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Business Books and Journals
Databases
- Academic Search Complete
Database containing academic journals, covering several disciplines. - Business Premium Collection
Database containing business journals, trade journals, news, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and MIT Sloan Management review are present in this database. - Business Source Premier
Database containing business books, business journals, trade journals, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Harvard Business Review and Forbes can be found in this database. - Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a community-curated online guide offering access to indexed, open access publications of high quality. - EBSCO E-book collection
E-books on a wide range of (business) topics. - JSTOR
Journal Storage. Holds journals from several scientific disciplines. - ScienceDirect
Elsevier Database with articles and summaries from over 2000 academic magazines. - START
Search through the entire physical and (most of the) digital collection for (e)books, journals and articles. Also you can make reservations, extend you loan period and request material from other libraries.
External sources
Company information
Databases
- Business Premium Collection
Database containing business journals, trade journals, news, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and MIT Sloan Management review can be found in this database. - Company.info
Database containing company information relating to Dutch organisations and foreign organisations with Dutch branches. This information originates from the Dutch Chambers of Commerce and other sources. Includes the following: Annual results and ratios, Annual reports, Address and organisation details, Management details, Press reports, Details of the most important competitors and > 2,000 full text market reports. - EMIS Professional
Emerging Markets Information System. EMIS contains country analysis, company analysis, market analysis and news on emerging markets. - MarketLine Advantage
Marketline provides market, branch and country reports – to be consulted by region or country – and often includes prognoses. In addition, this source includes SWOT, 5-forces and PESTLE analyses.
External Sources
- Annual Reports
Boasting the most complete and up-to-date listings of annual reports on the internet, AnnualReports.com provides instant access to annual reports in their actual format in one single location. - EDGAR
The SEC’s EDGAR database provides free public access to company information (listed companies only), allowing you to research a company’s financial information and operations by reviewing registration statements, prospectuses and periodic reports. - ResponsibilityReports
Boasting the most complete and up-to-date listings of responsibility reports on the internet, ResponsibilityReports.com provides instant access to responsibility reports in their actual format in one single location.
Competitive landscape and trends
Databases
- Business Premium Collection
Database containing business journals, trade journals, news, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and MIT Sloan Management review can be found in this database. - Business Source Premier
Database containing business books, business journals, trade journals, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Harvard Business Review and Forbes can be found in this database. - Company.info
Database containing company information relating to Dutch organisations and foreign organisations with Dutch branches. This information originates from the Dutch Chambers of Commerce and other sources, includes the following: Annual results and ratios, Annual reports, Address and organisation details, Management details, Press reports, Details of the most important competitors and > 2,000 full text. - EMIS Professional
Emerging Markets Information System. EMIS contains country analysis, company analysis, market analysis and news on emerging markets. - Euromonitor Passport
Consumer trends and market indicators. Statistics and analyses can be consulted by region or consumer-market. - The Financial Times
Use this link to create your own account using your @hr.nl e-mail address and click "Join now". Use this account to log in on FT.com and the FT apps. - Gartner Higher Education Reference
Gartner Higher Education Reference offers (summaries of) reports and advice. - Legal Intelligence
European and Dutch legal and public sources. - Nexis Uni
Dutch newspapers and magazines. - PressReader
Current information in over 40 languages from newspapers and magazines across the world. - Stylus
Database containing information on recent developments on consumer and lifestyle trends. - Trendwatching
Gives access to current innovations, trends and reports spread across a large number of industries, regions and media.
External sources
- American Bankers Association
Content (for a part) available through ABI Inform and Business Source Premier. Banking industry statistics USA available. - International Trade Centre
ITC offers a wide range of resources and tools to provide up-to-date information and data on markets world-wide. - TARIC
The EU's TARIC database is a multilingual database covering all measures relating to tariff, commercial and agricultural legislation for import and export - Tradeshow News News Network
TSNN is an online news source for the trade show industry.
Country information
Databases
- Business Premium Collection
Database containing business journals, trade journals, news, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and MIT Sloan Management review can be found in this database. - EMIS Professional
Emerging Markets Information System. EMIS contains country analysis, company analysis, market analysis and news on emerging markets. - Euromonitor Passport
Consumer trends and market indicators. Statistics and analyses can be consulted by region or consumer-market. - Legal Intelligence
European and Dutch legal and public sources. - MarketLine Advantage
Marketline provides market, branch and country reports – to be consulted by region or country – and often includes prognoses. In addition, this source includes SWOT, 5-forces and PESTLE analyses.
External sources
- CIA World Factbook
Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. - Country business patterns
Country business patterns by the US Census. Part of Business Dynamics Statistics, which is part of the Data Tools and Apps page - European Value Study
The European Values Study is a large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on basic human values. - IMF
International Monetary Fund publications - MADB
EC Market Access Database - OECD
Many free publications with country information are available. - RVO
Netherlands Enterprise Agency. Limited information in English. - TARIC The EU's TARIC database is a multilingual database covering all measures relating to tariff, commercial and agricultural legislation for import and export
- UNCTADstat Country Profiles
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development database. - World Value Survey
The WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed, currently including interviews with almost 400,000 respondents. - Worldbank Group - Doing Business
Doing business data as of 2003 and rankings.
Industry information
Databases
- Business Premium Collection
Database containing business journals, trade journals, news, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and MIT Sloan Management review can be found in this database. - EMIS Professional
Emerging Markets Information System. EMIS contains country analysis, company analysis, market analysis and news on emerging markets. - Euromonitor Passport
Consumer trends and market indicators. Statistics and analyses can be consulted by region or consumer-market. - MarketLine Advantage
Marketline provides market, branch and country reports – to be consulted by region or country – and often includes prognoses. In addition, this source includes SWOT, 5-forces and PESTLE analyses.
External sources
- MADB - EC Market Access Database
The MADB gives information to companies exporting from the EU about import conditions in third country markets. - UNCTAD-Stat
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development database - USA department of trade
TP&A publishes a variety of data series and reports for both public and government use. Focus on USA.
News
Databases
- Business Premium Collection
Database containing business journals, trade journals, news, company profiles, industry and country information. Publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times and MIT Sloan Management review can be found in this database. - EMIS Professional
Emerging Markets Information System. EMIS contains country analysis, company analysis, market analysis and news on emerging markets. - The Financial Times
Use this link to create your own account using your @hr.nl e-mail address and click "Join now". Use this account to log in on FT.com and the FT apps. - MD info
Abstracts of articles published in Dutch newspapers and trade journals. - Nexis Uni
Dutch newspapers and magazines. - PressReader
Current information in over 40 languages from newspapers and magazines across the world. - Regional Business News
Full-text business publication; on a regional level, for the United States and Canada.
Statistics (international data)
Databases
- EMIS Professional
Emerging Markets Information System. EMIS contains country analysis, company analysis, market analysis and news on emerging markets. - MarketLine Advantage
Marketline provides market, branch and country reports – to be consulted by region or country – and often includes prognoses. In addition, this source includes SWOT, 5-forces and PESTLE analyses. - Euromonitor Passport
Consumer trends and market indicators. Statistics and analyses can be consulted by region or consumer-market.
External sources
- International Trade Centre
Trade statistics by the International Trade Centre. - The UN World Bank
The World Bank databases. - UN data
35 databases of the United Nations. For data on countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Descriptions of the international sources and definitions used in compiling the data are included. Sources: UN, FAO, ILO,IMF, ITU, OECD, UNESCO, UNWTO, WHO, WIPO, and World Tourism Organization, plus other international agencies. - UN COMtrade
UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables. - UN FAOSTAT
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization - UNCTAD TRAINS
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development database. Trade Analysis Information System. - UNCTAD-stat Database
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development database. - World DataBank
The World Bank databases. World DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them. Log in to DataBank to create, save and share your reports and datasets. - World DataBank - Doing Business
This World Databank database contains objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. - WTO Trade Statistics
Online database containing time series on international trade, country trade and tariff profiles.
Statistics (regional data)
External sources
- Arab Economic Database (AEDB)
The AEDB of the Arab Monetary Fund contains time series for six economic sectors. The database provides statistical data on GDP by expenditure and economic sectors items, direction and structure of foreign trade, balance of payments according to the fifth edition, monetary and banking sector, statistics of government finance and in addition to a chapter on cross-section exchange rates. - Asia Regional Integration Centre
Contains multiple databases: Free Trade Agreements, Economic & Financial Indicators, Integration and Daily Market Watch. - Asian Development Banks SDS
Asian Development Bank Statistical Database Systems. - StatsAPEC
Statistics for the Asia-Pacific region. Key Indicators Database and Bilateral Linkages Database. - BASEIND
The Statistical, Economic and Social Research & Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) BASEIND (BAsic Social and Economic INDicators) Database provides data on 313 socio-economic variables under 19 categories for the 57 OIC Member Countries dating back to 1970. The content of this database is regularly updated and enriched based on information collected from the national and international statistical sources. - CEPALSTAT - Latin America
- ECB Statistical Data Warehouse
- EUROSTAT
- Eurostat Quality of life
- Inter-American Development Bank
Latin American and Caribbean statistics. - OECD Better Life Index
- OECD Statistical databases
- SEDLAC
Socio-Economic Database for Latin-America and the Caribbean. - UNECE Statistical Database
Database of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
Statistics (national data)
External Sources
- CBS Statline
Statline Database of Statistics Netherlands (Central Bureau of Statistics). - DATA.GOV
Open datasets from various US governmental institutions. - USA Census Bureau
Data, tools and apps. - NBS of China - national data
National Bureau of Statistics of China. - Office for National Statistics - UK
Office for the National Statistics of the United Kingdom. - Statistics Bureau of Japan
- Trade Statistics of Japan
Financial Ratios
External sources
- XE Current and Historical rate tables
Current and Historical currency rate Tables. Build current and historic rate tables with your chosen base currency with XE Currency Tables. - Yahoo! Finance currencies
Other resources
Databases
- EASY
EASY is an electronic archival system for researchers. Many researchers and organisations store their datasets in EASY, and a large part of this data is Open Access and available for re-use. - HBO Kennisbank
Theses and results of research conducted by this and other Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences. - START
Overview of all books available at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences - Narcis
NARCIS offers access to academic information from repositories of all Dutch universities, KNAW, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and NWO, national research organisation. - Van Dale Dictionaries
Dictionaries German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Also contains Oxford Dictionairy of English (Oxford ODE) and Oxford Thesaurus of English (Oxford OTE).
External sources
- sEURch
Search the WorldCat catalogue of Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tools and Documentation
- APA explained
Easy explanations of APA and 'how-to'. - APA explained
Easy explanations of APA and 'how-to'.