Finding Data at the Marshall Library - Jasper's Xmas tips number 9

 Looking for data for your own independent project, dissertation or research? At Marshall Library we subscribe to a variety of Macroeconomic, Microeconomic and Financial datasets. We also curate lists of free to access data. We also have bookable Live Financial Bloomberg and EIKON data terminals at the Marshall Library.

Here is a list of datasets, split by Microeconomic, Macroeconomics, Finance and Statistics on the Marshall Library website: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/onlineresources/economic-data

You will also find a link to Data sources for replication studies from this page.

If you know what dataset you are looking and want to know if it is free to access for members of Cambridge University go to our A-Z list here: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/z-datasets-list We have over 60 subscribed and free-to-access datasets on this list. The left hand column lists the datasets or sites by name in alphabetical order. The middle column tells you about the database or dataset and the right hand column tells you whether access is unrestricted or if you need to set up an account/register/contact Cambridge Judge Business School etc.

If you know you would like to use the Bloomberg or EIKON terminal please book using our booking form here: https://www.marshall.econ.cam.ac.uk/contactus/eikon-bloomberg-booking-form
Please describe the type of data you are looking for - name, time series, frequency, date range etc. 

Using My Favourites lists when searching iDiscover on a keyword, topic or theme - Jasper's Xmas tips number 8

 If you are doing a literature search on a topic, e.g. Labour economics and crime for a project did you know you can use IDiscover like a database to search by keyword, topic or theme? Then you can use My Favourites in iDiscover to save your searches for later or to help you with your references.

Do a search on your keywords: labour, economics, crime in iDiscover under Articles and online resources

You will see that you get a large number of results, over 14,000 - so it is a good idea to refine or filter your results using the right hand side menus. You could choose Peer-reviewed Journals, Articles, and refine the publications to recent dates e.g. 2018-2022

Then you could start looking at the titles of the articles and deciding if they are useful for your project. As long as you have logged in you can use the little pin symbol next to each article you are interested in reading or saving to save your readings to a list 

Clicking on the pins next to articles collects them under the pin next to your name at the top right hand side of the screen 

Clicking on this pin will then bring up your list of saved readings

From here you can tick the records you want to save, print, email or download and export the reference details by using the three dots at the top to open a menu of options

Or you can sort your list into labelled lists by using the Add Labels link at the top of My Favorites

Once you have added labels they will appear at the right hand side e.g.

Really useful for organising your literature review for your project or dissertation!!!