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Department of Commerce
The Commerce site offers several good options for searching for business and economic data. Some of the available information includes:
- Bureau of Economic Analysis - Contains estimates that illuminate key national, international, and regional aspects of the US economy.
- E-Stats- This section focuses on technology and e-commerce reports (including quarterly retail e-commerce sales), studies and statistics.
- National Technical Information Services - Offers a vast collection of purchasable US Government publications produced by numerous agencies. Many reports include good information on both US and international markets. Topics are wide ranging but the Advanced Search feature (click on Advanced Search tab) allows for category filtering.
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Directory of Associations
This site claims a database of over 34,000 associations, however, users must pay a fairly steep fee to access. |
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Directory of Corporate Archives in the U.S. and Canada
This site contains listings of companies who maintain archival records on their company including contact names, materials available and other reference information. |
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Dissertations Express
Search ProQuest database of dissertations. Unfortunately, search options are limited to title, author and year of publication. |
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Encyclopedia of Associations
This publication is generally considered the leader in listing trade associations and currently contains information on over 100,000 international non-profit associations. Listings can also be found in an online version called Associations Unlimited. However, the publication is very expensive and access is best obtained through a university library or possibly through one of the higher cost online databases. |
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ESOMAR's List of International MR Associations
Contains an extensive international listing and searchable directory of over 1600 international marketing research organizations though the search function is a little limited. |
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Federation of International Trade Associations
Information on over 450 international trade associations, however, search of directory appears to be somewhat limited with full access being restricted to association members. |
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Fedstats
Billed as one-stop shopping for federal statistics this federal government site offers access to a wide range of statistics produced by more than 70 federal government agencies. Coverage is broad and may be valuable for many research topics. Includes easy to use search feature. |
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Google Scholar
Scholars and students will really like this feature that allows for search of academic articles and books. In some cases full text articles are freely available and in other cases abstracts are offered. For non-full text articles, users can either access in normal ways (e.g., through university library) or possibly purchase online. While the search functionality is okay it is somewhat limited and not as robust as Google Advanced Search. But in time this could be an excellent addition to scholarly research. |
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H-Demog Discussion Network
Offers online discussion and resources related to the history of demographics. |
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Housewares Industry Publications
Fairly extensive listing of trade magazines covering numerous areas of the housewares industry. |
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Infomine
This is an incredibly extensive meta site put together by the libraries of University of California system. Its government section alone has a remarkable number of links (well over 4000) covering just about any topic for which a government has collected data. |
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Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data
Large, well organized and searchable database of annotated links to hundreds of social science data sites whose categories include data by basic industries, country and economic conditions. |
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Journal of Commerce - Industry Links
Among other resources on this page is a listing of links to shipping and international trade associations. |
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KnowledgeStorm
Provides links to a large number of whitepapers, case studies, and analyst reports from a sizeable group of information suppliers. Users can browse by functional area including marketing though almost all publications are associated with a technology. Accessing the whitepaper requires registration (free). |
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Moody's Analytics
A source of current economic information, forecasts and thoughts, along with historic information on different industries. Updated daily. |
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MSNBC - Business
Business site of U.S. general news service. |
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Center for Disease Control and Prevention -FastStats
This site contains a variety of health related statistics. |
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National Speakers Association
While most resources on this trade industry site are aimed at its members (speakers), the site does offer an extensive search feature for finding expert speakers including the option to search by field of expertise, which includes many marketing areas. |
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NewJour
Searchable database of online serials, including electronic journals and newsletters. Allows for postings of new journals and newsletters. |
