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Rutgers University Libraries: Research & Reference Gateway: Business |
A clearly organized site, recipient of The Argus Clearinghouse's Digital Librarian's Award, and several other awards. The site is intended to provide a basic list of Internet resources for all areas of business research.
Undergraduates will find the starting points helpful, while graduate students will find the Links to Working Papers in the Business
subsection a valuable resource.
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| BRASS: Best of the Best Business Web Sites |
Produced and edited by The Education Committee of the Business Reference & Services Section of the Reference & User Services Division of The American Library Association |
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| AccountingNet |
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| Accounting Glossary |
Accounting Terminology Guide NY Society of CPA's |
| AdCouncil.org |
Marketing |
| Advertising World |
Ad*access
More than 7,000 digitized print ads 1911-1955. |
| All Business Network |
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| Annual Reports Online |
Provides information and guidance on how to access annual reports on the Internet; does not provide a global search engine, instead it provides The Annual Report Gallery A-Z Links |
| Baker Library Research Guides |
Harvard School of Business Library |
| Biznar: Deep Web Business Search - beta |
Uses a federated search technology from Deep Web Technologies, a supplier of custom federated search solutions, to facilitate searching for high-quality business resources. Biznar provides an informative self-guided tour that explains the deatils of the search process. Users will discover taht ,as with many other specialized Web Search engines, some results supply only a free abstract and require payment for the full article. |
| Bplans.com |
A .com site established to assist entrepreneurs by providing
free advice and information. |
| @Brint |
Business, Technology, Knowledge Management |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics: Economy
at a Glance |
Well-organized site; provides easily accessible and readable data on unemployment rates, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, and producer price index. Data available for the national level and 4 major regions, please each state and many metropolitan service areas (MSA). Updates occur anytime the BLS receives new data, typically numerous times each month. This is a useful quick overview. |
| Business.gov |
.gov |
| Business and Commerce - EINet |
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| Business Culture, Customs, & Etiquette |
a .com site |
| Business Daily |
One of the largest international news sites on the Internet, Business Daily provides a great overview of current business and economic news from around the globe. The Archive section allows users to view news published on a particular day; also has video, radio and pictures that are accessible and downloadable directly from the site.
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| Biz/Ed: Business Education |
UK-based |
| Business Filings Databases--Updated |
The author a member of the State Bar of Texas, has created a simple page arranged in alphabetical order by state. Easy to navigate and quick to load. |
| CI Strategies & Tools |
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| CommerceNet |
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| Current Industrial Reports |
Manufacturing & Construction Division, US Census |
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Deloitte's International Tax and Business Guides |
sponsored by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and developed in cooperation with the Economist Intelligence Unit; 120 countries and jurisdictions covered at one or more of three levels--basic contact information, highlights fact sheets, and a lengthy and detailed Tax and Business Guide. Highlight-level information is provided for 112 areas and third-level "Tax and Business Guides" are provided for 48 entities.
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| Department of Commerce - US |
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information |
| Electronic Commerce Guide |
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| Ethisphere |
A forum for Ethisphere Institute, an international think tank dedicated to the creation, advancement, and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption, and sustainability. site is a refreshing resource since it offers examples and solutions that are already working for a number of companies |
| European Union On-line |
Everything International |
| Fast Company |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| Federation of Tax Administrators |
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| Finance Resources on the Web |
In 2004 and 2005 this site was a Choice Outstanding Academic Web Site,
however, as the site has grown the ability of the editor and creator to keep all its hundreds of links up-to-date has diminished, thus this year it became a Choice Recommended Academic Web Site. It is still easy to navigate, and contains many unique links. |
| Financial Crisis News Center |
Developed and maintained by CCH publications, a major publisher of tax, legal and business information; provides news updates and links to information on the current financial crisis; site makes very good use of current technology; users can subscribe to the site via email or RSS feed. |
| FiNWeb Home Page |
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| Fortune 500 |
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| Globalization 101 |
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| globalEDGE |
Michigan State University |
| inc.com |
High quality, reliable articles on a wide variety of business topics |
| Institute for Business & Professional Ethics |
Depaul University |
| International Trade Centre |
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| International Trade Web Resources |
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| Investopedia.com |
A Canadian-based free site devoted to investor education |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Registration required for access to full-text materials. |
| KM: Knowledge Management |
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| KnowThis.com: Marketing Virtual Library |
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| MarketingCharts |
published by Watershed Publishing staff in conjunction with staff responsible for a couple of the company's other online business publications; the major drawback to the site is the overly trendy, difficult to navigate home page; the site does contain free, downloadable marketing charts and spreadsheets, and they are all very current--nothing more than 3 months old--but the confusing design means users will have to dig to find what they want |
| National Retail Federation |
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| North American
Industry Classification System |
NAICS was "developed jointly by the U.S., Canada and Mexico to provide
new comparability in statistics about business activity across North
America." |
| The Penn World Tables 6.2 |
Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, U of Toronto
Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level. Data retrieval is fast and data are easy to read, but the site does not have a mechanism to export the data, or help screens for users. |
| PRARS: the Public Register's Annual Report Service |
From Bay Tact Corporation, provides free annual reports, prospectuses, and 10Ks for public companies. See also Annual Reports Service above. For both services submission of an order to view the annual report means that users are consenting to their data being transferred to the provider of the selected annual report. |
| Research Companies
Online: A Tutorial |
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Rutgers University Libraries: Research & Reference Gateway: Business |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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| Small Business Resources.gov |
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| Tax & Accounting Sites Directory |
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| Texas Business and Industry
Data Center |
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| THINK |
IBM |
| Trendwatching.com |
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| U.S. Small Business
Administration |
.gov |
| VIBES--Virtual International
Business and Economic Sources |
University of North Carolina - Charlotte |
| Wachowicz's Web
Sites for Discerning Finance Students |
University of Tennessee - Knoxville; Finance portal similar to Finance Resources on the Web (see above); a smaller portal but its links are more consistently up-to-date. |
| Virtual Finance Library from Ohio State University |
Originally tied to a specific course taught by a specific faculty member at Ohio State, the site has expanded to include materials for both undergraduates and graduates. Use it in combination with Wachowicz's Web World, and Finance Resources on the Web both linked in the list above.
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| W. E. Upjohn Institute for
Employment Reserach |
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