Business / Economics: Databases and Deeper Research
Research Business Locations
- AtoZ International Business This link opens in a new windowContains 100 comprehensive country business guides covering more than 120 content modules each. Topics include business culture, business formation, investment climate, import process, export process, media outlets, advertising and marketing, seaports, taxation, security, etc.
- CultureGrams This link opens in a new windowIf prompted for credentials (off campus), please contact the Library for access.
Research the climate, population, religion, attitudes, customs, and lifestyle of countries around the world. Includes primary source cultural & statistical country reports, states and Canadian provinces, native recipes, interviews, photos and video.
- Doing Business: Measuring Business RegulationsThe Doing Business project from the World Bank provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational level. Topics include: starting a business, construction and property, getting credit, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and more.
- Global Edge International Business Resource DeskThousands of international business resources selected based on content and usability. Useful for market research for leading industries.
- Global Issues: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, etc. This database integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, etc, Offers over 250 country pages and more than 400 issue pages. Commentaries provide background and guidance on significant topics like Food Security, Genocide, Human Rights, Extreme Weather, etc.
- Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new windowFeatures 174 country guides with 126 content modules each. Topics include culture & society, travel, education, history, holidays and festivals, language, media outlets, music, maps, money, national symbols, and religion. Contains downloadable illustrations with more than 30,000 photos, maps, and flag images.
- World Factbook This link opens in a new windowProvides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for over 275 entities (countries). The Reference tab includes: a variety of world, regional, country, ocean, and time zone maps; Flags of the World; and a Country Comparison function that ranks the country information and data in more than 75 Factbook fields.
Business & Economics Databases
- ProQuest Central's Business collectionProQuest Central has several highly useful resources for students of Business: the collection categories here include Industry and Market Research; Commodity Reports; Company Reports; Country Reports; and more. Log in with your TCTC credentials to use these collections.
- Business Insights: Global This link opens in a new window
Delivers comprehensive international business intelligence compiled into a logical, user-friendly context. Contains business intelligence enhanced by statistical data.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowContains full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.
- Entrepreneurial Studies Source This link opens in a new windowProvides insight into topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business ownership. Includes hundreds of full-text magazines, journals and books, plus thousands of company profiles and hundreds of videos.
- Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new windowProvides access to S&P industry surveys, stock reports, mutual fund reports, bond reports, corporation records, etc.
- Business Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowContains full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences and more.
- Economics and Theory: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Offers access to full-text academic journals and magazines with an emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit bibliographic index. Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, etc..
- Business: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowRegional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.
- Small Business Reference Center This link opens in a new windowOffers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.
- Entrepreneurship: Gale Business This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, etc. This database combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage.