1. How to Search for Information on the Global Business Environment Lingnan University Library Mar 2012 http://www.library.ln.edu.hk/help/classes/2012/spring/powerpoint/ 1

2. Outline  Country Profiles  Country Competitiveness  Industry Information and News  Lingnan Wiki – BUS108  Citing Sources 2

3. CIA World Factbook 3 Access: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.htmlhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html Provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.

4. BBC Country Profiles 4 Access: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/

5. Wikipedia A free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. 5 Access: http://www.wikipedia.org/http://www.wikipedia.org/

6. Country Insights (from GlobalEDGE) 6 Access: http://globaledge.msu.edu/Global-Insightshttp://globaledge.msu.edu/Global-Insights Provides Statistics, history, politics and demographics for over 200 countries around the world.

7. Business Source Premier (BSP) 7 Provides countries reports, political risk yearbooks, industry reports, market reports in addition to full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text from more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals. Access: http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/lo gin.asp?profile=bsi&defaultdb=buh http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/lo gin.asp?profile=bsi&defaultdb=buh

8. World Trade Organization (WTO) 8 Access: http://www.wto.orghttp://www.wto.org 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.

9. 9 Country Competitiveness  IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook  Printed version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67  CD-ROM version: [REF] HF1414.W67[REF] HF1414.W67  Online version: http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.worldcompetitive ness.com/online http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.worldcompetitive ness.com/online  Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World  http://www.doingbusiness.org http://www.doingbusiness.org

10. 10 World Competitiveness Yearbook Access: http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.worldcompetitiveness.com/online http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=https://www.worldcompetitiveness.com/online

11. 11 Doing Business: Benchmarking business regulations by World Bank Access: http://www.doingbusiness.orghttp://www.doingbusiness.org

12. Hong Kong Trade Development Council 12 Access: http://www.tdctrade.com/ http://www.tdctrade.com/

13. LexisNexis Academic 13 Access: http://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/ap/academichttp://proxy1.library.ln.edu.hk:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/ap/academic Contains full-text news, business information, legal information from over 6,000 sources all over the world.

14. Factiva 14 Provides access to full-text information from over 9,000 news resources as well as tens of thousands of company reports and financial data.

15. Lingnan Wiki 15 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

16. Citing Sources  In academic writing, whenever we use someone else’s works, ideas, theory, quotes, methods, data, etc. we must cite the original source  Citation styles are the rules that govern on how we format these citations  There are many different citation styles set up by different academic bodies or publishers. The most commonly used ones include the APA style, MLA style and the Chicago style 16

17. Citation Examples A Book Boone, L. E. & Kurtz, D. L. (2006). Contemporary business. 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. 17

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