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Other than the Internet and computers, I suspect that business, specifically marketing, has more words available about it online than any other general topic. I'm not sure that's a good thing. For starters, you can't hope to read it all. For that matter, you can't hope to read in one lifetime everything that's linked to this page.
A list like this is only as good as its links. Email me if you find dead or inappropriate links.
Also, these categories are not discrete or very specific. Any comments you can add about these sites will make the list more useful for fellow students.
Simplifying the Search for the Best Library and Reference Resources on the Web
This page links to web sites that emphasize a repository of documents grouped around a business function such as storefront creation or financial statements or demographic research. News Desk links to web sites that emphasize timely information.
Statistics.com -- Research Statistics and Statistical Analysis Directory
A searchable database of statistical information and data sources on the internet. Offers comprehensive information about free and commercial statistics software as well as about statistics analysis, data analysis and short courses in statistics.
Libraries with print books shelved in large buildings are feeling the pressures of the Internet. Our College library never had much budget for either many books or a large building, so the Internet levels the playing field. In short, the College's holdings of print books and journals will never be as good as, say, Harvard's. However, students at the College have exactly the same internet available to them that students at Harvard have.
With this exception: Most publishers of newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals still expect to make most of their money from ink-on-paper subscriptions. Yet most of the content was created in digital form on a word processor, transmitted and edited in digital form via email and attachments, and prepared for the press in a totally digital, online process. Until then, it was potentially available to anyone if those who had it on their computers chose to make it available via the Internet.
Not until the ink hit the paper did the information's scarcity increase enough that its distribution could be controlled. Then sufficient money could be charged to support not only the distribution channel for the atoms (around half the cost of a textbook) but also the whole writing, editing, and design process, done almost totally with bits, not atoms. The rest goes to marketing.
How will a publisher make money on the Internet? Many have opened an alternate channel of distribution online. The Buffalo News still prints lots of copies. They just purchased a very expensive new press, which makes a loud statement about the future. Still, you can go to BuffaloNews.com and get the current news stories and many of the pictures for "free", complete with the display ads and searchable classified ads, just as you can always read the print edition "free" at the library.
If you want older articles, you can search for free but to read, you have to pay. After you set up an account, it's two dollars per article. This business model is most common. The next most common is publishers who won't let you read even the current issues without paying.
If I'm a serious researcher, I then need to make many small payments to many companies.
It doesn't take long for entrepreneurs to aggregate these resources and establish themselves as "intermediate" or "intermediary" companies, AKA middlemen. They negotiate contracts with many publishers at a price that will let them sell password protected access. To whom?
Not to you and me; we can't afford it.
That gets us back to libraries. While the free Internet as a whole levels the playing field between the rich and poor colleges, the fee Internet of a publishing industry in transition still rewards the rich and deprives the poor, just like in the good old days. In short, the rich colleges can still afford to buy more access than the poor colleges.
In the name of education, ... why?
The College library web has links to many business information web sites. Most
of them, you can get to on your own, but many of them are labeled
and give you access to pay
sites that you probably can't afford on your own. The access is often through an
intermediary such as The
Library Corporation's Dialog@CARL, UMI's
ProQuest Direct, or Reed Elsevier's Lexis-Nexus.
Reed Elsevier, by the way, is also the world's largest publisher of scholarly
journals.
Many of the results will be only abstracts. Many full text versions are available for free at the original publisher's site. The ones of special use to you are full texts available only via this College library resource.
To use the resources to search for business information yourself, start at the College library web, especially Business, Finance and Management: Guide to Online Research, where you'll see other business topics like Accounting and Marketing on the left. From there, you're going to have to choose a database, enter your name and library ID number, and then click around to find relevant resources where you can type in your keywords.
Note | Your search will be only as good as your keywords. Most query boxes have a nearby link to "Advanced Search" or "Help" to explain the particulars of searching for phrases and limiting results.
EBSCO Publishing's Business Source Premier -- -- go to College library web to get more in-depth info.
Full text for over 2,800 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Updated daily.
Hoover's Online - link to publicly available info -- go to College library web to get more in-depth info.
Company profiles, histories, strategies, market positions; news articles, stock quotes, industry overviews, and company capsules for US and foreign public and private companies.
LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe - Search for general, business, legal and political news articles, and other information -- -- go to College library web to get more in-depth info.
News
· Business News Business articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, wires &
transcripts
· Industry & Market News from over 25 industries
Accounting Literature
· Accounting Accounting journals & literature
Company Information
· Company Financial Detailed financial data about companies
· Compare Companies Find companies based on a variety of criteria
· SEC Filings & Reports EDGAR filings, annual & quarterly reports & proxy
statements
Trade Show Information
· Directories Trade show information
Open Directory's Internet Statistics and Demographics
Nua's Internet Surveys - "Making Free Information Pay"
The Internet Marketing Channel from Internet.com - "The E-Business and Internet Technology Network" - especially:
Jupiter Direct - "Market research reports from the industry's leading publishers"
WebSideStory's StatMarket - "Global Internet market data at your fingertips"
Forrester Research - one of the leading pay-for-research sites; often quoted in other media
Nielsen//NetRatings - the old TV measurement folks keep up with the times
International Data Corporation - "forecasts worldwide IT markets and technology trends and analyzes IT products and vendors"
The Web Marketing Information Center's links to demographic sites
the leading independent source for statistics, trend data and original analysis covering every aspect of the Internet, e-business and emerging technologies.
The University of Texas' Center for Research in Electronic Commerce publishes The Internet Economy Indicators
NPD Group - "Marketing Information For Building Your Business" - especially the links to Industry Tracking and Online Research
Survey.net - "Your source for dynamic, up-to-the-second information, opinions & demographics from the Net Community!" - take the surveys yourself. Check the latest results. Given the self-selected nature of the surveys, do these results tell you anything useful?
Infrastructure information, daily snapshots, and historical trends on browsers and operating systems, most installed plug-ins, top referring search sites, top ISP referrals, the most wired time zones and much more.
E-conomy Project at the University of California, Berkeley
Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas, Austin
The Fool exists to educate, amuse, and enrich the individual investor; to prove to you that the best person to manage your money is YOU; to propose that the key to investment success is doing one's homework; and to show that 'homework' can be fun. You CAN do it.
Wilson Internet's Web Marketing Information Center - "the largest collection of materials on e-commerce (selling products directly over the Internet) available anywhere on the Web" - the long list of categorized articles is a good place to start, followed by the sections on e-commerce and web marketing.
Larry Chase's Web Digest For Marketers
The Internet Marketing Center - Online Marketing Tips, Strategies, and Secrets
best of breed content, commerce, community and communications to create the place we work when we work online - the first stop on the Web for small businesses looking for resources to help them be more productive and competitive in today's environment
inc.com - where to start and grow your business - Small-Business Information, Web-Based Tools, Products, and Services
Economy.com - "a leading independent provider of economic, financial, and industry research"
Inomics - search engine and directory for economists
For better or worse, the U.S. Government does a lot to define our economy because they collect statistics about it. If they measure something, it tends to be real. If they don't measure something, it tends to be ignored, neglected, forgotten. How they measure something, their metrics, often sets the discussion because theirs the only shared vocabulary.
The Census Department is responsible for the ongoing collection of ebusiness information.
Census Links -- directory of links to United States, states, and counties, plus the UK, Ireland, etc.
Census Finder - A Directory of 10,412 Links to Free Census Records
Bureau of Labor Stats
Fedstats
U.S. Statistical Abstract
Statistics USA
US Census Datamaps
The U.S. Census Bureau's new Internet site
devoted exclusively to "Measuring the Electronic Economy." It
features recent and upcoming releases, information on methods, classification
systems, and background papers.
E-commerce data were collected in four separate Census Bureau surveys. These
surveys used different measures of economic activity such as shipments for
manufacturing, sales for wholesale and retail trade, and revenues for service
industries. Consequently, measures of total economic and e-commerce activity
vary by economic sector, are conceptually and definitionally different, and
therefore, are not additive. The Census Bureau’s e-commerce measures report
the value of goods and services sold online whether over open networks such as
the Internet, or over proprietary networks running systems such as Electronic
Data Interchange (EDI).
Although E-Stats does not cover the entire U.S. economy, this report covers
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries that accounted
for approximately 70 percent of economic activity measured in the 1997 Economic
Census. The report does not cover agriculture, mining, utilities, construction,
nonmerchant wholesalers, and approximately one-third of service-related
industries.
You should read five reports:
Past
Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales Reports
Current |
Past
Measuring
Electronic Business (August 2001)
Measuring
the Digital Economy - Paper, Presentation
(March 2001)
Measuring the Electronic
Economy: Definitions, Underlying
Concepts, and Measurement Plans
Government Statistics:
E-commerce and the Electronic Economy (June 2000)
For starters, try the organization's web site. For example, GE will tell you a whole lot about themselves:
Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change
Hoover's Online - "The Business Network"
Company profiles, histories, strategies, market positions; news articles, stock quotes, industry overviews, and company capsules for US and foreign public and private companies. "Member Extra Features", indicated by a gold star, available to Medaille students, faculty and staff.
Tip | Use the school library's Online Reference Sources page to get to the financials and other details available at Hoover's. You may need to get a school email account to access this -- check with the library.
Competitive Intelligence Resource Index
The leading business search engine and business directory designed to help its users find the companies, products, services, and information they need to make the right business decisions.
Vault Reports - company-specific discussion threads where intrepid employees answer pointed questions.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Report Gallery -- over 2,200 annual reports; most Fortune 500 companies
others:
Disclosure
Market Guide
Morningstar
StockSheet
Zacks
TSNN.com - the ultimate tradeshow resource
The Worldwide Composites Search Engine is devoted to the composites industry.
Manufacturers' News Online Industrial Buyers Guide
Want to know who manufactures a product? Looking for a new vendor to get a competitive quote? Discover who makes it, who supplies it and who does it among over 440,000 U.S. companies. Each company's information is researched firsthand and updated weekly by our 80-person editorial staff.
American Express B2B Directory
over 500,000 businesses and services; search by company name, industry category, SIC code, by location and a level of data capture
Hoover's Online (see above)
Yahoo Finance
Reportgallery
Annual Reports
Edgar
Sedar
Microsoft Investor
Skyminder
What can we learn here? Whom should we send? Should we have an exhibit?
The Internet Affiliate Marketing Association
International Internet Marketing Conference
Association for Interactive Marketing
American Marketing Association
Emetrics Summit - 2004 Web Analytics Conference
Wi-Fi Planet Conferences and Expo
Internet Planet Conferences and Expo
Streaming Media East 2004 Conference & Exhibition
Forrester's First Look Archive
Accenture
Deloitte?
The Infoshop
market researchers
Yahoo!/ACNielsen's Internet Confidence Index
comScore Media Metrix's Internet Audience Measurement and Ratings home - Client Center
Nua's Surveys
Internet.com's CyberAtlas and Jupiter Research
Technology & Communications - don't miss the links on the right
Interactive Advertising Bureau's Resources and Research
Online Publishers Association's Research
Please email me your comments about these sites. If I think your comments will help other students, I'll add them to this page.
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