Subject Guide
Country Profiles
- Europa World Plus This link opens in a new window
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Combines the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Provides up-to-date political and economic information for more than 250 countries and territories. - CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new window
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Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- State Department Background NotesThe State Department profiles each country's economy, history, geography, demographics, and recent political history.
- ProQuest Statistical Abstracts of the World This link opens in a new window
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Search the statistical abstracts of 40 countries at one time. Statistical abstracts provide a point of entry to the vast array of data available about countries.
- Nationmaster
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A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. It combines information from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD.
Industry and Company Profiles
Look for an "industry profile"--a short market research report with history, statistics, markets, forecasts, and more for the industries involved in the food production you're researching. Also, articles from trade magazines cover industries in an in-depth way that you just won't find in any other publications. Be alert to biases in the coverage, but you'll learn news not mentioned elsewhere.
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One of the best tools for business research, includes scholarly and trade publications, industry profiles, and the like. An ELM Database. - Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
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Corporate financial information for U.S. and international public companies. Very comprehensive profiles. - Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Access to the full text of newspapers (foreign and domestic), as well as business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
