Competitive Intelligence: A Selective Resource Guide - Completely Updated - December 2011

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Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - CompletelyUpdate - December 2011By Sabrina I. Pacifici (http://www.llrx.com/authors/274), Published on July 4, 2011

Selected Search Engines forWeb, Blogs, Video, News and

Alerts(features/ciguide.htm#searchengines)

Selected Business InfoWebsites, Databases

(features/ciguide.htm#businessinfo) ,Blogs

(features/ciguide.htm#financialblogs)

- Fee (features/ciguide.htm#fee)

and Free(features/ciguide.htm#free)

Selected Online People TrackingSources

(features/ciguide.htm#peopletrackers)

Television and RadioNews Transcripts

(features/ciguide.htm#tv)

E-Newsletters, OnlineNewspapers, Journals and

News Sources(features/ciguide.htm#enewsletters)

Monitoring Trends, Companiesand Products

(features/ciguide.htm#trends)

Selected RSS Feeds FromBusiness Related

(features/ciguide.htm.#selectedrss)

News(features/ciguide.htm#selectedrss)

Identification of CompanyLegal Representation(features/ciguide.htm#id)

Westlaw Watch and LexisTrackers

(features/ciguide.htm#clips)

Benchmarking and CountryProfiles

(features/ciguide.htm#benchmarking)

CI Pathfinders and LinkCollections

(features/ciguide.htm#pathfinders)

Web Directories and

(features/ciguide.htm#portals)

[Note: The accuracy and reliability of data and information posted online is subject to verification. It is highlyrecommended that you use multiple sources, cross-check data and routinely perform due diligence reviewson 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 updatedregularly in an effort to present resources that have been verified at the time of publication.]

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

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

bing (http://www.bing.com/) from Microsoft - Search the web, news, images, videos, maps, travel info, history,weather, and more e-commerce related content. The Bing Help (http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-

us/bing/ff808535.aspx) directory provides user friendly explanations for features and tools, including the rangeof email alerts, updates and search options available. Also, users may obtain guides to and explore othersearch engine features here (http://www.bing.com/explore?FORM=BXFD) .

blekko (http://blekko.com/) - With blekko, search is accomplished using a tool to filter results, called slashtags(http://blekko.com/tag/show#directory) . "The new blekko has significant improvements to index quality andrelevance. We are also now automatically applying slashtags for over 500 categories. That means userswill get the benefit of curated search results (i.e., no spam) for over 500 search categories, regardless ofwhether or not they manually append a slashtag to their query." See also 14 Facts & more about blekko –Infographic (http://blog.blekko.com/2011/07/25/14-facts-more-about-blekko-%E2%80%93-infographic/)



Creative Commons Government (http://creativecommons.org/government) links: Australia, Netherlands, UnitedStates, New Zealand, Presidential Sites. "Government entities make information they create available to thepublic in various ways: online subject to terms of use, by removing copyright and related rights, throughgovernment 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. Byusing CC licenses and tools to communicate broad reuse rights to the content, data, and educationalmaterials they create, governments are stimulating economic growth, promoting citizen engagement, andincreasing the transparency of government resources and services."

Exalead (http://www.exalead.com/search/) - Search for results from specific locations and sources (web sites,video, images, Wikipedia). Use the advanced search (http://www.exalead.com/search/) feature located to theright 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 alsoprovides enterprise applications solutions. http://www.exalead.com/search (http://www.exalead.com/search)

Gigablast (http://www.gigablast.com/) - Users may search the web or a selected topical directory. Try theAdvanced Search feature (http://www.gigablast.com/adv.html) to specify words, phrases, specific URLs andpages. After delivering results, users may "Search in Category", view related topics, view cached versionsof search results. The site states that "90% of its power usage comes from wind energy." This service alsoprovides enterprise applications solutions. http://gigablast.com (http://gigablast.com/)

Google (http://www.google.com/) - In a once crowded field, there are now three major search enginepowerhouses - bing (http://www.bing.com/) , Yahoo (http://search.yahoo.com/) , and Google (http://www.google.com/) .Google maintained the spot as Top Search Engine of 2011, with various polls tracking it with 65% of coresearch queries conducted. In 2011 the user interface and many features underwent a significant overhaul -including new applications (Google+ (http://plus.google.com/) ) and deleting old favorites (the Newspaperarchives scanning project). The left hand side of the homepage (using Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/en-

US/firefox/fx/) 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 isanother titled Any time that includes options for time date ranges as well as Google Blog search

(http://www.google.com/blogsearch) . Google's Chrome browser (http://www.google.com/chrome) offers a horizontallyunfolding, 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(http://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/index.html) to view all the search options on one page, arranged byWeb, Mobile, Media, Geo, Home & Office, Specialized Search and Innovation. Note: users may choose tosign into one of their respective Google accounts to conduct a search, or not. Google is available initerations for phone, tablet or computer. Searches may be conducted by typing or by voice command usinga microphone. See also the Google Advanced Search (http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search) feature.

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) - "From one place, you can search across many disciplines andsources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professionalsocieties, online repositories, universities and other web sites. See also Google Scholar Advanced Search(http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en&as_sdt=0,21) to narrow and focus your scholarlycontent research results.

Google Newspaper Archive Search (http://news.google.com/newspapers) provides access to a limited archive ofnewspapers from the United States and around the world. Additional newspaper archives(http://www.peoplesearchpro.com/journalism/archives/) are available via Journalism.net(http://www.peoplesearchpro.com/journalism/)

Google Video (http://www.google.com/videohp) . See also YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) , owned by Google.

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



Law.com Quest (http://quest.law.com/Search/) - a legal search engine from ALM, owner of leading legal localand national legal publications (http://www.alm.com/publications/) . "Quest brings legal professionals relevantresults from across the Law.com network of sites and the legal web, including hundreds of hand-picked lawfirm websites and legal blogs." http://quest.law.com/Search/ (http://quest.law.com/Search/)

MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/) from Infospace. The site now separates sponsored results fromorganic web results, all displayed on the same page. The site returns results from multiple search enginesfor each query (Google, Yahoo and Bing), providing users with a broader view of possible relevant resultsthan the alternative of using only one search engine. Users may focus queries by choosing from thefollowing features: Web, Images, Video, News, Yellow Pages, White Pages. http://www.metacrawler.com/(http://www.metacrawler.com/) . Also from InfoSpace, another reliable metasearch engine is Dogpile WebSearch (http://www.dogpile.com/) , which indexes the same engines as does Metacrawler. Dogpile returnsselected 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 (http://www.reuters.com/finance) - Search quotes, news, video,pictures http://www.reuters.com/finance (http://www.reuters.com/finance) .

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

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

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

USA.gov (http://www.usa.gov/) is the official U.S. portal to federal, state, local, tribal, and internationalgovernment information and services." Use Search.USA.gov (http://firstgovsearch.gov/) , "a comprehensive,searchable index of about 50 million pages from federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal websites."

Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com/) - 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 helpfulAdvanced Web Search (http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced?ei=UTF-8&p=") feature.

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

"Twitter (http://twitter.com/) [requires username and password] is a real-time information network that connectsyou to the latest information about what you find interesting (https://twitter.com/#!/who_to_follow/interests) . Simplyfind the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations..." There is a Twitter Searchengine (http://twitter.com/#!/search-home) as well as an Advanced Search (http://twitter.com/#!/search-advanced")

page. See also the Twitter guide book (http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/) by Mashable.

YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/) - "YouTube allows billions of people to discover, watch and shareoriginally-created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire othersacross 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 areavailable directly via EDU YouTube (http://youtube.com/edu) , 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, andexplained by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific & Technical Information: "To get to the deepweb, you need discovery tools, such as Science Accelerator(http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/resourcedescriptions) (DOE science information), Science.gov(http://www.science.gov/) , (U.S. science information), and WorldWideScience.org (http://worldwidescience.org/)

(global science information). With these tools you can find the richest scientific content – the results ofbillions of dollars worth of government-sponsored scientific research results. In one query, you can searchmultiple databases at one time, sort through the information in ways that are useful to you, and rapidlyreturn relevant results to your desktop.

See also Deep Web Research 2011 (http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2011.htm) , by Marcus P. Zillman - anextensive and diverse bibliography of applications, sources, services, and tools to facilitate mining the deepweb.

EconPapers (http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search/search.asp?pg=-1) "use the RePEc (http://repec.org/)

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

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

EigenFactor (http://www.eigenfactor.org/) [alpha] - Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge: "TheEigenfactor Project is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in theDepartment of Biology at the University of Washington. We aim to use recent advances in network analysisand 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 thehierarchical structure of scholarly citation, we can identify key papers pertaining to any search query. For areader new to the field we can find the classic and foundational papers; for an expert we can find the latestinnovations."

Google Scholar Advanced Search (http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en&as_sdt=0,21) ,"search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, fromacademic 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(https://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/) which enables users to search for the total number of citations ofauthor(s). It provides a total citation count, total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's H-Index(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_number) ."

MetaLib (http://metalib.gpo.gov/V?RN=990715120) , a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications(http://catalog.gpo.gov/F) is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal governmentdatabases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resourcesavailable online. To learn more, view additional brief



(http://metalib.gpo.gov/V/RVDP8LD4439E9TJ3UP1Q7DLMF378KDL2Q1I12VJ59QHVC3QKNY-05130?

func=help&file_name=brief) or detailed(http://metalib.gpo.gov/V/RVDP8LD4439E9TJ3UP1Q7DLMF378KDL2Q1I12VJ59QHVC3QKNY-05131?

func=help&file_name=index&section=top;) search information. http://metalib.gpo.gov/V?RN=990715120(http://metalib.gpo.gov/V?RN=990715120)

Scirus (http://www.scirus.com/) "is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content butalso scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository andwebsite information." See Scirus Advanced Search (http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp?q1=) .

"Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of over 175,000 authors and morethan 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 socialsciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing anddistributing submitted abstracts and full text papers from scholars around the world. SSRN encouragesreaders to communicate directly with other subscribers and authors concerning their own and other'sresearch. Through our email abstracting eJournals we currently reach over 400,000 people inapproximately 140 different countries. SSRN's email abstracting eJournals cover over 1,000 differentsubject areas. The Abstract Database contains information on well over 374,000 scholarly working papersand forthcoming papers. The eLibrary currently contains over 306,000 downloadable electronic documentsin Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Our users are downloading over 8.5 million full text papers annually. Tobrowse SSRN's eLibrary subject area networks, click here (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayJournalBrowse.cfm)

."

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

WorldWideScience.org (http://worldwidescience.org/) "is a global science gateway—accelerating scientificdiscovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national andinternational scientific databases and portals. Researchers can search text, audio, video and images inmultiple languages."

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

Blog Search

The dramatic ascendance of social media is in no small measure responsible for a corresponding fall in thedemand for blog specific search engines. This phenomenon correlates to the collapse of competition in theweb search sector, as documented by the current dominance of just three services: Google, Bing andYahoo. Blogs continue to flourish however, and researchers should regularly search for [or subscribe tospecific feeds and updates] and read their respective content. Follow the postings of authors whoseprofessional, current, well documented topical content comprises an integral component of an effective CIstrategy.

BlogPulse (http://www.blogpulse.com/) - 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/ (http://www.blogpulse.com/) . Note:"This site will no longer be available after Friday January 13th, 2012."

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

"BlogScope (http://www.blogscope.net/) is an analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere which is beingdeveloped as part of a research project at the University of Toronto (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/) . It is currently



tracking over 58.97 million blogs with 1307.00 million posts. BlogScope can assist the user in discoveringinteresting information from these millions of blogs via a set of numerous unique features includingpopularity curves, identification of information bursts, related terms, and geographical search."http://www.blogscope.net/ (http://www.blogscope.net/)

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

Justia Blawg Search (http://blawgsearch.justia.com/) - searchable directory of legal blog postings, continuallyupdated. Sort results by date or relevance. Browse blogs by category, country, lawschool. http://blawgsearch.justia.com/ (http://blawgsearch.justia.com/)

State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, November 2010 (http://kevin.lexblog.com/2010/11/articles/large-law/state-of-

the-amlaw-200-blogosphere-november-2010/) - "123, or 62%, of the 2010 AmLaw 200 law firms are nowblogging. This number is up from 39 firms, representing a 115% increase, since August 2007".

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

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

News Search

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

Google News (http://news.google.com/) - Search, browse and share news, updated continuously. Includespress releases from Business Wire, Canada NewsWire, PR Newswire, U.S. Newswire. Users maycustomize/personalize the news page view according to: country/locale; topics; frequency for delivery ofupdates, opt-in for email and or RSS alerts delivered to desktop or mobile devices. News archive search(http://news.google.com/) - the navigation ribbon is now on the left hand side of the search page. Users maychoose to 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 ifavailable - some searches yield links to abstracts back to the 1900s]. Users may also choose to view localstories; specify city, state or zip code, search for articles by author, and by specific source. Users may alsochoose to hide duplicate results. http://news.google.com/ (http://news.google.com/) Note: suggest that you usethe Google News Advanced Search (http://news.google.com/news/advanced_news_search?

pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en) to focus search parameters and increase relevance of search results.

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

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

NewsNow's (http://www.newsnow.co.uk/) "services include NewsNow.co.uk, one of the UK's most popular newsportals...corporate services include online press cuttings, market intelligence, competitor tracking andwebsite 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, pressreleases, blogs, webzines and newsletters in more than 15 languages from 84 countries."



http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/ (http://www.newsnow.co.uk/)

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

Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/) - news & markets, sectors & industries, analysis & opinion, with a focus onfinancial 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 usingname or stock symbol. http://www.reuters.com/ (http://www.reuters.com/)

Silobreaker (http://www.silobreaker.com/) 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 howthey 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/ (http://www.silobreaker.com/)

Yahoo News Search (http://news.search.yahoo.com/) - Web | Images | Video | Local | News | Shoppinghttp://news.search.yahoo.com/ (http://news.search.yahoo.com/) . See also Yahoo Advanced Web Search(http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?fr=srch_more) , http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?fr=srch_more(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 (http://search.creativecommons.org/) - "this search helps you find content publishedby authors who want you to share or reuse it, under certain conditions." http://search.creativecommons.org(http://search.creativecommons.org)

News Search Alerts

Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/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 (http://www.google.com/alerts)

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

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

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

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

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

Fee Based Sites - some with free component(s)

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

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



Factiva from Dow Jones (http://www.dowjones.com/factiva/?from=factivaHome&link=) - provides access to acollection 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 (http://www.factiva.com/sources/search.asp?node=menuElem1523) ] for local and globalnewspapers, newswires, trade journals, newsletters, magazines and transcripts". Fields - Publication Title,Product, Language, Geographical Region, Industry Sector.

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

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

KnowX.com (https://www.knowx.com/) - search for businesses, people and assets - free to search, fee to viewrecords. https://www.knowx.com/ (https://www.knowx.com/)

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

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

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

Morningstar Document Research (http://documentresearch.morningstar.com/) - this service uses proprietarytechnology to create comprehensive access to EDGAR filings, and the searchable database contains allelectronically filed SEC documents including: 700+ forms indexed, 5+ million filings, archives from before1994 (Pre-Edgar), and real-time SEC updates. Users may search and retrieve filings in PDF, HTML, RTFand EXCEL. http://documentresearch.morningstar.com/(http://documentresearch.morningstar.com/)

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

Intelligence Unit, http://viewswire.eiu.com/index.asp?rf=0 (http://www.viewswire.com/index.asp?rf=0)

Free Sites - some with registration and/or fee components

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

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

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



CORI Contracts Database (http://ronald.cori.missouri.edu/cori_search/) - "The CORI K-Base is a growingKnowledge Base of Contract information, featuring a library of executed contracts and contract forms for awide array of transaction types and industries. Over 600,000 contracts can be accessed using our full-textsearch engine. First-time users must complete a free registration."http://ronald.cori.missouri.edu/cori_search/ (http://ronald.cori.missouri.edu/cori_search/)

Dun & Bradstreet (http://www.dnb.com/) - subscription req'd - D&B’s global commercial database containsmore than 125 million business records. http://www.dnb.com/ (http://www.dnb.com/) . Also try ZapData(http://www.zapdata.com/) - which "gives you access to the entire D&B national database of nearly 16 millioncompany records for an affordable price. Find new customers and grow your sales by building targeted listsand more. Prospects Lists (http://www1.zapdata.com/ProspectLists.do) , Company Lookups(http://www1.zapdata.com/servlet/cl) , Industry Reports (http://www1.zapdata.com/IndustryReports/SicDivForm.do)

. http://www.zapdata.com/ (http://www.zapdata.com/)

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

EIU.com (http://www.eiu.com/public/) - 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/ (http://www.eiu.com/public/)

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

"The new European Patent Register (https://register.epo.org/espacenet/regviewer) delivers exactly the sameinformation as before: procedural information for patent applications handled by the EPO, online fileinspection (click on the "all documents" tab) and legal status information for the national phase. Nothingadded, nothing taken away, except that it is all packaged in a newly designed user interface. The newdesign offers improved layout, usability, ergonomics and navigation, using contemporary design criteria,which we've implemented in consultation with the user community."https://register.epo.org/espacenet/regviewer (https://register.epo.org/espacenet/regviewer)

Fortune 500 Daily and Breaking Business News (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/) -http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/ (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/)

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

Reuters Stock Information (http://www.reuters.com/sectors/financials) - headlines, company information, analystresearch, industry watch. Some data requires registration - http://www.reuters.com/sectors/financials(http://www.reuters.com/sectors/financials) (http://www.reuters.com/sectors/financials)

(http://www.investor.reuters.com/StockEntry.aspx?target=/stocks)

SEC Info (http://www.secinfo.com/) - 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/ (http://www.secinfo.com/)

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

Thomas Global Register (http://www.thomasglobal.com/Default.asp?bhcp=1) - "Search the most complete, up-to-date directory of worldwide industrial Information from over 700,000 suppliers in 11 languages from 28countries." - http://www.thomasglobal.com (http://www.thomasglobal.com/)

ThomasNet (http://www.thomasnet.com/) "is an industrial search engine that provides one source for finding theexact product, service, or supplier; quickly and efficiently." http://www.thomasnet.com/(http://www.thomasnet.com/)

Thomson Firm360 Monitor Suite (http://www.firm360.com/) - Litigation and Deal Monitorhttp://www.firm360.com/signon/default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fdefault.aspx(http://www.firm360.com/signon/default.aspx?ReturnUrl=/default.aspx) - subscription req'd

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

Who Owns What (http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/) - Columbia Journalism Review -http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/ (http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/)

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

Yahoo Financial News (http://us.biz.yahoo.com/top.html) - Aggregates news by specific providers/fee and free,including: AP, Bankrate.com, bizjournals.com, BusinessWeek Online, Business 2.0, Daily FX,ETFZone.com, Forbes, Fortune, FT.com, Investor's Business Daily, Kiplinger.com, Law.com, MarketWatch,Morningstar.com, Motley Fool, Reuters, SmartMoney.com, TheStreet.com, TradingMarkets.com,USATODAY.com, The Wall Street Journal. These links are located on navigation bar, left side of page.http://us.biz.yahoo.com/top.html (http://us.biz.yahoo.com/top.html)

Selected Financial Blogs

Best 25 Financial Blogs - Time.com (http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1873144,00.html) This is list ofindependent blogs chosen by Douglas A. McIntyre and Ashley C. Allen.

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



DealBook (http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/) , from the New York Times - mergers, acquisitions, venturecapital, hedge funds, http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/ (http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/)

Deal Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/?mod=djm_shdealblog) - from the Wall Street Journal (free) -http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/?mod=djm_shdealblog (http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/?mod=djm_shdealblog)

Financial Times Tech Blog (http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/) - http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/ (http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/)

footnoted.org (http://footnoted.org/) - "Each day, the site takes a closer look at the things that companies try tobury in their routine SEC filings." http://footnoted.org/ (http://footnoted.org/)

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

Seeking Alpha (http://seekingalpha.com/) - Stock market opinion and stock analysis - U.S. Markets, GlobalMarkets, ETFs, sectors, transcripts. http://seekingalpha.com/ (http://seekingalpha.com/)

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

Selected Online People Tracking Sources

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

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

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

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

FamilySearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org/) is a non-profit service sponsored by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints: "The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy recordsin the world." https://www.familysearch.org/ (http://www.familysearch.org/)

(http://www.familysearch.org/) (http://www.familysearch.org/) (http://www.familysearch.org/)

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

Forbes.com People Tracker (http://www.forbes.com/cms/template/peopletracker/index.jhtml) - search for over120,000 executives and celebrities, free but reg. req'd.http://www.forbes.com/cms/template/peopletracker/index.jhtml(http://www.forbes.com/cms/template/peopletracker/index.jhtml)

Google (http://www.google.com/) - Search web, images, news, video, gmail, http://www.google.com(http://www.google.com/)

Gumshoe Librarian 2006 (features/gumshoe06.htm) - 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 (features/gumshoe06.htm)



Infobel World - Telephone Directories (http://www.infobel.com/teldir/default.asp) - information for more than 216countries, http://www.infobel.com/world/default.aspx (http://www.infobel.com/teldir/default.asp)

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

KnowX.com (http://www.knowx.com/) - public records on people and businesses, subscription req'd -http://www.knowx.com/ (http://www.knowx.com/)

Martindale.com (http://www.martindale.com/) , search for credentials on over 1 million participating lawyers andlaw firms, http://www.martindale.com (http://www.martindale.com/)

PeopleSearch.net (http://peoplesearch.net/peoplesearch/peoplesearch_deluxe.html) - metasearch engine,http://www.peoplesearch.net/ (http://peoplesearch.net/peoplesearch/peoplesearch_deluxe.html)

Pipl People Search (http://www.pipl.com/) - "Pipl's query-engine helps you find deep web pages that cannot befound on regular search engines." http://pipl.com/

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

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

Yahoo! People Search (http://people.yahoo.com/) - free phone number, reverse phone number and emailsearch. Premium search includes unlisted and cell phone numbers. http://people.yahoo.com/(http://people.yahoo.com/)

Zaba Search (http://www.zabasearch.com/) - free people search and public information search engine - feebased component. http://www.zabasearch.com/ (http://www.zabasearch.com/)

"The ZoomInfo Database currently spans five million businesses (from startups to large enterprises) and 50million employees. It is available through the free ZoomInfo Directory; the award-winning SaaS tool,ZoomInfo Pro; ZoomInfo Community Edition, a program where members share business contacts inexchange for free access to the ZoomInfo Database; and ZoomInfo Enterprise Solutions, which providecustomized data services (list creating and contact updating) and integration of data with customers’software applications." http://www.zoominfo.com/ (http://www.zoominfo.com/)

(http://www.zoominfo.com/) Television and Radio News Transcripts – including streaming audio/video

AOL Video (http://video.aol.com/) - "AOL Video has millions of free, high quality videos including music videos,news clips, movie trailers, viral videos, and full-length TV shows." http://video.aol.com/ (http://video.aol.com/)

blinkx (http://www.blinkx.tv/) - "Now, with an index of over 35 million hours of searchable video and more than450 media partnerships, including national broadcasters, commercial media giants, and private videolibraries..." http://www.blinkx.com/ (http://www.blinkx.com/)

Bloomberg.com TV (http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/index.html?Intro=intro_tvradio) - 24-hour business andfinancial news. Fee. http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/ (http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/index.html?Intro=intro_tvradio)

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



Critical Mention (http://www.criticalmention.com/web/index.php) - "CriticalTV is a comprehensive web-basedtelevision search and monitoring service that allows users to search, track and view critical information fromtelevision news. The platform provides real-time monitoring and email alerts for organizations that requireup-to-the-minute news about their company, customers and competitors. CriticalTV allows users to easilyfind a video clip online immediately after its broadcast, instantly share the clip within a workgroup via securevideo-email or a private video gallery, and order a professional transcript or hard copy online." Subscriptiononly. http://www.criticalmention.com/web/index.php (http://www.criticalmention.com/web/index.php)

Exaled Video search (http://www.exalead.com/search/video/) - "...access millions of video clips indexed frompopular online video portals, including YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacare, Vodeo, Kewego and IFILM Websites." http://www.exalead.com/search/video (http://www.exalead.com/search/video/)

Google Video (http://video.google.com/) - "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 andwatch an ever-growing collection of TV shows, movie clips, music videos, documentaries, personalproductions and more from all over the Web." http://video.google.com/ (http://video.google.com/) - [see alsoYouTube - http://www.youtube.com/ (http://www.youtube.com/) , owned by Google]

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

ShadowTV (http://www.shadowtv.com/index2.html) - streaming video service, Fee -http://www.shadowtv.com/index2.html (http://www.shadowtv.com/index2.html)

TVEyes (http://www.tveyes.com/) - "TVEyes makes TV and radio broadcasts searchable by keyword, phrase ortopic - 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, GovernmentAgencies, and anyone who needs to know what is being broadcast on TV and radio in real-time."http://www.tveyes.com (http://www.tveyes.com/)

"The Tyndall Report (http://tyndallreport.com/) monitors the weekday nightly newscasts of the three Americanbroadcast television networks: ABC World News with Charles Gibson, CBS Evening News with KatieCouric and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams...The Tyndall Blog (http://tyndallreport.com/#blog) monitorsand comments on each night's newscasts and links to the stories that the networks aired."http://tyndallreport.com/ (http://tyndallreport.com/)

Federal News Service (http://www.fednews.com/) - available via database, browser and RSS. Fee.http://www.fednews.com (http://www.fednews.com/)

NPR: Transcripts (http://www.npr.org/transcripts) - free transcripts now available on NPR.org(http://www.npr.org/transcripts)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2009/08/free_transcripts_now_available.html(http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2009/08/free_transcripts_now_available.html)

Vanderbilt Television News Archive (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/) - "The Television News Archive collection atVanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collectionholds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. nationalbroadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-relatedprogramming including ABC's Nightline since 1989." http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/)

YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/) - "YouTube [owned by Google] is the leader in online video, and thepremier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTubeallows people to easily upload and share video clips on and across the Internet through websites, mobiledevices, blogs, and email." http://www.youtube.com/ (http://www.youtube.com/)



Legislative Monitoring and Tracking

CapitolHearings.org (http://www.capitolhearings.org/) - http://www.capitolhearings.org/(http://www.capitolhearings.org/)

CQ Roll Call (http://corporate.cqrollcall.com/?page=products) - Congressional news, insights, analysis, legislativetracking, members and votes, advocacy tools. Legislative tracking and monitoring service offers users theability 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 (http://corporate.cqrollcall.com/?page=products</a></p> <p><a href=) - "is an editableguide to Congress for the people, by the people." http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Wiki_Home(http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Wiki_Home)

C-SPAN (http://www.cspan.org/) - video and audio search engine. http://www.cspan.org/ (http://www.cspan.org/)

FedNet.net (http://www.fednet.net/) , real time live webcasts of: Congressional Hearings; Floor Debates; WhiteHouse briefings; Regulatory hearings; Press conferences. Fee. http://www.fednetoversight.net/(http://www.fednet.net/)

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

(http://congressnow.gallerywatch.com/Default.aspx)

(http://congressnow.gallerywatch.com/Default.aspx)

(http://congressnow.gallerywatch.com/Default.aspx) (http://congressnow.gallerywatch.com/Default.aspx)








GovTrack.us (http://www.govtrack.us/) - "GovTrack.us helps you keep tabs on the U.S. Congress. This site isnot affiliated with the U.S. government; it is non-commercial, non-partisan, and an open source project....itis an independent tool to help the public research and track the activities in the U.S. Congress, promotinggovernment transparency and civic education through novel uses of technology. You'll find here the statusof U.S. federal legislation, voting records in the Senate and House of Representatives, and information onMembers of Congress, as well as congressional committees and the Congressional Record. The site is aresearch tool, but also a tracking service (providing user specified email updates and RSS feeds)."http://www.govtrack.us/ (http://www.govtrack.us/)

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

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

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

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



E-Newsletters, Online Newspapers, Journals and News Sources(http://www.bettermanagement.com/) (http://www.bettermanagement.com/)

(http://www.bettermanagement.com/)

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

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

CNNMoney.com (http://money.cnn.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/(http://money.cnn.com/news/companies/index.html) . This family of magazines is available free online.]

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

Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/) - video network, features, blogs, columns, special reports - Europe, US andAsia. http://www.forbes.com/ (http://www.forbes.com/)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wall Street Journal Market Data Center (http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata.html?

mod=topnav_0_0012) - Free market data, indexes, stock quotes, and more.http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata.html?mod=topnav_0_0012(http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata.html?mod=topnav_0_0012)

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



features, opinions. http://finance.yahoo.com/ (http://finance.yahoo.com/)

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

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

News Aggregators(http://www.bloglines.com/) (http://www.bloglines.com/)

(http://www.bloglines.com/) (http://www.bloglines.com/) (http://www.bloglines.com/) (http://www.bloglines.com/)



(http://www.bloglines.com/) (http://www.bloglines.com/) (http://www.bloglines.com/)

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

(http://www.newzcrawler.com/)

BBC (http://tinyurl.com/2wzug) - excellent resource/how-to guide - podcasts, emails alerts, mobiles, news feeds.http://tinyurl.com/3u6fpoa (http://tinyurl.com/2wzug)

(http://www.bizjournals.com/rss_promo) (http://www.bizjournals.com/rss_promo) (http://www.bizjournals.com/rss_promo)




(http://www.bizjournals.com/rss_promo)

Firefox Live Bookmarks - "automatically keeps track of updates for you so you always know when newcontent has been added to your favorite sites." (http://www.bizjournals.com/rss_promo)

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html

Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/servicestools/newstracking/rss) -http://www.ft.com/intl/servicestools/newstracking/rss (http://www.ft.com/servicestools/newstracking/rss)

Forbes.com (http://www.forbes.com/fdc/rss.shtml) - http://www.forbes.com/fdc/rss.shtml(http://www.forbes.com/fdc/rss.shtml)

Law.com (http://www.law.com/service/rss.shtml) - http://www.law.com/jsp/law/rss.jsp(http://www.law.com/service/rss.shtml)

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

New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss) - (http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/)

http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html (http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/index.html)

PR Newswire (http://www.prnewswire.com/rss/main.shtml) - http://www.prnewswire.com/rss/(http://www.prnewswire.com/rss/main.shtml)

Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/rss/newsrss.aspx) - (http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss)



http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss (http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss) (http://today.reuters.com/rss/newsrss.aspx)

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

mod=topnav_0_0012) - http://online.wsj.com/public/page/0_0813.html?mod=topnav_0_0012(http://online.wsj.com/public/page/0_0813.html?mod=topnav_0_0012)

Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/index.html) - http://www.washingtonpost.com/rss(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/index.html)

Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/rss) - http://news.yahoo.com/rss (http://news.yahoo.com/rss)

Yahoo! Finance Company News RSS URL Generator (http://biz.yahoo.com/rss.html) - Enter stock symbol(s)http://biz.yahoo.com/rss.html (http://biz.yahoo.com/rss.html)

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(http://www.law.com/career_center/lists_rankings.shtml)

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

Case law searches, state and federal, via Lexis (http://www.lexis.com/) or Westlaw (http://www.westlaw.com/)

Directory of Corporate Affiliations (http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/content/cn_home.asp) -http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/ (http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/)

Disclosure Online Database-US Public Company Profiles (http://web.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?3723)

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

Jury verdict and settlement databases - For example the JV-ALL file on Westlaw -http://west.thomson.com/store/product.aspx?product_id=RM159035 (http://west.thomson.com/store/product.aspx?

product_id=RM159035)

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

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

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

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

Nelson's Public Company Profiles (http://web.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?165421) - "Public Company



Profiles comprise brief descriptions of 22,000 publicly tradedcorporations worldwide and include contactinformation, key executives and business descriptions." http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?165421(http://w3.nexis.com/sources/scripts/info.pl?165421) (Lexis)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selected Online Tools for Competitor MonitoringWebsite Trackers

Copernic Agent (http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html) - subscription, intelligent web search andmanagement application - http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html(http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/index.html)

"Domain Tools (http://domain-history.domaintools.com/) has been tracking the whois history of millions ofdomains 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 ofregistrations back to 2001," http://domain-history.domaintools.com/ (http://domain-history.domaintools.com/)



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

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

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

ChangeDetection (http://www.changedetection.com/) - notifies users every time there is a change in designatedwebsites - http://www.changedetection.com (http://www.changedetection.com/)

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

Westlaw Watch and LexisNexis Trackers

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

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

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

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

Benchmarking (http://www.altmanweil.com/index.cfm/fa/sp.home/surveys.cfm)

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

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

Law.com Surveys and Rankings: begin on this page (http://www.law.com/career_center/lists_rankings.shtml) toview 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 (http://www.chambersandpartners.com/) - "searchable database of the top lawyers in175 countries, providing independent rankings and editorial commentary" -http://www.chambersandpartners.com/ (http://www.chambersandpartners.com/)

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

LexisNexis ExecRelate - "find NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX board member biographical details and see howthey’re connected, view company hierarchies to find connections among current customers and their parentcompanies, and track merger and acquisition information to keep informed about marketplace changes.http://www.execrelate.com/Nonsub/home.asp (http://www.execrelate.com/Nonsub/home.asp)

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

Fortune 500 (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/) annual ranking of America's largestcorporations - http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011(http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/)

GPO Economic Indicators, 1995 to Present (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html) - "Available from April1995 forward, this monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council ofEconomic Advisors and provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity,purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance." http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html(http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html)

"The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2009 (WCY) (http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm)

"is the world’s most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, rankingand analyzing how a nation’s environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises...itmeasures 57 countries on the basis of 329 criteria." http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm(http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/World-Competitiveness-Yearbook-2008-Results.cfm)

(http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/products/ln.htm)

(http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/products/ln.htm) (http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/products/ln.htm)










(http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/products/ln.htm) "Marquis Who's Who has grown to include the biographiesof millions of leaders and achievers from around the world and from every significant field of endeavor."(http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/products/ln.htm) http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/(http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/)

NALP Directory of Legal Employers (http://www.nalpdirectory.com/) - "Available from April 1995 forward, thismonthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors andprovides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit,money and Federal finance." http://www.nalpdirectory.com/ (http://www.nalpdirectory.com/)

PROFIT 100 Rankings (http://www.profit100.com) - "The exclusive list of Canada's Fastest-GrowingCompanies: who they are, where they're from and what they do." http://www.profit100.com(http://www/profit100.com)

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Industrial Reports (http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/cir/index.html) - "The CIRprogram 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 shipmentsof 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 ConstructionStatistics. http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/cir/index.html (http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/cir/index.html)

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

U.S. Commercial Service - Market Research Library (http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearch.cfm?

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

Country Profiles

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

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

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



guardian.co.uk - World Fact Files (http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/series/country-profiles) : country profiles - clickon 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 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/series/country-profiles)

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

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

World Bank's Open Data (http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog) - "The World Bank's Open Data initiative isintended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The data catalog is a listing of availableWorld Bank datasets, include databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Each of the listings includes adescription of the data set and a direct link to that set. Where possible, the databases are linked directly toa 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 entiredatabase directly from the catalog. Link (http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog)

World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) (http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm) - "analyses andranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness ofenterprises. Considered the worldwide reference point to world competitiveness, it has been publishedwithout interruption since 1989 and ranks 55 national economies using 323 criteria."http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm (http://www.imd.ch/research/publications/wcy/index.cfm)

CI Pathfinders and Link Collections

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

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

(http://tinyurl.com/3iiq) (http://www.helicongroup.com/Helicon%27s%20Articles%20on%20Competitive%20Intelligence.htm)

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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) - http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/azindex.html(http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/azindex.html)

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

Find Articles (http://findarticles.com/) at BNET - free access to millions of articles (premium content as well) -http://findarticles.com (http://findarticles.com/)



Copyright © 1996-2011 LLRX, LLC. http://www.llrx.com/features/ciguide.htm

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

HighWire Press (http://highwire.stanford.edu/) - free and free, "1527 journals, books, reference works, & otherscholarly publications" http://highwire.stanford.edu/ (http://highwire.stanford.edu/)

LexisNexis (http://www.lexis.com/) - fee/subscription - http://www.lexis.com (http://www.lexis.com/) orhttp://www.nexis.com (http://www.nexis.com/)

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

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

Westlaw (http://www.westlaw.com/) - fee/subscription - www.westlaw.com (http://www.westlaw.com/)

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

Editor's Note:

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.

Competitive Intelligence: A Selective Resource Guide - Completely Updated - December 2011

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