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FIG: Freshman Interest Group

The purpose of this page is to provide students with a basic guide to the resources available in the Knight Library for finding information on your research topics.

Finding Books

To find books, search the UO Library Catalog. The best first step to find books on your topics is to search by keywords.

       

If you know the author's name or the title of a book, you may search by the author or by title.


       

FINDING ARTICLES

Indexes provide citations to articles in selected scholarly journals, general interest magazines, and newspapers. The following indexes focus on topics in the field of business. The most recent periodicals are often kept in the Current Periodicals area (on the 2nd floor).

Once you find the citation of an article, you need to search he library's online catalog, to find the call number of a journal or magazine. Current periodicals are on the second floor, Current Periodical Room, arranged by call numbers.


Information on Cultures

To look for information on cultures, you need to search for articles by using the databases listed above. The following reference book is a good starting point:

  • Culture-Grams (DOCS REF GT 150 .C85)
    Includes information on background, people, lifestyle, and society of 175 different countries. Provides a picture of a nation's cultural life, habits, and attitudes.

  • Doing Business In / With ...

    Search the library's online catalog for the title "Doing Business In..." or Doing Business With...". You will retrieve titles on doing business in different countries.
    These books are guides for doing business in foreign countries. They cover all the basic information about investment incentives, regulations, taxes, the business environment, country culture backaground and more..

Please also look the books on reserve for BA 361 Cross Cutural Business Communication. Click the Course Reserve link on the library's web site. Also check these websites:

  • Background Notes
      In-depth surveys of various countries from the U.S. Department of State.
  • CIA World Factbook
    Document Center has the hard copy: DOCS REF PrEx 3.15:
    General reference also has a copy: KNIGHT REF G122 .U56a

    Country profiles: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communication, transportation, military and transnational issues.
  • Country Commercial Guides
    Provides country information.
  • TradePort
      Counntry profiles from World Trade Press.

Evalution of Information and How to Cite References

See the following Web pages for information on:

To learn how to cite sources in your research papers, please consult the following website:

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Maintained by: Kaiping Zhang, kzhang@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 12/28/2007