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Bahamas Handbook and Businessman's Annual
Boca Raton, Reference (Non-Circulating) F1650.B3 2007

Provides a reference guide to the specific operating conditions, commercial laws and business regulations of 55 countries worldwide, including critical issues such as obtaining proper permits and registrations, protecting your intellectual property in the Internet age, complying with local tax laws, and e-commerce rules.

Countries and their Cultures
Boca Raton, Reference (Non-Circulating) GN307 .C68 2001

Exporters' encyclopaedia
Exporters' encyclopaedia
Boca Raton, Reference (Non-Circulating) HF3011 .E9

Provides essential exporting, travel, communications and research information for more than 170 world markets.

Contains complete reports on more than 100 countries. Electronic copy also available.

Africa South of the Sahara
Boca Raton, Reference (Non-Circulating) DT352 .A5

Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia
Boca Raton, Reference (Non-Circulating) HC244.A1 E293

The Middle East and North Africa.
Boca Raton, Reference (Non-Circulating) DS49 .M5

South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Boca Raton, Reference (Non-Circulating) F1401 .S68

netLibrary Well over 10,000 E-Books covering a full range of subjects. [First time users, click on "Create Account" and choose your User Name and Password. In order to create your account, you need to be on campus or authenticate via EZproxy off campus prior to accessing the netLibrary link.]

Try searching using keyword the country name and the keyword culture or business culture.

Try an advance search to see if there is a World Bibliographical Series for a country using keyword searching. keyword = country name and keyword = World Bibliographical Series.

Ø Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.

Ø Access World News Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

Ø ArticleFirst
Contains bibliographic citations with some full text from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Ø Business and Management Practices
Contains online articles about the practical aspects of business management. Provides real-world know-how that focuses on how organizations make and implement decisions, develop and launch new strategies, and plan for change. Includes case studies and how-to articles. Searches for business concepts, industries, and specific departments within an organization. Management issues and business practices including: benchmark planning, best practices, business plans, corporate culture, expansion, long range planning, quality control, reengineering, resources case studies and guidelines, technology.

Ø Business Source Premier
The industry’s most used business research database with full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Ø Country Commerce
Country Commerce is a practical reference guide to the specific operating conditions, commercial laws and business regulations in more than 50 countries. It offers unbiased guidance on critical issues such as obtaining proper permits and registrations, protecting your intellectual property in the Internet age and complying with local tax laws-including e-commerce rules.

Ø CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.

Ø InfoTrac OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

Ø PAIS International
Contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Ø STAT-USA The STAT-USA link above is only accessible within the FAU Libraries [Boca, Davie, Jupiter, Tower only]. To access STAT-USA from anywhere (on or off-campus), log into your MyFAU account. After logging into MyFAU, click on the Library tab. The STAT-USA link appears at the bottom of the left column.

Provides access to authoritative U.S. business, economic and trade information from the Federal government.

SELECTED ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

Journals by Subject can be found by going to Quick Links and selecting Electronic Journals followed by Journals by Subject. Some Subjects to consider are: 1) Public Affairs & Law, 2) History & Etho-Cultural Studies, 3) News & Cultural Studies and 4)Social Sciences.

Economist (London) (0013-0613)


	from 01/04/1975 to present in LexisNexis Academic
	from 01/01/1988 to 14 days ago in Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who
	from 01/01/1988 to 14 days ago in Business & Company Resource Center
	from 01/01/1988 to 14 days ago in History Resource Center U.S.
	from 01/09/1988 to 14 days ago in Academic OneFile
	from 01/09/1988 to 14 days ago in Expanded Academic ASAP
	from 01/09/1988 to 14 days ago in General Reference Center Gold
	from 01/09/1988 to present in InfoTrac OneFile
	from 07/07/1990 to present in Academic Search Premier
	from 07/07/1990 to present in Business Source Premier
	from 01/04/1992 to present in ABI/INFORM Complete
	from 01/04/1992 to present in ABI/INFORM Global
	from 01/01/1998 to present in Access World News
	from 01/02/1999 to 14 days ago in General BusinessFile ASAP
	from 2004 to 2006 in Business & Industry
	from 2004 to 2006 in RDS Business Reference Suite

Economist (Netherlands) (0013-063X)


	from 01/01/1997 to present in Springer LINK
	from 01/01/1987 to 12/31/1996 in ABI/INFORM Complete
	from 03/01/1999 to 1 year ago in ABI/INFORM Complete
	from 01/01/1987 to 12/31/1996 in ABI/INFORM Global
	from 03/01/1999 to 1 year ago in ABI/INFORM Global

Economist.com. Global agenda


	from 02/20/2001 to present in LexisNexis Academic
	from 02/23/2001 to present in Academic OneFile
	from 02/23/2001 to present in General Reference Center Gold
	from 02/23/2001 to present in InfoTrac OneFile
	from 03/02/2001 to present in ABI/INFORM Complete
	from 03/02/2001 to present in ABI/INFORM Global
	from 09/01/2001 to present in Business & Company Resource Center
	from 09/03/2001 to present in General BusinessFile ASAP

ON THE INTERNET

European Trade Union Confederation
The ETUC exists to speak with a single voice, on behalf of the common interests of workers, at European level. Its prime objective is to promote the European Social Model and to work for the development of a united Europe of peace and stability where working people and their families can enjoy full human and civil rights and high living standards.

Global Unions from the AFL-CIO

Global Unions
Global Unions is a website which is jointly owned and managed by a number of international trade union organisations. The website gives its members the ability to draw the attention of their partners, their members, and the press to the news they produce and the campaigns they run.

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Official website of the ICFTU, a confederation of national trade union centers, each of which groups together the trade unions of that particular country. The ICFTU has 195 affiliates in 137 countries on all five continents, with a membership of some 124 million. Site has policies and procedures of the ICFTU, links to member unions, and a press bulletin board.

International Labor Organization
The International Labour Organization ("ILO") is an international organization which has a long history of improving working conditions and promoting social justice and human rights. Indeed, in 1969, on its 50th anniversary, the ILO was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The ILO's website, located at http://www.ilo.org/, provides both general information about the organization and original documentation for scholars.web site includes speeches, reports, access to searchable thesauri and other databases.

ILOLEX - a browsable, searchable database of international labor conventions, recommendations, ratifications and other information. Full text of most segments online.
NATLEX - a database of international labour law.
Labor Statistics - "data from the International Labour Organization Bureau of Statistics. The data available here are an extract of LABORSTA, the Bureau's principal database. It consists mainly of annual time-series which serve to publish the ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics. The application presents data covering 7 subjects in 23 tables." Available for onscreen viewing or download

LabourStart
Very up-to-date information on current labor news from around the world. Labour Links, Net Guide, Web site of the Week, Labour related Radio and TV.

The Library of Congress - Global Gateway - Portals to the World
Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. When completed, the project will include all the nations of the world.

Transparency International
Transparency International, the only international non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption, brings civil society, business, and governments together in a powerful global coalition.

CITING SOURCES:

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Next click <Web Tutorials>

Then click < The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing >

Go to Upper Tool Bar and click on <Evidence> for information on citing sources.

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