LIS 613 BUSINESS INFORMATION SOURCES

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LIS 613BUSINESS INFORMATION SOURCES SERVICES

• Fall 2007
• Jeanie M. Welch

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WHAT IS BUSINESS(ALA RUSA BRASS)

• Accounting
• Advertising marketing
• Company industry research
• Insurance
• International business

• Investment finance
• Jobs human resources
• Small business
• Taxation
• ALA/RUSA/BRASS Education Committee

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TYPES OF BUSINESS SOURCES

• Reference sources
• Directories
• Dictionaries encyclopedias
• Investment sources
• Statistical sources
• Marketing/advertising

• Business periodical indexes
• Articles
• Company reports
• Industry/marketing reports
• Country reports

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TYPES OF BUSINESS SOURCES, cont.

• Business periodicals
• Newspapers
• Journals magazines
• Business handbooks
• Full-text databases
• Financial data
• Economic statistics

• Monographs
• Scholarly
• Popular
• Handbooks
• Business/economic related Web sites

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WHO PROVIDESBUSINESS INFORMATION

• Government agencies
• Trade associations/
• chambers of commerce
• Stock/commodity exchanges/brokerage firms
• Business publishers

• Database vendors
• Publicly-traded companies