Internet Research Websites

Company and Industry Information:

Hoovers:  http://www.hoovers.com

Dun & Bradstreet: http://www.dnb.com

RefUSA (via Public Library servers)

Industry Links:  http://www.industrylink.com/

Associations Gateway:  http://info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html

Industrial Newsroom – Optics & Photonics:  http://www.industrialnewsroom.com/news/optics_photonics

Industry Links:  http://www.competia.com/express/right.html

Public Records:  http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp

Industrial Research Institute:  http://www.iriinc.org/webiri/index.cfm

Web Page Change Monitoring:  http://www.WatchThatPage.com

Interesting Company Analysis:  http://www.footnoted.org/index.html

Financial Sources: 

IPO Monitor  http://www.ipomonitor.com/

Ten K Wizard:  http://www.tenkwizard.com/

SEC Edgar:  http://www.sec.gov/edaux/searches.htm

FindArticles:   http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml

Yahoo Finance:  http://finance.yahoo.com/?u

Quicken:  http://www.quicken.com/

Morningstar:  http://www.morningstar.com/

Bloomberg:  http://www.bloomberg.com/

Financial Analysis and Spreadsheets:  http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/

The Scannery:  http://www.thescannery.com/

News Sources: 

ABC News:      http://abcnews.go.com/

Rocket News: http://www.rocketnews.com/search/index.html

Newspapers Online:    http://library.uncg.edu/news/

The American City Business Journals:  http://www.amcity.com/

New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/

Newspaper Links:  http://www.newspaperlinks.com/

Boston Globe:  http://www.boston.com/globe

Forbes:  http://www.forbes.com

Individual.com:  http://www.individual.com

NewsAlerts:  http://www.marketwatch.com/news/default.asp?siteid=mktw

New On the Net:

ResearchBuzz:  http://www.researchbuzz.com/

Great Free Resources:

Connecticut State Library:   http://www.iconn.org/

global Edge:    http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

Internet Search Strategies

Noodle Tools:  http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

Georgetown University Library:  http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/effectiv.htm

Search Engines:

AlltheWeb:  http://www.alltheweb.com/

Google:  http://www.google.com/

Alta Vista:  http://www.altavista.com/

Vivisimo:   http://vivisimo.com/

Gigablast:  http://www.gigablast.com

Public Documents Search Engine:  http://www.searchsystems.net/

Portico Industry Searches:  http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/

Weblog Search:  http://www.technorati.com/index.html

Directories: 

Refdesk.com:  http://www.refdesk.com/

UCSD Reference desk:  http://libraries.ucsd.edu/refshelf.html

Corporate Library:    http://www.thecorporatelibrary.com/

CEO Express:  http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp

Internet Public Library:   http://www.ipl.org/ref/index.text.html

American Society of Executive Associations:  http://info.asaenet.org

Librarian’s Index to the Internet:  http://lii.org/

Government Sources:

US Government Portal:  http://www.FirstGov.gov

Patent & Technology Resources:

Patent and Trademark Office:  http://www.uspto.gov

World Patents:  http://www.pcug.org.au/~arhen/

European Patents:  http://www.espacenet.com

Japanese Patents:  http://www.jpo.go.jp

World Intellectual Property Organization:  http://www.wipo.int/

Prior Art Database:  http://ip.com  -- or -- http://www.priorartdatabase.com/

National Science Foundation:  http://www.nsf.gov

Patent Alert:  http://www.patentalert.com/

Business & Technology:  http://www.brint.com/links/

Wiley Interscience:  

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Metric Group Patent Citations Tool:  http://www.patentcitations.com/

R&D Magazine:  http://www.rdmag.com/scripts/default.asp

Competitive Intelligence:

Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP):  http://www.scip.org

Competitive Intelligence Sources: http://web.syr.edu/~jryan/infopro/intell.html#top

Competitive Intelligence Information Sources:  http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/adele/45790y.html