A Session in the University of Central Florida
LibraryInternet Workshop
Series
Scope:
This
session focuses on general business sources - some Corporate Directories, Daily
News
sources, Journals, and Other Sources (which include economic and governmental
statistics). For
links to
many business sites, arranged by broad topic, click on the following title
from the UCF Library Internet Workshop Series:
- Internet Links to
Business
Information
- http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~pkenly/linksbus.htm
This
page of more than 25 sites contains links to thousands of business sites.
Subjects included are Accounting, Economics, Finance, International
Business, Management and Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Travel. General
business links are also included.
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- These
sites can be
used for either finding
company Web
sites, financial information (primarily for public companies), profiles, or brief information (such as addresses and location).
- BigBook Directory Search
- http://www.bigbook.com/
Searchable by yellow pages categories.
- Hoover's
Online
- http://www.hoovers.com/
Much is NOT free;
featured company and industry profiles are rotated. Company "capsules",
with recent news items, brief overview and financial information, as well
as links for further information, are free.
- IPO
Central
- http://www.ipocentral.com/
Information
about initial public offerings (IPOs); U.S. companies that have recently
gone public. Sections include
This Week's Filings and Most Recent IPO's.
- SEC
EDGAR
- http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/ - from NYU's Stern
School of Business.
http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm - from the
SEC.
Full text of documents filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) by U.S. public corporations.
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page.
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- Bloomberg Business News
- http://www.bloomberg.com/bbn/index.html
Major U.S. and international newspaper headlines.
- CNNfn - CNN Financial
Network
- http://www.cnnfn.com/
Updated during the day.
Also, stock quotes, links to company web sites, and currency conversion
available. Sections include Deals, Companies, Economy, and Washington.
- Financial Times
- http://www.ft.com/#highlights/
Selected summaries of articles from this British newspaper. Registration required.
- Orlando
Sentinel
Online
- http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
Selected
news and business articles from the local newspaper. Archives for the
past 12 years are searchable.
- USA Today - Money
Section
- http://www.usatoday.com/money/mfront.htm
Full
text. Updated during the day (useful for Dow Jones Industrial Averages).
Also, stock quotes (maximum of 10) by ticker symbol available.
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page.
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- Advertising Age
- http://www.Adage.com/
Many highlights, summaries, daily advertising news. Some articles archived. Searchable.
- American Demographics
- http://www.demographics.com/Publications/AD/Index.htm
Summaries mostly, but searchable.
- Business Week
- http://www.businessweek.com/
Selected articles from current and past issues.
- Economist
- http://www.economist.com/
Table of Contents from the current issue plus some full text articles.
- Forbes
- http://www.forbes.com/
Full text searchable from August 26, 1996.
- Fortune
- http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/
Searchable from September 1995. Includes Fortune 500 lists. Selected articles are full text.
- Internet World
- http://www.internetworld.com/
Many features are full text. Back issues are searchable.
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page.
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- Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System
- http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/
Includes
the "Beige Book" for regional economic information, minutes of the Federal
Open
Market Committee (FOMC), and links to the banks in the system. Some of
the
publications from the banks are also included - Economic Review
from Atlanta, Business Review from Philadelphia, etc.
- Dr. Ed Yardeni's
Economics Network
- http://www.webcom.com/~yardeni/
This
is an excellent site from an economist. He's included much economic
information (U.S. business cycles, for example) as well as a link to the
Conference Board's home page for the latest economic indicators.
- NAICS--North
American Industry Classification
System
- http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/epcd/www/naics.html
Official
information about the new system, NAICS, which will soon replace the
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. Included are
comparability tables as well as Federal Register notices.
- Scout
Report for Business &
Economics
- http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/bus-econ/current/index.html
Issued
biweekly. It's a selective collection of new Internet resources for
business. Available by email subscription as well.
- Statistical Abstract of the
United
States
- http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract/
Provides
selected data from the annual abstract. The Frequently Requested Tables
section includes GDP and CPI
figures.
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Patricia
E. Kenly, pkenly@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu,
11/7/96; Last revised 10/8/97