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83 Entrepreneurial Research Resources
INTERNET SITES, SEARCH ENGINES, SOFTWARE, AND ONLINE RESOURCES
1. 10K Wizard • www.10kwizard.com
Search tool for information available to the public via the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) system, including keyword searches on up-to-the-minute SEC filings.
2. ABI Inform • www.silverplatter.com/catalog/umai.htm
Commercial database consisting of business and management literature
covering hundreds of industries around the world.
3. About.com • www.about.com
A subject-based guide to the Internet, with content selected and written by individual subject experts.
4. AllNetReseach • www.allnetresearch.internet.com
Part of the internet.com network, a complete marketplace for Internet research reports, newsletters, directories, and databases.
5. AltaVista • www.altavista.com
A leading search engine among Web users and provider of high-powered search software to intranet, enterprise, and e-commerce clients.
6. Ask Jeeves • www.ask.com
A natural language search engine providing links to relevant Web sites.
7. Bitpipe • www.bitpipe.com
A leading syndicator of in-depth information technology (IT) content.
8. BRB Publications, Inc. • www.brbpub.com
Publisher of sourcebooks and news used by public records researchers.
9. BRS • www.opentext.com
Formerly BRS Online, BRS/Search is now part of Open Text's LiveLink Intranet product.
10. BullsEye • www.intelliseek.com
A Windows-based application to find, track, and manage relevant information on the Web.
11. Business.com • www.business.com
A comprehensive Web directory and search engine that focuses exclusively on business.
12. CDB InfoTek • www.cdb.com
Provider of search tools and access to county, state, and federal public records information.
13. CEO Express • www.ceoexpress.com
A business news and information portal designed by and for company executives.
14. Chemical Abstracts • www.cas.org
Producer of the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information.
15. ChoicePoint • www.choicepoint.net
Provider of decision-making intelligence to businesses and government, including public records information.
16. Corporate Information • www.corporateinformation.com
Business portal offering company, industry, country, and state searching.
17. CorpTech • www.onesource.com/products/corptech.htm
The CorpTech database is now being marketed as OneSource CorpTech Profiles. It covers more than 50,000 U.S. high-tech companies.
18. Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) • www.silverplatter.com/catalog/nurs.htm
Database serving as an authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and health care.
19. DataStar • www.dialog.com
Europe's leading online database service, providing access to more than 350 databases with worldwide coverage; part of the Dialog Corporation, a Thomson company.
20. Delphion Intellectual Property Network • www.delphion.com
A Web site for searching, exploring, analyzing, and tracking patents and related information.
21. Derwent • www.derwent.com
Provider of value-added patent and scientific information.
22. Dialog • www.dialog.com
A Thomson company, offering more than 600 industry databases with specialized indexing software.
23. Directsearch • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
A growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible via general search tools.
24. Disclosure • www.primark.com/pfid
Information on companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges, including annual reports, SEC filings, stock price data, earnings estimates, and research reports.
25. Dow Jones Business Directory • www.bd.dowjones.com
Business portal for Internet resources selected by Dow Jones Interactive staff.
26. Dow Jones Interactive (see also Factiva) • www.djinteractive.com
A customizable, enterprise-wide business news and research solution, including content from Dow Jones & Reuters newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports, and Web sites.
27. Dun & Bradstreet • www.dnb.com
A leading provider of business information for credit, marketing, purchasing, and receivables management decisions worldwide.
28. Factiva • www.factiva.com
Provider of Web-based global business information from more than 8,000 sources; producer of Dow Jones Interactive.
29. First Call • www.firstcall.com
A Thomson Financial company, providing real-time, commingled equity and fixed income research, corporate news, quantitative, and shareholdings data.
30. FirstGov • www.firstgov.gov
A public-private Internet partnership connecting the world to extensive U.S. government information and services.
31. FreeEdgar • www.FreeEdgar.com
Offers the individual user easy, basic access to SEC EDGAR filings.
32. Gale Group • www.galegroup.com
Publisher of reference books, CD-ROMs, and Internet-delivered products to serve the information needs of students, businesspeople, and other researchers.
33. GDSourcing • www.gdsourcing.com
A reference point for Canadian statistics and an official distributor of Statistics Canada products.
34. Google • www.google.com
General search engine with broad Internet coverage.
35. Google Web Directory • www.directory.google.com
Search directory for the Internet arranged by topic.
36. Hoover's • www.hoovers.com
Company profile and business news portal, offering in-depth reports with subscription.
37. Industry Week • www.industryweek.com
Daily news and information portal, with specific industry news options.
38. InfoUSA • www.infousa.com
Verified business profile information provider, specializing in customized mailing lists.
39. International Market Research Mall (IMR Mall) • www.imrmall.com
Specialized access to search, select, buy, and view full-text market research reports online.
40. Knowledge Express • www.knowledgeexpress.com
Business development and competitive intelligence for organizations involved with science/technology research and new inventions.
41. KnowX • www.knowx.com
Web-based public records information provider.
42. LexisNexis • www.lexis-nexis.com
Major online information provider of legal information (Lexis) and specialized business and news databases (Nexis).
43. Librarians' Index to the Internet • www.lii.org
A searchable, annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.
44. LookSmart • www.looksmart.com
A Web-based directory for business listings around the world.
45. MarketResearch • www.marketresearch.com
Search and information portal for buying market research reports.
U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database, containing more than 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
47. Guide to Masters in Special Education Degrees • http://www.mastersinspecialeducation.org/
Careers and Job Opportunities for a Masters in Special Education
48. MindBranch • www.mindbranch.com
Market research clearinghouse offering reports and other information from a variety of publishers.
49. Multex • www.multex.com
A global provider of investment information and technology solutions for the financial services industry.
50. National Library of Medicine • www.nlm.nih.gov
Official medical library of the United States.
51. Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) • www.libdex.com
Searchable library catalogs available through the Internet.
52. Price's List of Lists • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm
Clearinghouse for lists of information on the Internet, including rankings of people, organizations, and companies. Compiled by Gary Price.
53. Profound • www.profound.com
Online business information service for end-users and professional searchers.
54. PubMed • www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
55. Research Bank / Investext • www.investext.com
A comprehensive collection of market research analyst reports on the Web.
56. Small Business Administration (SBA) • www.sba.gov
U.S. government agency charged with small business development and regulation.
57. Stat-USA • www.statusa.gov
Offers CD-ROM and Internet access to international trade and business information.
58. STN • www.cas.org/stn.html
Online information for a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, and business.
59. Superior Information Services • www.superiorinfo.com
Online search service for public records data.
60. Thomson & Thomson • www.thomson-thomson.com
Online search service specializing in trademark and copyright searches.
61. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) • www.uspto.gov
U.S. government agency charged with regulation and recording of all patents and patent applications.
62. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) • www.edgar.sec.gov
U.S. government agency charged with regulation of publicly traded companies and their stocks and other investment instruments.
63. Vault.com • www.vault.com
An employment and career information portal, offering specific industry and company news and profiles.
64. Venture Source • www.venturesource.com
Online database of focused research on the venture capital industry.
65. Wall Street Journal • www.wsj.com
Online version of daily newspaper, available by subscription.
66. Wall Street Research Net • www.wsrn.com
Up-to-date customized market and company news.
67. World Wide Web Virtual Library • http://vlib.org
Subject-based, decentralized Internet directory.
68. American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) • www.ahima.org
69. Association of Consulting Chemists & Chemical Engineers (ACC&CE) • www.chemconsult.org
70. Biotechnology Industry Cluster • www.azbiocluster.org
71. E-Healthcare World • www.ehealthcareworld.com
72. Environmental Technology Industry Cluster • www.futurewest.com/economy/etic
73. High Tech Industry Cluster • www.azhitechcluster.org
74. National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) • www.nawbo.org
75. Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) • www.score.org
76. Small Business Development Center (SBDC) • www.sba.gov/sbdc
77. Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) • www.scip.org
78. Special Libraries Association (SLA) • www.sla.org
79. Tech Oasis • www.techoasis.org
80. Encyclopedia of Associations Gale Research, Detroit, MI, annual www.galegroup.com
82. Super Searchers Do Business: The Online Secrets of Top Business Researchers
By Mary Ellen Bates CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 1999 www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm
83. Association of American Educators and the Association for Career and Technical Education
www.educationdegree.com
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