Research Guides: HUMN 305 Global Issues: Country Research

How to Research a Country

Begin by researching your country in the library's databases - Business Source Complete, Global Road Warrior, and Mergent Market Atlas . In your research you will locate many resources:

Country profiles offer overviews of country information including economic, political and societal information.
Reference sources like online encyclopedias provide detailed country information on areas of customs, religion, etc.
Journal and magazines provide scholarly articles on many aspects of countries.
News sources (like news articles) offer current country information as well as global viewpoints on controversial issues.

The Country Research tutorial provides directions on locating Country Information.

Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
Index, abstracts, and full text covering scholarly business journals on management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
Global Road Warrior
Provides information about 175 countries, including "culture, customs, history and language."
Mergent Market Atlas
Formerly known as Mergent.

Mergent Market Atlas contains the corporate information of over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years). Also included are firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading.