Recommended Research Databases

     + Use Research Databases to locate articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals and for country profiles.

• Business Source Complete
  • Contains citations, with much full text, to articles in business magazines and academic journals.
  • Access OECD Economic Surveys and other Country Reports.
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• Factiva
  • Content includes Dow Jones and Reuters Newswires, brief, current reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit, news articles from the Financial Times  and The Wall Street Journal, plus more than 10,000 other sources from around the world.
  • Find country reports by country name in the Free Text Search Box.
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• Global Market Information Database (GMID)
  • Market analysis may include global, country and company reports.
  • Country profiles (over 200) look at political and economic indicators in each country.  
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• Mintel
  • U.S. and international market research reports and news items.  Non-European countries not as well covered as Europe and U.S.  Initial use requires registration.
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• World Data Analyst
  • Analyze countries and regions using Country Snapshots and comparative statistics and rankings.
    
    
• Academic Search Complete
  • Indexes over 4300 multi-discipline periodicals and contains full text for over 3400 scholarly publications.
    
    
• STAT-USA
  • Follow the GLOBUS & NTDB link to access trade-related market research reports by country and industry.
  • Includes Country Commercial Guides and International Market Insight Reports.

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Selected Web Sites

• Trading Safely: http://www.trading-safely.com/ (Online version of Handbook of Country Risk)

  • Rates country and sectoral risk

  • Presents a country rating, 6 years of major macro-economic indicators, and a paragraph of text explaining the most important facts supporting the country's risk rating.

• CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/ (Once at the CIA's homepage, you'll have to click the link on the right side of the page for the World Factbook)

• Country Profiles from U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office: http://www.fco.gov.uk

• Country Profiles (Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress): http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles.html

• Doing Business (World Bank): Benchmarking Business Regulations: http://www.doingbusiness.org

• Background Notes (U.S. Department of Labor): http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

• Executive Planet: http://www.executiveplanet.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Also see Print Resources Handout!

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Guide to APA Citation Style

     + Quick guide to APA citing for both print and electronic resources.

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Print Resources Handout

     + A list of reference books containing company information.