Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York

Business & Finance

2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award went to
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed, Penguin Press, 2009.
($21.75 for the hardcover at Amazon. The paperback, to be released on December 29th, is $12.15).
"The 'beautifully written' history of how central bankers' mistakes led to the Great Depression
bowled over the judges and swept away a strong field of finalists to take the £30,000 prize.
The prize was awarded on October 29 at a special dinner at London's Victoria & Albert Museum."

Accounting

American Accounting Association
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) - Their mission is "to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of financial information." Hosted by the Rutgers Accounting Web which has a Database of Accounting Literature (free registration).

Advertising

Ad*Access - Online image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed mainly in U.S. newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. From the collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History at Duke University. See also their The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 which "presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States."
Adcenter - Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate School for Advertising
Advertising Age
Current Issue
Data Center
100 Leading Media Companies
Leading National Advertisers Marketer Profiles Yearbook
Advertising World - Extensive collection of advertising-related links from the University of Texas at Austin Department of Advertising.
Adweek
Brandweek
Clio Awards - Creative advertising award winners
Interactive Advertising Bureau - "Represents over 375 leading interactive companies." With Directory.
National Advertising Division - Council of Better Business Bureaus. "Our mission is to review national advertising for truthfulness and accuracy and foster public confidence in the credibility of advertising."

Advertising Agencies

American Association of Advertising Agencies
BBDO - Omnicom Group
Crispin Porter + Bogusky - Miami
Interpublic Group
Naked Communications - London
Ogilvy & Mather - WPP Group

Annual Reports

Annual Report Gallery - Cornerstone Investor Relations provides links to over 2,200 annual reports (but you have to register).
Annual Report Resource Center
Annual Report Service - Provided by Public Register's Annual Report Service
Annual Reports Library - See their How to find a Company's Annual Report Online
Annual Reports
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) - Provides a Listed Company Directory
SCORE: Company annual reports: assuring the distributed national print archive - National catalogue of company reports in UK libraries.
SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR) - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission . This is a good place to search for information about a company.

Associations

American Society of Business Publication Editors - Among their Awards are the Annual Azbee Awards of Excellence.
Economic Policy Institute - Their publications are searchable and browsable by author and subject. Noteworthy publications include Economic Indicators, Economic Snapshots and Issue Guides. There is an Audio Archive. See also their Agenda for Shared Prosperity which includes the audio of the Alleviating Poverty conference on October 2, 2007 with panelists Barbara Ehrenreich, Nancy Cauthen and Jared Bernstein. Includes transcript.
Federation of Tax Administrators: State Comparisons - Compares tax rates, State and Local Tax Burdens, and other useful data.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) - "Largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business with the United States public. All told, FINRA oversees nearly 5,100 brokerage firms, about 173,000 branch offices and more than 669,000 registered securities representatives." Formerly known as the National Association of Securities Dealers.
National Business Incubation Association
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)

Banks

Bank of Canada
Bank of England
Bank of Russia
Banque de France
Central Banks Websites - Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Deutsche Bank
European Central Bank - The Press page has an archive of press releases and speeches.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Their Economic Policy Review from Volume 1 (1995)to the present is available online.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) - Interest for short term loans between banks. The rate goes up when WSJ Markets Data Center - Bonds, Rates & Credit Markets
National Australia Bank
People's Bank of China
Reserve Bank of India
Swiss National Bank
World Bank
News
Loans and Credits
Countries
Regions & Countries
Data & Research
Topics in Development
Data by Topic
Development Data & Statistics

Banking

BankRate.com - Consumer bank rates on mortgages, credit cards, home equity loans and lines, auto loans, personal loans and CDs.
Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Service (CDARS) - "Sign one agreement with a participating local bank or other financial institution of your choice, earn one interest rate, and receive one regular statement."
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
EDIE the Etimator - "Can calculate your FDIC insurance coverage for each FDIC-insured bank where you have deposit accounts. EDIE lets you know in a printable report for each bank whether your deposits are within or exceed coverage limits."
National Credit Union Administration
Find a Credit Union
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - Charters, regulates, and supervises national banks. Provides agency information, press releases, publications, software, and consumer information.
Office of Thrift Supervision
Institution Directory
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Hearings
Legislation
Recent Press Releases
Press Release Archives

Business Plans

Business Plans and Profiles Index - Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh
Business Plan Archive - "The Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in the history of technology and entrepreneurship."

Business Schools

Best Business Schools - Special Report by Christina Settimi and Kurt Badenhausen, Forbes, August 16, 2007.
Beyond Grey Pinstripes - "Research survey and alternative ranking of business schools that spotlights innovative full-time MBA programs..."
Bschool.com - Site goal is "to provide a link to every undergraduate, graduate, and executive education business program Web site."
Best B-Schools
Business Week: Business Schools
Johnson Graduate School of Management - Cornell
Kellogg Graduate School of Management - Northwestern University
McIntire Investment Institute - Student-run equities fund hosted by the McIntire School of Commerce, the undergraduate business school at the University of Virginia. In 1999 their portfolio returned 62.7%.
U.S. News & World Report: Top Business Schools
Wharton School of Business - University of Pennsylvania

Calculators

Robert's Online Option Pricer - Robert Lum

Climate Change

GreenBiz.com
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Stern Review on the economics of climate change (2006) - British government 700 page study by Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, and current Head of the Government Economic Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development.

Commodity Indices

CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) - "Key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices. Since its introduction in 1993, VIX has been considered by many to be the world's premier barometer of investor sentiment and market volatility."
Commodity Futures Trading Commision - Regulates the U.S. futures market
Commodity Research Bureau
Dow Jones - AIG Commodity Index (DJ-AIGCI) - Futures contracts on 19 physical commodities
Chicago Board of Trade
CBOT Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Excess Return Futures Reference Guide
Contract Specifications
Jefferies Commodity Performance Index (JCPI)
National Futures Association
Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index -"Leading global benchmark for commodity price movements. The Index is constructed of commodity futures contracts from the energy, industrial metals, precious metals, grains, livestock and soft sectors and offers diversified exposure to the commodity markets."
Yahoo: Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index.

Currency

Bloomberg Cross Currency Rates - "Calculate the cross currency rates for more than 200 currencies."
Currency Converter - Yahoo
Oanda Currency Converters
FXConverter - Currency Converter for 164 Currencies
Cheat Sheet for Travelers
Universal Currency Converter
Currencies of the World
Currencies and Currency-Exchange.
10:00 a.m. Foreign Exchange Rates - Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "The New York Fed announced its decision to discontinue the publication of foreign exchange rates on December 31, 2008, given the availability of alternative market-based sources for these rates."
Exchange Rates for Selected Currencies - International Monetary Fund data is updated at approximately 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM U.S. EST, Monday to Friday.
So how much is this in euros? - BBC
Euro Calculator
Fan with a Plan - Visa estimates the daily rate for its network
Foreign Exchange Rates - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Washington Post Currency Rates and Information Page

Data / Statistics

Association for University Business and Economic Research
B&E DataLinks: econ & financial data sources - Sponsored by the Business and Economics (B&E) Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA). You can browse by category or search .
Davidson Data Center and Network (DDCN) - "Integrated, fully searchable database on transition and emerging markets. DDCN archives and provides free access to socio-economic micro and macro data on transition economies."
Doing Business - "Database provides indicators of the cost of doing business by identifying specific regulations that enhance or constrain business investment, productivity, and growth. The indicators are developed by the Finance and Private Sector Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group." Hundreds of Reports are available online including:
Doing Business in the Arab World
Doing Business: Russian Federation
Doing Business: India
Financial Data Finder - Ohio State
Moody's Economy.com
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) - Organization associated with Syracuse University provides "independent, and nonpartisan information on federal law enforcement." More specifically they offer "data gathering, data research and data distribution. describing the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the FBI, the IRS, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms." A valuable resource for journalists, lawyers, public interest groups, businessmen and researchers. (Free registration.)
Statistics Canada - National statistical agency whose mission is to "collect, compile, analyze, abstract, and publish statistical information of virtually every aspect of the nation's society and economy."
STAT-USA / /Internet Site Economic, Trade, Business Information ($) - U.S. Department of Commerce. Most of the site is available to subscribers only.
TreasuryDirect: Government - Provides statistics for the U.S. Public Debt and related Interest Expense, updated daily. There's also Latest Debt to the Penny

Directories & Yellow Pages

AnyWho Directories - Directory from AT&T Labs integrates traditional business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with enhanced, Internet-based contact information such as email addresses and web site URLs, as well as toll free and FAX numbers. There's also a Reverse LookUp
Better Business Bureau
Canadian Company Directories by Sector - Industry Canada
Chamber of Commerce International Directory
Directory of Development Organizations - Lists 29,500 contacts of organizations ("international organizations, governments, private sector institutions, development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, NGOs/PDOs, grantmakers, banks, microfinance institutions and development consulting firms").
European Business Directory - Europages
Europages
Institute for Private Investors Advisor Membership List - Wealth management firms
MacRae's Blue Book
PagineGialle.it - Italian business directory.
SuperPages - Verizon
Thomas Register - "Search the 155,000 companies in our database classified under more than 57,000 product and service headings."

Economic History

EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History - Edited by Robert Whaples of Wake Forest University, this searchable encyclopedia is part of the Economic History Services fileserver, "created in 1993 to assist economists, historians and related social scientists through the use of electronic communication and information technology." Another useful feature is their What Was the Interest Rate Then? which "presents twelve interest rate series for the United Kingdom and the United States."
Economic History Services
Abstracts in Economic History - Designed to assist economic historians in sharing information about their work. Has a searchable Archive
Ask the Professor - With Archive
Book Reviews
Course Syllabi
List Information
Other Resources
History of Economic Thought - Leanne J. Ussher and Gonçalo L. Fonseca.
History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day - Chronology and collection of essays by Glyn and Roy Davies.
Museum of American Finance - New York. Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. Publishes Financial History Magazine

Economic Indicators

Bureau of Economic Analysis - An agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the BEA issues data on:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Gross Domestic Product by State
Annual Industry Accounts: Gross Domestic Product by Industry
Personal Income and Outlays
Corporate Profits
State and Local Personal Income
BLS News Service Subscription Page - "You can have selected Bureau of Labor Statistics news releases delivered via email, or choose to be notified of new publications and specific data summaries."
Conference Board - "World's preeminent business membership and research organization. Best known for the Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators."
Economic Policy Institute
Datazone
Economic Indicators
Issue Guides
Online Calculators
Audio Archive
GPO Access: Economic Indicators - "Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors and provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance."
International Trade Administration
Industry Trade Data and Analysis - Office of Trade and Industry Information (OTII)
Manufacturing Biweekly Update
Exports from U.S. Metropolitan Areas
World Regions and Trade Organizations
Statistics Canada

Energy

Bloomberg Energy Prices
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) - With Video Interviews
Center For Strategic & International Studies (CSIS): Energy
Energy Information Administration
Energy Bulletin
Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA)
International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE)
New York Mercantile Exchange - Prices for Light Sweet Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Heating Oil etc.
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Petroleum Traders Corp - Largest independent fuel wholesaler in the U.S.
Simmons & Company International - "Investment bankers to the energy industry." Provides access to Recent Speeches and Papers by Matthew R. Simmons, Energy banker in Houston
Society of Petroleum Engineers

Entrepreneurship

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year (EOY) Awards Program - You can search the database by company name, member name, region or year.

Ethics

Center for Business Ethics - University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas. Publishers of the Online Journal of Ethics (ISSN 1092-8286) with archives from 1995-2000
CSRwire - "The newswire of corporate social responsibility."

Global

Background Notes - U.S. State Department provides information on geographic entities and international organizations which are updated periodically. Another useful resource provided by the State Department is the Country Commercial Guides Index (1996-2001). The Guides "present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis." You can search for current Country Commercial Guides in the U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library. See also Doing Business in Europe and Doing Business in West and Central Africa.
Canadian Economy Online - Government of Canada.
Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe(DIME) - "Network of excellence of social scientists in Europe, working on the economic and social consequences of increasing globalization and the rise of the knowledge economy." Offers a number of Working Papers
Euromonitor - "Leaders in global consumer market intelligence." The site is searchable and provides statistics and articles on consumer sales and trends worldwide.
Export-Import Bank of the United States - Provides export financing solutions for U.S. businesses. The site is searchable and offers an Index, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), Country Fact Sheets and Links to Other Agencies and Related Programs.
Global Business Network
GlobalEdge - International business resources collected by Michigan State University Center for International Business Education and Research.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Economic Outlook: Spillovers and Cycles in the Global Economy - April 2007. Provides full-text access to the 323 page report .
Mizuho Securities: Research & Links - Useful collection of links for Japanese business and finance information, with additional links to resources for:
Newspapers
Law
Government
Politics
Strategis - Extensive business information from Industry Canada; also available in French
Trade Data Online - Trade data for Canada and the US. Also includes value of imports and domestic exports for more than 5,000 commodities in more than 500 industries in over 200 countries; keyword searchable. With Site Map.
Trade Information Center - U.S. Department of Commerce Center provides "export assistance programs, general export counseling, and country and regional market information."
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
Trade & Export News
Region and Sector Index
Library
World Economic Forum (Davos) - "International membership organization integrating leaders from business, government and academia into a partnership committed to improving the state of the world." The WEF also has an online magazine, World Link.

Lectures

Agenda for Shared Prosperity Audio/Video Archive - Economic Policy Institute. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nancy Cauthen and Jared Bernstein spoke at the Alleviating Poverty conference on October 2, 2007. With transcript. See also the Economic Policy Institute Audio Archive.
Conference Board Podcasts - "Short content-rich discussions of the latest trends and developments in business research."
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Educators Corner Podcasts - Stanford University
Top Twenty Videos
Phases of a Start-up - Mark Jung, April 18, 2007 (54:02 minutes)
What is Creativity - Robert I. Sutton, 27 October 2004 (6:23 minutes)
The Past, Present and Future of Google - John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, 2 February 2005
Disruptive Technologies - John Doerr, 2 February 2005 (4:13 minutes)
Keynes Lectures in Economics - Annual series inaugurated by the British Academy in 1971. The lectures are devoted to an up-to-date survey of theoretical research and trends of thought in the field of economics. The texts of the following lectures are available online:
Central Bankers and Uncertainty, read by C A E Goodhart on 29 October 1998
What is Labour-Market Flexibility? What is it Good For?, read by Robert M Solow on 30 October 1997
The Economics of the Environment, read by Partha Dasgupta on 26 October 1995
A Future for the Past: The Political Economy of Heritage read by Alan Peacock on 27 October 1994.

Library of Congress Webcasts - See also Library of Congress Podcasts
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy - Moises Naim, 28 March 2007 [66 minutes].
Copy This! Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic Who Turned a Bright Idea into One of America's Best Companies - Paul Orfalea, 26 February 2007 [58 minutes]. Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's, now FedEx Kinko's, discusses "his theories and instincts on how to succeed, in business and in life."
Mark Nash Discusses Real Estate Tips - 21 March 2007 [42 minutes].
The Undercover Economist: Why the Rich are Rich and the Poor are Poor - Tim Harford, 5 February 2007 [53 minutes].
What To Do About Worsening Economic Inequality: The Rising Tide Tax System and Other Proposals - Robert Shiller, 6 December 2006 [46 minutes].
Business in History - Louis Galambos, 14 June 2006 [37 minutes].
The Woman Road Warrior - Kathleen Ameche, 21 April 2006 [60 minutes]. Ameche "shared travel tips, tricks and traps from her recent book, "The Woman Road Warrior: The Working Woman's Guide to Business Travel."
Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping Business Forever - John Beck, 13 October 2005 [47 minutes].
Traditional Chinese Wisdom and Business World - Hsu Cho-Yun, 17 August 2004 [67 minutes].
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream - Barbara Ehrenreich, 7 December 2005 [42 minutes].
No Such Thing as Overexposure - Robert Slater, 25 October 2005 [47 minutes].
Interview with Disney Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner - 5 October 1999 [79 minutes].

Princeton University: Web Media
Beyond Freakonomics: New Musings on the Economics of Everyday Life - September 27, 2006 lecture by Steven Levitt, University of Chicago.
Times Online MBA Podcasts - "Ten of the world's leading business thinkers provide the latest thinking in economics, management, finance, strategy and marketing." With transcripts.
Shekhar Chaudhuri - Director, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University
Fan Gang - Director, National Economic Research Institute, Beijing
C.K. Prahalad - Professor of Strategy, Ross Business School, University of Michigan
Lynda Gratton - Professor of Management Practice, London Business School
Martin Lindstrom - Author of BRANDsense
Tim Jenkinson - Professor of Finance, Said Business School, Oxford University
Dame Sandra Dawson - Professor of Management, Judge Business School, Cambridge University
Colin Mayer - Dean and Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, Oxford University
Joseph Stiglitz - Professor, Columbia University, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2001.

Libraries

Baker Library, Harvard Business School - Has useful Research Guides
Library of Congress
BEOnline Plus - Library of Congress project to identify, select, and provide bibliographic access to over 300 electronic works in the fields of business and economics.
Doing Business on the Internet
Library Network - "Serving the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ."
List of Libraries
Resources for Librarians in Developing Countries
Library of Economics and Liberty - Liberty Fund, Inc.
Martin P. Catherwood Library - School of Industrial and labor relations at Cornell University.
McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought - Created by Rod Hay (now at the University of Guelph).
Open Worldcat
Science, Industry and Business Library - New York Public Library
Working Papers and Technical Reports in Business, Economics and Law

Magazines & Journals

Adbusters
Adweek
Bloomberg Markets
Brandweek
Business 2.0
Business Week - Their Business Schools was nominated in 2008 "for outstanding service feature on the web" by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
CIO - "Strategic resources for information executives."
Conference Board Review Magazine
Economist - International weekly journal provides access to a selection of articles from the current issue, including its cover story and related articles and six further articles. Updated Monday and Wednesday morning.
Euromoney
Fast Company - "Launched in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, two former Harvard Business Review editors, Fast Company Magazine was founded on a single premise: a global revolution was changing business, and business was changing the world."
Fast Company Online Guides
Fast Company Online Archives
Fast Company Blog
Fast Company Slideshows
Masters of Design 2007
Financial Times
Forbes Magazine
Forbes 200 Best Small Companies in America
World's Richest People
Small Business Center
Fortune Magazine
Global 500
Fortune 500
Best Companies to Work For
Magazine Archive
Harvard Business Review
Inc.
Archives
Columns
Inc. TV
An Investors Guide to This Year's Inc. 500 by Ryan McCarthy, October 2007.
Institutional Investor
Ponzi Nation - By Edward Chancellor, 07 Feb 2007 won the 2007 The George Polk Award for Financial Reporting.
Kiplinger
Money Magazine
Monthly Labor Review Online - Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a searchable Index covering 1989 to present.
Archives
The Editor's Desk - With archives
Current Labor Statistics
New England Economic Review - A publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Issues from 1997 to the present are available full-text online.

New Yorker Magazine
Insecurities - Podcast from New Yorker Outloud features James Surowiecki and John Cassidy on the economy. Cassidy's article, Annals of Finance: Subprime Suspect: The Rise and Fall of Wall Street's First Black C.E.O which profiles Stanley O’Neal, the former C.E.O. of Merrill Lynch, is in the March 31, 2008 issue, unfortunately not online. See also Surowiecki's
Too Dumb to Fail - James Surowiecki, March 31, 2008
What Microloans Miss - James Surowiecki, March 17, 2008
Home Economics, March 10, 2008
The Stimulus Strategy, February 25, 2008.
The Birthday Party: How Stephen Schwarzman became private equity’s designated villain by James B. Stewart, February 11, 2008. Stewart is a New Yorker staff writer and Bloomberg professor of business journalism at Columbia University. See his Eight Days: The Battle to Save the American Financial System, New Yorker, September 21, 2009.
The Blow-Up Artist: Can Victor Niederhoffer survive another market crisis? by John Cassidy, October 15, 2007, and
Hedge Clipping: Is there a way to get above-market returns on the cheap? by John Cassidy, July 2, 2007.

New York Review of Books
He Forsaw the End of an Era by John Cassidy, New York Review of Books, October 23, 2008. Book Review of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros.
Online Journal of Ethics (ISSN 1092-8286) - Archives from 1995-2000 (Vols 1-3). A publication of the Center for Business Ethics, Cameron School of Business, University of St. Thomas, Houston.
Portfolio
SmartMoney - "Wall Street Journal magazine of personal business."
Survey of Current Business - "U.S. Department of Commerce monthly publication that provides data on U.S. business on the regional, national, and international levels. Among statistical series covered are personal income, inventories and sales, national income and product accounts, foreign direct investment in the United States, U.S. direct investment abroad, international transactions, and gross state product." You can search the Digital Library, by date, and by subject. "Most of the issues of the Survey of Current Business from 1921 through 1997 are available in FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research."

Marketing

American Marketing Association - Their site, known as MarketingPower, provides news, jobs, and articles and reports.
Market Research - U.S. Commercial Service.
Market Research Library - "Contains "more than 100,000 industry and country-specific market reports" including Country Commercial Guides, Industry Overviews, Market Updates, Multilateral Development Bank Reports, Best Markets, and Industry/Regional Reports."

Miscellany

EntreWorld - Kauffman Foundation's site provides information for entrepreneurs.
Fortune in the 1930s - University of Virginia American Studies 1930s Project has a Chronological Display of Covers.
Franchise Handbook: Online
Gerald Loeb Awards - UCLA Anderson School of Management. "Established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb to honor journalists who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance and the economy."
Milton Friedman (1912-2006) - Nobel prize winner in Economics in 1976. His 1980 10-part series Free to Choose is available at IdeaChannel.
Moody's Investors Service - "Leading provider of independent credit ratings, research and financial information in the capital markets."
Historical Quotes - Yahoo! resource allows you to imput a date and find a security's exact closing price on that day. BigCharts offers a comparable service.
Hoover's Online - Selected material is avilable to non-subscribers. They provide a list of IPOs On Deck. Their StockScreener allows you to search using up to 20 performance criteria.
IDEAS - "Largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 325,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 225'000 can be downloaded in full text."
Inc. Online - Over 5,000 articles in their fully searchable archives and useful Web sites for people running businesses. Includes the Inc. 500. There is also a searchable database of all winners from 1982-1999.
Institute of Management and Administration
International Organization for Standardization - "Worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 100 countries". Site includes a list of fields
International Chamber of Commerce
International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Valuable source of data about the state of the global economy.
INO Global Markets - Web center for futures and options
Institute of Finance and Banking at the University of Göttingen (Institut für Betriebswirtschaftliche Geld-wirtschaft der Universität Göttingen) - Provides annotated links to Banks of the World in Banking on the WWW.
Investment Company Institute - "National association of U.S. investment companies, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and unit investment trusts (UITs)." It was established in 1940 as the National Committee of Investment Companies. Provides a list of Investment Company Institute members,

News Media

ABC News Business Index
American City Business Journals - 41 weekly business journals around the country with searchable archive and daily updates of Top headlines from around the nation.
Australian Financial Review
Bloomberg Online
Bloomberg Radio - Daily financial news, Bloomberg Countdown, Bloomberg on the Weekend,and the Bloomberg Money Show.
BNET
Breaking Views - "10 daily columns in influential newspapers including the Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, La Repubblica, Handelsblatt, NRC Handelsblad and WSJE."
Breaking Stories
Brightcove - "Brightcove is the market-leading Internet video partner for international news and entertainment businesses, including British Sky Broadcasting, CBS Corporation, Discovery Communications Inc., Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Fox Entertainment Group, MTV Networks, National Geographic, The New York Times Company, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Time, Inc., Time Life, Warner Music Group, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive."
Business Wire
CBS Market Watch
Big Charts
CNBC
Crain's Chicago Business
Crain's New York Business
Dow Jones.com - Stock quotes, breaking news and business-specific.
Financial Times
FinancialPost - Toronto
Globe and Mail - Toronto
Globe and Mail Report on Business
Report on Business Magazine
Institutional Investor
Investor's Business Daily
Los Angeles Times: Business
Marketplace - "Award-winning daily program reporting about business and finance." Broadcast from WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama, the show is anchored by Kai Ryssdal and produced by American Public Media.
Motley Fool
Nando Times Business News
New York Times: Business
Dealbook - Blog edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin. See The Times's New Blogs: More Information, Fewer Filters by Byron Calame, New York Times, April 9, 2006.
New York Times Videos
Briefcase - In-depth market data
Your Money - Personal business and investing
Business Connections - Selective guide to Internet business, financial and investing resources.
On the Shelf: A Monthly Column About Business Books - Column by Deborah Stead, which appears the first Sunday of every month. It provides a complete list of business book reviews, arranged alphabetically by title.
Nightly Business Report - At one time you could access archives of transcripts back to 1990, but this may no longer be the case. "To locate older transcripts, you can use the "Search Site" box in the upper right corner of the website. For best results, enter your search query like this: onair "August 02, 2007" *Be sure to put the date you want inside quotation marks to make the results list more manageable."
Past week's transcripts
PR Newswire - Full-text news about companies, with archives going back 1 year.
theStandard
The Street.com
Trader Daily - Provides Profiles of the Boxers in the Extell Wall Street Boxing Charity Championship held November 1, 2007. (For results see Traders take a beating, for a good cause by Amy Scott, Marketplace, November 2, 2007)
USA Today
USA Today: Money
Wall Street Journal - Although a subscription site, more and more WSJ content is becoming available to all users. Use the Resource Center Search Page or Google to locate stories. se Google to locate the articles).
Markets Data Center
Deal Journal: WSJ's take on deals and deal makers
Wall Street Journal Americas - Daily business news in Spanish and Portuguese
Annual Report Service - Allows you to order free annual reports from selected companies
Careers - "Updated career and job information, plus thousands of searchable listings of technical, professional and management positions."
Washington Post
Glassman on Wall Street
Personal Finance
Yahoo! FinanceBusiness & Economy information. Other useful sections include:
Yahoo Business News
Currency & Exchange Rates
Mutual Funds
International Markets
Business Headlines

Reference

BizSeer: An academic business search engine and digital library - Developed by C. Lee Giles, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary - Has over 8,000 Entries and claims to be "the largest financial glossary on the Internet." Campbell R. Harvey is the J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER - "Lnks to scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents."
FinanceWise - Search engine for financial-only content
Investor Calendar - Earnings Conference Calls
National Bureau of Economic Research - "Private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Our research is conducted by more than 600 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields."
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) - "Collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 30 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components."
Securities Class Action Clearinghouse - Stanford Law School database provides full text of security fraud complaints, motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings. With search engine.
SEDAR - Canadian Securities database "contains publicly accessible information and documents filed with the securities commissions by Canadian public companies and mutual funds as well as related third parties."
SIC Code Outline 1987 - University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration provides a Standard Industrial Classification Search. (Note: the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is replacing the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.)
William Davidson Institute Working Papers - Part of the University of Michigan Business School, the William Davidson Institute "is a non-profit, independent, research and educational institute dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition economies." Most recent publications are listed on IDEAS
Worth OnLine - With Where the Money Is , the annual ranking of America's richest towns.

Small Business

Business Plan Archive - "The Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves business plans and related planning documents from the Birth of the Dot Com Era so that future generations will be able to learn from this remarkable episode in the history of technology and entrepreneurship."
EntreWorld - Kauffman Foundation's site provides information for entrepreneurs.
Forbes Small Business Center
SBA: Small Business Administration
Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) - "Source of free and confidential small business advice for entrepreneurs."
Wall Street Journal: Small Business News & Resources

Stock Exchanges, Mercantile Exchanges, Indices

American Stock Exchange - Lists all exchange companies
Australian Securities Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Board Options Exchange
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Stock Exchange
Deutsche Börse
Dow Jones Indexes
Euronext - "Official website of the Amsterdam, Brusells, Lisbon, Paris Stock Exchanges."
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) - "Largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. All told, FINRA oversees over 5,000 brokerage firms, about 171,000 branch offices and more than 672,000 registered securities representatives." Their Investor Alerts are "an undiscovered gen, for many investors...Many warn about investing scams. Brightly written and easy to understand, they cover everything from misleading "free lunch" seminars, to bogus "China" stocks to post-Katrina stock scams." From How Well Do You Know...the Regulatory Cops? by William Power, Wall Street Journal, February 4, 2008.
FTSE - Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange
Hang Seng Index
Italian Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana)
London Stock Exchange
Montreal Exchange (Bourse de Montréal)
NASDAQ
NASDAQ Newsroom
New York Board of Trade - Futures exchange for food, fiber and financial products
New York Mercantile Exchange
New York Stock Exchange - World's largest exchange by value of shares traded. Provides a Listed Company Directory.
Nordic Exchange
Oslo Stock Exchange
Paris Bourse
Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Stockholm Stock Exchange
Swiss Stock Exchange (SWX)
Tokyo Stock Exchange - Provides a Listed Company Search.
Toronto Stock Exchange

Subject Directories

Biz/ed: Business Education on the Internet - University of Bristol's "information gateway for economics and business education" includes searchable database and annotated listings of over 4000 Internet resources.
BUBL Information Service - Has categories for
Accounting
Banking
Business
Economics
Finance
Management
Finance Resources on the Web - Ian Giddy, Stern School of Business, New York University
GlobalEdge
IOMA Business Directory - Institute of Management and Administration provides links to over 600 Internet resources organized into 16 industry sectors.
RePEc Research Papers in Economics
Resources for Economists on the Internet (rfe) - Bill Goffe, Dept. of Economics, SUNY Oswego
WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics - Maintained by Lauri Saarinen, Department of Economics, University of Helsinki, the site is searchable and provides a useful List of Economic Journals. (Part of the WWW Virtual Library.)

Trademarks & Patents

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - U.S. Department of Commerce provides
Databases and Search Resources with
USPTO Web Patent Databases, a patent full-text Database with full-page images, an
Expired Patent Search
Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), and a database of
Patent Attorneys and Agents registered to practice before the PTO.
IBM Intellectual Property And Licensing
IBM Patent Server - Searchable from 1971 to the present Includes sketches and drawings form some patents, in addition to their full text and provides scanned images for records filed between 1987 and 1996; see also U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Intellectual Property Network (IPN)
European Patent Office
Wex - "Collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia." Sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School. Has articles and definitions on trademark and patent law.

U.S. Government

American Housing Survey - Department of Housing and Urban Development. You can also access the data via HUD User.
Bureau of the Public Debt - U.S. Treasury site provides statistics for the U.S. Public Debt and related Interest Expense, updated daily. You can also buy savings bond online.
County Business Patterns - U.S. Census Bureau
Country Commercial Guides Index - U.S. State Department
EDGAR Database - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This is a good place to search for information about a company.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information - Database includes the annual report on Form 10-K or10-KSB, which contains much of the same information as annual reports to shareholders.
Excluded Parties List System - "Electronic, web-based system that identifies parties suspended, debarred, proposed for debarment or otherwise excluded from receiving Federal contracts, certain subcontracts, and certain types of Federal financial and non-financial assistance and benefits." Provided by the General Services Administration (GSA) pursuant to the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 6101.
Federal Business Opportunities - Official listing of all Federal government contracting opportunities and awards over $25,00
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) - "Consists of twelve members--the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four of the remaining eleven Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating basis."
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) - New industry classification that replaces the SIC (Standard Industrial Classification System).
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) is "a database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series."
Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Their Economic Policy Review from Volume 1 (1995)to the present is available online.
Federal Reserve Board
Testimony of Federal Reserve Officials
Humphrey-Hawkins Report - With archives back to 1996.
Beige Book: a Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District - Published 8 times a year with archives back to 1996.
SBA: Small Business Administration
TreasuryDirect - "Buy and redeem securities directly from the U.S. Department of the Treasury in paperless electronic form."
U.S. Business Advisor - "One-stop electronic link to government for business" from the U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
Trade & Export News
Region and Sector Index
Library

Women

Catalyst - "Leading research and advisory organization working with businesses and the professions to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women at work." They compile an annual Census of Women in Fortune 500 Corporate Officer and Board Positions.
  • A “Daring Experiment”: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970 - Includes interviews with Betsy Jaffe, Barbara Hackman Franklin, Lloyd A. Mitchell, Judith Lawrie and Betty J. Diener.

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