LibGuides: International Business: Databases

Databases - International Information

MarketLine
Marketline Advantage provides access to a comprehensive collection of company, industry and country information, extending across 200+ countries and every major industry.
Passport
This international database provides access to 1,300 market reports that analyze 21 consumer and service industries across 80 countries. Also includes more than 6,500 company profiles.
Statista
Statistics, charts, graphs and tables on marketing, demographics, consumers, communication, technology, politics, health, leisure and public opinion polls.
Nexis Uni
Access news, business and legal information from thousands of sources.
International Directory of Company Histories
Brings together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location.
EconLit
Covers all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics.
ABI/Inform
Search more than one thousand international business journals 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.
ScienceDirect
Includes the Health & Life Sciences and the Social & Behavioural Sciences College Edition journals collections.
Warc
The World Advertising Research Centre includes case studies from major markets including North America, the UK, mainland Europe and Australia, India and China.
Business Source Complete
Search thousands of business journals. This database includes market research reports, detailed Datamonitor company and industry profiles, as well as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight and CountryWatch.

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Databases - Canadian Information

Canadian Newsstream
Offers access to the full text of nearly 300 newspapers published in Canada, including the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail.
Canadian Reference Centre
Provides full text access to 150 Canadian journals, magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books. Company information and over 400 international periodicals also included.
Vividata
Vividata surveys over 40,000 Canadians on their consumption of over 3,500 products and services. The survey results include demographic and psychographic information such as age, gender, and household status, as well as media, brand, and shopping preferences.

Locate current articles and information on Canadian news and business by using the following databases:

Statistics

Canadian International Merchandise Trade Database - CIMT - by StatsCan
"...offers detailed trade data using the Harmonized System (HS) classification of goods (based on the 6-digit commodity level). Select a trading partner and specific variables (e.g., country, province, state, year, month, or frequency) or search by commodity or Harmonized System code."
Statistics Canada
Humber Libraries Statistics Page
Provides a guide to using Statistics Canada sources. Note the link to international sources in the Subject Statistics box.
Directory of Interational Statistical Offices
Compiled by the United Nations

International Business

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Databases - International Information

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