STW Thesaurus for Economics

The STW Thesaurus for Economics proves helpful while searching ZBW's portal for economics EconBiz (via icon).

The thesaurus provides vocabulary on any economic subject: more than 6,000 standardized subject headings and more than 28,000 additional entry terms to support individual keywords. You can also find technical terms used in law, sociology, or politics, and geographic names. When selecting terms from this vocabulary, you can be sure to get results matching your search query.

The information on the web pages is also embedded as machine-processable data in order to support multiple re-use in the economics and business communities and within the semantic web.