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Use the search engine SUMMON to access articles and books on your topic. Watch this 3 min Help Video

For more extensive research these databases are listed in alphabetical order.  Read the description of each one to determine the most suitable source of material for your research. Proquest Business is the key international database.  Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS Statistics is the most important resource for Australian Data and statistical reports. Business Collection from Informit is the key source for Australian topics.

Key databases

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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• AustLII's Encyclopedias and Dictionaries  — Includes various works for Law, Finance and Investment.
• Business Abbreviation Sources  — Economic and accounting acronyms, abbreviations and symbols.
• Census Dictionary  — This ABS publication includes a complete listing of the 1996 Census classifications and a glossary of census terms and definitions.

Gale Virtual Reference Library titles relevant to business and marketing include:

• Advanced Project Management
• Coaching for Change
• CRM Project Management Handbook
• Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
• Encyclopedia of Leadership
• Encyclopedia of Management
• Encyclopedia of Small Business
• Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce
• Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice
• Leading the Professionals
• Practice of Project Management
• Supply Chain Management: Issues in the New Era of Collaboration and Competition
• Theory and Practice of Training

Oxford Economics & Business Reference Works — A subset of Oxford Reference Online.

Among the useful Sage reference titles are:

• Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
• 21st Century Management: A Reference Handbook.

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Web sites and Internet resources

Annual company reports

Australian company Web sites — Swinburne Institute of Technology's links to home pages of Australian companies
CAROL — Company Annual Reports Online for Asian, European and American companies. There is no charge, but registration is required.
EquitiesInfo — free annual reports and prices of equities for over 1,200 Australian companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Fortune — company profiles and news items
Northcote — free access to current and archive copies of UK company annual reports. Free registration to access the information.
Australian Share Market

Australian Stock Exchange and Futures Exchange
Worldwide Stock Exchanges
US Securities and Exchange Commission — includes access to EDGAR (for company information and all SEC filings)
Yahoo Finance — ASX stock quotes, business news highlights, financial news, financial glossary

General sites

Australian Government Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources — comprehensive site covering tourism, small business, industry with statistics, overviews and innovations.
Country Commercial Guides — an archive of full-text reports prepared annually by US embassies between 1996 and 2001. They present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis. An updated series of Country Background Guides are available at the US State Department site. The latest series of Country Commercial Guides is available at the US Export.Gov site. Access requires registration.
Index to Theses — provides abstracts to theses published in Great Britain and Ireland 1970-
United Nations system of organizations — an alphabetical index of direct links to all of the United Nations organizations, including joint initiatives, special projects, funds, programmes and specialised agencies.
Universal currency converter — Xenon Laboratories

Marketing and Management

Australian Graduate School of Management
BEP (Business Entry Point) — an online government resource for the Australian business community, providing a wide range of information about start-up, taxation, licensing and legislation.
Bplans.com — find, view, download and edit sample business plans optimized for the Web.
Business Council of Australia
CCH Benchmarking — for Australian industry-based financial information
ClickZStats — provides statistics and and articles on Web marketing information
Codes of Business Ethics — links to corporate codes of ethics, full-text publications and business ethics websitesDepartment of Industry, Tourism and Resources — Government site detailing competitive and sustainable business practices in AustraliaHarvard Business Online — the portal site for the Harvard Business School
ICAC — publications about eCorruption and the public sector
IDEAS: RePEc — Research Papers in Economics, a huge collection of full-text working papers and journal articles, plus software components.
Manchester Business School Working PapersTrade Marks — provided by the British Library. International in scope and providing sites about classification schemes, databases and gazettes, legislation and litigation, and official manuals on trade mark procedures. Includes links to Trade Mark databases.
Trademark Document Retrieval — US Patent and Trademark Office portal to 460 000 trademark applications.
US Census Quick Facts — demographic and business statistics to US County level with easy access to full Census data.
Warwick Business School Academic Publications
World Bank Monthly Commodity Price Data

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