ScienceDirect Announces Licensing Agreement with American Economic Association; EconLit Database To Be Made Available on ScienceDirect.Business and Science Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2000 ScienceDirect(R) (www.sciencedirect.com), provider of the world's largest full-text electronic database of scientific, technical and medical information, has announced an agreement with the American Economic Association The American Economic Association, or AEA, is the oldest and most important professional organization in the field of economics. It was established in 1885 by religious and social reformer Richard T. (www.aeaweb.org) to make its EconLit Database available on ScienceDirect. The EconLit Database is a well-known bibliographic database For computer programs to manage an individual's bibliographic references, see Reference management software A bibliographic or library database is a database of bibliographic information. dating back to 1969 with over 600 indexed journals from leading publishers in the areas of economics, finance, business and public policy. In addition to bibliographic bib·li·og·ra·phy n. pl. bib·li·og·ra·phies 1. A list of the works of a specific author or publisher. 2. a. citations, EconLit includes dissertations, books, Abstracts of Working Papers working papers pl.n. Legal documents certifying the right to employment of a minor or alien. Noun 1. working papers in Economics and the Journal of Economic Literature Book Reviews. "The addition of EconLit to the ScienceDirect platform will truly enhance our social science offerings", says Pat Sabosik, Executive Vice President, Electronic Publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. . "We are pleased to be aligned with such a prominent research tool and with the American Economic Association, one of the most notable economics organizations in the world." "We are pleased that EconLit will be available on ScienceDirect," states Drucilla Ekwurzel, Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Literature. "We think EconLit will be especially useful to researchers and students in identifying relevant full-text economics articles provided on ScienceDirect." The American Economic Association was organized in 1885 at Saratoga, NY. It was first incorporated in 1923 in Washington, DC. Currently, approximately 22,000 economists are members and 5,500 libraries and institutions subscribe. Over 50% of its membership are associated with academia, 35% with business and industry, and the remainder is comprised of federal, state and local government agencies. The American Economic Association seeks to encourage economic research, distribute leading economic publications, and promote an interactive forum in which a wide variety of economic viewpoints are represented in open discussions. EconLit includes journals indexed for years in the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and now listed quarterly in JEL on CD as well as books and dissertations. In addition, EconLit includes citations to articles in collective volumes indexed in the annual volumes of the Index of Economic Articles and the full-text of JEL book reviews. EconLit also incorporates the Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE AWPE American White Pelican (species) AWPE Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (Cambridge University Press) ) database licensed from Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). . ScienceDirect is the world's most comprehensive full-text scientific database, providing researchers and librarians This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field. in academia and corporations with electronic access to over 1,100 scientific, technical and medical journals. At its core, ScienceDirect content includes journals from Elsevier Science as well as other STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. publishers and an expanding suite of secondary databases including: Elsevier BIOBASE, EMBASE, FLUIDEX, Geobase, OceanBase, World Textiles, Ei's Compendex, Beilstein Abstracts, and BIOTECHNOBASE. ScienceDirect is a unit of Elsevier Science and part of the Reed Elsevier plc group, a leading provider of information to the STM, legal and business communities. The ScienceDirect Web site is at: www.sciencedirect.com. |
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