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| Meta-Sites
| Company and Industry Resources
| Accounting and Finance
| Management
| Marketing
| Economics

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Meta-Sites
where someone else has already done the work for us!

A Business Researcher’s Interests
http://www.brint.com
"a searchable knowledge map of contemporary business, management and information technology issues, … with access to hundreds of full-text articles and papers, magazines and journals, case studies and tools, and thousands of other resources on some of the hottest issues of interest … " The BizTech Network. Reviewed by Anbar Electronic Intelligence, Five Stars.

Business Ethics
http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm
An excellent site with well-chosen links to business ethics resources: articles and publications, case studies, corporate codes of ethics, professional organizations and associations, and resources and centers.

CEO Express!
http://www.ceoexpress.com/
An excellent meta-site, it includes news, business and technology magazines, health, law, stock markets, statistics, legislative, investment, small business, company, reference, travel, and entertainment, and more!

Corporate Social Responsibility  - CSRwire
http://www.csrwire.com/
A newswire service made up of corporate-issued news of socially responsible activities, policies and practices of member companies, which pay a fee to belong to CSRwire. Also includes a basic primer on the concept of corporate social responsibility.

International Business Resources on the WWW
http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp
The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Michigan State University directory has done a wonderful job of grouping international resources together. Try it!

International Trade Web Resources
http://www.fita.org/webindex2a.shtml
A meta-site maintained by the Federation of International Trade Associations which is both searchable and browsable. Excellent links.

IPL Business and Economics Serials
http://www.ipl.org.ar/cgi-bin/reading/serials.out.pl?ty=long&id=bus00.00.00
"The Internet Public Library is the first online publicly accessible library that gives access direct to online publications and information. Within the site there are ‘reading rooms,’ niched areas that provide access to focused publications within 14 interest areas ranging from arts and humanities to social issues. The business and economics area is a comprehensive and cross-referenced listing of titles. A great place to start some research." Reviewed in Cool Sites, Anbar Management of Quality Abstracts, 1997.

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Company and Industry Resources

The Alacra Store The Premium Business Information Source™
http://www.alacrastore.com
Search over 200 million reports on more than 350,000 public companies and private companies from over 35 premium business information publishers.

Hoovers Online
http://www.hoovers.com
"The Ultimate Source for Company Information" (if they do say so themselves). My favorite. Includes company Web sites, company profiles, and direct access to these sites: recent IPOs at IPO Central http://www.ipocentral.com.

MacRae’s Blue Book
http://www.macraesbluebook.com/
Includes detailed product and company information on more than 120,000 of the largest and most influential American and Canadian manufacturers, including direct links to over 100,000 of them.

Manufacturing Marketplace
http://www.manufacturing.net/
Includes magazines, buyer’s guide, new products, news, trade shows, associations, and its own search engine. Very useful section of related manufacturing Web sites.

Securities Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov
Includes the EDGAR database of company annual reports, 10Qs, and all other filings with the SEC. Critical.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
http://www.thomasnet.com
Indispensable in print—also extremely useful on the Web.

United States Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov
Search for U.S. patents from 1976 onward by front page information; also contains the AIDS patents database from U.S. , German, and Japanese companies.

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Accounting and Finance Resources

Rutgers Accounting Web
http://accounting.rutgers.edu/
One of the largest and most comprehensive accounting Web sites, with links to other key Accounting resources on the Web. Thorough, accurate pointers to accounting firms, associations, journals, finance, auditing and taxation resources.

FINWeb
http://www.finweb.com
A financial economics WWW server with excellent sources on finance topics, including university course materials, journals, working paper series, and links to WWW search engines that deal specifically with economic and financial information.

AuditNet Resource List
http://www.auditnet.org
A meta-site for auditing resources.

Internal Auditing World Wide Web
http://bitwise.net/iawww/
Focuses solely on internal auditing, but has extensive links to WWW resources.

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Management Resources

American Management Association Webserver
http://www.amanet.org/
Member services, conferences and seminars, tools, resources, etc. on management issues.

American Society for Quality (ASQ)
http://www.asq.org
"The Web forum of the American Society for Quality Control. Links to news, a quality chat/forum, a comprehensive listing of quality related Web sites and publications. A very well-designed page. Makes effective use of image maps and loads the first page quickly. Rated in the top 5% of Web sites by POINT Search." Reviewed in Cool Sites, Anbar Management of Quality Abstracts, 1997.

Free Management Library
http://www.mapnp.org/library/
Sponsored by the Management Assistance Program for Non-Profits, St. Paul, MN, this site is designed to "help provide highly accessible and practical resources to managers." Includes definitions, links, and is a good source of basic, practical management information.

Institute of Management and Administration
http://www.ioma.com
A leading source of WWW based business and management information. Nicely done.

TQM Total Quality Management and ISO 9000 Resources on the Internet
http://fiat.gslis.utexas.edu/~rpollock/tqm.html
TQM Web pages, TQM tools, ISO standards and resources—an excellent collection.

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Marketing Resources

American Marketing Association
http://www.ama.org
Useful for educators, researchers, and students. Good links.

Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 –http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/aaa
More than 9,000 images make up the unique collection of advertising history drawn from over a dozen collections in the Library of Duke University. It is arranged in 11 categories by company or collection type.

Market Research World – Market Research Portal
http://www.marketresearchworld.net
A free market research portal with access to various industry information including articles by industry professionals, career and job information, book lists, and up-to-date news.

New South Network Services (NSNS) MouseTracks
http://nsns.com/MouseTracks/
Learn what they are teaching about marketing in /Syllabits/. You can start with the academic resources for marketing, and also check out the many helpful items in MouseTracks for practitioners while you’re visiting.

U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www.doc.gov
A great place to start for census statistics, import and export trade statistics, as well as links to the Dept. of Labor and other useful government collections.

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Economics Resources

Resources for Economists on the Internet
http://rfe.org
This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists more than 2,000 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described.

Economagic
http://www.Economagic.com
A comprehensive collection of economic time series data gathered from U.S.and foreign governmental agencies, trade associations, and private companies. More than 100,000 files, with data indexed by source on the main page. Subscribers can generate online forecasts of the data or download to Excel spreadsheets. Good source for research projects.

Economic Expert.com
http://www.economicexpert.com
This is an extensive guide of economics-related information, articles and analysis on the world's economies, industry status and global data.

Economic Reporting Review
http://www.fair.org/err/index.html
ERR is a project of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), and provides clearly-written, well-substantiated commentary on economics-related articles in the New York Times and the Washington post, with weekly updated lists.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
ESBR is a single resource for recent data on basic federal economic indicators.

EconStats
http://www.econstats.com/
Includes US and Global economic data, as well as a unique chat function for questions.

International Economics Study Center
http://www.internationalecon.com/
Created by a professor at George Washington University, this site contains useful resources including a Web-based textbook used in his international economics course, links to major news sources on international economics, international trade policy, and related issues.

National Bureau of Economic Research
http://wwwnber.org/
NBER is a private, nonprofit research organization dedicated to “promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.” The NBER Digest and Reporter are both available in free online versions; they frequently summarize research findings. NBER Working Papers require a subscription.

NetEc: Resources in Economics
http://netec.wustl.edu
Please note that: "This service is not longer being updated."
Extensive links for resources appealing primarily to academic economists, based on the organizational classifications in the Journal of Economic Literature. It is a large collection, including WWW resources in economics in depth, working paper collections both in print and electronic, business administration resources, Home Page Papers in Economics, and a great section on jokes about economists and economics, http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/JokEc.html.