ICC Information
5 July 2003
in depth information on UK & Irish companies, directors
& shareholders; some free; see also Freepint search
IMF
Direction of Trade Statistics(DOTS) 2003
10
December 2003
The Direction of Trade Statistics database; 180+ countries;
100000+ monthly, quarterly & annual time series data on
the value of merchandise exports & imports between each
country & trading partners; most countries' data extend
from 1980s;
IMF
International Financial Statistics(IFS) 2003
10
December 2003
International Monetary Fund's principal statistical
publication; monthly since 1948; international & domestic
finance; most countries, time series data on exchange rates,
balance of payments, international liquidity, money &
banking, interest rates, prices, production, international
transactions, government accounts, national accounts &
population. Most annual data begin in 1948; quarterly &
monthly data generally begin in 1957; most balance of payments
data begin in 1970; delivery software used by ESDS
International is Beyond 20/20 WDS which is accessibility
compliant, runs on a standard web browser & is used by
governmental & intergovernmental organisations for
dissemination of aggregated time series data. The databases
are freely available to UK academics & researchers via
Athens authentication & ESDS online registration; accessed
from the ESDS
International web site
IMF(International
Monetary Fund)'s bi-annual World
Economic Outlook
29 June
2007
country-level macroeconomic data; disseminated financial soundness indicators(FSIs)
database
of indicators of financial sector soundness for 25+ member
countries, ranging from regulatory capital adequacy ratios to
real estate prices, assist in analyzing soundness of financial
institutions as a sector & assessing conditions of
counterpart corporate & household sectors of relevant
markets. FSIs complement other assessments such as early
warning indicators & macroeconomic vulnerability
exercises; countries ;
Industry Research
Desk
2 November 2002
on-line industry research, market research, business research,
company research, manufacturing process research
IndustrySearch
directory of suppliers & service providers to Australia's
manufacturing industry; communication & collaboration
between customers, suppliers & business partners;
suppliers & service providers, storefronts for products
& services, assistance with email campaigns, free weekly
e-mail industry news, news feeds
Industry
Sectors
27
July 2005
selected resources for data & information on industry
sectors; Beverages, Food,Pharmaceuticals,Telecoms
Inflation
Calculator(Reserve Bank of Australia)
6 November 2008
uses data on consumer & retail prices to calculate changes
in cost of purchasing representative basket of goods &
services; Australian currency decimalised on 14 February 1966.
Hence, after (& including) March quarter 1966, calculator
assumes that values are in $ terms; prior to March quarter
1966 in pounds(£), shillings(s) & pence(d); at
decimalisation, £1 was equivalent to $2; Quarterly data
from June 1922, annual data from 1901; quarterly calculations
made using any quarters between June quarter 1922 & most
recent quarter of published CPI; annual calculations
using any years between 1901 & most recent complete
calendar year;
Info>>fast
16
March 2003
human 'search engines' for businesses; 2-3000 business
databases unavailable to web surfers; phone or email -no
answer, no charge - customer decides whether to pay. General
question costs £1.00; Business question £5.00;
research gets a 'no-obligation' estimate; Credit cards
accepted; subscriptions start at £15/month.
Infomat: Fashion Industry
Business Information
17
March 2007
marketing, industry trends, fabrics & textiles; Guides about accessories,
apparel marts, designer collections, modeling agencies; News of textiles, retail,
& apparel; searchable calendar of events; Who’s Who;
Information Services: General Business Internet Resources 4 January 2003
Interactive
World Oil Price Timeline
5
February 2009
important energy market events & oil prices since 1970.
International
Association of Fairs & Expositions(IAFE)
10 July 2004
fairs by date, region, association; county, state, other
agricultural fairs in US, Australia, Canada, Mexico, New
Zealand; history of fairs.
International Financial
Services, London
21 March 2007
analysis & statistics on UK financial services. Free
reports on sectors such as private equity, commodities
trading, securitisation etc.
International Labor Comparisons: United States, Europe, & Asia 1 August 2003
International
labor market comparisons
4 May 2006
labor market & competitiveness indicators, Gross Domestic
Product(GDP); charts covering 12 selected countries in North
America, Europe, Asia;
International
Monetary
Fund(IMF)
30 January 2010
Money
Matters sections titled Country Info, News, Data &
Statistics; current exhibit entitled The Importance of Global Cooperation in 6
sections each section focusing on a time period, such as
1871-1944, which is titled Conflict
& Cooperation; Regional
Economic
Outlook:
Asia
&
Pacific;
International
Trade Press Releases
16 February 2007
Express-Press-Release.com
free web distribution of company press releases; no
registration., human edited & monitored content, own page
for each press releases(search engine optimized), unlimited
posting, archived & will never expire or be deleted unless
reposted;
International
Trade Resources(Marcus Zillman; Awareness
Watch Newsletter;V7N5)
27 April 2009
BUBL
link/5:15 International trade; International
resources from Library of Congress;
Internet Intelligence Index
4 January 2003
competitive intelligence information; links to 600+
intelligence-related sites covering everything from
macro-economic data to individual patent & stock quote
info.
Internet Resources & links for Business Information 12 July 2002
Introduction
to Automotive Industry Research By Kathleen Rainwater
8 January 2010
ITC -
International Trade Statistics
2
April 2004
based on COMTRADE database of United Nations Statistics
Division(UNSD), provides International trade statistics from
1998 to 2002; export/import statistics by product group &
country; 3 digits group of Standard International Trade
Classification(SITC, Rev.3) US dollars; view import/export
figures separately; trade performances of individual
countries including national export performances & import
profiles.
Kellysearch
6 February 2002
database for UK industry(based service established since
1799); 2 m companies from UK, US, Europe, Australasia, Africa
Knowledge
Economy project(Work Foundation)
18
September 2007
how new technologies combine with intellectual &
knowledge assets - "intangibles" of research, design,
development, creativity, education, brand equity & human
capital - to transform our economy;
KOF Index of
Globalization(KOF Swiss Economic
Institute)
11
May 2007
measures globalization on economic, social, & political
dimensions. Detailed data for download, mapping & graphing
tools add an informative visual element; annual indexes for
100+ countries since1970;
Kompass; business to
business search engine
16
March 2003
1.6m. companies; 23m key product & service references;
3.2m executives; 744000 trade & brand names; 50000 Kompass
classification codes; 70+countries; 4 Feb 2011: Kompass is no
longer available apart from free data available to
non-subscribers via the website. It may be replaced by a
different product called Australian
Exporters
& Manufacturers database: “Australian Exporters
is a guide to exporting Australian companies & the
products & services that they sell. Australian Exporters
has been published since 1964 & has combined with
Australian Manufacturers to expand the content of the
database. Includes details on 47000+ companies & 56000+
executive names. Previously known as the print publication Kompass
Australia , published from 1970-2009. “
Library ROI(Return on Investment): A Brief Webliography 21 February 2009
Looking
East: Chinese Research Sources (Freepint,
No.233)
12
July 2007
MacRae's Blue Book
for North American industrial products See also ThomasNet
31 May 2009
M@n@gement
24 March 2004
double-blind reviewed journal; articles published in original
language; 15% acceptance rate; free
subscription eMail announcements 3542 subscribers as of
March 10th, 2004; Le Centre DMSP(Dauphine Marketing
Stratégie Prospective) de l'Université
Paris-Dauphine
Markenbusiness
5 November 2004
free meta-search of trademark databases worldwide; USA,
Canada, Mexico, WIPO International Trademarks, European
Community Trademarks etc; no advanced search; Click on one of
18 collection for purchasing information;
Marketer's Portal 5000 links, news 7 May 2004
Marketing
Resources Gateway
18
March 2003
U of Strathclyde Marketing Department portal; 54 categories
& 806 links; buyer behaviour, financial analysis,
marketing management, relationship management & social
marketing; sub-categorized into resource type reviewed
& rated; for students & practitioners;
Marketing
Surveys Index
4 January 2005
executive summary & table of contents information from
business, economic & marketing reports; market size &
market trend insights for business sectors internationally; 2%
sample test database; 65000 reports from 1200+ publishers;
non-English language reports; conference proceedings ; search
by keyword, sector, publisher, data, region/country; view
bibliographic details, executive summary, table of contents.
Full reports ordered by telephone, fax, online via the sister
site http://www.worldmarketresearch.com/; Annual subscriptions
£495 + VAT for libraries, £995 + VAT for
Intranet;
Market
Potential Indicators for Emerging Markets - 2004
23 January 2005
24 countries identified as "Emerging Markets" by The
Economist; comprise more than half of the world's population
& a large share of world output
Market Reports prepared by staff at British Consulates overviews only 10 February 2002
Market Research
& Internet
11 May 2001
Contents: Introduction; Weaknesses of the Internet; Strengths
of the Internet; Search Engines; Telephone Directories
Market Research(Best of Biz) 15 Aug 2002
Marketresearch.com
2 May 2002
international directory of 5000 reports from 350 companies.
Search and order by topic, whole report or 'by the slice'
(i.e. in smaller, less expensive sections)
Market
Research on Web: IRN's market research portal
28 February 2004
market data, company lists, statistics, industry news on 3000+
regularly evaluated
Market Research
Portal
15 July 2005
for market research companies, researchers, market research
buyers; Articles by industry professionals; Market Research
Explained: qualitative research, quantitative research &
statistics; Glossary; Industry News & Events worlwide; Purchasing
& using market research services: some starting points
on the Web; See also Syndicated
Research Providers Searchable Database;
Mergers & Acquisitions Resources 3 October 2002
Microsoft: Project Crescent, a Business Intelligence
Tool review
16 July 2011
Mining
in Australia (now Australia Infomine)
27
March 2004
equipment, companies, commodities, technology, careers; CountryMine
the Internet's premiere source of information on the mining
industry organised by country; See also Fraser Institute Annual
survey of mining companies 2011/2012: Survey results
represent opinions of executives & exploration managers in
mining & mining consulting companies operating worldwide
& includes data on 93 jurisdictions on every continent
except Antarctica, including sub-national jurisdictions in
Canada, Australia, US & Argentina. This year, Missouri,
Dominican Republic, Egypt, Guyana, Laos, Mauritania, Morocco,
Poland, Suriname, & sub-national jurisdictions from
Argentina: Catamarca, Chubut, Jujuy, Mendoza, Rio Negro,
Salta, San Juan, & Santa Cruz were added; South Dakota
& Wisconsin were dropped
Monetos UK multingual
international finance portal
25 July 2009
independent instruction & research on Europe's private
financial sector enables comparisons between social systems,
explores different financial sectors & provides detailed
information financial products; aim to simplify & promote
international movement with multilingual guides to integration
in Europe, covering topics such as renting a property, opening
a bank account & visiting a doctor;
Money
- past, present &future: information on monetary
history, contemporary developments, & electronic
money 30 April 2009
National
Library of Australia E-Resources for Business & Commerce
20 Ocober 2006
websites, indexes, full-text e-journals & subject guides
New Media
Intelligence web clipping firm; latest media
developments online
13 March 2005
News Alerts
free service monitors Australian media outlet articles
on ASX companies
24 September 2006
Australian, Sydney
Morning Herald, Advertiser, Crikey, ABC, ARNet, Herald Sun,
ITWire, FNArena, Minebox, Courier Mail,
West
Australian, ZDNet,
WA
Business News, Mobilised,
Whirlpool, Gold Coast
Bulletin, ITNews
Newsdesk
4 Software as service(SaaS)
23 February 2011
SaaS News & Social Media discovery & sharing
service for your most relevant web content; Faceted
search & real-time media analysis; CODiE Award
(Software & Information Industry Association) for Best content aggregation
solution & overall Best information solution;
free 14 day trial; business intelligence from 2.2m+
global news, social media & industry sources;
NewsEdge.com gathers,
analyzes, & communicates news efficiently &
effectively
11 August 2011
business news & information; timely alerts &
professional-quality newsletters with speed & confidence,
combining premium sources, comprehensive categorisation &
powerful search; Free trial;
Newssift(Financial Times Group) entity extraction, sentiment analysis & semantic expansion 12 October 2009
Newsstore
6 September 2004
Fairfax (Autralian) publications - A$1.65 to 2.20/article -
& Australian
Stock Exchange(ASX) company announcements from 1990;
free search; pay for fulltext(PDF since 1 July 2003); regional
sources include Asia Pulse, PPI Pakistan & ANTARA National
News.
New Zealand Companies
Office
8 September 2005
Free coy data incl. director, shareholder , coy address -
current & historical; Certificates of incorporation;
documents filed including Annual Returns; Company
constitutions other than those in PDF format; future access
for a nominal($1?) charge – Personal Property Securities
Register, consent forms, Annual Returns & notice of issue
of shares filed manually, director’s certificates, amendments
to constitutions, prospectuses, o/s company documents
Nielsen BookScan
30 January 2003
international sales data monitoring & analysis service for
English-language book industry worldwide established in May
2002 from BookTrack business in UK, US BookScan business &
BookTrack/AC
Nielsen joint venture in Australia; BookScan UK collects
transactional data at point of sale directly from major book
retailers; world's first continuous retail sales monitoring
service for books; BookScan collects 140000+
titles/week/£20 million from 6000+ retailers of the Total Consumer
Market panel.
NLsearch.com: Northern
Light Business Search now free
April 2008
text analytics & “meaning extraction” from Northern
Light’s MI Analyst application, formerly only available to
enterprise clients & collaborative social computing
features, such as Market Intelligence Wikis; business &
industry news from sources including business publications
& selected industry authority blogs; analytical tools
determine extract information on companies, markets &
technologies, suggests business address, assessed & tone
of documents;
Noel
Butlin
Archives
Centre(Australian National
University)
14 May 2003
nationally significant primary source material relating to
business & labour; archives of industrial organisations,
businesses, professional associations, industry bodies, labour
movement available for use by academics & community.
OECD
External
links to Macroeconomic Reports & Data
14 October 2005
OneSource Global Business
Browser Asia Pacific
14 June 2003
8000+ leading public & private companies; news,
industry, financial reports, key executives; Australia,
Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, India,
Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan,
Vietnam; information from Dun & Bradstreet, Euromonitor,
Investext, AFX, FT, Asia Intelligence Wire, Xinha News Agency
Orbis
Bureau van Dijk(BvD) subscription company information
5 November 2010
covers 65 million companies worldwide including:
Western Europe: 18m, Eastern Europe 8m, North America 19m,
South & Central America 6m; Japan 4m, China 400000, Rest
of the World 2.5m;
ORIANA
Asia Pacific company database (Bureau Van Dijks )
2 June 2005
85000 companies/17 countries from Pakistan to New Zealand;
reports for companies in countries where private company
information is elusive, e.g. China. As with AMADEUS
data is sourced from local, expert, information providers;
launched on CD-ROM to best cater for the technological
environment in Asia. A full internet version to follow. Free
trials arranged via bvdep.com, london@bvdep.com or 020 7549
5000; ORIANA financial information on 85000 public and
private, Asian Pacific companies. Available on CD – ROM
(Internet access in 2006). Pay-for-view access via BvDEP’s
global database ORBIS.
OSIRIS database of
publicly listed companies world-wide
28 August 2003
annual reports, interim & quarterly financials plus IPO
prospectuses; 18000 companies in 65+ countries. Historical
coverage back to 1996; minimum three year history per company;
PDF formats; most in English as well as their native language;
subscription database
Patent & Copyright Information 4 January 2003
Penn
World
Table(PWT)
10
December 2006
national accounts economic time series for countries; common
set of prices in a common currency give quantity comparisons
between countries & over time; relative prices within
& between countries, demographic data & capital stock
estimates. Since regionalization of ICP
(International Comparison of Prices) 1980 benchmark, Summers
& Heston used ICP benchmark comparisons estimating PPPs
(Purchasing Power Parities) for non-benchmark countries &
extrapolations in time;
PESTEL(Political,
Environmental, Sociological, Technological, Economic &
Legal)
1 April 2009
framework to bibliometric analysis & research performance
developed in the 1970s is a method for assessing a company, a
market or an industry;
Pharmalive(Pharmaceutical
Industrty;
Canon Communications Pharmaceutical Media Group)
13 November 2008
broad coverage of pharmaceutical business, product marketing,
clinical research; subscription access to Med Ad News
for business & marketing strategies, R&D
Directions for pharmaceutical product development
& R&D strategies, eKnowledgebase interactive
pharmaceutical database providing broad coverage on companies,
as well as pipelines & products during each stage of
development through approval & marketing, data on 26000+
records of compounds in development & brands on the
market;
Press
Release(PR) Search Engine
11
August 2008
Search industry
news on PR sites: news & press releases from
companies & media outlets worldwide; industry-specific
news stories & headlines on newly launched products,
company mergers, acquisitions, events;
Price
Comparison sites
24
December 2007
Dmoz
Price Comparisons; Yahoo!
shopping; Shopbot(Australia);
AusPrices.com:
Australia's Price Comparison & Search Engine; ShoppingBots &
Comparison Bots(US); See Recommendation engines(below);
Price guides - Kovels;
Carter's Antiques, Art
& Colectables(Australia);
24 December 2007
Price
Kaleidoscope Federal Statistical Office
(Germany)
12
August 2011
interactive tool developed in Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG)
gives overview of price trends & weights of various
product groups for German consumer; Basket
of goods & services & weighting pattern; Price
monitor; Personal
inflarion calculator;
Price of Gold
Then
14 April 2006
for a specific year or time period; British & US official
prices, New York market price, gold/silver price ratio, &
London market price; essays;
Price's List of Lists-Business & Industry rankings 7 March 2001
Product
& merchant evaluations
24 December 2007
Consumer Reports;
Consumer Review;
Consumer Research;
Choice(Australian
Consumers Association); Swotti
semantic search engine aggregates good & bad experiences
of others, reviews & feedback from the web &
categorizes them; Omgili
Product Reviews; CheckCost
UK; See Recommendation engines and
(below)
Product/Company
catalogs - ThomasNet;
Kompass; KellySearch
24 December 2007
ProQuest
Historical Annual Reports™
27 May 2006
160 years of continuous coverage for America's top
corporations
RBA(Rhodes-Blakeman Associates) Company Financials & Annual Reports 21 December 2002
RBA
Official Company Registers
29 June 2010
Recommendation
engines See Recommender
systems (Wikipedia)
4
December 2007
look at past submissions & recommend like stories, e.g. Reddit's recommended page, or
StumbleUpon:(Oct 09)
Discover personalized recommendations SU homepage, no install
or registration required, Search any topic for recommended web
content, improved friend search; Digg recommendation
engine is perpetually 'coming soon' but Dmytro Mulyava's Digg Filter is an API
based Digg story recommender; Rethinking
Recommendation Engines: Personalized recommendation -
recommend things based on individual's past behavior; Social
recommendation(collaborative filtering) - recommend things
based on past behavior of similar users; Item recommendation -
recommend things based on item itself; A combination of the
three approaches above; 10
Recommended Recommendation Engines; WebinSuggest; Clueray
IntentMatch
technology starts with a collection of documents(typically
returned by a keyword-based search engine) & returns
subset of those documents, focused results meeting a set of
specified criteria; Diigo
Tackles Recommendations; DiggFilter
vs. DiggSuggest: Third Party Recommendation Engines
Head-to-Head; ISBNdb.com book
price comparison; InSuggest
for Bookmarks recommendations based on Del.icio.us
archive; libSite.org -
Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites; 5
early recommendation technologies that could shake up their
niches; 9
recommendation tools we wish we had; Jinni: recommendation
engine for movies based on its Movie Genome
(aping Pandora's Music
Genome Project); SuggestRSS
feed recommendations; Guide
to recommender systems(personalised, social & item
based ); 4
approaches to music recommendations: Pandora, Mufin, Lala,
& eMusic; 5
problems of recommender systems; Recommendation
systems: interview with Satnam Alag; iTunes
Genius Sidebar; Guide
to Recommender Systems -Amazon & Google; Smarter(Recommended)
Web(Xmarks + StumbleUpon +): Smarter tracking tool (Evri), RSS reader that
learns(Ensembli); (Part
2)A.I.-powered shopping(Gazaro);
Understanding intentions(Primal Fusion); Top
10 movie recommendation engines; Semantic movie search
engine Jinni;
Music
Genome Project/Pandora
music; Recommendation
systems: where are we now, where do we need to go?(19
Apr 2009); InverSearch
Web-based commercial exchange for information, products &
services; confidential categorized inquiries distributed to
businesses registered for such requests; MovieLens; Maggwire carries 600 top
magazines, browse by category, Utilizes social intelligence to
recommend magazine articles; Bookase.com online price
comparison search engine for major online bookstores
worldwide; Social
graph miners: Name 3 people you admire, despise, work
with or otherwise pay attention to & HiveMind, Follower Wonk & Twiangulate will
calculate who those people are following in common on
Twitter & they'll show identify you aren't
following yourself; topikality
alert system does searching for you, filters out clutter,
sends you a daily email; Each time you click, t’s Statistical Machine Learning
technology analyses 200 of the article’s features, draws
comparisons against previous articles you liked (& didn’t
like) – looking for trends; Real uses of t;
Maggwire carries 600
top magazines, browse by category, utilizes social
intelligence to recommend magazine articles; See also Collaborative
Filtering: lifeblood of the Social Web; Glue browser addon for Chrome
& Firefox, social recommendation network for movies,
books, & music provides recommendation stream based on
personal tastes, what friends like, & what's most popular;
RankSpeed
search by sentiments: search & ranking tool to
find best websites & products by a sentiment analysis on
Twittersphere/blogosphere; analyzes data in social media to
rank results by any item or query entered as keyword, plus a
sentiment about that item; Filter: entertainment
optimised recommendations & relevance systems to help
content owners, publishers & aggregators worldwide
maximise content & services; video, music, applications
& games; recommendation engine for TV & Film Bee.Tv: proprietary
algorithm includes contextual & semantic analysis,
collaborative filtering, & thematic push to deliver
personalized TV, movie & video content; Exalead tool
evaluates subjective factors such as mood & sentiment,
attitudes to price & value from live web content; 1st
commercial demonstration in restaurant recommendation
generator for iPhone at Yellow Pages Group's Urbanizer; Best
book recommendation service?; 26 July 2010: 5
best book recommendation services; Recommendation
engines may engineer the soul: designed to give us what
they think we want; Book
Recommendation Services survey; Best
movie recommendation services; Gravee metasearch engine
personalizes search results based on interests &
preferences; Google Places Hotpot
recommendation engine; Xyggy Music
Recommender; 24 Jan 2011: 3
great music recommendation engines -Tastekid provides
music, movies, shows, books & authors recommendations,
based on your preferences, Flokkoon visual
search engine applies its technology on data from YouTube,
Fotolia & Last.fm, Xyggy provides
several item-based kinds of Last.fm search in addition to
music recommendation, enter band or artist names for a list of
11 band or artist names(& links to lots more), Drag the
results you like to the search box to refine your search; New
York Times adds recommendation features to article pages;
31 May 2011: ArtFinder
recommendation engine with database of artwork & artists,
displaying biographies & images & a Shazam-like image
recognition capability; AVE23
community uploads tens of thousands of latest looks, from New
York, London, Paris & Milan latest images of trend-setting
celebrities, models; proprietary technology & database of
hundreds of millions of images updated daily;learns about your
style & preferences to provides better results &
recommendations over time; See also Shopping
search engines & online malls; FindTheData
objective, reference-based comparison engine to find &
sort through databases that are fully sortable, filterable
& comparable presents its data in side-by-side comparison
databases & obtains information from primary source,
public domain databases—from governmental organizations to
universities; FTD's other sites: Locate Grave, Plants Database, Nannies.com, FTBCare, Find the Best Products
& Services; Yummly:
semantic
recipe search
for Bon
Appetit, Gourmet & Self
magazine recipes; Fishpond
Australian & New Zealand online store selling books, music
& movies; 16
Apr 2012: LibraryMixer
decentralized file lending & recommendation system
consists of website where users maintain media
library, write reviews, manage wish & friend list,
& a software program, currently available for
Windows, Linux & Mac, that acts as a chat
& file sharing client differing from RetroShare
Open Source decentralized communication platform in
frontend it offers; 16
Apr 2012: FindTheBest
distribution strategy brings comparison engine to
online content providers with widget to integrate its
data-driven topic comparisons into their pages;
Regional
Economic
Outlook:
Asia
&
Pacific (International Monetary
Fund)
9 May 2011
focuses on policy challenges of managing next phase of growth
after Asia’s recovery from global crisis; analytical chapters
discuss how capital flows to region may affect monetary policy
transmission mechanism & role of macroprudential measures;
Reputes Social
Responsibility Ratings
31 July 2003
appraises coy's capacity to meet expectations of community
stakeholders & business experts on Environmental Impact,
Corporate Governance, Social Impact & Workplace Practices;
subscribe
Researcha
pay-as-you-go information on companies worldwide from 100+
publishers(Alacra Inc.)
5 August 2010
register to purchase & download reports with a credit
card; company fundamentals & financials, credit research,
earnings estimates, economic data, filings, market &
investment research & news; 50000 global public companies,
20000 private issuers of public debt & 350000 global
private companies with $20m+ in revenue or 200 employees;
Search by keyword, company name, ticker symbol, publisher, or
industry criteria; reports fromcontent partners D&B,
Fitch,
Moody's;
Research &
Markets
2 May
2003
31000 international market research reports; titles, summaries
browsed by subject, keyword. Summaries & tables of
contents are free; free New Arrivals notification service;
some reports purchased in hardcopy, electronic form, CD-ROM or
via a site licence.
Research Buyer's Guide
30
June 2003
Market Research Society
directory of organisations in the UK and Republic of Ireland
offering market research; search by name, company type,
location, market sectors, research services & expert
areas; register for free online directory search
Researching
Companies on Internet - A Tutorial
*****
19 March 2002
Researching
Foreign
Entities
5
October 2007
Kompass - 70+ countries,
2m companies reasonably priced addresses, corporate
structures, names of key figures, company turnover
information, company descriptions, product names &
services, trade/brand names, branche locations; free searches
by geographic region, company name, product, executive name;
NAICS, SIC & other government-related codes; SkyMinder
affiliate of CRIBIS S.p.A.(Bologna, Italy), aggregator of
corporate business & credit reports; check your countries
embassies; Publicly-owned companies may be traded on foreign
stock exchanges( list
of S/Es)
Researching
Wine Marketing
30 November 2002
for industry professionals; search engines, databases &
journals; marketing, export regualtions, production &
operations; corporate & industry financial analysis
Retrevo Product
Information, Discussion, Reviews
15 February 2007
manufacturer information, reviews & articles, forum, blog
posts. Consumer metasearch? - brand search, noun search,
search by brand, model number; results have page titles &
snippets; free e-mail address registration for query history
and invitations to beta test (or gamma test?) new search
features;
Russia: All
Regions, Trade & Investment Guide
28 March 2006
from Effective Technology Marketing, Russia: accurate
information on markets, current economic conditions, sources
of supply, infrastructure, trade opportunities, operating
conditions, investment projects, legal & tax environment
gathered directly from local administrations &
governments, reviewed & verified through government
agencies; revised for 2006 in English & Russian with full
colour charts, graphs & maps, fully searchable CD-ROM; 25%
pre-publication discount; prices from Eur 449 to Eur 679
depending on whether you opt for the book &/or CD-ROM,
English or Russian, or both;
Rutgers
University Research Guide - Business
24 March 2002
18 sections incl.Business News Sources, Job Searching, Market
Research, Financing Your Business; with short annotations
Scannery
20 November 2003
limit search to fulltext of investor related web pages of
11000 global public companies; limit by index(SP 500, Global
1000, Euro 400) country, &/or industry; Boolean
connectors, proximity operator(w/# of terms), wildcards,
stemming, natural language, fuzzy match, synonym searching for
html, pdf, ppt, doc; investor-specific targets by country
& industry sector; consolidate search results by company
Web site & find all hits within documents on a specific
Web site; all public companies & in bigger countries the
top 1500 companies included; top 500 companies in smaller
countries
SCoRe:
national UK catalogue of printed company reports
18
December 2008
SCoRe Search Company Reports
current & historic, held in UK libraries including London
Business School, British Library, Manchester Business School,
City Business Library, Guildhall Library, Strathclyde
University & University of Warwick; full list;
Searching
for Australian Content Industries, Companies, People, &
Government
30 April 2009
by Heather Carine, Carine Research ( Searcher,
Vol. 16 No. 5 — May 2008 )
Second
Life
8 March 2007
3D multi-user digital world; residents create
characters(avatars), scenarios & living situations;
virtual economy for goods & services uses Second Life
virtual currency(Linden Dollars), sold for real US dollars;
stock exchanges, banks & financial institutions; Reuters (virtual news
bureau), Talis, IBM, Nissan, Wall Street Journal,
Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Sun Microsystems, Adidas, Toyota,
American Apparel, MTV, US Centers for Disease Control, State
Library of Kansas; Businesses, retailers, universities
are acquiring land, building offices, holding office hours,
providing services; Second
Life Library 2.0 Blog;
Selected Sources for Manufacturing 12 October 2010
SENSEnews.com service for
financial markets based on hakia semantic search technology (review) 10
January 2011
Articles published in premium or subscription services, 30000+
free news sources, 1m+ blogs, Twitter; aggregates Reported
events(revenues, store closings, product launches),
Fundamentals(earnings, stock prices), Interpretations(analysts
interpret financial state of company), Speculations(how market
views future of company), Sentiments(how people feel about
company, complaints, appraisals, Promotions/demotions, Global
factors affecting company(economy, disasters);
ShoppingBots &
Comparison Bots(US) & Shopbots
29 December 2007
autonomous software
agents crawl web for prices of similar products: kelkoo; PriceRunner; Shopping.net; Froogle UK; Zencudo; PriceGrabber; ShoppingBots &
Comparison Bots(US) See also Price
Comparison sites; Product & merchant
evaluations; PicClick
visual search engine for eBay & Amazon listings; Bookase.com online
price comparison search engine for major online bookstores
worldwide; 12 Dec
09: iBARCODE:
real-time
price search engine launches; 27 Nov 2011: Shopping
bots & online shopping resources 2012(Awareness
watch newsletter V9N12);
Shopping
search engines & online malls(Pandia)
16 August 2010
Regular search engines spider all types of web sites for
information & may also find relevant bargains.
Comparison shopping search engines get most of their
listings from vendrs & present products & services;
online malls, super stores sell all kinds of products &
may include listings from associate stores & companies;
Silobreaker
11
March 2008
global issues, science, technology & business from
approximately 10000 news, blog, research & multimedia
sources recognizes people, companies, topics, places &
keywords; understands how they relate to each other, &
puts them in context; review;
Small
Business Risk Score(SBRS) Australia (Dun &
Bradstreet)
13 March 2012
predicts likelihood of a small business entering bankruptcy in
next 12 months considering factors including,
business-to-business trade payment data, time since last
consumer default, & volume of credit enquiries; Based on
analysis of the 1m+ unincorporated entities in Australia, Dun
& Bradstreet assesses that 650000+ have no major financial
obligation & nearly 400000 would immediately qualify for
finance with a risk profile ranging from minimal to low. The
SBRS gives credit providers the ability to engage with a
previously untapped market of credit worthy, & potentially
credit hungry, small businesses;
SmartMoney's Map of the Market visualization tool; aggregator 1 April 2004
SMEALSearch
21 October 2003
niche search engine; academic & commercially produced
articles & reports from websites of universities,
commercial organizations, research institutes & government
departments; academic articles, working papers, white papers,
consulting reports, magazine articles, & published
statistics; indexed by author, title, abstract, &
citations; key- word searches & citation searches to
identify the most influential articles- article submissions
from users; citation analysis
Social
Tools
for Business Use: Messages from a Web 2.0 Conference
13
September 2007
Spire Project:
Company Information
14 September 2001
public, general & readily available resources:
publications from the company itself, government disclosure
documents, directory information, business news articles,
compiled company profiles, related profiles like credit
reports or investment profiles.
Spire Project:
Import & Export Statistics
14 September 2001
from national statistical agencies, directories, database of
port traffic
Spire Project:
Industry Research
14
September 2001
Resources specifically for industry level research which leads
to further promising directions like patent research,
statistics & discussion groups
Spire Project:
Searching Trademarks
14
September 2001
logos, marketing slogans, brand & trade names. Registered
trademarks are trademarks granted additional legitimacy by
appropriate government agency. Common Law trademarks
(unregistered) are protected to a lesser degree
Standard
Industrial Classification Search
13 January 2002
search the 1987 version SIC manual by keyword, to access
descriptive information for a specified 4-digit SIC, & to
examine the manual structure.
Statistics
Insight
4 January 2005
Business Insight service at Birmingham Central Library; free
searchable database of business sources; trade journals,
official sources & market research. advanced search by
publication, year, publisher, region, keyword & topic;
Virtual Statistics Library links to sources of UK &
International trade statistics.
Strategies of Primary Researchers—Online, on the Phone, & in Person 3 October 2002
Super Searchers Do Business 3 October 2002
Surfwax LookAhead dynamic search navigation, fast SEC-Edgar(2004-06) form finding tool; 17 November 2006
Syndicated
Research Providers Searchable Database
28 April 2011
linked list of market research firms covering some 19 mostly
technology sectors; search their offerings or repositories of
published literature to see who who covers the ground;
Technical
Reports & Working Papers in Business & Economics
22
July 2004
grey literature publications from government & other
organizations not commercially published in business &
economics; Library of Congress catalog access too; working
papers & technical reports in social sciences organized
alphabetically by depositing research institution
TED(Tenders Electronic Daily)
database of the European Community
13 April 2009
every public tender above a certain threshold has to be
published; searchable without (free) registration for active
tenders & last five days data; register to search several
years past; aka Supplement to the Official Journal of the European
Union updated five times/ week in 23 languages;
Terra
Lycos
28 June 2002
teamed up with iPhrase to create a natural language query tool
for Lycos Finance; ask questions about stocks
Textile
& Apparel industry of Australia Business to Business
solutions portal
9 May 2008
Australia'smajor suppliers of fibres, yarns, fabrics, nonwoven
textiles, household textiles, industrial textiles, dyes,
finishing chemicals, dyers, printers, equipment &
machinery suppliers, & other service providers to
Australian & New Zealand textile industry; major designers
& suppliers of garments, apparel, fashion accessories,
clothing designers & manufacturers, knitwear, labels,
trims & apparel accessories; full, ongoing access to this
web portal unless with a company, organisation or educational
institution name, or valid reason why none given.
ThomasNet formerly
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
15 February 2003
650000+ US industrial suppliers searched by product, company
name, brand name; register free to save searches, company
details, subscribe to newsletters & alerts, customize news
feeds; newsletters by email, RSS feed, My Yahoo;
International coverage in Thomas
Global Register directory of 700000 manufacturers &
distributors from 28 countries, classified by 11000 products
& services categories. Search by product/service, company
name, browse categories free of charge; European suppliers in
Thomas Global Register
Europe 210000 industrial suppliers from 21
European countries. Search by company name, product/service
free after rergistration; Thomas
Register of American Manufacturers & Thomas
Register Regional Buying Guides free at ThomasNet; print
publication ceased; See also MacRae's Blue Book
for North American industrial products;
Top Investment Professionals Share Their Online Research Secrets 3 October 2002
Tracking
Press Releases
18 July 2007
Trade
Association Forum Directory
25 January 2003
searchable database of trade associations, guilds &
federations in UK; Supplier
directory
TrademarkBots for
trademark owners & attorneys to police & audit
trademarks on Web 6
February 2002
Trade Shows database(TSNN) 23 October 2003
TradeVibes Search Engines - Top 94 9 May 2008
Trans-Lex
transnational law & international business law
16 May 2009
National Legislation, Conventions,
Principles/Restatements/Model Laws, Arbitration Rules &
Mediation Rules; countries covered, include South Africa,
Japan, US, but majority of the countries covered are European
Union; Links include topics & subtopics on International
Trade/Commercial Law, Private International Law, International
Commercial Arbitration;
Transnationale
2 May 2005
Subscribe for company profiles; stategy, resignations &
appointments, brands, pollution, restructuring & labor
conditions, human rights violations, companies purchased,
image campaigns, lobbies & corruption, fnancial news
Transparency
International
17 July 2003
knowledge management centre, capturing & disseminating
best practice, innovating approaches to tackle corruption
Twitter
18 December 2008
50
ideas on using Twitter for business; How
companies use Twitter to bolster their brands(Business Week)
UK Companies &
Directors Database
5 July 2003
database of statutory & financial information on
registered UK companies & Directors; basic details free,
purchase detailed reports; via ICC; Free
UK company information: Company Director
Check sister database to Company Check (reviewed
earlier this year) provides free information on current
& past directors of UK companies that until now has only
been available for a fee;
Directory of UK company
directors
11
June 2004
41000+ directors; 12000 companies; photograph of director;
career history; qualifications; major current directorships;
other directorships; address, phone & fax number; email
and web addresses; places of education;
[UK] Companies
House
2 March 2003
official UK body for company registrations; free access to
Disqualified Directors database & Companies Name &
Address Index; priced Accounts & documents; Free
UK company information by Karen Blakeman: Not
every form of company or organisation is required to register
at Companies
House; Company
Check part of UK Data
resells Companies House documents & provides credit
reports; SME
Hub Company Accounts Information available to SME
members(free registration), links to Companies House & to
Credit Safe;
UK Economic Indicators, November 2008
Ultimate
Directory
2 April 2004
database of 2m+ UK based businesses, charities, government
departments, organisations; search company name, type of
business or service, location within UK; browse region, town,
categories; links to maps, suggests driving routes;
Residential Phone Book contains BT data & search for
listed phone number in UK by name & town; meta search tool
search on up to 10 search engines & directories including
Google, AltaVista, Overture, Fast, Mirago, Teoma, WebFinder,
Espotting, DMOZ; currently free, you do not have to
register
UN Comtrade commodity
trade statistics database, 1.75b records, 1962-
16 November 2010
analytical tables of trade values & indices for individual
countries & regions; free databaseaccess with download
limit of 50000 per data query; premium service fee;
UNCTADstat(UN
Conference on Trade & Developmen) - Economics, Trade,
& Finance
21 October 2010
free online database, entry point to UNCTAD's
repository of statistics, harmonizing & incorporating all
UNCTAD's online statistical databases; International
merchandise trade, including data breakdowns of exports &
imports by partners & products; International trade in
services; Economic trends; Foreign direct investment(FDI);
External financial resources, including migrants' remittances,
development assistance, external debt, & international
reserves; Commodity prices, updated monthly; Population &
labour force; Maritime transport;
US city business journals through Bizjournals or newslink
Virtual
Library: Business & Economics
7 March 2001
Vox online portal (Centre
for Economic Policy Research(CEPR))
23 June 2007
policy issues worldwide; research-based policy analysis &
commentary from Europes leading economists; original columns
500-1500 words long; RSS feeds;
Vrisko for UK Listed companies 31 March 2002
World
Trade
Organization: Database of Regional Agreements - RTAs
notified to GATT/WTO 30 January 2009
WSJ
Markets Data Center free historical tables
30
November 2007
Watson(Intellext Inc)
18 December 2005
free, consumer-based version helps consumers find public
Web-based information as well as e-mail messages; fee-based
version by subscription of $100 a year or $10 a month queries
commercial sources, such as those available through
LexisNexis; live chat too;
Web
guide for the new 2012 economy(Marcus Zillman, Awareness
watch newsletter V9 No12) 27 November
2011
Web's Best Business Web Sites 9 January 2003
What Was the
Exchange Rate Then?
30
July 2004
exchange rate data for any year or range of years between US $
& other currencies. Time periods covered vary for
different countries, but generally cover the early 1900s to
1999; changes in world currency units; sources & links;
Part of the Economic History Service.
Which
Q&A site would you pick for your business?(PC World
survey)
18 October 2011
Who Owns
Whom Series(AP Information Services)
9 August 2005
£1900 + p&p for the complete set. Regional
directories can be purchased separately
Wolff
Worldwide
7 November 2007
global network providing reports from 2 or 3 credit reporting
companies per country with access to 50 m+ companies in 238
countries; Skyminder
reports worldwide including 50 m. private & public
companies; CRF
Service Provider Resource Guide, 2007, International,
pp. 42-45 profiles a dozen credit reporting companies with
international coverage;
World Bank -- Doing
Business Data
9 July 2011
objective measures of business regulations for local firms in
183 economies & selected cities at subnational level; Access
via Wolfram|Alpha includes import/export costs, business
tax rates, time required to complete various business-related
activities, & ranking countries according to
business-related indices;
World Bank -- Global
Preferential
Trade Agreement Database(GPTAD)
3 February
2011
GPTAD provides information on preferential trade
agreements(PTAs) worldide, including agreements that have not
been notified to the World Trade Organization(WTO);
World Bank: Open
Development
29 January 2011
information about activities & projects including Open Data initiative
& Open Solutions with
apps to help use World Bank data via various handheld devices;
Blogs on related
subjects; Wolfram|Alpha can
now compute facts from @WorldBank's labor data; 16 April
2012: WB
to make its research open access;
World
Economic Outlook Reports(IMF)
29 June 2007
country-level macroeconomic data; semi-annual; links to
searchable databases aggregating data; search or browse by
country, scope by market or economy; Sept
2011: IMF analysis & projections of economic
developments at global level, in major country groups
(classified by region, stage of development, etc.), & in
individual countries focuses on major economic policy issues
as well as analysis of economic developments & prospects;
2/year prepared for meetings of International Monetary
& Financial Committee;
Web
Guide for the New Economy(V8N7 Awareness
Watch Newsletter, July 2010)
26 June 2010
latest world wide web resources for discovering new knowledge
& understanding latest happenings regarding New Economy;
new economy analytics, resources & alerts;
World Tourism
News (European Union)
30 May 2009
articles & case studies in Travel Marketing, Hotel
Marketing, Travel Industry, Internet Marketing & Airline
Industry for travel agents & hotels marketers, hoteliers,
destination marketers & students of tourism;
tourism-related conferences worldwide; Google translator;
World Trade Organisation(WTO)
3 July 2001
only international body dealing with rules of trade between
nations; WTO agreements, legal ground-rules; International
trade and tariff data; General
Agreement on Tariffs & Trade(GATT) documents;
Wren
Research
23 August 2002
Commodities; Corporate info; Equities - Australia,
International; Fixed Interest; Foreign Exchange; Futures;
Links & Directories; Market Reports; News; Software;
Statistics - Australia; Statistics - Emerging
Markets; Statistics - Europe; Statistics -
Japan; Statistics - US; Stock Exchanges; Weather &
Time;
WTO Documents Online(World
Trade
Organization)
5 September 2002
100000+ searchable & browsable documents including legal
texts of WTO agreements back to 1995, updated daily.
Selected material for 1986 to 1994;
Xignite cloud services
provider of on-demand global financial market data &
application components 18 August 2009
Real Time Stock Quotes; Delayed Stock Quotes Feed; Historical
Stock Price Feed; Stock Option Prices; Historical Stock Chart;
Mutual Fund Performance; Mutual Fund Holdings; Security Master
List; Currency Exchange Rates; International Stock Quotes;
LIBOR; Rates; Historical Interest Rates; Corporate Bond Rates;
US Treasury Rates; Government Bond Rates; Global Interest Rate
Feed; InterBank Rates; Commodity Futures Prices; Energy
Futures Prices; Precious Metals Prices; Gold Prices - Silver
Prices; US & International Stock Indices; Global Economic
Calendar; ; nstitutional Holdings; Real Time & Historical
VWAP; Company Financial Statements; Stock Fundamentals; SEC
Edgar Filings; Executive Compensation; OFAC;
Yahoo! Finance UK
3 May 2002
historical daily prices for major markets & London Stock
Exchange back to 1986; daily opening, closing prices, high
& low prices each day, volume; download in spreadsheet
format; BigCharts
historical prices for major markets for past decade; Java
chart option displays graph of last 10 years of prices;
companies currently trading; companies that have merged or
ceased trading from priced services such as DataStream.
Yahoo!
UK provides free UK Company Annual Reports
21 December 2002
annual reports of UK listed companies downloaded as PDF files
or delivered by snail-mail; check companies web site for
previous years or interims sources;
