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[Note: The accuracy and reliability of data and information posted online is subject to continuous verification. It is highly recommended that you use multiple sources, cross-check data and routinely perform due diligence reviews on sources and publications to which you cite. The web is a dynamic entity - sites often change URLs, content focus, and ownership. Many sites go offline with little or no notification. This guide is updated regularly in an effort to present resources that have been verified at the time of publication. Since the last version, more than 100 changes were necessary. For the past 15 years, LLRX has not changed URL and remains an independent, woman owned [and canine supervised] publication - keep me on your list!]

Selected Web, Blogs, News, Video Search and Alerts Services

Web Search - searching and locating relevant, reliable and actionable information will benefit from actively using a range of search tools, in your research process. A selection of sources from which to choose dependent upon your research requirements, are as follows:

bing from Microsoft - Search the web, news, images, videos, maps, travel info, history, weather, and more e-commerce related content. The Bing Help directory provides user friendly explanations for features and tools, including the range of email alerts, updates and search options available. Also, users may obtain guides to and explore other search engine features here.

blekko - With blekko, search is accomplished using a tool to filter results, called slashtags. "The new blekko has significant improvements to index quality and relevance. We are also now automatically applying slashtags for over 500 categories. That means users will get the benefit of curated search results (i.e., no spam) for over 500 search categories, regardless of whether or not they manually append a slashtag to their query."  See also 14 Facts & more about blekko – Infographic

Creative Commons Government links: Australia, Netherlands, United States, New Zealand, Presidential Sites. "Government entities make information they create available to the public in various ways: online subject to terms of use, by removing copyright and related rights, through government policy and regulation, through the use of custom licenses, via freedom of information laws, informally via norms, through the use of CC licenses and public domain tools, and through other means. By using CC licenses and tools to communicate broad reuse rights to the content, data, and educational materials they create, governments are stimulating economic growth, promoting citizen engagement, and increasing the transparency of government resources and services."

Exalead - Search for results from specific locations and sources (web sites, video, images, Wikipedia). Use the advanced search feature located to the right of the the main search box to specify: Exact Phrases, Exact Words, Exclude terms, Proximity Search, Search by Date or Date Range, and to Search by Title, URL, Link or specific Site. This service also provides enterprise applications solutions. http://www.exalead.com/search

Gigablast - Users may search the web or a selected topical directory. Try the Advanced Search feature to specify words, phrases, specific URLs and pages. After delivering results, users may "Search in Category", view related topics, view cached versions of search results. The site states that "90% of its power usage comes from wind energy." This service also provides enterprise applications solutions. http://gigablast.com

Google - In a once crowded field, there are now three major search engine powerhouses - bing, Yahoo, and Google. Google maintained the spot as Top Search Engine of 2011, with various polls tracking it with 65% of core search queries conducted. In 2011 the user interface and many features underwent a significant overhaul - including new applications (Google+) and deleting old favorites (the Newspaper archives scanning project). The left hand side of the homepage (using Firefox 9 browser) lists the following search field options: Everything, Images, Videos, News, Shopping, Books, Places, Blogs, Flights, Discussions, Recipes, Applications, Patents - and below this list there is another titled Any time that includes options for time date ranges as well as Google Blog search. Google's Chrome browser offers a horizontally unfolding, three tiered panel of search options from which to choose, including: Google+, Images, Maps, YouTube, News, Gmail, Document, Calendar, Books, Music, Reader, and more. Use this link to view all the search options on one page, arranged by Web, Mobile, Media, Geo, Home & Office, Specialized Search and Innovation. Note: users may choose to sign into one of their respective Google accounts to conduct a search, or not. Google is available in iterations for phone, tablet or computer. Searches may be conducted by typing or by voice command using a microphone. See also the Google Advanced Search feature.

Google Scholar - "From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. See also Google Scholar Advanced Search to narrow and focus your scholarly content research results.

Google Newspaper Archive Search provides access to a limited archive of newspapers from the United States and around the world. Additional newspaper archives are available via Journalism.net

Google Video. See also YouTube, owned by Google.

Justia - Reliable, timely, comprehensive directory of legal resources, searchable/browsable by practice areas, topics and subject specific sources, cases in the news, legal blogs and podcasts - http://www.justia.com/

Law.com Quest - a legal search engine from ALM, owner of leading legal local and national legal publications. "Quest brings legal professionals relevant results from across the Law.com network of sites and the legal web, including hundreds of hand-picked law firm websites and legal blogs." http://quest.law.com/Search/

MetaCrawler from Infospace. The site now separates sponsored results from organic web results, all displayed on the same page. The site returns results from multiple search engines for each query (Google, Yahoo and Bing), providing users with a broader view of possible relevant results than the alternative of using only one search engine. Users may focus queries by choosing from the following features: Web, Images, Video, News, Yellow Pages, White Pages. http://www.metacrawler.com/. Also from InfoSpace, another reliable metasearch engine is Dogpile Web Search, which indexes the same engines as does Metacrawler. Dogpile returns selected results indicating which are sponsored and which are not, from the leading search engines: Google, Yahoo and Bing. Users may focus queries by choosing separate features: Web, Images, Video, News, Local, White Pages.

Reuters Business News & Financial News - Search quotes, news, video, pictures http://www.reuters.com/finance.

Search Engine Colossus, International Directory of Search Engines - links to search engines from 313 countries and territories around the world - http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/

SearchLion - "SearchLion’s SearchBrowse feature lets you open search results right on the search page, allowing you to browse and search simultaneously. No more having to visit multiple pages to get different types of search results – with the MultiView feature, you can now have them on the same page. Learn about all the features here. http://www.searchlion.com

Free Search Engine for All U.S. Trademarks Filed Since 1870 - TradeMarkia - Search for a trademark by: name, filing date(s), category, goods & services, company name, status.

USA.gov is the official U.S. portal to federal, state, local, tribal, and international government information and services." Use Search.USA.gov, "a comprehensive, searchable index of about 50 million pages from federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal websites."

Yahoo! Search -  Focus your search by choosing one of the following features: web, images, video, local, shopping, apps, news, directory, blogs, finance. The site also provides a helpful Advanced Web Search feature.

Yippy! - Desktop, Tablet and Mobile. Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on a comparative ranking, all in the Cloud. Users may specifically query the following sources: News, Images, Maps, Wikipedia, Government, Blogs, Shakespeare and Ben Franklin (this is a children friendly site] - http://yippy.com/

"Twitter [requires username and password] is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations..." There is a Twitter Search engine as well as an Advanced Search page. See also the Twitter guide book by Mashable.

YouTube - "YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small." Users may search or browse topical categories that include: News & Politics, Nonprofits & Activism, People & Blogs, Science & Technology, Travel & Events. Additional education specific resources are available directly via EDU YouTube, which provides access to content in: Primary & Secondary Education, University and Lifelong Learning areas.

Federated Search

The power and relevance of federated search is succinctly described as mining the deep web, and explained by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific & Technical Information: "To get to the deep web, you need discovery tools, such as Science Accelerator (DOE science information), Science.gov, (U.S. science information), and WorldWideScience.org (global science information). With these tools you can find the richest scientific content – the results of billions of dollars worth of government-sponsored scientific research results. In one query, you can search multiple databases at one time, sort through the information in ways that are useful to you, and rapidly return relevant results to your desktop.

See also Deep Web Research 2011, by Marcus P. Zillman - an extensive and diverse bibliography of applications, sources, services, and tools to facilitate mining the deep web.

EconPapers "use the RePEc bibliographic and author data, providing access to the largest collection of online Economics working papers and journal articles. The majority of the full text files are freely available, but some (typically journal articles) require that you or your organization subscribe to the service providing the full text file. RePEc is a distributed data set residing in over 1100 archives operated by research organizations, academic departments and publishers."

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. http://catalog.gpo.gov/F

EigenFactor [alpha] - Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge: "The Eigenfactor Project is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. We aim to use recent advances in network analysis and information theory to develop novel methods for evaluating the influence of scholarly periodicals, generating paper recommendations, and mapping the structure of academic research. By uncovering the hierarchical structure of scholarly citation, we can identify key papers pertaining to any search query. For a reader new to the field we can find the classic and foundational papers; for an expert we can find the latest innovations."

Google Scholar Advanced Search, "search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites."

As a subset of Google Scholar, please note the following: "A Google Scholar Universal Gadget which enables users to search for the total number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count, total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's H-Index."

MetaLib, a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online. To learn more, view additional brief or detailed search information.  http://metalib.gpo.gov/V?RN=990715120

Scirus "is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information." See Scirus Advanced Search.

"Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of over 175,000 authors and more than 1.3 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. Founded in 1994, it is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and distributing submitted abstracts and full text papers from scholars around the world. SSRN encourages readers to communicate directly with other subscribers and authors concerning their own and other's research. Through our email abstracting eJournals we currently reach over 400,000 people in approximately 140 different countries. SSRN's email abstracting eJournals cover over 1,000 different subject areas. The Abstract Database contains information on well over 374,000 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. The eLibrary currently contains over 306,000 downloadable electronic documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Our users are downloading over 8.5 million full text papers annually. To browse SSRN's eLibrary subject area networks, click here."

USA.gov - U.S. Government's official web portal for all government transactions, services, and information. http://www.usa.gov/

WorldWideScience.org "is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. Researchers can search text, audio, video and images in multiple languages."

WorldCat.org - The world's largest library catalog - with 1.6 billion searchable items available including books, DVDs, CDs and articles. http://www.worldcat.org/

Blog Search and Social Media Search

The dramatic ascendance of social media is in no small measure responsible for a corresponding fall in the demand for blog specific search engines. This phenomenon correlates to the collapse of competition and choice in the web search sector - there are now just three dominant services: Google, Bing and Yahoo. Forward facing blogs [no username or password required] continue to flourish, even though many pundits are prematurely declaring their demise in the wake of the new social media troika: Twitter, Facebook ("one of the largest websites in the world, with more than 500 million monthly users") and Google+. Researchers should resist the temptation to abandon blogs by the clarion call of "faster, smaller, and social" [Jeremiah Owyang]. Locate and subscribe (Google Reader for example also provides options to email, share add tags to postings) to specific blog feeds to benefit from continuously updated, value-added, actionable content. Read the postings of authors whose professional, current, well documented, topical knowledge you determine will serve as an integral component of your specific CI process. This strategy encompasses leveraging intelligence from all sectors, not a decision to move to tapping into only one. Information omnivores are the norm in the CI sector with good reason - one cannot afford not to explore options when so much good data resides in deep web sources.

Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2011 report: "This year's topics include: blogging and social media, bloggers and traditional media, traffic and analysis, brands and marketing in the blogosphere, bloggers' motivations and consequences, monetization, and changes within the blogosphere over 2011.

BlogPulse - a service of The Nielsen Company, is a blog search engine as well as "an automated trend discovery system for blogs." http://www.blogpulse.com/. Note: "This site will no longer be available after Friday January 13th, 2012."

Google Blog Search indexes and allows users to search blogs that have an RSS feed, from around the world - http://www.google.com/blogsearch.

"BlogScope is an analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere which is being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto. It is currently tracking over 58.97 million blogs with 1307.00 million posts. BlogScope can assist the user in discovering interesting information from these millions of blogs via a set of numerous unique features including popularity curves, identification of information bursts, related terms, and geographical search." http://www.blogscope.net/

IceRocket Blog Search - search blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Images. http://www.icerocket.com/

Justia Blawg Search - searchable directory of legal blog postings, continually updated. Sort results by date or relevance. Browse blogs by category, country, law school. http://blawgsearch.justia.com/

2011 Blogs of the AmLaw 100", by lawyer Adrian Dayton who is also author of the book Social Media for Lawyers. This spreadsheet provides law firm name, blog title, URL, Twitter feed (open or closed), activity level.

State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, November 2010 - "123, or 62%, of the 2010 AmLaw 200 law firms are now blogging. This number is up from 39 firms, representing a 115% increase, since August 2007".

Technorati Blog Search - "Indexing 1 million blogs." http://search.technorati.com/. You can search by Keyword, Website URL, or Tag.

Twitter (microblogging application - postings are limited to a maximum of 140 characters). Use the excellent, field specific Advanced Search page. See also http://www.twitprofiles.com/

"Vizibility and LexisNexis recently conducted a survey to help shed light on the use of social media in legal services marketing. To illustrate the findings, the results have been released as an infographic, available below. View the announcement here. The research suggests a high degree of reliance on broadly defined social media marketing programs, with 81% of survey participants reporting they already use social media marketing tools and another 10.1% saying they plan to deploy social media marketing elements within six months. Furthermore, reliance on social media tools and how they’re measured differ significantly by firm size. The survey found that a clear majority of participants consider social media an important part of their overall marketing strategy, with nearly half (48.5%) reporting that social media is “somewhat important” while another 31% believe the tools are “extremely important” to their total marketing efforts. Click a preview below to view the infographic at full size. The infographic is available in both black and white versions."

News Search

Bloomberg News - "exclusive news, worldwide news, regions news, markets news, industries news, economy news, politics news, law news, environment news, science news, arts & culture. http://www.bloomberg.com/news

Google News - Search, browse and share news, updated continuously.  Includes press releases from Business Wire, Canada NewsWire, PR Newswire, U.S. Newswire. Users may customize/personalize the news page view according to: country/locale; topics; frequency for delivery of updates, opt-in for email and or RSS alerts delivered to desktop or mobile devices.

News archive advanced search - the drop-down navigation box appears when the user mouses' over the search box, or clicks on the the down arrow in the search box. For Google News, users may choose to use fields to limit results specific to: words, phrases, date ranges, sources, locations. Sort results by: top stories, all news, images, blogs, any recent news [specifying: past hour, day, week, month, year], sort by relevant date [use the custom date range feature - results returned include "Pay-Per-View" content in abstract form with links to the source/publisher and commercial databases if available - some searches yield links to abstracts back to the 1900s]. Users may also choose to view local stories; specify city, state or zip code, search for articles by author, and by specific source. Users may also choose to hide duplicate results.

Justia News and Featured Cases -sources include: ABA Journal, Law.com, Legal Times, Jurist, and blawgs.  http://news.justia.com/.

My Way - powered by Ask, aggregates top news by sector and source, - AP • New York Times • MSNBC • USA TODAY • FOX News - personalization and  email updates. No banners or pop up ads. http://www.myway.com/

NewsNow's "services include NewsNow.co.uk, one of the UK's most popular news portals...corporate services include online press cuttings, market intelligence, competitor tracking and website and intranet content. Provides real-time searching of 20,000 sources comprising international, national and regional papers, consumer, trade and technical titles, government press pages, press releases, blogs, webzines and newsletters in more than 15 languages from 84 countries." http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/

Newspaperindex.com - daily index of evaluated newspapers and front pages that are freely available from every country. http://www.newspaperindex.com/

Reuters - news & markets, sectors & industries, analysis & opinion, with a focus on financial services, media and corporate markets.  continuously updated and searchable news, images, video. Includes international editions - links at very top of home page. Company search available using name or stock symbol. http://www.reuters.com/

Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events in the U.S. and around the world...it recognises people, companies, topics, places and keywords; understands how they relate to each other in the news flow, and puts them in context for the user. Links to blogs, audio/video, press releases http://www.silobreaker.com/

Yahoo News Search - Web | Images | Video | Local | News | Shopping http://news.search.yahoo.com/. See also Yahoo Advanced Web Search, http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?fr=srch_more, to focus search terms, date range, file format, country/language and result requirements.

Creative Commons Search - "this search helps you find content published by authors who want you to share or reuse it, under certain conditions." http://search.creativecommons.org

News Search Alerts

Google Alerts - updates from Web, news, blogs, real time, videos, discussions - frequency: as-it-happens, daily or weekly), via keyword searches created by the user - http://www.google.com/alerts

FindLaw email alerts - mobile friendly version available - daily opinion summaries, weekly case summaries, legal news topics, selected blog newsletters - http://newsletters.findlaw.com/

Law.com Legal News and Newswire - access to fee and free articles, news, updates - http://www.law.com/jsp/law/newswire.jsp#

MarketWatch.com from DowJones - Stock Market, Business and Financial News and Commentary, and Investor Research - http://www.marketwatch.com/?siteid=&avatar=seen&dist=ctmw

Yahoo! Alerts - news updates from the Web and blogs, via keyword searches created by the user - http://alerts.yahoo.com/

Selected Business Info Websites, Databases and Blogs - Fee and Free

Fee Based Sites - some with free component(s)

Dialog (owned by ProQuest) - the database catalog contains descriptions for more than 1,200 databases available on the Dialog and DataStar services - http://www.dialog.com/

Dun & Bradstreet, D&B - global commercial database contains more than 125 million business records - http://www.dnb.com/

Factiva from Dow Jones - provides access to a collection of more than 14,000 business sources that include: The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and D&B company profiles - Search the Factiva content set [http://www.factiva.com/sources/search.asp?node=menuElem1523] for local and global newspapers, newswires, trade journals, newsletters, magazines and transcripts". Fields - Publication Title, Product, Language, Geographical Region, Industry Sector.

Financial Times - world business, finance and political news (fee and free) - http://www.ft.com/home/us

Investext - "index to company, industry, and geographic research reports written by analysts at more than 600 leading investment banks, brokerage houses and consulting firms worldwide," - PDF Bluesheet from Dialog (4) http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0745.html

KnowX.com - search for businesses, people and assets - free to search, fee to view records. https://www.knowx.com/

LexisNexisAccurint, subscription req'd - provides access to millions of data records on individuals and businesses - http://www.accurint.com

LexisNexis atVantage, subscription req'd - "...helps you analyze and track your firm's growth opportunities with clients and prospects, research industry and market trends, and evaluate competing firms." http://law.lexisnexis.com/atvantage

Standard & Poor's, subscription req'd - "With over $4.5 trillion benchmarked to Standard & Poor's family of indices, including the S&P 500, the S&P Global 1200, the S&P Europe 350, and S&P/Citigroup Global Equity Indices, Standard & Poor's is the world's largest index provider." http://www.standardandpoors.com/home/en/us

Morningstar Document Research - this service uses proprietary technology to create comprehensive access to EDGAR filings, and the searchable database contains all electronically filed SEC documents including: 700+ forms indexed, 5+ million filings, archives from before 1994 (Pre-Edgar), and real-time SEC updates. Users may search and retrieve filings in PDF, HTML, RTF and EXCEL.  http://documentresearch.morningstar.com/

ViewsWire - Business Intelligence on 203 Countries from the Economist Intelligence Unit, http://viewswire.eiu.com/index.asp?rf=0 

Free Sites - some with registration and/or fee components

AFL-CIO Executive PayWatch - Search by Company Name, Ticker Symbol, Industry, Total Compensation - http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/

Business Wire - free access for current 30 days - "Business Wire is the leading source for press releases, photos, multimedia and regulatory filings from companies and groups throughout the world." http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/

CNN Money Company Research Lookup - background information, vital statistics and earnings estimate information. http://money.cnn.com/news/companies/

CORI Contracts Database - "The CORI K-Base library contains over 690,000 contracts. Most of the contracts in the collection are executed agreements made available in public disclosure filings or in filings with a regulatory agency. Currently, the collection is primarily drawn from filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) EDGAR Database. The required disclosure filings made by publicly traded companies frequently contain contracts that are of material interest to investors. CORI has downloaded, extracted, and categorized these contract filings to make them more directly available. In addition to the primary collection, special collections that were previously available only in hardcopy are now available in the v1.1 CORI Digital Library Collection. These collections includes HMO-Physician agreements, sports stadium leases, container shipping contracts, and more, and is full-text searchable. First-time users must complete a free registration." http://ronald.cori.missouri.edu/cori_search/

Dun & Bradstreet - subscription req'd - D&B’s global commercial database contains more than 125 million business records. http://www.dnb.com/.

EDGAR Full-Text Search - "This page allows you to search the full text of EDGAR filings from the last four years. The full text of a filing includes all data in the filing as well as all attachments to the filing." http://searchwww.sec.gov/EDGARFSClient/jsp/EDGAR_MainAccess.jsp 

EIU.com - from the Economist intelligence unit - subscription or pay as you go options available, "analysis and forecasts on more than 200 countries and eight key industries."  http://www.eiu.com/public/

Europages - has 1.500.000 European and international suppliers, manufacturers and distributors listed in its BtoB directory. http://www.europages.co.uk/

"The new European Patent Register - "The European Patent Register contains all the publicly available information on European patent applications as they pass through the grant procedure, including oppositions, patent attorney/EPO correspondence and more. This service also provides for public file inspection - click on the "all documents" tab - and legal status information for the national phase." https://register.epo.org/espacenet/regviewer

Fortune 500 Daily and Breaking Business News - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/. See also the Fortune 500 2011 annual ranking of America's largest corporations.

Forbes Lists (companies, sectors, markets, people, products --- biggest, best, richest, etc.) - http://www.forbes.com/lists/

Global Business Register - "GBRDirect provides a single access point to official information on companies around Europe. The information is sourced directly from the official national business registers of each European country and is delivered in real-time to your desktop." http://www.globalbusinessregister.co.uk

Google Finance - updated market summary, recent quotes, today's news, sector summary, today's movers - http://www.google.com/finance

MarketWatch.com from DowJones - stock market quotes, business news, financial news - http://www.marketwatch.com/?siteid=&avatar=seen&dist=ctmw

MSN Money Central - stock company reports - http://money.msn.com/stocks/

Moodys.com - subscription req'd, credit ratings, research and risk analysis - http://www.moodys.com/

MyWay.com Business News - http://news.myway.com/index/id/business%7Cap.html

Reuters Stock Information - headlines, company information, analyst research, industry watch. Some data requires registration - http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks

SEC Info - registration req'd - data from the SEC EDGAR database. Search by Name, Industry, Business, SIC Code, Area Code, Topic, CIK, Accession Number, File Number, Date, ZIP. http://www.secinfo.com/

Time: Company Profiles, Business Information - Business and Economy - http://www.time.com/time/business//

solusource: "Find industrial product AND company information from around the world in one place." Search fields: Global Products; Suppliers By Category; Company Name; Keyword.

ThomasNet Beta: "Source over 100 million products by specification...new semantic search technology can transform your search for parts, components, materials, and more." http://www.thomasnet.com/

West Thomson Monitor Suite">West's Monitor Suite is a set of services that drive your firm's strategic business decisions. Litigation, IP, and Deal Monitor provide unique analysis of the marketplace that will inform your business development process http://www.monitorsuite.com/signon/information.aspx - subscription req'd

2011 Best-Performing Cities - 200 Largest Metros<: "The 2011 Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities Index ranks U.S. metropolitan areas by how well they are creating and sustaining jobs and economic growth. The components include job, wage and salary, and technology growth. In most years, these give a good indication of the underlying structural performance of regional economics. The full report can be downloaded here."

United States Patent Office - Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Data Images, http://www.http://patft.uspto.gov/

Who Owns What in Media - Columbia Journalism Review - http://www.cjr.org/resources/

Yahoo Economic Calendar/Financial Calendars - http://biz.yahoo.com/c/e.html

Yahoo Financial News - Aggregates news by specific providers/fee and free, including: AP, Bankrate.com, bizjournals.com, BusinessWeek, Daily FX, Forbes, Fortune, FT.com, Investor's Business Daily, Kiplinger.com, MarketWatch, Morningstar.com, Motley Fool, Reuters, SmartMoney.com, TheStreet.com, The Wall Street Journal. These links are located on the navigation bar, left side of page. http://us.biz.yahoo.com/top.html

Selected Financial Blogs

The 25 Best Financial Blogs - Time.com, chosen by Stephen Gandel.

Blog Catalog - Finance Blogs - includes links and thumbnails to corporate and individual blogs from around the world. http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/finance

DealBook, from the New York Times - Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, IPO Offerings, Venture Capital, Legal/Regulatoryhttp://dealbook.nytimes.com/

Deal Journal - from the Wall Street Journal (free): "Deal Journal is an up-to-the-minute take on the deals and deal makers that shape the landscape of Wall Street, including mergers and acquisitions, capital-raising, private equity and bankruptcy. In short, wherever money changes hands. Deal Journal is updated throughout each trading day with exclusive commentary, analysis, data, news flashes and profiles." http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/?mod=djm_shdealblog

Financial Times Tech Hub tech analysis and reviews (free) - http://blogs.ft.com/fttechhub/#axzz1iFxlNZJn/

footnoted* - "Each day, the site takes a closer look at the things that companies try to bury in their routine SEC filings." http://footnoted.com/

Real Time Economics - Economic insight and analysis from The Wall Street Journal (free). http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/

Seeking Alpha - "We handpick articles from the world's top market blogs, money managers, financial experts and investment newsletters - publishing approximately 250 articles daily. Seeking Alpha gives a voice to over 4,000 contributors, providing access to the nation's most savvy and inquisitive investors. Our site is the only free, online source for over 1,500 public companies' quarterly earnings call transcripts, including the S&P 500." http://seekingalpha.com/

Wall Street Journal Market Beat (free) - WSJ.com’s inside look at the markets. http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/ 

Selected Online People Tracking Sources

Accurint (owned by LexisNexis), provides access to millions of data records on individuals and businesses - http://www.accurint.com

Ancestry.com - "genealogy, family trees and family history records online," fee req'd - http://www.ancestry.com/

Dun & Bradstreet - a leading source of business information, subscription req'd - http://www.dnb.com

Avvo.com - Find licensed doctors and lawyers who have been rated by this service -  http://www.avvo.com/

FamilySearch.org - "FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. For over 100 years, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide. Patrons may freely access our resources and service online at FamilySearch.org, or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah." Users may search and view some data free, but fees do apply for many records. http://www.familysearch.org

FindLaw Search for a Lawyer or for a Law Firm - http://lawyers.findlaw.com/lawyer/lawyer_dir/search/jsp/name_search.jsp

Search Corporate Executives and Directors - search for over 120,000 executives and celebrities covered by Forbes in their various Lists, free. http://people.forbes.com/

Google - Search web, images, news, video, maps, etc. http://www.google.com

Gumshoe Librarian 2006 - by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici - Resources, services, databases and finding aids and tools from around the world.  http://www.llrx.com/features/gumshoe06.htm

Infobel World - Telephone Directories - information for more than 216 countries, http://www.infobel.com/en/world/index.aspx

Justia Lawyer Directory - Find Attorneys, Law Firms, Legal Aid and Legal Services -
http://lawyers.justia.com/

Martindale.com, search for credentials on over 1 million participating lawyers and law firms, http://www.martindale.com

Pipl People Search - "The most comprehensive people search on the web. We dive into the deep web to bring you results you won't find in any other search engine then we use a powerful identity resolution engine to link those seemingly disparate results into a set of meaningful profiles so you can easily find the person you are looking for." http://pipl.com/

Search Systems - over 55,000 free searchable public records databases, including international (fee and free access) - http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/

Thomson Legal Record "is a unique research tool, combining an attorney's litigation history on Westlaw with the attorney's profile on FindLaw [U.S. and Canada]. It provides a simple, efficient, fully documented resource for legal and corporate professionals seeking experienced litigators and a verifiable basis for decision-making." http://legalrecords.findlaw.com/ss/search_index.jsp

Yahoo! People Search - free phone number, reverse phone number and email search. http://people.yahoo.com/

Zaba Search - "Telephone Numbers and Addresses Revealed Free. No Registration Required. Three Times More Residential Listings than White Pages Phone Directory." There is a fee component for background search data. http://www.zabasearch.com/

Television and Radio News Transcripts – including streaming audio/video

blinkx - "Now, with an index of over 35 million hours of searchable video and more than 450 media partnerships, including national broadcasters, commercial media giants, and private video libraries..." http://www.blinkx.com/

Bloomberg.com TV - 24-hour business and financial news. Free and Fee. http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/

CBSNews.com - breaking news headlines, links to investigative shows and news programs, as well as video and text. http://www.cbsnews.com/

Critical Mention - "CriticalTV is a comprehensive web-based television search and monitoring service that allows users to search, track and view critical information from television news. The platform provides real-time monitoring and email alerts for organizations that require up-to-the-minute news about their company, customers and competitors. CriticalTV allows users to easily find a video clip online immediately after its broadcast, instantly share the clip within a workgroup via secure video-email or a private video gallery, and order a professional transcript or hard copy online." Subscription only. http://www.criticalmention.com/web/index.php

Exaled Video search - "...access millions of video clips indexed from popular online video portals, including YouTube, Reuters, New York Times, Metacafe, Archive.org" http://www.exalead.com/search/video

Google Video - "The Google Video index is the most comprehensive on the Web, containing millions of videos indexed and available for viewing. Using Google Video, you can search for and watch an ever-growing collection of TV shows, movie clips, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more from all over the Web." http://video.google.com/ - [see also YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/, owned by Google]

Yahoo! Video Search - "Yahoo! Video allows you to search millions of videos from across the Web." http://video.search.yahoo.com/

ShadowTV - "TV, Internet, Social Media, Print or Radio. Wherever the news appears, you will find it quickly and easily on ShadowTV, your complete source for media monitoring." Fee - http://www.shadowtv.com/

TVEyes - "TVEyes makes TV and radio broadcasts searchable by keyword, phrase or topic - just as you would use a search engine for text. TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite is a subscription-based product used by PR professionals, Fortune 500 companies, Political Campaigns, Government Agencies, and anyone who needs to know what is being broadcast on TV and radio in real-time." http://www.tveyes.com

"The Tyndall Report "monitors the weekday nightly newscasts of the three American broadcast television networks: ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (formerly Charles Gibson), CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley (formerly Katie Couric) and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams." Tyndall Blog monitors and comments on each night's newscasts and links to the stories that the networks aired." http://tyndallreport.com/

Federal News Service - "Fast, accurate verbatim transcripts of every major political figure in Washington within hours of the event, delivered in real time via FastWire and posted to Washington Transcripts subscription website. Our transcriptionists are experienced, DC-based news junkies fluent in "Washington-speak" and the nuances of international politics. Archives cover 26 years worth of transcripts. Include a daily schedule of everything of note in Washington with our own Washington Daybook. Your Washington Transcripts subscription includes Congressional hearings, Middle East Transcripts, archives back to 1985 and our unique FastWire service." Fee. http://www.fednews.com

NPR: Transcripts - free transcripts available on NPR.org http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2009/08/free_transcripts_now_available.html. Fee based transcripts may be searched and purchased here.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive - "The mission of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive focuses on creating, preserving and providing access to the news broadcasts from the U.S. national television networks. We create recordings of news broadcasts from the U.S. national television networks, preserve the content for future generations, and provide the widest access possible within the copyright limitations. We have been recording these broadcasts since August 5, 1968. The core of our collection consists of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News. We also record other news content as it happens beyond these newscasts, including material from other networks." http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

YouTube - " "Founded in February 2005, YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small." [owned by Google] http://www.youtube.com/

Legislative Monitoring and Tracking

CapitolHearings.org - http://www.capitolhearings.org/ via C-SPAN.

CQ Roll Call - Congressional news, insights, analysis, legislative tracking, members and votes, advocacy tools. Legislative tracking and monitoring service offers users the ability to create customized delivery of services, including time sensitive alerts and updates, via website, email updates, and RSS. Bill tracking and monitoring, daily links to HotDocs, full-text CRS reports. Fee-based OpenCongress Wiki - "is an editable guide to Congress for the people, by the people." http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Wiki_Home

C-SPAN - C-SPAN is a private, non-profit public service of the cable television industry that covers the political process. C-SPAN receives no funding from any government. C-SPAN’s operating revenues come from license fees paid by cable systems and satellite companies that offer the network to their customers...C-SPAN provides access to the live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated and decided--all without editing, commentary or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view." C-SPAN provides video, TV, radio and text based content. Video files are searchable. http://www.c-span.org/

FedNet Oversight, is a credentialed news organization and the leading provider of Multimedia broadcast of the United States Congress. FedNet maintains a robust video network throughout the Capitol complex for use in broadcast and web-based production. FedNet began broadcasting Congress on the web in 1996 and since that time has broadcast over 5,000 live hearings, thousands of live press conferences and complete, gavel-to-gavel, live coverage of the Senate and House Floor Debates each day." Subscription only. http://www.fednetoversight.net//

Congress.org (free) http://www.congress.org

GovTrack.us - "GovTrack.us helps you keep tabs on the U.S. Congress. This site is not affiliated with the U.S. government; it is non-commercial, non-partisan, and an open source project....it is an independent tool to help the public research and track the activities in the U.S. Congress, promoting government transparency and civic education through novel uses of technology. You'll find here the status of U.S. federal legislation, voting records in the Senate and House of Representatives, and information on Members of Congress, as well as congressional committees and the Congressional Record. The site is a research tool, but also a tracking service (providing user specified email updates and RSS feeds)." http://www.govtrack.us/

Roll Call Newspaper Online - free headlines, and a free Election Map - http://www.rollcall.com/

The Hill.com - free Capitol Hill paper that includes blogs (http://thehill.com/blogs/), podcasts and video clips. http://thehill.com/

THOMAS - From the Library of Congress, legislative information, status of legislation, links to committee reports. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php

Washingtonwatch.com tracks the bills in Congress, along with estimates about their costs or savings, when available. http://www.washingtonwatch.com

E-Newsletters, Online Newspapers, Journals and News Sources

Biz Journals - Free Search Watch alerts for registered users. "Bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. It operates the Web sites for each of the company's 41 print business journals and operates a web-only site with local business news and information for Los Angeles." http://www.bizjournals.com

Bloomberg - (fee and free) market data, news and commentary (national and international); Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg TV. http://www.bloomberg.com

CNNMoney.com - [note: Fortune, Money, Business 2.0 and Fortune Small Business are owned by the Time Inc. Business & Finance Network and may be linked to from http://money.cnn.com/. This family of magazines is available free online.]

Financial Times - free and fee; email updates and RSS feeds available to subscribers. Daily blog updates, video and podcasts. Comprehensive coverage of global markets. http://www.ft.com/home/us

Forbes - video network, features, blogs, columns, special reports - Europe, US and Asia. http://www.forbes.com/

Fortune - features, video, RSS, newsletters. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/

Google Finance - Market Summary, Today's Headlines, Company Facts and Financials, Related company data, a Company Summary, Management info, blog posts and links to topical discussions. http://www.google.com/finance

Investors Business Daily - some free, mostly fee. http://www.investors.com/

TheDeal.com, subscription req'd, blogs are free. "reports, analyzes and disseminates business and financial news that offers fresh insights on the deal economy." http://www.thedeal.com/blogs/

Time.com: Inside Business - http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz

Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/home/us: registered subscribers may opt-in for email updates, RSS, customized homepage, company and industry news trackers. Many articles are now available free to readers without a subscription. All WSJ blogs are free. http://online.wsj.com/public/page/8_0019.html

Wall Street Journal Market Data Center - Free market data, indexes, stock quotes, and more. http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata.html?mod=topnav_0_0012

Yahoo! Finance - market summaries, currencies, videos, quotes, rates, news features, opinions. http://finance.yahoo.com/

Yahoo! Financial News - top financial news. http://biz.yahoo.com/ne.html. See also Yahoo Tech Ticker, "a daily video-centric blog focused on the incredible world of technology investing." http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker

Monitoring Trends, Companies and Products – Selected News Aggregators, RSS Feeds, Blog Search Engines

News Aggregators

Google Reader - stay abreast of the latest news, blog postings, share and update friends and colleagues - read anywhere, via PC or mobile devices. http://www.google.com/reader/view/

BBC - excellent resource/how-to guide - podcasts, emails alerts, mobiles, news feeds. http://tinyurl.com/3u6fpoa

Firefox Live Bookmarks - "automatically keeps track of updates for you so you always know when new content has been added to your favorite sites.". http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html

Financial Times - RSS and Twitter feeds - http://www.ft.com/intl/servicestools/newstracking/rss

Forbes.com RSS Feeds - http://www.forbes.com/fdc/rss.shtml

RSS for Law.com Websites - http://www.law.com/jsp/law/rss.jsp

MarketWatch - http://www.marketwatch.com/rss/default.asp

New York Times - "Times Topics feeds collect news, reference, photos, graphics, audio and video on thousands of subjects, covering material published since 1981." - http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html

PR Newswire - http://www.prnewswire.com/rss/

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Reuters News RSS Feeds - http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss

Wall Street Journal News Feeds and Podcasts - http://online.wsj.com/public/page/0_0813.html?mod=topnav_0_0012

Washington Post RSS Feeds - http://www.washingtonpost.com/rss

Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines - http://news.yahoo.com/rss

Yahoo! Finance provides company news and commentary feeds in RSS http://finance.yahoo.com/rssindex

Identification of Company Legal Representation

Law.com Surveys and Rankings (Am Law 100, Am Law 200, Global 100, etc.) AmLaw Lists and Rankings (Am Law 100, Am Law 200, Global 100, etc.) - http://www.law.com/career_center/lists_rankings.shtml

CourtLink, "calendar proceedings (docket) of a lawsuit, and the documents that are filed during the course of that suit" - http://www.lexisnexis.com/courtlink/online/

Case law searches, state and federal, via Lexis or Westlaw

Directory of Corporate Affiliations - http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/

Disclosure Online Database-US Public Company Profiles (Lexis), "contains business and financial information extracted from annual and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for over 10,000 publicly-owned companies" - http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?3723

Verdict Search - Search Over 170,000 Verdictshttp://www.verdictsearch.com/index.jsp

Note: Law firm websites - firm and practice specific entries, press releases, news, blogs and client alerts - be sure to track and monitor information from this range of publications.

LawCrawler - Legal web and database search engine. http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/

Martindale.com - "Use this Lawyer Locator to find the credentials of more than one million lawyers and firms." http://www.martindale.com/

Mergerstat M&A - "The Mergerstat database also includes more than 50,000 International transactions. Mergerstat covers U.S. transactions and crossborder transactions involving a U.S. parent company where the equity value is greater than $1 million and represents at least a 10 percent interest." http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?156282

Nelson's Public Company Profiles - "Public Company Profiles comprise brief descriptions of 22,000 publicly traded corporations worldwide and include contact information, key executives and business descriptions." http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?165421 (Lexis)

Pacer - "The PACER Service Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records." Requires username and password - fees apply - http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/

Patent records, USPTO - http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

SDC Mergers & Acquisitions - http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?173725

Secretary of State and Other Business Filings Databases, published by LLRX.com - "All 50 states make some level of corporate and business filings available online. In a few instances only limited information (such as name availability) is retrievable. The majority of the states, however, use their Web presence to disseminate a range of public business records -- and most of them offer access at no charge." http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup29.htm

SECInfo.com - "Search by Name, Industry, Business, SIC Code, Area Code, Topic, CIK, Accession Number, File Number, Date, ZIP." http://www.secinfo.com/

Standard & Poor's Corporate Register, "The SPCORP file, derived from the Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, is the most comprehensive directory available of America's top corporations and their key personnel."  http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?3669

Trademark Electronic Search System, USPTO - http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm

VentureSource for private companies, fee - http://www.venturesource.com/login/index.cfm?CFID=244623&CFTOKEN=29277224

America's Corporate Finance Directory - http://www.lexisnexis.com/corpfinancedir and http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?156585: also useful for identification of other outside service providers, including auditor, banker, pension manager, insurance carriers, investment banker, etc.

Westlaw CourtExpress - dockets and document retrieval services for state and federal jurisdictions, http://courtexpress.westlaw.com/

Selected Online Tools for Competitor Monitoring
Website Trackers

Copernic Agent - free and subscription versions - intelligent web search and management application - http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html

"Domain Tools has been tracking the whois history of millions of domains since 2000. Domain History gives you access to our massive database of historical whois records. Supported TLDs are .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, and .info. DomainTools offers an historical lookup of registrations back to 2001," http://domain-history.domaintools.com/

InfoMinder - subscription service to track and monitor changes to websites, blogs, RSS feeds and wikis - http://www.infominder.com/webminder/index.jsp

WebSite Watcher - monitor websites for updates and changes - http://aignes.com

Web2Mail Lite - read, receive and browse the web by email - http://www.web2mail.com/lite/welcome.php

ChangeDetection - notifies users every time there is a change in designated websites - http://www.changedetection.com

Tracerlock - web monitoring/clipping service - http://www.tracerlock.com/

Westlaw Watch and LexisNexis Trackers

Westlaw Watch - "delivers selected Westlaw content to individuals via email or your organization's intranet or portal", subscription req'd - http://west.thomson.com/westlawwatch/

LexisNexis Trackers - subscription req'd, "full-text articles on current news, business, and legal information from more than 7,100 respected publications" - http://www.lexisnexis.com/currentawareness/trackers/

Whoís Mailing What - sells competitive intelligence data on what kind of direct mail programs other major firms are conducting - category 586 is legal services. http://www.whosmailingwhat.com/?FUSEACTION=&FA=&HOWMUCHTIME=

MarkMonitor - domain name filings provide insight into new law firm directions, service offerings - http://www.markmonitor.com

Benchmarking

American Bar Association (ABA) Statistics on the Legal Profession - http://www.americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/market_research/resources.html

American Lawyer - subscription (law firm and lawyer surveys, reports, articles, market data) - http://www.law.com/jsp/tal/index.jsp. Sign up for free email updates: http://tinyurl.com/3ozvoxd

Law.com Surveys and Rankings: begin on this page to view the following free data if you are currently not a paid subscriber:  THE CHARTS - Gross Revenue; Revenue Per Lawyer (Top 20); Value Per Lawyer (Top 20); Profits Per Partner; Women in Law Firms. Other charts and data are for subscribers only.

Chambers and Partners - "searchable database of the top lawyers in 175 countries, providing independent rankings and editorial commentary" - http://www.chambersandpartners.com/

"CorporateAffiliations.com (LexisNexis) provides current, accurate corporate linkage information and company profiles on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent global public and private parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions—down to the seventh level of corporate linkage." http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/

LexisNexis ExecRelate - "find NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX board member biographical details and see how they’re connected, view company hierarchies to find connections among current customers and their parent companies, and track merger and acquisition information to keep informed about marketplace changes. http://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/execrelate.page  

FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) - "The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research is a project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to expand on its mission to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents." http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/

Fortune 500 annual ranking of America's largest corporations - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011

"The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2011 (WCY) "is the world’s most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation’s environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises...it measures 57 countries on the basis of 329 criteria." http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm

http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/

NALP Directory of Legal Employers - "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." http://www.nalpdirectory.com/

PROFIT 200 Rankings - "Canada’s economy managed to avoid the worst of the global economic crisis, but for companies seeking rapid growth the current situation can hardly be considered ideal. However, the firms on the PROFIT 200 haven't noticed. Many of them are growing at astounding rates, soft economy or not." http://www.profitguide.com/awards/profit200_2011

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Industrial Reports - "The CIR program has been providing monthly, quarterly, and annual measures of industrial activity for many years. The primary objective of the CIR program is to produce timely, accurate data on production and shipments of selected products. The data are used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making in the private sector." Includes Mining, Manufacturing and Construction Statistics. http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/cir/index.html

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis - "The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner." http://www.bea.gov/

U.S. Commercial Service - Market Research Library - "The U.S. Commercial Service is the trade promotion unit of the International Trade Administration. U.S. Commercial Service trade specialists in 107 U.S. cities and in more than 80 countries work with your company to help you get started in exporting or increase your sales to new global markets." http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearch.cfm?search_type=int&loadnav=no

Country Profiles

BBC News Country Profiles - "Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio or video clips from BBC archives." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm

CIA World Factbook - "The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map."  https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

Economist.com - Country Briefings - "News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics" on more than 80 countries. http://www.economist.com/countries/

guardian.co.uk - World Fact Files: country profiles - click on the interactive map's pins to read country profiles featured in the Guardian's World Factfiles. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/series/country-profiles

Index Mundi, Country Facts - "This site contains detailed country information, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources." http://www.indexmundi.com/

Library of Congress Country Profiles - "This series of profiles of foreign nations is part of the Country Studies Program...The profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country's historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security." http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles.html

World Bank's Open Data - "The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, include databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Each of the listings includes a description of the data set and a direct link to that set. Where possible, the databases are linked directly to a selection screen to allow users to select the countries, indicators, and years they would like to search. Those search results can be exported in different formats. Users can also choose to download the entire database directly from the catalog. Link

World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) - "analyses and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. Considered the worldwide reference point to world competitiveness, it has been published without interruption since 1989 and ranks 55 national economies using 323 criteria." http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm
 

CI Pathfinders and Link Collections

BRINT - "Business Technology Management and Knowledge Management" - http://www.brint.com/

Competitive Intelligence Center Library - http://www.competitivereviews.com/library.html

Web Directories and Portals

 A to Z Index of the Business Reference Services Web Site (Library of Congress) - http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/azindex.html

CEO Express - fee and free, with links to dozens of reliable, business related resources - http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp

Resource Library CBS Interactive Business Network - free archived articles on hundreds of topics - http://findarticles.com

HighBeam (fee and free) "is a magazine and newspaper archive, online library and research tool for individuals, students and small businesses. We collect millions of research articles from published sources you know and trust – and put them all in one place." - http://www.highbeam.com/

HighWire - free and free, "1642 journals, books, reference works, & other scholarly publications" http://highwire.stanford.edu/

LexisNexis - fee/subscription - http://www.lexis.com or http://www.nexis.com

MagPortal - search engine and directory for locating online magazine articles from over 200 periodicals - http://www.magportal.com/c/bus/

Portal to International Business Resources - "A rich collection of thousands of resources selected based on content and usability. This section also includes our proprietary Market Potential Indicators and the Database of International Business Statistics."  http://globaledge.msu.edu/resourcedesk/

Westlaw - fee/subscription - www.westlaw.com

Wall Street Executive Library - Directory of over 1,450 sources that includes: national/international news; company and industry, government, marketing and advertising, statistics and economic research - http://www.executivelibrary.com/

Editor's Note: This guide was first published on November 20, 2005

Completely revised and updated as follows by Sabrina I. Pacifici on: March 15, 2006, October 13, 2006, January 15, 2007, June 19, 2007, September 28, 2007, March 15, 2008, June 1, 2008, March 28, 2009, October 11, 2009 and June 2, 2010, January 2011, March 2011, July 2011 and December 2011.