National Social Science Documentation Centre: E-Resources

E-resources of NASSDOC & ICSSR Consortium

Econlit with full text (EBSCO): Contains all of the indexing available in EconLit, plus full text for nearly 600 journals, including the American Economic Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives). This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in economics & finance. Volume and issue browsing is available for all full-text journals. It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labour economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. Users can also access Computer Source Consumer Edition, Military & Government Collection, Primary Search, ERIC & MAS ultra

(Accessible at 24 ICSSR Research Institutes, 2 Regional Centres, NASSDOC and ICSSR, New Delhi)

Indiastat (Datanet India): Indiastat is India's comprehensive information portal that provides recent, authentic & exhaustive socio-economic data/information. It is a cluster of 51 sites including India-specific, Sector specific and State specific sites with authentic and comprehensive compilation of secondary level socio-economic statistical data about India and its states on more than 35 variables

(Accessible at 22 ICSSR Research Institutes, 2 Regional Centres, NASSDOC and ICSSR, New Delhi)

JSTOR: JSTOR is an online archival database produced by ITHAKA, a non- profit organisation. It provides access to full text journal articles from more than 2000 academic journals and scholarly content. The contents are provided by more than 900 publishers in more than 50 disciplines. Because of JSTOR’s archival mission, there is a gap from 1-5 years between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. The most recent 3-5 years are generally unavailable. The subjects covered are: Economics, Political Science, Social Work, Sociology and Criminal Justice, Geography, Education, Psychology, Asian Studies, Public Policy, Library Science, Population Studies, Management, Business, Marketing and Finance, Public Affairs, History, etc.. Overall subjects have been categorised in different Collection (I – IX). Links have been provided from JSTOR to titles that are common to JSTOR and other collections e.g. Project MUSE, Periodicals Index Online, etc.

(Accessible at 22 ICSSR Research Institutes, 2 Regional Centres, NASSDOC and ICSSR, New Delhi)

Prowess IQ (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, CMIE): Prowess is database of large and medium Indian firms. It includes the data on the financial performance of the firms from 1989 onwards. It contains detailed information of over 20,000 firms. These comprise - All companies traded on India's major stock exchanges and several others including the central public sector enterprises. The database covers most of the - Organised Industrial activities; Banking and Organised financial and other services sectors in India. Prowess provides detailed information on each company. This includes a normalised database of the financials covering 1,500 data items and ratios per company. Besides, it provides quantitative information on - Production, Sales, and Consumption of raw material and Energy. Totally, the number of indicators per company is close to two thousand. Such information is usually available for over ten years.

(Accessible at 29 ICSSR Research Institutes, 2 Regional Centres, NASSDOC and ICSSR, New Delhi)

Sage Research Method Online Database: Sage Research Methods Online Database provides access to more than 600 Books, 100,000 pages of book, journal and reference content covering almost 2,000 qualitative and mixed methods topics and terms from SAGE. Its “Methods Map” allows to create a visual search “map” from the taxonomy that links methods or authors. “Methods Collection” allows listing of the articles and chapters that have been found most useful and a user can explore other user’s lists using the Methods Collections – and share his/her collection with colleagues and students. SRM includes video interviews with some of the leading authors in the field. It provides Counter Compliant Usage Statistics, MARC Records, Open URL Compliance and DOIs for book chapters registered with Cross Ref.