LIS 430 Business Information Sources and Services Fall 2001

LIS 430 Business Information

The Glossary

URLs/Bookmarks (this is a pretty messy list right now - I will organize/annotate more in the next few weeks):

Business Dictionaries:

Glossary of Business Terms: Terms A to Z from CNNfn.com
NYT Finance Glossary: 2,500 terms compiled by Duke Univ. professor
Finance Glossary: Over 7,000 terms & 18,000 hyperlinks
Business Glossary: Terms of the trade from ABCNews.com
Investopedia.com: Search finance terms by alphabet or category
Economic Glossarama: Contains over 1,100 economic terms and concepts
Dictionary of Financial Terms: Financial terms in layman's language

Company Directories

Yellow Pages: http://www.superpages.com/ and http://www.bigyellow.com
Hoovers: http://www.hoovers.com
ReferenceUSA
CareerSearch
OneSource

Company Details: SEC Filings, Annual Reports, Financials

EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System): http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
SEC explanation of filings: http://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/forms.htm
Global Access explanation of forms: http://206.181.209.22/GuidetoSEC.pdf
Free Edgar: http://www.freeedgar.com
Report Gallery http://www.reportgallery.com
YAHOO Finance http://finance.yahoo.com
FIS/Mergents
Disclosure
Global Access - Disclosure; new from Disclosure/Thomson: Piranha Web: http://www.piranhaweb.com/
Large Number Studies: Bloomberg, Compustat/DataStream, Bridge

Analyst Reports

Investext
Multext

WebCasts

Bestcalls: http://www.bestcalls.com
Investor Broadcast Network: Vcall http://www.vcall.com
CCBN: Company Boardroom: http://www.companyboardroom.com
Yahoo Broadcast: http://www.broadcast.com/Business_and_Finance
Bloomberg Audio

News

Dow Jones/Factiva http://www.factiva.com
Nexis http://www.nexis.com
Dialog http://www.dialogweb.com Dialog1 http://www.dialog1.com/
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale product, including PROMT and some Investext files, available to Massachusettes library card holders)
Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com

Academic Scholarly Articles

ABI
Business Source Premier
Financial Times: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/index.html
FindArticles (gale and looksmart): http://www.findarticles.com
JournalSearch: http://www.journalsearch.com

NonProfits:

The Form 990 Project - http://www.guidestar.org
Unified Registration Statement - http://www.nonprofits.org/

International

KOMPASS http://www.kompass.com
Amadeus database - Bureau van Dijk: http://suite.bvdep.com
Worldscope database (from Disclosure)

IPO Central (via Hoovers) http://www.ipocentral.com

Mergerstat database - http://www.xls.com/

SIC

Search for a SIC/NAISC - http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html
What is a SIC - http://library.willamette.edu/agsm/sic.htm
What is NAISC - http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

Prices's List of Lists http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm

Country and International Statistics Information

Country Commercial Guides: http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/2001/
EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) Country Reports
World Fact Book. Central Intelligence Agency. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
The United Nations
OECD
WorldBank
IMF
Price Waterhouse: Doing Business in... http://www.pwcglobal.com/Extweb/pwcpublications.nsf/(ViewAgentByTagKeyDisplay)/dbg_all_gx_eng

Exchange Rates: Classic 164 Currency Converter http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic

Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

Reviews of Business Resources

Library and Information Science Literature - from Wilson
The business literature - ABI, Business Source Premier
Choice and Library Journal reviews
Emerald - especially Electronic Resources Review
Information Today periodicals especially News Breaks
Online Inc periodicals especially Industry News
Charleston Advisor
BUSLIB – archives, best of

Dicussion Groups Archives

Google http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en

Knowledge Management

QUOSA: http://www.quosa.com
Knowledge World: http://www.kmworld.com/
Knowledge Management Magazine: http://www.destinationcrm.com/km/dcrm_km_index.asp
Brint’s WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management: http://www.brint.com/km/
CIO: http://www.cio.com/research/knowledge/

Single Points of Access for Different Kinds of Content

Gale: Infotrac’s Total Access: http://www.galegroup.com/TotalAccess/TAGuidedTour.html
OCLC’s Web Express: http://www.oclc.org/webexpress/pub/tour1/index.html
Keebook: http://www.keeboo.com/enu/

Cheap or Free Sources of Business Information

Kirstein: http://www.bpl.org/research/kbb/kbbhome.htm
BPL Electronic Resources: http://www.bpl.org/electronic/index.htm
Financial Times: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/index.html
FindArticles (gale and looksmart): http://www.findarticles.com
JournalSearch: http://www.journalsearch.com

Industry Information

S&P Industry Surveys - quicklist
Hoovers - for industries - http://www.hoovers.com/industry/0,1334,18,00.html
Onesource - no access
US Industry and Trade Outlook - http://www.ntis.gov/product/industry-trade.htm
2001/2 Edition - http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/outlook/webnotice.html
Business and Company Resource Center - quicklist
Valueline - CD at Beatley; individuals can get username and password for Web
US Business Reporter: http://www.activemedia-guide.com
Wetfeet: http://www.wetfeet.com/asp/industries_atoz.asp
Career Guide to Industries - http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/home.htm
Business & Company Resource Center (Gale) - quicklist

Statistics, Rankings, Lists

Price's List of Lists: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm
Tablebase: quicklist
RMA Annual Statement Studies - http://www.rmahq.com/Ann_Studies/asstudies.html
S&P Industry Surveys - quicklist, under I
OneSource - no access
Valuation Resources - http://www.valuationresources.com/IndustryReport.htm
Strategic Advantage - http://www.strategy4u.com/

Associations

Gale Associations Unlimited - GSLIS quicklist
Association Gateway: http://info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html
Business.com: http://www.business.com/

Lists of publications in a specific industry

Ulrich’s
PubList http://www.publist.com

Demographics/Market Segments

Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
Massachusetts Office of Business Development - http://www.state.ma.us/mobd/data.htm
Municipal Data (Massachusetts; arranged by city) - http://www.detma.org/lmi/local/local.htm
State of Massachusetts Community Profiles - http://www.state.ma.us/cc/index.html
http://www.infods.com/freedata/default.cfm
http://www.easidemographics.com/
Government: Consumer Expenditure Survey BLS - http://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm
The Gallup Organization http://www.gallup.com/poll/indicators/index.asp
Roper Center http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
How People Use Economic Census Data - http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/ec97use2.htm

Market Research

MarketResearch.Com http://www.marketresearch.com/
MarkIntel http://www.tfibcm.com/products/default.asp?id=71
MindBranch - http://www.mindbranch.com
Marketing Research Library - http://www.mrlibrary.com/index.htm

Wall Street Journal - http://info.wsj.com/professor/content_tools/videos/wsjread.ram; http://info.wsj.com/professor/content_tools/videos/wsjread2.ram

Wall Street Journal Interactive free trial - http://interactive.wsj.com:80/14_regchoice.html

Major Stock Exchanges/Market Information

Ameritrade - http://www.ameritrade.com

E*trade - http://www.etrade.com

Bonds

BondMarkets.com - http://www.bondmarkets.com
Moodys - http://www.moodys.com
Bonds Online http://www.bondsonline.com

Mutual Funds

Morningstar - http://www.morningstar.com

Investment Advice

Zack’s http://www.zacks.com

Charles Schwab http://www.schwab.com/SchwabNOW/navigation/mainFrameSet/0,4528,895,00.html

Experts

Try WebBrain - http://www.webbrain.com (reference, ask an expert)
Google: http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Ask_an_Expert/
Find/SVP – http://www.findsvp.com/About/Services/QCS/qcs.html

Digital Reference - http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/busecon/asklibrarian.html

Collection Development/Acquisitions - Publisher’s Catalogs – Harvard Business School Publishing, Sage, Wiley, Oxford, New Strategist/American Demographics – print and on Web: http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr/bus.html such as http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/irwin/