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Research Guide
Prepared by the Reference Librarians |
| STEPHEN B. LUCE LIBRARY ONLINE DATABASES |
| Click here for a subject breakdown of all online business periodicals |
 Ebsco: |
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Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. |
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Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. |
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ABI/INFORM Global
Business, Finance, Economics: journals, company profiles, Wall Street Journal Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal. |
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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Business, Economics: trade and industry periodicals and newsletters. Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more. |
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National Newspapers (27)
Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers |
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Barron's
Investments, Finance: weekly newspaper A weekly publication for investors. Provides in-depth articles examining companies and industries to spotlight possible investment opportunities. |
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Chicago Tribune
Provides reporting and analysis of regional, national, and international news. Coverage: 1985-current |
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Los Angeles Times
Major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news. |
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New York Times
Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts. |
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Wall Street Journal
The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news |
| Gale Databases: |
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Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. |
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Business and Company ASAP
Providing researchers with information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images |
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Business and Company Resource Center with Investext Plus
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Thomson Financials' Investext Plus database is fully integrated in this database. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. |
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Investext Plus
Investext Plus is the premier financial research database available today. Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image. |
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
Please see below for some examples of titles that may be good sources to consult within this vast database. They can be found within the Nation and World heading on the Gale Virtual Library home page.
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| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): |
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This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scholarly journals with the aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 50 journals in the directory on topics in business and economics.
Business Journals http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=18
Economics Journals http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=19 |
E-books from Netlibrary |
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Includes a few ebooks on supply chain management. Enter a keyword search for "supply chain." For a listing of all business related ebooks enter a subject search for “Business." |
E-books from Springer |
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Many books and book chapters on trade and transportation management. |
IngentaConnect (Citation and Abstracts Only) |
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A comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications. Please note that this is citation and abstracts only. |
Marine Technology Abstracts |
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The Marine Technology Abstracts database contains bibliographic information providing a reference and description for over 90,000 technical articles, reports, books, conference and transaction papers and other material on all aspects of maritime technology, dating back as far as 1940 and drawn from all major marine engineering publications, published worldwide in at least 10 languages. |
TRID Database |
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TRID covers all modes and disciplines of transportation and contains more than 900,000 records of published research. Over 64,000 records contain links to full-text documents. Select “Maritime Transportation” to focus your search on shipping. |
| WEB SOURCES: |
| TRANSPORTATION |
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International Transport Forum
http://www.internationaltransportforum.org/
A strategic think tank for the transport sector |
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Research and Innovative Technology Administration
http://www.bts.gov/programs/international/
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) coordinates the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) research programs |
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Transport Policy
http://www.transportpolicy.org/
An independent international web based platform for information and discussions on the theory and best practices in transport in general |
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Transport Business International
http://www.transportbusiness.net/
Transport Sector News and Information Magazine |
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Logistics Business Magazine
http://www.logisticsbusiness.com/Magazine/Default.aspx |
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Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, U.S. Congress
http://transportation.house.gov/ |
| COUNTRY PROFILES AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS |
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World Factbook
(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook)
Brief factual up-to-date profiles of every country in the world are compiled by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the annual World Factbook. |
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U.S. Department of State - Business (including background notes on countries)
(http://www.state.gov/business/)
National Trade Data Bank
The U.S. Department of State compiles brief country profiles featuring current facts about the people, politics, government, and foreign relations of countries. |
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Portals to the World
(http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html)
Library of Congress web page with selected links to country studies around the world. |
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World Economic Outlook Database
(http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm)
This International Monetary Fund database supplies economic-time-series data for nominal GDP (at market and purchasing parity exchange rates), real GDP, per capital GDP and inflation. Data in spreadsheet format is available for series dating back to 1970; aggregate data for the world and country-specific data are included. |
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World Bank Country Data
(http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog)
This World Bank Web site presents two types of country profiles: "Data Profiles" are drawn from the World Development Indicators database and are used for cross-country comparisons; "Country at a Glance" tables are intended for country-focused analysis at the annual World Bank/IMF meetings and may contain unofficial, not-yet published, economic estimates. |
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ICT at a Glance Tables
(http://data.worldbank.org/)
Data on communications infrastructure, computer and internet access and technology spending are included in these one-page country profiles compiled by the World Bank. |
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US Commercial Service
(http://www.buyusa.gov/home/)
The US Department of Commerce Commercial Service represent the most foreign countries with trade relations within America form both the import and export business. |
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Turkstat: Turkish Statistical Institute
(http://www.turkstat.gov/tr)
An exhaustive amount of compiled statistics by the Turkish Government that covers a broad array of subjects. |
| CULTURE & SOCIETY |
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ExecutivePlanet
(http://www.executiveplanet.com/)
This Web site gives advice on business negotiation, entertaining, conversation, and general business etiquette for countries that are U.S. trading partners. It includes practical information about business attire and forms of address. A local author, often from a consulting agency or research institute, writes each country page. |
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Greece: The True Experience
(http://www.executiveplanet.com/)
Greek Official Ministry of Tourism Web Site that offers basic transportation and business information. A good source for cultural and geographic information. |
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Latvia: U.S. Department of State Data
(http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/lg/)
Profile of the country of Latvia. |
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Welcome to Latvia
(http://www.li.vi/)
Official tourist site for Latvia. |
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Republic of Turkey: Ministry of Culture and Tourism
(http://www.tourism.gov.tr/EN/)
Trukey's Official Ministry of Tourism Web Site that contains cultural, georgraphic, and historical information. |
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Romania: Travel and Tourism
(http://www.romaniatourism.com)
Official website for travel and tourism information about Romania.. |
GLOBAL STATISTICS |
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics
(http://www.uis.unesco.org)
The UNESCO Institute provides statistical data and country profiles that focus on four themes: culture and communications, education, literacy, and science and technology. |
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Social Indicators
(http://unstats.un.org)
The United Nations Statistics Division compiles tables of the latest indicators of social development for housing, health, education, illiteracy, income and economic activity, youth and elderly population, urban and rural population, and unemployment. |
| FOREIGN LABOR MARKET |
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Foreign Labor Statistics
(http://www.bls.gov/fls/)
Foreign labor statistics, gathered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from national statistical offices and international agencies, provide comparative country data on productivity, unit labor costs, compensation, labor force, employment and unemployment, and consumer prices. |
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International Comparisons of Manufacturing Productivity and Unit Labor Cost Trends
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod4.toc.htm)
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles annual data on manufacturing employment, work hours, productivity, and compensation for the United States and thirteen other countries: Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. |
| FOREIGN TRADE POLICY |
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American: Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
(http://www.amcham.gr/about.asp)
Greek Government website provides information, culture, business, plus rules and regulations on the exports of imports with this country. |
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Export.gov
http://www.export.gov
Export.gov brings together resources from across the U.S. Government to assist American businesses in planning their international sales strategies and succeed in today’s global marketplace. |
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Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA)
(http://fita.org/)
The FITA Global Trade Portal, is the source for international import export trade leads, events, and links to 8,000 international trade (export import) related Websites. |
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Foreign Trade Statistics
(http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/index.html)
The U.S. Census Bureau collects statistics on U.S. trade, analyzed according to various commodities and products. The Bureau publishes rankings of our top ten trading partners. At "State Export Data" you can find the top 25 export countries and the top 25 export commodities for each state. |
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International Trade Centre
(http://www.intracen.org/menus/countries.htm)
The ITC produces comprehensive country market analysis profiles with trade statistics, analytical reports on the demand for imports and the supply of exports, and links to trade information sources. The International Trade Centre (ITC) is an agency of the World Trade Organization and UNCTAD. |
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Greece
(http://www.ypex.gov.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/)
Information on U.S. international trade policy, including information on fair trade and compliance with trade laws and agreements. |
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US Department of Agriculture
(http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome)
United States Department of Agriculture deals with transportation and exportation of sensitive materials. See also USDA - APHIS http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/index.shtml for more information on import/export of animal and animal products. |
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US Department of Commerce: Greece
(http://www.buyusa.gov/greece/en/)
Government Web Site that highlights economic activities such as market Research and business protocol in Greece. |
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US International Trade Administration
http://trade.gov/index.asp
Information on U.S. international trade policy, including information on fair trade and compliance with trade laws and agreements. |
| SECURITY |
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Global Security.org
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/index.html)
A public Internet site that posts security information from a wide array of sources. Many security topics are discussed and the site contains many opinionated arguments so one has to carefully scrutinize the information found here as not all of it may be acceptable for scholarly use. |
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Greece Ministry of Mercantile Marine
(http://www.yen.gr/en/yen.chtm?prnbr=23685)
A government web site that provides information on the Hellenic Coast Guard and shipping principles. |
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Latvian Coast Guard Laws and Regulations
(http://www.mrcc.lv/kad/en/legislation.sql)
Official site for the Latvian Coast Guard. |
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Turkish Coast Guard
(http://www.sgk.tsk.tr/)
Turkish government web site translated with the Google toolbar provides detailed security information, legislation, and ethical principles of law enforcement. |
| PORT & TERMINAL INFORMATION |
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Piraeus Port Authority (Greece)
(http://www.olp.gr/index_en.html)
Various sources of information about the port of Piraeus with terminal specifications included. Annual financial reports are also included. |
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Thessaloniki Port Authority
(http://www.thpa.gr/index.php?lang=en)
Various sources of information about the port of Thessaloniki. Included are some health and security statements that help indentiy industry standards and ethics. |
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Ports of Turkey
(http://www.cerrahogullari.com.tr)
Various port information broken down by region and separated into five sections with great diagrams and comprehensive map. |
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Romania: Port of Constanta
(http://www.portofconstantza.com/apcm/i.do?lan=en)
Official site of port of Constanta, Romania. |
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Latvia: List of Maritime Ports
(http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/index/LVA.php)
Listing with web links to official ports site for all Latvian ports. |
| EUROPEAN UNION |
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European Union Official Web Site
(http://europa.eu/index_en.htm)
A web site devoted to help people understand the EU and its mission in the world. A helpful subject guide entitled activities is included as well as a search engine that helps one find documents pertaining to the organization. |
| ACCOUNTING & TAX POLICY |
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IAS Plus
(http://www.iasplus.com/index.htm)
IAS Plus is an international financial reporting news site sponsored by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. It provides daily news, summaries of International Accounting Standards, profiles of accounting standards in over 30 nations, a resource library, and a set of financial reporting and accounting links. |
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International Financial Reporting Standards
(http://www.pwcglobal.com)
This collection of reports from PricewaterhouseCoopers offers advice on interpreting IFRS and explains the differences between the IFRS, U.S. GAAP, U.K. GAAP and standards used by a selection of other countries. |
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Tariff and Tax Information
(http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/tic/)
This page at the U.S. Department of Commerce Trade Information Center is a resource for both exporters and importers in the United States. It includes a database of tariffs for exporting to forty-eight countries; links to sources on import duties and taxes for products coming into the U.S.; country-specific tariff and tax resources; and a search engine for locating the Harmonized System or Schedule B number for your product. |
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Greece & World Trade Organization
(http://www.wto.org/english/theWTO_e/countries_e/greece_e.htm)
World Trade Organization (WTO) web page on trading with Greece, including trade statistics, goods schedules, tariff data, and more. |
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Latvia & World Trade Organization
(http://www.wto.org/english/theWTO_e/countries_e/latvia_e.htm)
World Trade Organization (WTO) web page on trading with Latvia, including trade statistics, goods schedules, tariff data, and more. |
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Romania & World Trade Organization
(http://www.wto.org/english/theWTO_e/countries_e/romania_e.htm)
World Trade Organization (WTO) web page on trading with Romania, including trade statistics, goods schedules, tariff data, and more. |
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Turkey & World Trade Organization
(http://www.wto.org/english/theWTO_e/countries_e/turkey_e.htm)
World Trade Organization (WTO) web page on trading with Turkey, including trade statistics, goods schedules, tariff data, and more. |
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World Trade Organization
(http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/tratop_e.htm)
World Trade Organization (WTO) web page on trading, including trade statistics, goods schedules, tariff data, and more. |
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