and economic data from the Census Bureau, a good free option for mapping.
  • EDGAR the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission, access to US public company filings.
  • Eurostat European statistics.
  • EU Open Data Portal: European Open data.
  • European Central Bank (ECB): access to Eu economic research publications, Euro area financial data and statistics information.
  • Find UK Open Data: data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies within the UK.
  • IMF Data International Monetary Fund
  • IMD World Competitiveness Online includes time series from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (1989-present), from the IMD World Talent Ranking and from the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking. Partially free.
  • International Financial Statistics (IFS) data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) the world's largest individual-level population database, IPUMS consists of microdata samples from United States (IPUMS-USA) and international (IPUMS-International) census records, as well as data from U.S. and international surveys.
  • Internet Archive provides access to free books, software, movies, etc. 
  • Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)  provides access to social science data, over 16,000 discrete studies/surveys with more than 70,000 datasets.
  • Lens PatCite: discovering relationship between scholarly articles and patents 
  • Maddison Project Database provides information on comparative economic growth and income levels over the very long run, backtrack GDP data. 
  • Natural England Open Data Geoportal: England’s natural environment data
  • OpenCorporatesthe world's largest open legal-entity database, providing a single unified set of  company records from over 140 government registries and other official sources around the world.
  • Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is the recognised national statistical institute for the UK.
  • Canada Open Data submitted by Government of Canada departments and agencies. 
  • Peking University Open Research Data Platform (北京大学开放研究数据平台) provides research data of projects which are supported by the university.
  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) provides statistical data of most of the countries and regions in the world. 
  • The World Bank Open Data offers free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
  • The World Bank Microdata Library access to microdata about people living in developing countries.
  • UK Data Service (international aggregate data) Through the platform users can access, explore and download datasets provided by the World Bank, OECD, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, and International Energy Agency. 
  • UN Comtrade Database aggregates detailed global annual and monthly trade statistics.
  • UNdata is maintained by the Development Data Section of the Development Data and Outreach Branch within the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) of the UN Secretariat. 
  • UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication.
  • U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is a source of the US nation's economy data.
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provides free  access to 21 million company filings and related reports & publications. 
  • United States Census Bureau provides source for population, housing, economic and geographic information, collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.
  • World Trade Organization (WTO) World economic research and statistics.

Academic Items

Resources

Description
arXiv free distribution service and an open-access archive for preprints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. 
CASHL Open Access Resources CASHL revealed more than 200 open access databases worldwide.
ChinaXiv (中国科学院科技论文预发布平台) A pre-print repository established by National Science Library at Chinese Academy of Science. 
CRGG(国别区域与全球治理数据平台) Users have access to Chinese research items after signing up an account 

Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ) 

EconBiz  A portal to search economic literature that is available worldwide. Most of them are free. 

Edward Elgar E-books 

ERIC Education Resources Information Center
EThOS  Access to doctoral theses from British institutions.
Google Scholar Searching academic works

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication(JCMC)

National Center for Philosophy and Social Sciences Documentation(国家哲学社会科学文献中心) The largest open access academic platform for Chinese philosophy and social sciences.
National Social Sciences Database(国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库) The largest non-profit full-text database provided by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Library(Survey and Data Information Center). 
National Science and Technology Library(NSTL,国家科技图书文献中心) Free to non-profit Institutional users national wide including CEIBS.

Nature Open access journals & books

Springer Nature offer researchers, institutions and their funders OA options for journals, books and sharing research data.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

OAPEN

A quality-controlled collection of open access books

Open and free content on JSTOR and Artstor | Open Access books on JSTOR

Open Knowledge Maps mapping research topics
PsychOpen search for open access articles in psychology
PsyChinaXiv(中国心理学预印本平台) A branch of ChinaXiv established by the Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Science.
PubScholar 公益学术平台

It mainly integrates academic resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and OA resources. The platform can retrieve papers, patents, scientific data etc. Including 21.22 million full-text of papers and 58.78 million full-text of patents.

RePEc Research paper in economics, preprint platform
SSRN working papers

Abbreviations

Resources Description
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations by Cardiff University an online database providing meaning of abbreviations for English legal publications.
GovSpeak by University of California San Diego Library a guide to U.S. government acronyms & abbreviations created by the University of California San Diego Library.
Abbreviations.com  
Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary  

Encyclopedia

Resources Description
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)  Philosophical studies
The Britannica Online Encyclopædia  A trusted and partly free online encyclopaedia provided by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a global educational publisher.

Patent and Trademark

Resources Description Link
WIPO PATENTSCOPE provides access to international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications in full text format on the day of publication. http://patentscope.wipo.int/
Global Dossier  a secure, online access to the file histories of related applications from USPTO, EPO, JPO, KIPO, and SIPO. https://globaldossier.uspto.gov/#/
US Patent and Trademark Office search for US patents and trademarks. https://www.uspto.gov/
EPO Espacenet Patent search search for European patents, free access to over 140 million patent documents, from 1782 to today. http://worldwide.espacenet.com/
European Patent Register the place to find procedural and legal status data on patent applications handled by the European Patent Office and on Unitary Patents from the moment that unitary effect has been requested. https://register.epo.org/regviewer
Japan Platform for Patent Information search for Japan patents. https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/
UK Intellectual Property Office search for UK patents and trademarks. https://www.gov.uk/search-for-patent
France National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI)  search for France patents, trademarks and industrial design rights. http://www.inpi.fr/
German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) search for German patents and trademarks. http://www.dpma.de/
Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI)  search for Swiss Federal patents and trademarks. https://www.ige.ch/
Canadian Intellectual Property Office search for Canadian patents, trademarks and industrial design rights. http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/home
Korean Intellectual Property Office search for Korean patents, trademarks and industrial design rights. https://www.kipo.go.kr/
Google Patents Patent search engine. https://patents.google.com/
China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA,国家知识产权局公共服务网) search for Chinese patents, trademarks, geographical indications and European Union trademarks. https://ggfw.cnipa.gov.cn/PatentCMS_Center/
CNIPA e-pub(国知局中国专利公布公告) search for all Chinese patent information published since Sep. 10, 1985. http://epub.cnipa.gov.cn/
CNIPA Patent Reexamination and Invalidation(国知局专利复审和无效) search for Reexamination application information and Invalidation application information. http://www.cnipa.gov.cn/col/col2632/index.html
Patentstar(专利之星) a patent search system with free search function developed by the China Patent Information Center (CNPAT). https://www.patentstar.com.cn/
Patent Information Search Platform(专利信息服务平台) patent abstracts from 105 countries and regions, including China (including the corresponding legal status data), US, Japan, Europe and South Korea etc. Partially free. http://search.cnipr.com/
SooPAT  Patent search engine. http://www.soopat.com/
Innojoy(大为专利搜索引擎) Patent search engine. http://www.innojoy.com/
Shanghai Intellectual Property Information Service Platform(上海市知识产权信息服务平台) set up by Shanghai City Government, provides access to Intellectual Property information, training, operation, policies and regulations. http://www.shanghaiip.cn/Search/

 

Online Quick Citation Machines

ZoteroBib is a fast references generator provided by Zotero.


Citation Machine is a free online tool that supports Chicago(9th ed.), Turabian, APA (7th ed.) and MLA (8th ed.) formats.


BibMe is a free to use online Bibliography Maker for MLA, APA, Chicago and Turabian formats.


Neil’s Toolbox: an online Harvard and APA Referencing Styles generator

Media Collections

Open Education

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English Usage

British Council: Learn English Online offers a series of free online self-study materials. Topics inculdes business English, grammar, skills, vocabulary, general English, etc.


Cambridge Dictionary Online: English dictionary & thesaurus, translation from English to Spanish & Turkish and Spanish to English.


Oxford Dictionaries Online: a free website offering a comprehensive dictionary, grammar guidance, puzzles and games, and a language blog.


Merriam-Webster Dictionary


Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus is an online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

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