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Business and Economics Subject Guides | International Marketing Research Online

 

A Guide to International Marketing Information available Online

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International Marketing and Demographic Statistics

China Data Online

DataFinder(Population Reference Bureau)

Global Market Information Database
Marketing and economic data from Euromonitor - country data, consumer lifestyles, consumer market sizes, forecasts, companies & brands, major market profiles.

InfoNation
Most recent statistics for Member States of the United Nations. Includes a broad range of data.

InvestText Plus
Provides investment research reports and industry analysis. In order to obtain a report on an industry either use the drop down menu within the Industry Search box or use the Keyword Search box and enter in your industry and the name of a country - such as "beer and Japan".

Mintel Reports
Market research reports. Primarily covers U.S. and European industries. One-time registration required.

OneSource Global Business Browser GSB restricted
First time users click here to register.
Your best bet is to select Industry Profiler or Topic Search. Within Industry Profiler there does not tend to be many foriegn Industry Overviews but there is a lot of international Market Share Data. Also note the option to restrict your seach to "Tables Only" within the Topic Search section. Also note that Topic Search does not default to searching for company/industry research reports but that it is an option.

SourceOECD
Orginazation for Economic Cooperation and Development. SourceOECD comprises three sections: Studies (books and reports) by Theme, Periodicals and Statistics.

STAT-USA
For overviews of countries and also of markets outside of the United States go into the Globus & NTDB section of STAT-USA.

Statistical Universe
Search "Statistical Sources" for an index to over 100,000 statistical publications.

United Nations Common Database
Similar to World Development Indicators, UNSTATS provides selected series from 30 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas. It has the ability to download the data into an Excel spreadsheet.

World Development Indicators Online
Statistical data from the World Bank.



Country Information

Country Commercial Guides

CountryWatch.com
Provides overviews of countries.

Foreign Governments
Links to national government Web sites.

International Government Organizations
Links to many international government homepages including the IMF, UN and World Bank.



Journal Articles and News Items

ABI/Inform
Features abstracting, indexing and often the ASCII full-text to more than 1000 academic management, marketing and general business journals.

Business Source Premier
Similar to ABI/Inform; you may want to search both databases.

Factiva

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

ProQuest Direct
ProQuest Direct is a state-of-the-art information service providing online access to one of the most extensive collections of published material in the world. With ProQuest Direct, users can search for information in thousands of different journals, periodicals, dissertations, newspapers, and magazines in UMI's vast archives.


Journals Available Online

Irish Marketing Review
Journal of International Marketing
Marketing Week

Click here for an A to Z list of journals available online.

 

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