International Marketing Resources

NSU Broken Arrow Library

Tom Messner
02/25/2011

Access	Articles	Newspapers
Classification Codes	Country Information	International Trade Statistics
Company Information	Oklahoma Trade Data	Reference USA (Business Phone Book)
International Yellow Pages

Getting Started:

Researching your market http:/www.tradeport.org/

NSU Broken Arrow Library Home Page http://library.nsuok.edu/nsuba/index.html

NSU John Vaughan Library Home Page : http://library.nsuok.edu/index.html

*Note: to search from your home computer, you need to have your NSU NT Username and password) http://library.nsuok.edu/Resources/Indexes/proxy.html

 

I. Journal Indexes (search for articles in journals and magazines on your topic)

Journal Database List  http://library.nsuok.edu/Indexes/dblist.html

1.) Ebscohost-"Family of databases"

A.) Business Source Elite

Provides full text for over 1,060 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.

B.) Academic Search Elite

Provides full text for nearly 1,560 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education,

and much more.

C.) MasterFILE Premier

Provides full text for over 1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

2.) Proquest (ABI Inform)

Includes selected full text and images of a wide variety of business journals.

3.) Wilson OmniFile

Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases:

Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text

 

II. Newspapers (good for current events)

1.) Links to several national and international newspapers.
http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html

2).Yahoo Newspapers by country:

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/

 

Classification Codes

North American Industry Classification (NAIC) http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

Schedule B Export Codes: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/schedules/b/

International trade codes: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/codes/index.html#hts

SIC Classification Codes for products and services: http://www.bizminer.com/SIC-industry-description.asp

 

III. Country Information

1.) CIA World Fact Book https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

2.) GlobalEdge http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

3.)Country Commercial Guides http://www.stat-usa.gov/mrd.nsf/vwCCG_Country?OpenView&Count=-1

4.)Background Notes http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

5.) International Business Resource Connection (IBER) http://www.ibrc.business.ku.edu/country.php

6.)Economist.com Country Briefings http://www.economist.com/countries/

8.) Country Studies (Library of Congress) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

9.) Culturegrams (NSU BA Reference Collection)  Call # GT 150.C85

10.) CountryWatch  World Review (CDROM)  NSU BA AV Collection Call # G63.C686 2000  (ask for this product

at the Circulation desk).

12.)US Commercial Service: Market Research Library http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearch.cfm?search_type=int&loadnav=no

(Must register online as a student)

13.) Deloitte International Tax and Business Guides http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_PG/pg/insights-ideas/itbg/index.htm

14.)  Price Waterhouse "Doing Business in..." Series

15.) OECD Country Reports

IV. Corporate Information

1.) Mergent online http://library.nsuok.edu/Resources/Indexes/index.html

FISonline is a financial database service offering 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000

non-U.S. public companies. FISonline is offered to you from Mergent, Inc. -- the preferred source

for global business and financial information. Formerly known as Moody's Financial Information

Services

 

V. International Trade Information and Statistics

1.) Foreign Trade Statistics

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/country/index.html

2.) Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

3.) STAT-USA (Requires password-Must be used in the library only. See library staff for login information) http://www.stat-usa.gov/

    A.)GLOBUS & NTDB -- Access this area for current and historical trade-related

4.) State Export Data: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/state/index.html

5.) World Bank: Doing Business Series http://www.doingbusiness.org/downloads/

6.)

7.) 5.)Export.gov select: Export data  http://www.export.gov/tradedata/index.asp

VI. Oklahoma Trade Statistics

1.)   Oklahoma Department of Commerce – International Trade Office

2.) Oklahoma Market Research (Including reports of top exports to foreign countries)

VII. International Yellow Page Listings
    1.) International Yellow and White Page Listings http://www.wayp.com/

VII. International Trade Supplier and Buyer Leads
    1.) Alibaba http://www.alibaba.com/

 

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