• Internet Business Guides
• Company Reports (detailed financial info)
• Company Directories (basic contact/financial info)
• Statistics/Demographics
• Country Commercial Guides/Commercial Profiles

• International Culture/Business Etiquette
• International Trade
• International Government
• Indexes to Magazine and Newspaper Articles
• Newspapers

INTERNET BUSINESS GUIDES

• Resources for International Business (Rutgers University Libraries)
• Business Information on the Internet(Compiled by Karen Blakeman)
• International Business Resources

INTERNATIONAL COMPANY REPORTS

• Welcome to CAROL(Company Annual Reports Online) - Covers Europe & the U.S. Free registration is required.
• Order Free Annual Reports - Welcome to The Annual Reports Service, a FREE Service provided by PrecisionIR for the readers of InvestorCalenda. Covers Europe & North America.
• CorporateInformation: Research Reports- Information on 350,000 companies around the world. Free registration required. Basic information is provided for free - full profiles require a paid subscription. Algonquin does not subscribe to this service. INTENDED ONLY FOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION AND NOT FOR INDIVIDUAL INVESTMENT ADVICE.
• Hoover's.com Limited free material available. SEE ALSO Hoover's Company Records. A database held by the LRC which contains the full Hoover's Company records offerings. This database is only available to students, faculty and staff of Algonquin College.

INTERNATIONAL COMPANY DIRECTORIES

• EUROPAGES : The European Business Directory - Search by company name, product or service.
• Thomas Global Register- Free registration required. "...over 500,000 industrial suppliers, organized by 10,500 industrial product classifications, from 26 countries"
• Kellysearch - A Global Database of Companies- Search by country, company name or prouct/servicce.
• Middle East Business Directory- AME Info's Site. Business directory on the right hand side.
• Kompass International Business Search Engine- The barebones information is free. Use the "search text" box at the top of the page to search by region, company name, product/services, trade names or executive names.
• Infospace World Directory
• International Telephone Directories on the Web - (Infobel network)

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INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS/DEMOGRAPHICS

• United Nations - Statistical Division - Statistical Proflies  and more.
• OFFSTATS - Official (Worldwide) Statistics on the Web (University of Auckland Library)
• Country Demographic Data(IDB Summary Demographic Data)
• The Official UK Statistics Site
• International Economic Trends. (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Forbes Lists
• Business Week - choose either Europe, Asia etc.. or Special Report for the top 100s.
• Stores Online - Top 200 Global Retailers, 100 Retailers and 100 Speciality Stores Choose from the top bar - Top 100 Lists.
• IndustryWeek - chose rankings.
• US Census Bureau - Census links

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COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDES/PROFILES

• Country Commercial Guides (U.S. State Dept.) - Covers people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations, trave/business.
• CIA World Fact Book Covers geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.
• Portals to the World (Library of Congress) - Includes links to business, commerce, economy and history resources for most countries of the world.
• Countryreports.org
• Country Profiles (BBC News)
• IMF Staff Country Reports in Full Text - Recent economic development reports & special issue reports.
• Africa - MBendi
• A Guide for Canadian Businesses in Japan
• Eurasianet.org
• AsiaSource
• The Middle East Information Network, Inc.
• East Asia Center (University of Virginia)
• Japan Guide (Stanford University)
• America - Latin American Network Information Center
• Mexico Online
• Country profiles (US Dept of State)
• Country Information for Market Research (Industry Canada)

• Market Reports & Contacts (Dept. of Foreign Affairs...) - Includes advice on doing business & market prospects for most countries

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INTERNATIONAL CULTURE/BUSINESS ETIQUETTE

• Cultural Profiles (Citizenship & Immigration Canada)
• International Addresses and Salutations. Also, many of the country profiles in the previous section include information on culture.

• Global Trade Tutorial (TradePort)
• International Trade links - Resources for Import-Export fita.org
• Market Potential Indicators for Emerging Markets (MSU-CIBER)
• International Trade Statistics Database (World Trade Organization)
• The Transportation Directory (Jim Wipff Publications) - "...directory of worldwide transportation services"
• SchedNet (HKSG Group) - .."shipping schedules and shipping information to shippers and forwarders worldwide.."
• Legal Information: National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
• Miscellaneous
• Dictionary of International Trade Terms (International Trade Data System)
• Foreign Exchange Currency Converter
• Business And Financial Converters and Calculators
• World Clock

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INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT

• Law and Government Resources (Hieros Gamos) European Union
• The European Union: A Guide for Americans.
• International Governmental Organizations (Northwestern University Library)
• Travel and Business (US Dept of State)
• Investment and Trade Division: Programs and Services (Export Marketing Abroad fact sheets)  Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

• United Kingdom Trade & Investment (UKTI) - UK Trade & Investment is the Government organisation that supports companies in the UK doing business internationally and overseas enterprises seeking to set up or expand in the UK.

Newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals are a good source of industry news. Find newspapers and magazines available to you in print at the LRC by typing your keyword into the LRC catalogue search box and limiting your search by format (choose - Periodicals (journals, magazines, newspapers).

Find newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals available to you via the LRC databases via the Electronic Journal Locator on the database portal page.  You can search for a particular journal or magazine if you have the title or for titles that contain the keyword of the subject you are seeking. Titles available include: Financial Post Business, Ottawa Business Journal, Report on Business Magazine, Ottawa Citizen, Globe and Mail, National Post and Marketing Magazine and many more.

These databases are offered via Algonquin's website and are restricted to students, faculty and staff of Algonquin College.You may need to authenticate to use this resource off campus. Please see the LRC website for further information.

• Abyz News Links
• Worldwide News and Newspapers Online

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