- Alibaba [Details]
- A database of suppliers of products, ingredients, and parts. A popular source for MGMT 1102 students. To get a quote, stick to the "gold" providers and be sure to send many copies of your question. Please identify yourself as a student when requesting price quotes.
- Background Notes [Details]
- "Background Notes provide information on geographic entities and international organizations and are updated periodically. Background Notes for some countries are currently unavailable."
- Bankrupt.com [Details]
- A variety of information about bankruptcy and bankrupt companies including news and related links.
- Bplans.com [Details]
- Includes sample business plans and online business planning tools. Market research reports are available for a fee.
- Brint [Details]
- Brint, a leader in business, technology, and knowledge management. Contains white papers on the KM field.
- Business Statistics Center [Details]
- From McGraw-Hill, this is an excellent source of statistical resources.
- Business Wire [Details]
- "Business Wire is the leading source for full-text breaking news releases, multimedia and regulatory filings for companies and groups throughout the world." This site requires registration.
- CEO Express [Details]
- A website with links to major newspapers. Content is focused into several categories including daily news, business research, office tools, travel, and "breaktime". Be aware of the possibility for pop-up advertisements.
- Corporate Library [Details]
- "The Corporate Library was founded in 1999 by Nell Minow and Robert A.G. Monks, long-time partners in Lens Investment Management, co-authors of Power and Accountability (1991, full text available online) and the textbook, Corporate Governance (originally published in 1994, now in its third edition). The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm providing corporate governance data, analysis & risk assessment tools."
- Country Analysis Briefs [Details]
- These reports are provided by the Energy Information Administration.
- Country Commercial Guides. [Details]
- Country Commercial Guides (CCG's) are prepared annually by U.S. embassies with the assistance of several U.S. government agencies. These reports present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis. The CCG's were established by recommendation of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), a multi-agency task force, to consolidate various reporting documents prepared for the U.S. business community." Site contains data published prior to 2001. For data published after 2001, please visit the US State Department
- County and City Databook [Details]
- Presents statistics on such topics as population, health, crime, education, income, trade for each county and incorporated city with 25,000 inhabitants or more.
- Criminal Charges in Corporate Scandals (CRS Report) [Details]
- A 12 page .pdf report on CSR that was delivered to Congress in December 2003.
- CSRwire.com [Details]
- News and reports about corporate social responsibility for specific companies.
- E-Journal & Article Finder [Details]
- Ecommerce Times [Details]
- News focused on the electronic marketplace.
- Eldis [Details]
- Access to full text articles, reports and working papers on international economic development issues.
- Electronic Commerce Guide [Details]
- "The goal of the ECommerce-Guide.com is to provide the single best source of independent, up-to-date information about electronic commerce. Our editorial content is 100% e-commerce - with everything including daily news, feature articles, product guides, case studies, an e-commerce events calendar, and e-commerce-focused discussion forums."
- Employee Relocation Council [Details]
- "Founded in 1964, Worldwide ERC® (Employee Relocation Council) was formed to help our members overcome the challenges of workforce mobility. Our members come from many professions – human resources; recruiting; government; military; real estate; financial services; moving; counseling; consulting; and more! Worldwide ERC® provides current issues, trends, and best practices for the movement of employees within the United States as well as global mobility."
- Energy Information Administration [Details]
- Official statistics from the U.S. Government.
- Fair.org [Details]
- Includes analysis of New York Times and Washinton Post economic reporting as well as other additional information regarding accuracy in journalism.
- ThomasNet Register [Details]
- Contains directory information on United States Companies, Services, and Products. Falvey owns the print version of the Register. Ask for it at the Reference Desk. Use it to identify suppliers and obtain price quotes.
- Trademark Database [Details]
- A free trademark database with access to selected trademark information, obtained from its internal trademark database, which includes the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks. Provides access to the trademark text data currently available on two of PTO's Cassis CD-ROM products: Trademarks Registered and Trademarks Pending. The PTO's trademark data on the Web is updated on a two-month cycle
- US Patent Full-text and Image Database [Details]
- The database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims. The display of each patent's full-text includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent. Information from Certificates of Correction and Reexaminations is not included in the full-text database per se, but can be found as pages attached to the full-page images of the original patent. Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number and the current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only by those fields. However, this limited text display also includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent.
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