LibGuides: College of Business Research Support: International

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
The world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference available in the world. The Global Road Warrior covers 175 countries in three volumes of 3,840 full-sized pages.
Springer eJournal Collection This link opens in a new window
SpringerLink provides full text access in a variety of topics, including mathematics, economics, ecology, religion, history and more.

Use the following resources to locate country reports.

CIA | World Factbook
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Trade.gov Market Research
Link leads to the U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library* and the Country Commercial Guides with detailed market information by country.
*Requires Free Registration
The Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA) | Country Profiles and Resources
Profiles on over 80 countries and links to free market surveys on the web.
U.S. Department of State | U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
U.S. Energy Information Administration | International Energy Statistics
International energy information, including overviews, rankings, data, and analyses.
The World Bank | Doing Business
Provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement for over 180 countries and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
The World Bank | Resources

Use the following resources to locate information about world leaders.

Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Search for the world's most influential people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

CIA | World Leaders
The CIA publishes and updates the online directory of World Leaders and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly.

International Trade & Economics

Trade & Economics

Library Databases - Lexis Nexis Academic

International Legal Research Websites

United States Regulations & Treaties

*U.S. State Dept.Treaties - https://www.state.gov/treaties-in-force/ - you can search this site by country to see what treaties are in force
Federal Regulations (CFR) - See Title 15: Commerce and Foreign Trade
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) The CFR is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation.
U.S. Code -United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal law of the United States
IRS Code - Title 26 of United States Code
US Department of Labor - Labor Laws | Federal Code - pertaining to labor | Summary
US Chamber of Commerce
Research via N.Y. Public Library - http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/trade/regs.html