Business Information Module 2: Seeking for business information

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Business InformationModule 2 Seeking for
business information Web-based information
resourcesPart A Getting started
International Summer School on Information
Literacy, funded by CEI, 10-14 September 2007,
Fermo, Italy

• Sabina Cisek, PhD
• Associate Professor
• Institute of Information and Library Science
• Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
• isabina_at_inib.uj.edu.pl, sabina.cisek_at_gmail.com

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Getting started

• Web searching tips
• General Internet resources
• Business information starting points
• Business dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries

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Web searching tips

• Do not rely on a single source
• You need to cross-check information
• What if it would be out of service?
• There are millions of search engines and other
  search services global and local,
  general-purpose and specialized not only Google
  ?
• Do not believe in everything evaluate
  information and Websites
• Use searching functionalities advanced search,
  Boolean connectors, help, operators (, -,
  define), phrase searching, etc.
• Discussion How to decide whether a website
  contains reliable information? Criteria for
  information evaluation?

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General Internet resources and services (I) may
be useful for business information

• General-purpose, global in scope, search
  engines/services
• AltaVista http//www.altavista.com/
• AlltheWeb http//www.alltheweb.com/
• Dogpile http//www.dogpile.com/
• Google http//www.google.com/
• Mamma http//www.mamma.com/
• MSN.com http//www.msn.com/
• Yahoo http//www.yahoo.com/
• and many, many more

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General Internet resources and services (II)

• Quality-controlled subject/information gateways
• Digital Librarian a librarian's choice of the
  best of the Web http//www.digital-librarian.com/
  
• Intute http//www.intute.ac.uk/
• Librarians Internet Index http//lii.org/
• RefDesk http//www.refdesk.com/
• The WWW Virtual Library http//vlib.org/

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General Internet resources and services (III)

• Deep Web / Invisible Web search tools
• CompletePlanet http//aip.completeplanet.com/
• Deep Web Research weblog http//www.deepwebresea
  rch.info/
• The SearchSystems.net Public Records Directory
  http//www.searchsystems.net/
• Scholarly search services
• Google Scholar http//scholar.google.com/
• INFOMINE http//infomine.ucr.edu/

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Open Access full texts archives, digital
collections, full-text databases, e-journals,
repositories

• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
  http//www.doaj.org/
• Fulltext Sources Online http//www.fso-online.com/
  home_login.cfm?sid39968158
• LookSmarts Find Articles http//findarticles.com/
  p/articles/tn_bus
• Oaister http//www.oaister.org/
• OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
  http//www.opendoar.org/index.html

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Business information starting points
specialized search engines, subject gateways and
Web directories business, economics, management
(I)

• AllBuziness http//www.allbuziness.com/
• BRINT the World's No. 1 Resource for Business
  Technology Management and Knowledge Management
  http//www.brint.com/
• Business.com http//www.business.com/

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Business information starting points (II)

• CEOExpress http//www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp
• European business directory http//www.bizeurope.
  com/
• globalEDGE http//globaledge.msu.edu/
• Inomics EconDirectory http//www.inomics.com/cgi
  /econdir

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Business information starting points (III)

• Intute Social Sciences http//www.intute.ac.uk/
  socialsciences/business/
• Krislyns Strictly Business Site
  http//www.strictlybusinesssites.com/
• RBA Business Information on the Internet
  http//www.rba.co.uk/sources/
• The WWW Virtual Library Business and Economics
  http//vlib.org/BusinessEconomics

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Business dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries

• Finding dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries
• EuroTermBank http//www.eurotermbank.com/Default.a
  spx
• Glossarist Business http//www.glossarist.com/gl
  ossaries/business/
• OneLook Dictionary Search http//www.onelook.com/
  
• About.com Economics http//economics.about.com/
• About.com Business and Finance
  http//about.com/money/
• Answers.com Business http//www.answers.com/main
  /business.jsp
• globalEdge Glossary http//globaledge.msu.edu/re
  sourceDesk/glossary.asp
• Assignment Using business information starting
  points find two more dictionaries/glossaries.
  Work in pairs.