Information Resources

Government

Statistics
Firstgov.gov is the government web portal.  To find statistics go to the Data & Statistics link in the Reference Center. This link will take you to Fed Stats and to the Statistical Abstracts of the United States.

http://firstgov.gov

Legislation
Thomas is a portal to all kinds of legislative information such as bill summaries and status, role call votes, committee reports, senators and congressmen websites, biographies and directories.

http://thomas.loc.gov

Libraries

New York Public Library

http://www.nypl.org/ 

Malmad - The Israeli University Bibliographic Network                                                                           

The Jewish National & University Library, Jerusalem

Camden County Library
http://www.camden.lib.nj.us/reference/online.htm

Burlington County Library
http://www.bcls.lib.nj.us/business/

Gloucester County Library
http://www.gloucester.lib.nj.us/Resource_Access/default.php

NJ State Library
http://www.njstatelib.org/

Free Library of Philadelphia
http://www.library.phila.gov/

Library of Congress
 BE Online
Internet Business Resources
http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/beonline/subjectlist.php


Experts
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com

Directories
Subject directories of the internet organized by humans.

Librarians Index to the Internet
A website of about 16,000 librarian selected internet resources
http://lii.org

Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/

Topic Overview

Wikipedia
http://wikipedia.org/

Answers.com Fast Facts
http://www.answers.com/

Brainboost
http://www.brainboost.com/
 

Reference sites
BE Online Title Guide

LOC Virtual Reference Shelf

RefDesk

Search Engines

Google
 http://www.google.com/

Yahoo
 http://www.yahoo.com/

MSN Search
 http://search.msn.com/

Ask Jeeves
 http://www.ask.com/

A9
  http://a9.com/


Metasearch Engines

Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com

Copernic
http://www.copernic.com
 

Invisible Web

http://invisible-web.net

http://completeplanet.com

Resource Discovery Network
http://rdn.cc.uk/



Business, Industry and Market Information

Valuation Resources
A combination of free and fee based industry information resources.
http://valuationresources.com/default.htm

Bizyahoo
http://biz.yahoo.com/i/

Bizlink
http://www.bizlink.org/about.asp

Know This
http://www.knowthis.com/

Map of the Market
http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/


Company & Business Information
http://www.manta.com/

business.com
http://kompass.com/ 

EDGAR
Domestic and foreign companies SEC filings
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

Corporate, company and country profiles
http://www.corporateinformation.com/
 

Competitive Intelligence    

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide

Corptech
An index of 95,000 private and public companies from the tech sector
http://www.corptech.com


Business Wire Company Profile
http://home.businesswire.com/

Thomas Register of American Manufactures
http://www.thomasnet.com/index.html


People

Zoom Info
Finds and extracts information about people from the web
http://www.zoominfo.com/

Ziggs
Profiles of professionals
http://www.ziggs.com/home.aspx

Jigsaw - online business contact marketplace
http://jigsaw.com/

EComp Online
Executive compensation information
http://www.ecomponline.com/

Pretrieve
Public Records Search Engine
http://www.pretrieve.com/

Phone Directory
Argali White & Yellow
http://www.argali.com/

Prospects Lists
Business and consumers mailing lists

SRDS Direct Mailing List Source
http://www.srds.com/

Zapdata
http://zapdata.com/

ReferenceUSA

InfoUSA
http://list.infousa.com/


Website Evaluation
 
Fagan Finder URL information
http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/

Network Solutions
http://www.networksolutions.com/

Whois
http://whois.net

Internet Fraud
http://sec.gov/investor/pubs/cyberfraud.htm

Hoaxbusters
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

 Search Engine Optimization

Search Placement Pros

Associations
American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has a very easy to search directory called Gateway to Associations.

http://asaenet.org/cda/asae/associations_search/

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Association of Independent Information Professionals

Association of Internet Researchers

 

Newspapers
Newspapers and magazines on the web

Business Journals

Special Sites

Archives of internet sites

Time and Date

Del.icio.us Bookmark site

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Articles

infolitland
What to Do With Wikipedia
By William Badke, Trinity Western University

Creating an Insight & Information Department  an advertising guy describes exactly what we info-entrepreneurs do with an interesting perspective

The Invisible Web by Yaacov Taube