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Business Resources > International Business Resources
Databases
- AccessUN
- AccessUN provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed. Indexing of the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series is another unique feature of the Index. The Index benefits researchers who need information on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature. Peace and security, world hunger, human rights, economic development, the environment, and atomic energy are among the issues addressed by the United Nations.
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
- Provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Remote access available.
- Country Reports (EBSCO)
- Country reports listed by individual country in alphabetical order.
- DRI Global Economics
- Access is available through WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services). WRDS provides financial, accounting, economic, management, marketing, banking, and insurance data. Searches in this database will be conducted by a librarian or library staff at no charge to the patron. A librarian must conduct this search. Only available in the library.
- Factiva
- Source for international news.
- JSTOR Business Collection
- Full-text articles indexed from various economic journals including Journal of International Business Studies and International Economic Review. Does not include the most recent five years of any jounral. Available on and off campus.
- LexisNexis Business
- Part of the LexisNexis Academic database, the Business section provides a range of sources for business information, including business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees.
- Source OECD
- Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases. Arranged under 19 thematic areas covering issues in agriculture, business, development, economics, education, environment, finance, governance, investment, social sciences, and statistics.
- WDI Online (World Development Indicators)
- World Development Indicators Online (WDI) provides direct access to more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2006, where data are available.
Selected Web Databases
- The Doing Business Project
- "The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level."
- The Economist Country Briefings
- "News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics and more"
- Global Analysis/ Australian Government, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
- This website offers speeches and articles about world economies, country risk assessments, country risk grades, and market watch newsletters. "Browse here for information on worldwide economic and political developments affecting your business outlook. A vital perspective for business decision-makers."
- Gulliver/Economist.com
- Contains information on major cities for business travelers.
- Nationmaster.com
- "A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease."
- Portals to the World/ Library of Congress
- Provides links to business, commerce, and economy information on countries of the world.
- Reports of Economic Development of Countries/ World Economy/ PBS
- Country reports include information on growth, income, inflation, unemployment, trade volume, spending, and an overview of individual countries.
- World Fact Book/ CIA
- Includes information on investments, debt, diseases, foreign exchange, etc. within countries of the world. A search can be done as well as downloading the World Factbook for individual use.
Print Resources
Dictionaries
- Black's Agricultural Dictionary
- S411.D245 1985 (Reference)
- Dictionary of International Business Terms
- HD62.4 .C36 2004 (Reference) and 2000 edition:Netlibrary E-Book: 52200
Directories
- Inside Washington: Government Resources for International Business
- HD 2785 .D385 2004 (Reference)
- International Directory of Business Biographies
- HC29 .I57 2005 (Reference)
- National Directory of Farmers Market and Direct Marketing Associations
- A 1.38:1571 2001 (Government Documents) and current issue only.
- Nations of the World
- HC 10. N36 2005 (Reference)
- North American Financial Institutions Directory
- HG1536 .P635 (Reference)
- Polk World Bank Directory
- HG 1536 .P633 (Stacks)
Encyclopedias
- Exporters' encyclopaedia
- HF3011 .E9 (Reference)
- Encyclopedia of International Development
- HD 82 .E547 2005 (Reference)
- The IEBM Encyclopedia of Marketing
- HF 5415 .B272 1999 (Reference)
- International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market
- HG4551 .I528 1999 (Reference)
Handbooks & Manuals
- International Business Information: How to Find it, How to Use it
- HF54.5.P33 1998 (Reference)
Journals
- Research in International Business and International Relations
- HF1410 .R465 (Stacks)
Statistics
- International Financial Statistics
- HG 3881.I626 (Reference)
- International Trade Statistics Yearbook
- HF91 .U473 2005 (Reference)
- Yearbook of Labor Statistics
- HD 4826 .I63 2006 (Stacks)
WWW Resources
Dictionaries
- International Addresses and Salutations/ Merriam Webster's Guide to International Business Communications
- Includes information on international salutations, address elements, telephone dialing codes, and business netiquette.
Economics
- Gateway International Organizations/ Alta Plana: International Economics Gateway
- Web resources for international economics.
- The International Economics Network
- Includes links to information on international trade, development, law, etc. and links to research papers and writing resources.
Journals
- Research in International Business and International Relations
- Online database containing over 100,000 documentations (not publications) of the World Trade Organization. Selected documents from 1986-1994 can be accessed as well as full documentation from 1995-present. Updated daily.
Statistics
- Foreign Trade Statistics/ U.S. Census Bureau
- This website includes press releases, trade highlights, country/porduct trade data, state export data, historical trade balances, statistical notices and corrections, and special requests on foreign trade.
- OFFSTATS/ Official Statistics on the Web
- Compiled by the University of Auckland, this website includes links for country statistics.
- World Bank Group Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) Statistics
- The World Bank's Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) website provides data, an atlas, country summaries, demographic projections, and other international statistics.
