Business Librarian
Databases
- Country Watch This link opens in a new windowContains country-specific overviews on the political, economic, social, and foreign investment environment.
- Canada Commons This link opens in a new windowContains publications from public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, and university research centres.
- SocINDEX with Fulltext This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, eBooks, magazines, and conference papers on sociology, including gender studies, criminal justice, racial studies, religion, and social work.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles on business and economics, as well as company, industry, and country reports.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, encyclopedia articles, practice guidelines, and more on the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
- EconLit This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, as well as eBooks, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers on economics.
- ABI/Inform This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, eBooks, newspapers, and magazines on business and economics; First Research industry reports, Economist Intelligence Unit commodity reports and country reports and Oxford Economics country industry forecasts.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowContains statistics, charts, tables, and public opinion polls on marketing, demographics, consumers, communication, technology, politics, health, and leisure.
Country Information on the web
- Our World in DataResearch and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- The World Bank - Countries and RegionsProvides news, data, statistics, publications, reports, and information on development projects on many countries and regions.
- OECD.orgThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development uses its wealth of information on a broad range of topics to help governments foster prosperity and fight poverty through economic growth and financial stability.
- United Nations Country ProfilesInformation from World Statistics Handbook by The United NationsStatistics Division.
- Background NotesProfiles created by the U.S. Department of State
- globalEDGECreated by the International Business Center at Michigan State University, this site gathers information on international business activities such as country and industry profiles.
- Human Development ReportsHuman development statistics.
- The World Fact Book - CIA"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities."
- Countries and RegionsBy Global Affairs Canada
- BBC Country ProfilesThese profiles include historical timelines as well as links to relevant media articles and videos as well as other information.