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

Transport Business International
http://www.transportbusiness.net/
Transport Sector News and Information Magazine

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.

       GLOBAL STATISTICS

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

US International Trade Administration (Department of Commerce)
http://trade.gov/index.asp
Information on U.S. international trade policy, including information on fair trade and compliance with trade laws and agreements.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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
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       E-books from Netlibrary

       IngentaConnect (Citation and Abstracts Only)

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.

For an overview of print sources browse the following sections in the circulating (2nd. floor), reference (1st. floor), and periodicals (1st. floor) collections.  For more specific items search the online catalog (http://mar.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4540/F)
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Books:
            TJ 800 (energy, renewable energy, etc.)
            HA 1 – 5000 (Statistics, including country census stats)
            HB 1 – 4000 (Economic theory, Demography)
            HC 10 – HD 9999 (Economic conditions and history)
            HE500 – HE700 (Container Shipping)
            HF 1 – 7000 (Commerce, Marketing, Import/Export)
            HG 1 – HJ 9999 (Finance)

Print Periodicals:
            American Shipper
            Cargo Systems
            Containerisation International
            Fairplay
            International Bulk Journal    
            Journal of Commerce
            Lloyd’s Ship Manager
            Lloyd’s Shipping Economist

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