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2. Outline Country Profiles and Statistics Country Competitiveness Industry Information and News Lingnan Wiki – BUS108 Citation Tools 2

3. Country Profiles and Statistics (1) CIA World Factbook: provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies. BBC Country Profiles Country Insights (from globalEDGE): provides current information on the business climate, news, history, political structure, economic landscape, and statistical data for 201 countries. Business Source Premier (BSP): provides countries reports, political risk yearbooks, industry reports, market reports in addition to full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals. ABI/Inform: EIU Viewswire provides concise overview of the economic and social political profile of individual countries as well as the regulations relevant to trade and investments. 3

4. Country Profiles and Statistics (2) World Trade Organization (WTO): a global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. The web site provides information on statistics, research, publications and other services offered by the WTO. International Financial Statistics: contains archival data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government finance and national accounts of IMF member countries. Datastream: thousands of macroeconomic time series data from World Bank, IMF, EuroStat, EIU and local statistical offices. DoingBusiness: benchmarking business regulations by World Bank. 4

5. CIA World Factbook 5 Access: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

6. BBC Country Profiles 6 Access: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/

7. Country Insights (GlobalEDGE) 7 Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryInsights/

8. Business Source Premier (BSP) – Country Reports, Political Risk Yearbooks, etc. 8 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=bspbsi http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=bspbsi

9. ProQuest ABI/Inform (EIU Viewswire) 9

10. World Trade Organization (WTO) 10 Access: http://www.wto.orghttp://www.wto.org

11. International Financial Statistics 11 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=ifsonline http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=ifsonline

12. 12 Datastream

13. 13 Country Competitiveness World Competitiveness Yearbook Printed version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67 CD-ROM version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67 Online version: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi- bin/ebwcyhttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi- bin/ebwcy Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World http://www.doingbusiness.org

14. 14 World Competitiveness Yearbook Search Library by Book Title: World Competitiveness Yearbook Call Number: [REF] HF1414.W67 (Lingnan Only Web access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy )[REF] HF1414.W67 http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ebwcy

15. 15 Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World Bank Access: http://www.doingbusiness.org/ http://www.doingbusiness.org/

16. 16 Industry Information and News tdctrade.com (Hong Kong Trade Development Council) Tablebase: Contains tables of data relating to companies, products, industries, brands, markets, countries and demographics from around the world on some 90 industries. LexisNexis Academic: Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world. Factiva: Provides access to full-text information from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data.

17. Hong Kong Trade Development Council 17 Access: http://www.tdctrade.com/ http://www.tdctrade.com/

18. Tablebase 18 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=tablebasehttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=tablebase

19. LexisNexis Academic 19 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=acadunivhttp://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=acaduniv

20. Factiva 20 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=factiva http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=factiva

21. Lingnan Wiki 21 Access: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/BUS108_Global_Business_Environment http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/wiki/index.php/BUS108_Global_Business_Environment

22. Citation Examples A Book Boone, L. E. & Kurtz, D. L. (2006). Contemporary business 2006. Australia : Thomson/South- Western. A Journal article Cutler, D.M., Poterba, J.M. and Summers, L.H. (1990), Speculative dynamics and the role of feedback traders. American Economic Review, 80(2), 63-68. 22

23. Citation Tools RefWorks: http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/cgi-bin/luaccess?dbname=refworks Citation Builder (from NCSU Libraries) http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/citationbuilder.php Using APA Format (Purdue University). http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html APA Citation Style (Concordia Libraries) http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/apa.php Citation and Style http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/links/pages/Research_Methods/C itation_and_Style/ 23

24. Need Help? Integrated Helpdesk at Information Commons (1/F, Library) Ask A Librarian (Electronic Reference) http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/eref/ http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/eref/ refstaff@ln.edu.hk / 2616-8571 refstaff@ln.edu.hk 24

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