World Bank – Global Economic Monitor
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Global Economic Monitor
URL to platform/collection access
Institutions with IP access - www.worldbank.org/gemsubscribers
Content/journal title listing
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Resource type
Online Data source – optional subscription, please check with your country coordinator to see which services are available in your country.
Backfile information
Not relevant
Content
Conceived by the World Bank team responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-to-day developments in the global economy, Global Economic Monitor is a "one-stop shop" portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators.
Subject strengths
Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.
Service strengths
Full indexed databases, cross-searchable.
Advanced search features.
Small file sizes to facilitate downloading.
Easy navigation through regional collections.
Metadata provided in Excel so each title can be listed in online library catalogues.
Impact factors
N/A
Usage guides
Runs on the same platform with WDI and GDF Online and has all the same functionalities. Contact pubrights@worldbank.org with questions.
Registration
Each institution is required to register to use Global Economic Monitor. If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP registration system and select your country and institution.
Access information
Access by IP address recognition.
For help and support from the publisher please contact
pubrights@worldbank.org.
License
Global Economic Monitor license agreement can be viewed here
World Bank License agreement (38kb)
URL to general publisher site
http://publications.worldbank.org/
Post-subscription archival information
Subscribers are allowed to keep one copy of the statistical data for archiving purposes.
For further information please contact your country coordinator. For contact details use the country finder on the right hand menu and select your country.
The following information is most relevant for librarians
Administration details
Please notify pubrights@worldbank.org about any IP changes
Promotional information
A leaflet is available to download here
Word bank GEM promotional information (25kb)
Usage data collection
Librarians and country coordinators are able to download their user statistics for GEM online by using their World Bank customer ID from http://www.worldbank.org/data/onlinedatabases/onlinedatabases.html. Click on the usage statistics link. Instructions are provided on the same page. If you do not know your customer ID, you should contact pubrights@worldbank.org for the number.
FAQs
Click here for the Frequently Asked Questions page. Provided by INASP, but the publisher may also include FAQs related to their resource if they choose.
