Where are the EIU Country Reports?
The following post further describes changes to Duke Libraries EIU Publications subscriptions and products that Ford Library provides to Duke University. Some of the links in this post may require off-campus users to activate a Duke VPN connection.
Due to their excessively high costs, we could no longer subscribe to the Economist Country Reports, and several other Economist Intelligence Unit publications. This linked graphic details the components of our subscription that we will be dropping (in red), and those we will retain (in green). Note that some of this EIU content will be available via ProQuest as described below.
The pricing of the full suite of the EIU Country Reports has increased steadily over the years until they reached over $50,000.00 for our online access. As you may know, Duke University continues to be in conditions of economic stress, and Ford Library, which funded the majority of Duke Libraries EIU subscription, could simply no longer accommodate the cost impact of the Reports on our e-resource budgets.
Ford Library has, however, scaled up our access to comparable data via a number of other databases, and will continue to provide Duke with other resources for strong coverage of globally focused economic and business news and data.
Proquest has significantly improved its available resources in this area; and includes access to a number of comparable, subject focused country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Our IHS Global Insight database has comparable access to country reports, and better tools for macroeconomic data retrieval. ISI Emerging Markets also has excellent news and macroeconomic data coverage.
Please respond in the comments below if you have any questions or concerns about this change. Your feedback is always welcome.
Tags: Economics, Library Databases
September 13th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I am posting more info here due to popular request. This information also came from Carlton–correct me if I’m wrong!
Some EIU Country Reports are also in Business Source Complete, with a 6 month embargo.
Note that the ProQuest link in the blog post goes to the Browse tab where you can select Country Reports by topics, then click the By Location tab to access each country.
Carlton hopes to have the ProQuest entries cataloged soon, so you will see that option when you search for EIU Country Reports.
February 9th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
It seems the ProQuest option has gone away? The links via Databases (EIU…) take you to ProQuest but with no tabs and no results when you search. I also tried going in through the broader ProQuest database but cannot find the EIU publications other than the Economist.