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Amazon.com. Online bookstore locates, describes, and sells books. Over 2.4 million books available. Info includes title, author, publisher, date, ISBN, cost, and shipping time. Searchable database by author, title, subject, or key word. Good book reviews available on some.

Barnes & Noble Online Bookstore Online bookstore locates, briefly describes, and sells books. Over 1 million books available. Info includes title, author, publisher, date, ISBN, and shipping time. Searchable database by author, title, subject, or key word. Brief description of theme.

Library of Congress World Wide Web. This large and complex web site offers relevant resources under the umbrella category Newspapers, Current Periodicals & Government Documents. More specifically, it provides links to 122 ejournal titles and other resources under the heading Periodical Titles Online, and links to 73 sites under the heading Lists of Newspapers and Periodicals, and News Resources Online.

Web PALS. Automated library search system for Minnesota colleges and universities. Search for any or all member campuses by author, title, subject. Minitex orders and interlibrary loans can be requested. Reports provide full citation, availability, and abstract. Search CSS holdings remotely.
 

American Demographics Magazine. Searchable archive for full text articles and data on consumer trends (1995-1997).

BUBL Information Service. Extensive web catalog and search engine based on Dewey Decimal System. Includes subject tree search, Dewey search, journal abstracts, news and surveys, and other links to web sites and databases.

CIA World Factbook. Detailed listing of political, geographic, demographic, economic, and other descriptors of countries. Keyword search available. 50 country limit to printout.

Demographics & Population Studies (WWW Virtual Library). Links to several hundred demographic sources and archives.

Government Information Sharing Project. Lists education, demographics, and economics categories. Data includes census, population estimates, equal employment opportunity, agriculture, import/export, and earnings by occupation and education.

Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Longitudinal study (since 1968) annual database of demographic and employment data. Free access, and data files can be customized and downloaded for research analysis.

US Bureau of the Census. Search by keyword, place or map. Info on population, workplace, economic indicators, official stats. Long alphabetical listing of topics.
 

Accufind Social Science Information Gateway. Extensive listing and searchable site for business resource lists, news, and other topical lists.

Advertising Age. Keyword searchable archive with full text articles for 1997.

ALA Management Gateway. Association of Legal Administrators hosts a collection of links to general management, training & development, finance, human relations, operations, and technology.

Alliance Analyst. Management strategy publication dedicated to strategic alliances. Index of online articles.

American Marketing Association, Journals Table of Contents Listing. Lists articles in the following journals: Journal of Health Care Marketing (1981-), Journal of Marketing (1934-), Journal of Market Research (1964-), Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (1982-), Marketing Management (1992-), Marketing News (1964-), and Marketing Research (1989-).

Annual Reports Library. 1.45 million reports from corporations, foundations, banks, mutual funds, and public institutions. Information on critical reading and preparing annual reports.

AskERIC. Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database enables extensive multiple keyword search. Provides abstracts and complete citation of sources.

Binghamton University Libraries. Links to general management, HR, operations, MIS, health care, ethics, entrepreneurship, and workplace issues.

Business Cycle Indicators. This server presents a set of 256 data series commonly known as the US Business Cycle Indicators. They are used for tracking and predicting US business activity. With a few exceptions that consists of quarterly data, the historical data is monthly data, originally published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In most instances the data on this web site is complete from 1948 to 1995.

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature: CINAHL. This database of nursing and allied health related abstracts, articles, and graphs is available only from CSS.

Consumer Information Catalog. This government service provides free information catalogs (the ones advertised on TV), now available online to download. Topics include: cars, children, federal programs, employment nutrition, health, housing, money, small business, travel, and hobbies. Search by concept or keyword.

Consumer World. Consumer World® has gathered over 1500 of the most useful consumer resources on the Internet, and categorized them here for easy access. Whether you want to check an airfare, file a consumer complaint with a state agency, read 100s of consumer booklets, find a low rate credit card or mortgage, research a law, look up the wholesale price of a car, locate a Better Business Bureau, find a toll-free number, listen (literally) to the latest news, contact a company's customer service department, comparison shop for bargains and last minute travel, check stock quotes or CD rates, read a movie review or see a preview, clip electronic coupons, or search the Internet, you can do it in Consumer World.

The Digital Librarian. A librarian's choice of the best of the web. 90 categories that expand into a large collection of diverse resources.

Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters (1996)(Association of Research Libraries) In its sixth year of publication, this directory offers descriptive entries for and links to nearly 1700 titles.

Executive Paywatch. Salary information, pay schedules and trends, financial abuses, and activism. Page sponsored by AFL-CIO with obvious bias against high CEO salaries.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room. Easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies including: Production, Sales, Orders and Inventories, Output, Income, Expenditures, Wealth, Employment, Unemployment, Earnings, Prices, Money, Credit, Interest Rates, Transportation, and International Statistics

Favorite Web Indices for TQM, statistics, financial decision making, theory of constraints, and project management. This does not locate information per se, but is a listing of meta indices to locate web resources that may contain such information.

Forbes Industry Reports. Profitability & growth rates over a five year period for 1280 companies in 20 industries.

Forbes Magazine. Archived feature articles for 1996-97.

Fortune Magazine. Searchable archive for full text feature articles on management issues, events, trends, and practices (1995-1997).

HRM Resources on the Internet (aka Ray's List of Internet connections). Long list can be printed (56K). 19 subcategories of links include general HR links, telecommuting, ethics, manuals, and business psychology.

Indiana Business Bulletin. U.S. economic indicators, quarterly, monthly, and weekly.

Institute of Management and Administration. Institute of Management and Administration (news and articles in several fields of management).

KPMG's Business Ethics Institute. Archive of 1996-97 business ethics articles from Integrity ethics newsletter, Institute reports, and Ethical Dilemma case studies.

LSU Library & Webliography on Marketing (US & international). Provides comprehensive list of links to advertising journals, country reports (large alphabetical listing), foreign policies, internet marketing, journals, news, organizations, economic statistics, and trade agreements.

Management Archive. Collection of working papers on management, teaching and training archive, management related softweare archive, research reports on current issues and trends.

Mid-American Journal of Business. Published by 7 Mid-American business schools, this archive contains abstracts of issues and trends articles from 1986-1997.

Nijenrode Business Webserver. Netherlands Business School extensive collections of links and information by traditional categories of business (e.g., economics, ethics, HR, marketing, strategy, etc.) . Keyword search available.

Nonprofit Management Gateway and Nonprofit Network. Newsgroups, listservs, and internet links to nonprofit information, grantseeking resources, and foundations lists.

Product Review Net. Searchable database of product review abstracts for wide range of appliances, devices, products, and services. About 25% of abstracts have full text reviews.

Research It!. Search tools for language (translator, thesaurus, dictionary), geography (maps, tleephone, facts), financial (currency & Stocks), shipping (USPS, FEDEX & UPS tracking), and e-mail listserves.

Research Resources for the Social Sciences McGraw-Hill Ryerson huge collection of links and search engines! Topics include economics, psychology, demographics, and other reference material.

Resources for Economists on the Internet. Large collection of links to papers, news, listservs, data, markets, journals, etc.

Stat-USA. STAT-USA contains over 300,000 reports and statistical series from the United States Department of Commerce. STAT-USA's extensive collection of trade reports includes Market Research Reports cabled back each day from U.S. embassies and consulates, overseas contacts, domestic contacts, merchandise trade statistics, and trade leads. Domestic economic and business information includes: national income and product accounts (including GDP); Composite Index of Leading Indicators; regional economic data including personal income, wages and employment for states and local areas; housing and population statistics; the Economic Report of the President; and the budget of the U.S. federal government.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers. Search 155,000 companies in database classified under 57,000 product or service catagories. More than 3,100 supplier catalogs of buying and specifying information. Free membership with registration.

UMD Business Links. Collection of useful links on marketing, business law, research, accounting, employment, finance, and business resources.

US GovBot Database. More than 300,000 web pages from government sites.

World Competitiveness Online. 46 country profiles on economics, infrastructure, government, finance, science & technology, management, internationalization, and people.