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Basic information about Economics and Finance
This guide provides an overview of the library resources available for Economics and Finance students.

Programme website
Course Reading
Code Course Name
ECON100Introduction to Economics
ECON101Principles of Economics I
ECON103Basic Microeconomics
ECON104Basic Macroeconomics
ECON105Quantitative Methods for Economics and Finance
ECON203Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON213Introductory Econometrics
ECON320International Trade
ECON323The Economy of Contemporary China
ECON334International Economics
ECON336Urban and Real Estate Economics
ECON350Research methodology
ECON413Mathematical Economics
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EBSCOhost - Academic Search Ultimate
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Gale Academic OneFile
Gale Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines such as Biology, Chemistry, Criminal justice, Economics, Environmental science, History, Marketing, Political science, Psychology.

Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory offers instant access to full-text academic journals and magazines—with a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Powered by Gale OneFile, it includes more than 1,800 titles. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.

Gale Business: Insights
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Gale OneFile: Business
Gale OneFile: Business provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications, all available on the state-of-the-art InfoTrac platform.

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Scopus
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ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated multi-disciplinary full-text database across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

 

ScienceDirect
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Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 500 journals. OUP hold a commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content, and with Oxford Academic you can research, discover, and explore the latest in scholarship from around the world. According to the 2022 Journal Citation Report from Clarivate, 47% of OUP journals are in the top quartile of their subject categories and eight are in the #1 spot. You can search across Oxford Academic’s growing body of three million journal articles to meet your research needs.

Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library
The Taylor & Francis Social Sciences & Humanities Library covers over 1,000 scholarly journals content spans various areas of Humanities and Social Sciences:
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JSTOR (Full Collection)
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines. At present, JSTOR contains a range of Arts & Sciences collections, a multidisciplinary Life Sciences Collection, discipline-specific collections across several fields, and four primary source collections.

Emerald Accounting, Finance and Economics eJournal Collection
This Emerald collection contains 39 journals with high quality, more than half of them are listed in SCOPUS. Contributors come from leading institutes like University of Chicago Booth (USA), The University of Cambridge (UK) and KPMG. A few journal titles include The Accounting, Auditing & Accountability, one of the top ten accounting journal ranked by Google Scholar and is indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI); International Journal of Manpower which is also listed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) with more than 30 years of history.

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EBSCOhost eBook Collection
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Pearson Business Professional eBook Subscription Collection
Pearson Business Professional eBook Subscription Collection offers more than 27,500 business e-books selected to assist students and scholars with various business research, special projects and entrepreneurial needs. A key resource for academic and business school libraries, eBook Business Collection encompasses a variety of topics, such as marketing, finance, supply chain management and entrepreneurship.

Oxford Academic
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Wiley Digital Textbooks published by Wiley, currently feature over 20,000 original academic textbooks, covering more than 30 disciplines, including business management, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, life and earth sciences, medical health, social sciences, hospitality management, and humanities.

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Loan quota: 5 titles for each user


VitalSource (e-textbook platform)
VitalSource is the e-textbook platform which provides many different subjects of the e-textbooks. Users could borrow them via this platform. It supports mobile app in IOS and Android, users can read offline accordingly. Furthermore, users can make notes on their borrowed e-textbooks during the loan period.

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Physical Books
  Statistical techniques in business and economics
Publication Date : 2023
Call number : 519.5 LIN 2023
Location : English Book (4/F)
  經濟學・Infographics 視覺資訊大繪解
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : O 550 2308 2022
Location : Chinese Oversized Book (2/F)
  經濟漩渦 : 觀察冷戰發生的新視角 = Economic vortex : the beginning of the Cold War reinterpreted
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 578.186 707 2022
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  文明的邏輯 : 人類與風險的博弈
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 550 1107 2022
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  Economics : private and public choice
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : O 330 GWA 2022
Location : English Oversized Book (5/F)
  Data science and multiple criteria decision making approaches in finance : applications and methods
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 658.40301 SIL 2021
Location : English Book (4/F)
  Economics and the business environment
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 330.094 HUL 2021
Location : English Book (4/F)
  Digital marketing outreach : the future of marketing practices
Publication Date : 2020
Call number : 658.8720954 DIG 2023
Location : English Book (5/F)
Chinese eBooks
  社會人的金融經濟通識課
Publication Date : 2023
Access via 華藝電子書 [ebook]
  重新面對經濟學:經濟學沒有你想的那麼難,也比你所知道的更加重要
Publication Date : 2023
Access via HyRead [ebook]
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Publication Date : 2022
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  目的與獲利:ESG大師塞拉分的企業永續發展策略
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  圖解經濟學
Publication Date : 2022
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  金融的世界史:泡沫經濟、戰爭與股市
Publication Date : 2022
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  3天搞懂財經資訊:圖解看懂財經新聞、企業財報不求人, 找出年年下蛋的金雞母!
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  經濟學的40堂公開課:倫敦政經學院教授, 生動剖析經濟學家如何思考, 讓經濟學成為改變世界的力量營
Publication Date : 2021
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  像經濟學家一樣思考:24堂超有料市場供需課 Step by Step揭開貨幣、商品與消費的祕密
Publication Date : 2020
Access via HyRead [ebook]
English eBooks
  Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life
Publication Date : 2023
Access via DOAB Directory of Open Access Books [ebook]
  A new principles of economics : the science of markets
Publication Date : 2023
Access via EBSCO [ebook]
  The relational view of economics : a new research agenda for the study of relational transactions
Publication Date : 2023
Access via EBSCO [ebook]
  What Economists Should Do : In Defense of Mainstream Economic Thought.
Publication Date : 2022
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  The Economics of the Stock Market
Publication Date : 2022
Access via Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Economics and Finance [ebook]
  Macroeconomics
Publication Date : 2021
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  Theory of Macroeconomic Policy
Publication Date : 2020
Access via Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Economics and Finance [ebook]