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Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society
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An essential reference tool that spans the relationships among business, ethics and society, with an emphasis on business ethics and the role of business in society. The encyclopedia addresses the normative dimensions of commerce with a broad mandate that embraces the following themes and dimensions of business: accounting, customers and customs, employee issues, ethical though and theory, international, social and ethical issues, finance, gender, age, organization and much more.
Encyclopedia of Management
Encyclopedia of Small Business
Gale Reference for Business
Encyclopedia of small business, encyclopedia of business, encyclopedia of management, business plans handbook, company histories, leading American business and business biography
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A collection of online reference works for business. It includes encyclopedias and handbooks such as encyclopedia of small business, encyclopedia of business, encyclopedia of management, business plans handbook, company histories, leading American business and business biography.
Sage eReference
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A collection of eight encyclopedias from Sage publication. The database allows users to search and browse titles by subject covering areas such as family studies, psychology, social issues and sociology. Titles include encyclopedia of African religion, encyclopedia of counseling, encyclopedia of gender and society, encyclopedia of human relationships, and encyclopedia of social Problems.
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E-Books

Business Rankings Annual
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A research tool that allows to search, extract and manipulate directory information. The library covers a wide array of sectors including companies and consultancies, funding sources, government entities, libraries and information sources, media, organizations, people, statistics and ranking, and research centers.
Edward Elgar
More than 250 books in Business.

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960 e-books in Business, Economics, Environment, Innovation & Technology, and Public & Social.
Manufacturing & Distribution U.S.A.
Taylor and Francis ebooks

Lebanon Business Directories

5 index of Lebanon by General Markets
Call Number: RP338.6:F565f:2010:Indexes

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Article Databases

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window A business database that includes in-depth coverage for over 2,770 publications with more than 1, 840 available in full text and appearing in academic journals, dissertations, EIU Views Wire, trade magazines, Wall Street Journal- Eastern Edition and other newspapers. It offers the latest business and financial information and covers the areas of business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, competitive landscape, industry conditions worldwide and more.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary database, covering a wide array of subject areas ranging from astronomy, biomedicine, engineering, health, and literacy to mathematics, women's studies, zoology and more. The database includes magazines, peer reviewed and scholarly journals, trade publications, newspapers, reports, books and videos. Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations Date Coverage: 1890 - present

Business Insights: Essentials
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A business database bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, industry overviews and statistics, associations, news and full-text periodical articles. It covers domestic and international companies. It contains information from reference sources, company directories, encyclopedias, market share reports, newspapers, magazines and journals. Searches can be done by company name, ticker symbol, industry code (SIC/NAISC), brand name, or geographic area.

Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window Offers access to peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in the business world. Features reports, company information and company profiles. Bloomberg.com is also searchable through Business Source Ultimate. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: - - - -
EconLit With Full Text This link opens in a new window A bibliographic database with selected abstracts compiled by the American Economic Association. It includes journal articles, books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. It covers economic theory, capital markets, history and management, labor and international economics, public and business finance, and more.
Emerald Insight Journals This link opens in a new window Provides full-text of more than 130 journals in the fields of management, marketing, human resources and library science. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: All from v.1

Financial Times Historical
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The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2006, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. It includes in addition to the regular newspaper, special supplements and the Financial Times magazine. Its editorial reports, analyses of finance and industry and events of artistic and cultural significance are of high standard. Every article and advertisement printed in the paper can be searched and browsed individually and page by page

Hoover's Company Profiles This link opens in a new window Online company information, featuring public and non-public companies, industries, and key executives. The database provides easy access to business information, including company overview, company history, officers and board members, competitors, products and operations, auditors, rankings, related industry information, and historical financials. Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citation Date Coverage: 1986 - Present
INFORMS PubsOnLine This link opens in a new window A collection of seventeen scholarly journals published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). All Journals are peer reviewed and available from volume one, issue one to present. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: ----
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides complete archives of core scholarly journals which have been digitized, starting from the very first issues. Date coverage of JSTOR is based on a "moving wall" of three to five years between the date of the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of the journal.

Lebanon News and Reports Index
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Lebanon News and Reports Index is a database of articles and reports citations covering current conditions in Lebanon, and to a lesser extent the Middle East. You can search the index to find citations of articles and reports published in English, French and Arabic. Subject Indexing is done in English. Title, name and place are searchable in Arabic as well .
LexisNexis Academic Business News
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Lexis-Nexis Academic provides full-text and citation access to information in news, business, medical, and legal disciplines.
Regional Business News
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A comprehensive database providing full text coverage for regional business publications. It incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Topics include business, such as mergers, banking, finance, insurance, advertising and so on as well as economic, political, and international news events.
Scopus
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A multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid 1960s, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place. Coverage includes more then 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from over 4,000 international publishers, proceeding, trade publications as well as patents.
Wall Street Journal Historical
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The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection provides access to articles, charts, stock tables, graphics, photos, advertisements, maps, comics and political cartoons.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database indexing conference proceeding and articles gathered from thousands of high impact scholarly journals..

World Bank eLibrary
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A fully searchable portal of over 5,000 documents consisting of World Bank publications and Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. The collection provides access to full-text books, reports, journals, working papers and other formal documents from the World Bank.

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window The largest aggregated full-text database totaling more than 11,500 titles with over 8,500 titles in full text, including 800 full-text newspapers.

Financials/Investments Data

WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) This link opens in a new window A data research platform and business intelligence tool. WRDS provides the user with one location to access data covering numerous financial, economic and marketing disciplines including Accounting, Banking, Economics, ESG, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Marketing, and Statistics. Availability: Statistical data Date Coverage: Varies Note: First time users will need to register. more ...
AUB Libraries subscribes to three databases in WRDS:
COMPUSTAT WRDS: Provide financial data for active and inactive US publicly traded companies.
COMPUSTAT Global: Provides financial data on more than 16,000 non-US and non-Canadian companies.
Eventus: Eventus software performs event studies that compute abnormal returns for specific corporate actions using data read directly from CRSP stock databases. WRDS has created several Eventus web queries that allow the user to execute different Eventus programs such as Basic Event Study; Eventus Alternative; and Output for Cross-sectional Analysis.

Availability: Statistical data
Coverage: Varies
Note: First time users will need to register.
Your request will be reviewed by a WRDS representative at your institution. If approved, you will receive an e-mail message with instructions for setting your account password. If you have not received an e-mail message within 5 business days, please contact your WRDS Representatives:
- Mayssa El-Husseini: me107@aub.edu.lb
Passport: Euromonitor International This link opens in a new window Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, and breaking news. The database includes country fact files, lifestyle statistics, market data, consumer products and economic indicators. Passport database provides data on consumer markets, foreign trade, industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, population and households, resources and environment, retailing, service markets, and more. The history and forecast data allows the analysis of data from 1977-2020. Statistical data can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets or in a chart style. Passport contains: A range of consumer trends and lifestyle indicators such as disposable income availability, consumer expenditure, consumer prices, eating and drinking habits, household profiles, home ownership statistics, media access and health data. Market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing as well as company profiles and country reports. Availability: Statistical data and full-text Coverage: Current

Industry and Market Studies

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window Use the Advanced Search option and type Industry Report as the Document Type. A business database that includes in-depth coverage for over 2,770 publications with more than 1, 840 available in full text and appearing in academic journals, dissertations, EIU Views Wire, trade magazines, Wall Street Journal- Eastern Edition and other newspapers.

Gale industry encyclopedias in Business and Company Resource Center
Use the Advanced Search option and select "Industry Overviews" in the Content Area
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A business database bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, industry overviews and statistics, associations, news and full-text periodical articles. It covers domestic and international companies.

Passport: Euromonitor International This link opens in a new window Passport is a global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, and breaking news. The database includes country fact files, lifestyle statistics, market data, consumer products and economic indicators. Passport database provides data on consumer markets, foreign trade, industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, population and households, resources and environment, retailing, service markets, and more. The history and forecast data allows the analysis of data from 1977-2020. Statistical data can be downloaded into Excel spreadsheets or in a chart style. Passport contains: A range of consumer trends and lifestyle indicators such as disposable income availability, consumer expenditure, consumer prices, eating and drinking habits, household profiles, home ownership statistics, media access and health data. Market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing as well as company profiles and country reports. Availability: Statistical data and full-text Coverage: Current

Manufacturing & Distribution U.S.A.
UNcomtrade (Commodity Trade Statistics) 1962-
Trade statistics from over 200 countries
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Data may be visualized in graphs, tags, tables and maps downloaded directly in an Excel spreadsheet. The atabase is continuously updated. Whenever trade data are received from the national authorities, they are standardized by the UN Statistics Division and then added to UNcomtrade.

Country Analysis and Statistics

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window Use the Browse option and go to the Country Report section A business database that includes in-depth coverage for over 2,770 publications with more than 1, 840 available in full text and appearing in academic journals, dissertations, EIU Views Wire, trade magazines, Wall Street Journal- Eastern Edition and other newspapers.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Select Country Reports as Publication Type

Africa Development Indicators
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Africa Development Indicators (ADI) provides a detailed collection of development data on Africa. It contains over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.
Doing Business
Global Development Finance
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A repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries derived from loan-by-loan records. It presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of 128 individual countries that report to the World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS).
Global Economic Monitor (GEM)
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The World Bank's Global Economic Monitor (GEM) data set provides real- and financial sector indicators in daily, monthly, quarterly and annual frequencies for developing and high-income countries, and regional and global aggregates.

Passport: Euromonitor International This link opens in a new window GMID is a global statistical database from Euromonitor. It includes country fact files, lifestyle statistics, market data, consumer products and economic indicators. It provides data on consumer markets, foreign trade, industrial markets, IT and telecommunications, population and households, resources and environment, retailing, service markets, and more. The history and forecast data allows the analysis of data from 1977-2020.

International Financial Statistics (IFS)
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It is the International Monetary Fund's principal statistical publication. It reports, for most countries, time series data on exchange rates, balance of payments, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts and population.
LexisNexis Academic
Use the Easy Search-Country Research search widget.
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Lexis-Nexis Academic provides full-text and citation access to information in news, business, medical, and legal disciplines.
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Country Information Libguide
OECD Factbook
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A statistical yearbook presenting a wide range of key statistics of the OECD countries. It contains more than 100 indicators covering a wide range of areas including economy, agriculture, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health and quality of life, industry, information and communications, population/ labor force, trade and investment, taxation and public expenditure. The data is accompanied by explanatory analysis, tables, and figures to enable cross-country comparisons.

UNdata This link opens in a new window A data access system to the United Nations databases. It provides access to data produced or collected by major United Nations organizations as well as estimates and projections. In addition to data, the database provides short country profiles, definitions from glossaries such as Demography and Environment Glossary, and links to National Statistical offices through Country Data services.

World Bank Data
World Bank eLibrary
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A fully searchable portal of over 5,000 documents consisting of World Bank publications and Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. The collection provides access to full-text books, reports, journals, working papers and other formal documents from the World Bank.
World Development Indicators
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A primary database for development indicators published by the World Bank. The database provides a comprehensive statistical data of more than 900 time series indicators for over 200 countries. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators from 1960 onwards. Results can be scaled by percentage and viewed by country, series or date. WDI allows several data export format including excel.

Arabian Business

Internet Links

AEAweb
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Information for economists provided by the American Economic Association.
AnnualReports.com
Annual Reports
Best Resources Libguide
Biz/ed
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Website for students and educators in business studies, economics, accounting, leisure, sport & recreation and travel & tourism.
BNET
News
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CBS interactive business network
Business Planet
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Doing business in 183 economies.
CIA - The World Factbook
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Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Company Insight Center
News
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From Bloomberg Business. Search over 42,000 public and 322,000 private companies worldwide. Find stock quotes and charts, news and press releases, financials and key competitors.
ConsumerSearch
Corpfin
News
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Monthly review of market and company activity from Experian Business Information.
Economics A-Z
From the Economist
Economist Country News
Economist, Middle East.
EH.net
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Website owned and operated by The Economic History Association to provide resources and promote communication among scholars in economic history and related fields.
ESCWA
Middle East
ESOMAR Market Research
Forbes Lists, World's Richest People, and more - Forbes.com
Rankings
Fortune Rankings
Rankings
Global Forecasting Service
From the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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Global economic forecasts.
Registration is necessary.
IBISWorld U.S. & Global Industry Reports
Industry research reports.
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As the world’s largest independent publisher of U.S. industry research, IBISWorld’s team of expert analysts covers 700 different market segments. Each industry report is presented in an objective, easy to understand format, providing hard-to-find answers to top market research questions. Each market report is available online in HTML and PDF format.
Intute - social sciences
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Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.
IRIN - Annual Report Resource Center
Annual Reports
Khan Academy
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"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere."
MarketingCharts
Rankings
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Charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
Moody's Analytics
Economic and market analysis.
PublicRegisterOnline.com
Annual Reports
ReportLinker
Annual Reports
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Search engine for over 1.2 million official industry reports, company profiles and market statistics.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
72 Free Cases some are online.
Market Research

Lebanon and Arab World Links

al-Bawaba Business
AMEinfo.com
The ultimate Middle East Business Resource.
Arab Franchise Association
Arab Knowledge @ Wharton
Arab Trade Zone
Arabian Business
Arabian Business: Making of the Power 500 List
Forbes 40 Largest Public Companies
Mafhoum
Arab World Economy and Finance Web Sites
Martket Research Reports
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Banking, market and financial details by country.
National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce
Project Lebanon
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International Construction Technology and Building Materials Exhibition
Syria Report
Union of Arab Banks
ARA Marketing Research & Consultancy
Marketing Research in the Middle East
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ARA Marketing Research & Consultancy is a specialized marketing research and consultancy firm based in the Middle East with offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait City and Beirut.

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