Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Real Estate - Research Guide

Lippincott Research Guide

Global Property Reports

CB Richard Ellis -- real estate consultancy.
CB's 53 page Corporate Responsibility Report

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Wolfram|Alpha

"Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone."

Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections –

Gorgeous! Excellent research links also.
Thanks, Baker Library at Harvard B School.

Business Data and Statistics: USA.gov

Environment and Business

Lippincott Research Guide

Monday, November 09, 2009

Tripping Thru Business

"Questions answered and resources highlighted from FSU's business librarians." (the imitable Trip Wyckoff)

NAICS Search

A neat little NAICS search tool. (Thanks, Cindy Strong)

Congressional Budget Office. Housing

Turbulence in Housing and Financial Markets. Primary resources & analysis papers.

Friday, November 06, 2009

Media Owners

"Find out what the leading US media companies own... and who owns them."

Thursday, November 05, 2009

FAPRI U.S. and World Agricultural Outlook Database

Select Commodity, Country, US state, Activities.
Annual 1995 - current. Forecast to 2018. Includes Price.
(Thanks, BusLib-L)

Housing Vacancies and Homeownership

Rental and Homeownership. Quarterly Rates by State and MSA. US Census.
(Thanks, Nancy Poole)

Yellow Pages, White Pages, Maps, and more - Switchboard.com

Find any US Business Website.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

EIU Innovation Index. Global

A new ranking of the most innovative countries. 40 pages

Intute - Business and management

Links to Business and management sites by subject specialists from universities across the UK.
(and me)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Science & Engineering Statistics. Includes Research & Development data by industry and state. R & D.

NAICS - Small business Admin.

Link is at #18. NAICS for small businesses.
(Thanks, Nancy Poole!)

All-America Research Team

Institutional Investor Annual League Table. The current table is free. All other II features are fee-based.

World Stock Exchanges- Market Capitalization

The World Federation of Stock Exchanges.Annual, 1995 -- current. Market Cap for 53 regulated exchanges

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Industry Profiles - IRS

Now select Audit Technique Guides
Use your Browser finder to search on your topic.

Good for small business overviews not found elsewhere, e.g. auto body shops, dairy cattle, etc.

Textbooks - Download free ebooks

"..targeted at engineering, economy, IT and finance students. BookBoon.com -- owned and run by Danish company Ventus Publishing ApS.
(I don't have any info about the quality of the texts.)

Bankruptcy

Search by name, industry date, assets. The list of results is free. The full reports cost $8 to $50 each. by New Generation Research, a bankruptcy info specialist in Boston.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Early Crude Oil

Production Levels. 1858 - 1895
N. American Estimated Oil Production and Average Price Per Barrel
1860 – 1873

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Recovery.gov

Weekly. "...created immediately after the signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with the goal of giving taxpayers the ability to monitor how the money is being distributed and managed."

Monday, October 19, 2009

McKinsey Quarterly:

Sign up to get quarterly "Top Ten McKinsey articles" Free Registration.

Friday, October 16, 2009

WHO | Disease Outbreak News

Daily update on Swine Flue

Free photo post & share sites

Flickr (http://www.flickr.com
http://www.photoshop.com
Kodak EasyShare Gallery
Photobucket
picasaweb.google.com
WebShots
Yahoo Groups

BusLib-L members contributed these. Thanks!

Map Library

Michigan State University Libraries - Global

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents

Credit Crunch | Glossary

BBC NEWS . Brief but substantial.

Friday, October 09, 2009

EC21, Global B2B Marketplace -

"Connecting Buyers with Suppliers"
Where else can you find wholesale frozen gutted eels?

Monitoring Web Page Changes

(Thanks Karen Blakeman for this list!)

Thursday, October 08, 2009

ONLINE FOREIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES.

1. DICTIONARY LINK dictionarylink.com/
2. WORD2WORD word2word.com/
3. TRAVLANG travlang.com/

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

top10 newsletters 3rd q. 2009 INSEAD

Practical studies on innovation, communication and more...
INSEAD Business School. Free with registration.

NFIB:

Small Business Facts. National Federation of Independent Business.

NFIB - National Federation of Independent Business - Small Business Association

Comprehensive resource -- business plans, trends, advice, case studies + more.

Monday, October 05, 2009

EBRD

European Bank for Reconstruction & Development. Factsheets by country of operations. Focus -- microfinance.

UNCTAD.ORG The Creative Economy Report

"The challenge of assessing the creative economy towards informed policy-making"

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Annual FOIA Reports |US Trade Representative

Freedom of Information Act.

Resources for Librarians and Archivists

Library of Congress

Archival Research Catalog (ARC)

The National Archives. Tulane U

ISM Report On Business US

Institute for Supply Management. LOADED with other important statistical reports. Non Manufacturing, JP Morgan Global PMI, Historical data, Regional Business Surveys.

FindLaw: Cases and Codes

Free registration required

Who needs librarians, anyway!

"A blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they are found in oak forests."
David Ogilvy, (1911 - 1999) the famous advertising genius.

Friday, October 02, 2009

Lloyds Annual Underwriter Survey

"Latest research detailing Lloyd's underwriters opinions relating to challenges and opportunities faced by the market."

World's largest photovoltaic power plants (ranking 1-50)

Also links to Annual Review 2008 Extended Edition.

Export-Import Bank US

2008 Competitiveness Report 151 pages.

LONG MARCH SLA China Information

LONGMARCH SLA Ppt Presentation 2006

American Community Survey

Highlights and link to the new ACS.
"Health insurance coverage was one of three new topics added to the ACS for 2008."US Census

Blueprint America -- Infrastructure

PBS Reports, News.