International Business
International business and economics information is available in several formats as well as from multiple access points. Databases available through University of Texas Libraries web site may be accessed anywhere by anyone with a valid UT EID. The McCombs School of Business may license databases for the use of its faculty and students. The Benson Latin American Collection specializes in Latin American resources, including business and economics and may have extensive print resources in those areas.
Scholarly Articles, News, and Trade Publications
- Berkeley Economic Press (BE) Journals
A v
ariety of academic journals in such subjects as economics, current affairs, humanities, health and science.
- Business Source Complete
Full-text business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Includes company profiles.
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Econlit
Indexes 400 journals, over 500 collective volumes per year, as well as books, dissertations, and working papers.
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Factiva
A global information resource that provides full-text access to top national and international newspapers, full-text of the Wall Street Journal, news wires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports and web sites. Contains over 8000 publications with content from 118 countries in 22 languages.
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JSTOR
Back-file of scholarly economic and business literature.
- Levy Economics Institute Portal
Portal for economics and public policy research.
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Updated annually. Provides full text of NBER Working Papers. Papers are available in Acrobat portable document format (pdf). Approximately 500 papers are published annually. Founded in 1920, NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)
An electronic library that contains over 15,000 previously published abstracts and 4,000 working papers in law, economics, and finance, which are available for free downloading.
Global Company and Industry Information
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Business & Company Resource Center
Investment reports and company information for several global companies.
- Business Monitor Online
Covers 11 industry sectors in 175 countries, including forecasts and company rankings. Political, economic and business risk reports are updated monthly.
- Business Source Complete
Provides Datamonitor company profiles, industry reports for global companies and monthly Market Watch industry reports; Global Insight quarterly industry reviews; and Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports by industry sector.
- Compustat Global
Available through WRDS, which covers financial and market data for publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries and up to 12 years of annual history.
- Emerging Markets Database (EMDB)
Available through WRDS.
- Euromonitor
Updated daily. Provides business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers with integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comments from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.
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Factiva
A global information resource that provides full-text access to top national and international newspapers, full-text of the Wall Street Journal, news wires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports and web sites. Contains over 8000 publications with content from 118 countries in 22 languages.
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Lexis/Nexis Academic
Provides both full-text and abstracts for a wide range of general-interest wire services, newspapers and magazines from around the world, including full text of the New York Times. Also contains legal and accounting literature.
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Mergent Online
Comprehensive financial reports on 15,000 public U.S. companies and 20,000 public foreign companies. Reports are customizable.
- Mintel
Market research reports for several industry sectors in Europe, the U.K. and the U.S.; includes company competitive landscapes.
- SDC Platinum
A suite of financial databases; global in coverage.
Global Company Directories
- Business & Company Resource Center
Investment reports and company information for several global companies.
- Business Monitor Online
Covers 11 industry sectors in 175 countries, including forecasts and company rankings. Political, economic and business risk reports are updated monthly.
- Mergent Online
Comprehensive financial reports on 15,000 public U.S. companies and 20,000 public foreign companies. Reports are customizable.
Global Company Financials
- Business & Company Resource Center
Investment reports and company information for several global companies.
- Factiva
A global information resource that provides full-text access to top national and international newspapers, full-text of the Wall Street Journal, news wires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports and web sites. Contains over 8000 publications with content from 118 countries in 22 languages.
- Mergent Online
Comprehensive financial reports on 15,000 public U.S. companies and 20,000 public foreign companies. Reports are customizable.
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Bloomberg
A self-contained, stand-alone data feed which has an extremely broad array of services. The services Bloomberg offers is continuously growing. As such, it is impossible to make an exhaustive list of services.
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Reuters
A real-time financial data service provider of instant quotes and statistics on a variety of financial instruments in the U.S. financial markets.
Global Market Research
- Business Source Complete
Contains G2 market research reports.
- Euromonitor
Updated daily. Provides business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers with integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comments from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.
- Gartner
Updated regularly. Provides access to information from Gartner, Inc., a research and advisory firm that helps more than 10,000 clients leverage technology to achieve business success. The more than 200 research topics include customer relationship management (CRM), business-to-business e-commerce, supply chain management, wireless, emerging technologies, security, IT services, e-business, and IT spending and strategies.
- Mintel
Updated regularly. Includes market research reports for Europe, the UK, and the US. Reports cover a variety of sectors including consumer goods, travel and tourism, financial industry, internet industry, retail, and food & drink. Reports discuss market drivers, market size & trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts.
- World Market Research Center
Provides comprehensive country reports, including country risk ratings, daily updates and analysis of the economic, political, legal, tax, operational, and security environments in 185 countries.
Country Information
- Business Monitor Online
Provides country risk ratings with monthly updates plus regional peer group and league tables, macroeconomic forecasts, country SWOT, currency forecasts, forex, stock market information, and comparative export data.
- Business Source Complete
Provides CountryWatch and Country Reviews; ICON economic competitiveness reports and global studies; Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports; Business Monitor’s Emerging Markets Monitor; Global Insight’s Country Monitor; OECD Economic Surveys; Political Risk Yearbook’s Country Forecast. GPO’s Countries of the World’s Background Notes.
- CIA World Factbook
Country information compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency for use of U.S. government officials but is in the public domain and freely available to the public.
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CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Also has some journal abstracts, books, links to related web sites, maps and country data.
- Euromonitor
Updated daily. Provides business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers with integrated access to internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports, insightful comments from expert industry and country analysts as well as thousands of sources of further information. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.
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Factiva
A global information resource, providing full-text access to top national and international newspapers (including full text of the Wall Street Journal), news wires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports and web sites. Contains over 8000 publications with content from 118 countries in 22 languages.
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ISI Emerging Markets for Central and Eastern Europe
News, company and financial data as well as legal information direct from emerging markets. Access is restricted to the following countries: Baltic States, Bulgaria, Central Asia & Caucasus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Information is in English and the local language. Russian fonts are available for download. Access to this resource is funded by the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
LANIC's editorially reviewed directories contain over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet.
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Lexis/Nexis Academic
Provides both full-text and abstracts for a wide range of general-interest wire services, newspapers and magazines from around the world, including full text of the New York Times. Also contains legal & accounting literature.
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Mergent Online
Database of 15,000 U. S. and 20,000 foreign companies. Coverage includes: History, Mergers, acquisitions, disposals, Joint ventures, Business, Property, Subsidiaries, Officers and directors, News reports, Long-term debt, Bond ratings, Capital stock, Exchange and ticker symbol, Annual stock price ranges, Registrar, Transfer agent, Stock splits, Dividend payment history, Income statement, Cash flow statement, Balance sheet, Contact information, Auditors, Qualified auditors' report.
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PAIS International
Index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. More than 1,600 journals and over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year. Includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.
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Source OECD
The online publications portal of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Comprises 20 Studies by Themes for monographs and reports; 24 periodicals online; some reference titles online; and the OECD statistical databases online.
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UNBISnet
United Nations Bibliographic Information System.
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World Almanac
Full-text database includes information from four almanacs:
World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, World Almanac of the U.S.A., World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and World Almanac for Kid.
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World Market Research Center
Provides comprehensive country reports, including country risk ratings, daily updates and analysis of the economic, political, legal, tax, operational, and security environments in 185 countries.
Global Accounting, Tax, and Securities
Global Financial and Economic Statistics
- Source OECD
Provides economic indicators, trade data, national account data, industry statistics, trade statistics, economic outlooks, and a number of other resources and statistics.
- International Financial Statistics
International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance.
- World Development Indicators (Dataquery)
Includes 54 time-series indicators for 208 countries and 18 groups, spanning 5 years (1997 to 2001).
- World Development Indicators
Contains over 550 time-series indicators for 208 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 to 2002, and offers mapping, charting and data export formats. Included are more than 5 sets of country tables, covering specialized topics such as social indicators, economic indicators, education, and population projections.
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Provides trade statistics as well as economic research and analysis.
- UT Libraries International Statistics
An expansive collection of global statistics.
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