Chapter 1: The Business Researcher’s Challenge

Google, http://www.google.com
NPR Segment on Internet Accuracy, http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1072660

Chapter 2: What to Do Before Using a Search Engine

Library of Congress American Memory, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit, http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/Main_Hall.html
Hoover’s, http://www.hoovers.com
ResourceShelf, http://www.resourceshelf.com
EDGAR, http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov
Newslink, http://newslink.org/
Public Records Online, http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm
MarketResearch.com, http://www.marketresearch.com
MindBranch, http://www.mindbranch.com
Embassy.org, http://www.embassy.org
FirstGov, http://www.firstgov.gov
FedStats, http://www.fedstats.gov
ITA Trade Development: Industries and Analysts,
http://web.ita.doc.gov/td/shared/tdindus.nsf/$$Searches?Openform
Thomas, http://thomas.loc.gov
Yahoo! Finance, http://finance.yahoo.com/
New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com
TrackEngine, http://www.trackengine.com
WatchThatPage, http://www.watchthatpage.com
INFOMINE, http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Social Science Information Gateway, http://www.sosig.ac.uk
SearchSystems, http://www.searchsystems.net
Librarians’ Index to the Internet, http://www.lii.org
Profusion, http://www.profusion.com
BUBL LINK, http://bubl.ac.uk/link/
Business.com, http://www.business.com
Alacra, http://www.alacra.com
DMOZ—Open Directory Project, http://www.dmoz.org

Yahoo! business sites:

• http://dir.yahoo.com/business_and_economy/
business_to_business/marketing_and_advertising/market_research/
• http://dir.yahoo.com/business_and_economy/trade/statistics/
• http://dir.yahoo.com/
business_and_economy/business_to_business/information/

To locate Internet discussion groups:

• To sign up with BUSLIB, http://www.willamette.edu/~gklein/buslib.htm
• To sign up with SLAB-F, http://www.slabf.org/slabf-l.html
• To sign up with IRE-L, http://www.ire.org/membership/subscribe/ire-l.html
• To sign up with Stumpers-L, http://domin.dom.edu/depts/gslis/stumpers/

Sample Weblogs:

• Jim Romenesko, http://www.poynter.org/medianews
• ResourceShelf, http://www.resourceshelf.com
• The Shifted Librarian, http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com
• Librarian.net, http://www.librarian.net
• Lisnews, http://www.lisnews.com
• PaidContent.org, http://elearningpost.com/
• Peter Scott’s Library Blog, http://blog.xrefer.com/
• Jeff Jarvis’ Buzz Machine, http://www.buzzmachine.com
• Marylaine Block’s Neat New Stuff, http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
• Gwen Harris Internet News, http://www.websearchguide.ca/netblog
• Gurteen Knowledge Log, http://www.gurteen.com
• Guardian Blog, http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog
• Jupiter Research Analysts, http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/
• About.com, http://www.about.com

RSS Readers:

• Amphetadesk, http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk
• NewsIsFree, http://www.newsisfree.com
• NewzCrawler, http://www.newzcrawler.co
• NewsMonster, http://www.newsmonster.org
• NewsGator, http://www.newsgator.com
• Radio Userland, http://radio.userland.com/

UPDATES AND ADDITIONS: NOVEMBER 2004

I’ve recently come upon some new sources that fit in this chapter’s discussion of checking selected prescreened business oriented sites before using a search engine:

SMEALSearch, http://smealsearch1.psu.edu/

A unique academic-oriented business document and citation search system with precision search features. SMEALSearch indexes academic business-oriented journals and research such as university and research institute papers and articles. 

DocuTicker, http://www.resourceshelf.com/docuticker

A spin-off of Gary Price’s outstanding ResourceShelf.com, DocuTicker identifies and provides links to reports, documents, lists and other full-text sources of interest to serious researchers.

OAISTER, http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

I no longer recommend Business.com as a directory to substantive sites on the Web. Instead, I have come across this site, OAISTER, which, while not strictly business focused, is far superior for locating substantive research-oriented sites on the Web. OAISTER is an outstanding directory of substantive academic collections, resources, and digital libraries, with lots of precision and advanced search features. OAISTER is produced by the University of Michigan’s Digital Library Production Service.

Library Stuff, http://www.librarystuff.net

Librarian Steven Cohen offers his excellent advice on news on the net, particularly as it pertains to librarians and researchers.

Recently I’ve come across a few superior RSS readers. I’d advise looking into Bloglines, Kinja, and SharpReader, and using them instead of the AmphetaDesk and NewsMonster products listed in the book as examples of leading readers:

Bloglines, http://www.bloglines.com
Kinja, http://www.kinja.com
SharpReader, http://www.sharpreader.com