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FIG: As the World Shrinks


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 Books on Doing Business In / With A Country

    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 background and more.

  • Country Guides
    Information on about 156 countries in the world. Including information on business ratings, cultures, news, and more.

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).

  • Academic Search Premier
      Covers current news, business and company information, government and legal information.
  • Business Source Premier
      Full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting, etc.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
    Provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information, and more. Users can access Hoover's Company Reports via Lexis-Nexis academic.

BUSINESS DATABASES

Company / Industry

  • IBISworld
    IBISWorld covers thousands of industries in the United States economy at the 5-digit NAICS code level. Reports include market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors, key success factors, and outlook. IBISWorld also has extensive coverage of industries in the Asia/Pacific region with reports covering China, Australia and Indonesia.
  • Mint Global
    Mint Global from Bureau van Dijk contains information on over 35 million public and private companies and financial institutions from the U.S., Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It provides descriptive information, company financials, news, market research, ratings and country reports, scanned reports, ownership and M&A data.
  • ReferenceUSA
    Contains directory data for over 12 million US firms and business establishments of all sizes.


Demographics, Markets, Consumers

  • Mintel Reports
    Mintel provides research reports covering European, UK, and US consumer markets. The reports analyze market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. Reports include categories ranging from beauty, personal goods and toiletries to technology/telecom. Users will need to create a profile with their uoregon.edu email address to use the database.
  • Sports Business Research Network
    This is a market research database which includes demographic information on consumers.
  • Tablebase
    Tablebase is a database comprised of tabular information. The tables provide information such as market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics.
  • University Internet Reporter (Requires Internet Explorer)
    For assistance in using UIR, view the following documents:

Advertising

  • Ad$pender (Requires Internet Explorer)
    Ad$pender provides advertising expenditure data for millions of product brands across television, radio, magazine, newspaper, internet and outdoor channels. Data can be retrieved by brand, product class/category, company name, brand and more.
    Click here to get Username/Password.
    For help in using this database, please see How to Search Ad$pender.
  • SRDS Media Solutions
    "The SRDS database of media rates and information is the largest and most comprehensive in the world-cataloging more than 100,000 U.S. and international media properties." The library has online access to Business Publication Advertising SourceŽ, Consumer Magazine Advertising Source, Newspaper Advertising SourceŽ, and Radio Advertising Source, and TV and Cable SourceŽ.

HOW TO CITE REFERENCES


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

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Last Modified: 11/05/2009