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Periodicals Home Page

Use the Left Hand Menu to browse through our various periodicals by title.

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Click on Periodicals tab to go to Periodicals homepage.

Periodicals

Working with Periodicals - EasyLinks

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Every periodical has an EasyLink –

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Periodicals

Periodical Home Page – Finding your way

The Latest Issue’s Table of Contents is listed on the periodical’s home page.

Use left-hand menu to access previous issues (Year), support services and information.

Periodicals

OECD Economic Surveys

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Books Home Page

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Books

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Books

Book Theme Home Page

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Books

Books – Using EasyLinks

Each Book Theme has a specific EasyLink to link to the theme home page.

Each Book Title has a specific EasyLink using its ISBN linking to the book’s table of contents.

Complete list of EasyLinks available in the Librarians’ and Users’ areas.

Books

Statistics Home Page

Left Hand Menu to browse through list of statistical databases and e-books.

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Statistics

Database Product: Home Page Step 1 – choose database

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Statistics

Each database homepage lists the available databases. Click on Tables to proceed.

Database Product: Step 2 – choose table

Each database comprises one or more tables. From list of tables, click on title to proceed.

Statistics

Database Product: Step 3 – abstract & deliver data

Each table has a descriptive abstract (used by the search engine). Click Deliver Data to access the data in Beyond 20/20.

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Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – step 1

Under Selection start to build your data query parameter-by-parameter.

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Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – step 2

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When selection complete, choose your report under Options. View Report will build a table, View Chart will build a chart.

Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – step 3

While in “View Report & Advanced mode”, you can export data in ExcelTM, .csv or Beyond20/20 formats.

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Database Product: working with data in Beyond 20/20 – Notes Icon

Look out for Notes Icons. These explain sources, methodology and units

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Database Product: Sources and Methods/Glossary

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Extensive Sources and Methods documentation, freely available from every

database homepage..

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The OECD’s Glossary of Statistical Terms - important in helping to understand our

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Statistics

Annual indicators for OECD and some non-members

Factbook

Select an indicator, shows contents.

List of different indicators corresponds to chapters in print version.

Factbook

Contents for each indicator and link to underlying data using StatLink

Definition, analysis, trends, with links to sources and further reading.

View graph or table.

Alternatively, using StatLink, open XLS spreadsheet.

StatLink

StatLink – link to data from tables and graphs in electronic or print formats

Working Papers

OECD Working Papers – nearly 1000 papers

11 different Working Paper series, full-text searchable, from 1983 onwards.

Reference

Loose-leaf and reference publications

Expanding collection of specialised guidelines and conventions.