Penn State University Libraries - Country Resources

• globalEDGE™

  • "Created by the International Business Center (IBC) at Michigan State University, globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. Partially funded by a U.S. Department of Education [...] grant (CIBE program), globalEDGE™ is your source for global business knowledge."

News

• LexisNexis Academic

  • News: full-text regional, national and international newspapers, magazines and trade journals
  • Business Resources: full-text business news, company and industry information, SEC filings, and accounting literature
  • Legal Resources: full-text federal and state case opinions, law reviews, legal news, European Union legislation, tax law, and patents

• ProQuest

  • Search for newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Many full-text

• World News Connection

  • Contains full-text translated summaries from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
  • Daily Reports for the following materials:
    • newspaper articles
    • conference proceedings
    • radio and television broadcasts
    • periodicals
    • non-classified technical reports

Companies

• Hoover's

  • Proprietary company and industry information, SEC filings, plus reports on money management, career development, news, and business travel

• MergentOnline

  • Information on 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies
  • Detailed, standardized financial statements
  • Searchable by company name, industry codes, revenue levels, and other characteristics
  • Comparative analysis among companies
  • Access to SEC reports

Articles, Papers, Analysis, Scholarship

• ProQuest

  • Search for newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Many full-text

• Political Risk Yearbook

  • Country Reports on 106 countries
  • Political and economic risk analysis
  • Business information

• Dissertations and Theses

  • Penn State dissertations and theses
  • Dissertations and theses from other institutions
  • Foreign dissertations and theses
  • Dissertation and thesis FAQ

• Business Source Premier

  • Essential article database for business research, providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals
  • Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM, and supply chain management