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Welcome to the Business & Economics Guide. This guide will introduce you to resources that may help you with your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Business & Economics News
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Economist Direct access to the journal Economist in our Westlaw database.
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Harvard Business Review Written for upper level management. Presents analysis of management problems and helpful commentary on advanced thinking and practice in all fields of management and administration.
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U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window Access hundreds of U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wall Street Journal, and more. Coverage from the 1980's through today.
Country and Industry Information
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CIA World Factbook "The Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities." A good source for demographic, political, and economic information from the Central Intelligence Agency.
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IQS Directory A database of OEM Manufacturers in 180 industry categories throughout the United States and Canada.
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North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) NAICS is the standard system used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy. Use this site to identify NAICS codes.
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U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations for countries and areas of the world. From the U.S. Dept. of State.
Research Databases
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
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Business Source Complete - Business Searching Interface This link opens in a new window This enhanced business searching interface of Business Source Complete provides easy access to full text company financial data, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more.
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Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni includes news, business and legal information, such as company profiles and financial data, law Reviews, and federal and state case law and legislative sources.
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Regional Business News This link opens in a new window This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Follow these steps to add PennWest library links to your Google Scholar settings.
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Statista This link opens in a new window Consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and presented in a variety of formats including infographics, industry reports, and in-depth data analysis.
Other Databases
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Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
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Communication Source This link opens in a new window Offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from publications worldwide pertaining to Communication, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Discourse, Speech-Language Pathology, Media Studies and other fields relevant to the discipline.
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JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor and JSTOR Primary Sources
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
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SocINDEX w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.