This page has been prepared in conjunction a program on "Business Resources on the Internet", for the 3rd Northeast Regional Conference for chapters of the American Association of Law Libraries, held in Toronto, Ontario in October 1996. Robert Sullivan, Business Reference Librarian at Reed, Smith, Shaw and McClay in Pittsburgh, PA, and George Pike, Director of the Law Library, University of Pittsburgh, are the program presenters and responsible for this page.
This page provides links to and descriptions of over 200 WWW home pages providing business reference information. Included are academic, governmental and commercial pages containing a wide variety of information. The list has been broken down into several catagories, including: company information, economics and banking, stock markets, marketing, science and technology, Intellectual property, locating people, experts, and government resources. Additional catagories include business news, general business reference tools, and internet resources.
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the internet's resources. Several WWW locations were found - and are listed - which provide large-scale lists of links to business resources. If you have any questions, comments or suggested additions, please contact George Pike at pike@law. pitt.edu, or Robert Sullivan at rjsulliv@pop.rssm.com.
Thank you.
Public and Private Company Information
SEC filings and other information about public and private companies.
Economics, Financial and Banking
Information
These sites focus on national and international economics and finance matters, banks and
banking, the U.S. monetary and tax systems and the Federal Reserve.
Experts
The resources on this page on locating expert witnesses and other persons who can provide
expert information on a wide range of subjects. Most of these pages also provide the
opportunity to register with them as an expert in a particular subject.
General Business Reference Resources
I've broken down general business references into two categories. The first focuses on
sites that focus on providing lists of links - I call them gateways - to business
resources of all kinds. The second category focuses on specific reference tools such as
the Thomas Register online, census and other statistics, and commercial data-gathering
services.
Government Websites
A large, but not comprehensive collection of U.S. governmental websites in the areas of
Finance and Trade, Federal procurement, defense, government information, and technology
and science.
Internet Resources
Search engines, lists of listserves, lists of usenet groups, Internet publications.
Legal Resources
Since the focus of this site is business resources, this is not in any way a exhaustive
list of Inernet Legal Resources. It is simply a few random sites that I discovered in the
course of my research.
Markets and Marketing Resources
Many of the links on this page are to companies that provide market analysis and research,
others are to governtment and private sector procurement offices.
News Resources for Business
A few general news sources with a business-oriented slant.
Patent, Trademark and Copyright
Information
Mainly focused on patents, includes a number of patent searching databases, and relevent
sections of patent, trademark and copyright law.
Locating People
These resources can be used to locate the home address and telephone number of people, or
their e-mail addresses. Some resources are capable of both. In addition, there are
resources for ordering more intensive searches for skip tracing and asset location
information.
Scientific and Technical Information
Information from a variety of governmental and private sources in environmental,
engineering, toxics and other scientific arenas.
Stock and financial market resources
Resources for quotes, summaries and information about U.S., Canadian and internation stock
exchanges.