Best Business Sites

What are [some of] the best sites?

What makes a good Internet resource? What draws you back time and again to a site? The primary reason is certainly content, but organizational structure affects the usefulness of a site. A classification scheme or an heirarchy of subjects allows users to navigate a site more efficiently than if the site simply alphabetized everything. Better still is a website with its own search engine.

The web sites listed below have been grouped together by the nature of their content. First are content sites with numeric data, textual material, or directory information. In the second group are pathfinders for specific business topics, and these sometimes include reviews of the sites listed. Finally, there are some large collections of web links for business-related Internet resources.

1. Content Sites

ComFind (companies - searchable)
[http://www.comfind.com]
FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data (statistics - topical)
[http://www.stls.frb.org/fred]
FreeEDGAR Database (SEC filings - searchable)
[http://fe.FreeEDGAR.com]
Hoovers Online (companies - searchable)
[http://www.hoovers.com]
Quicken.com (finance and investment - topical)
[http://www.quicken.com]
Stat-USA (by subscription)
[http://www.stat-usa.gov]
StockSite (finance and investment - searchable)
[http://www.stocksite.com]
Switchboard (companies - searchable)
[http://www2.switchboard.com/bin/cgiqa.dll?BUS=]
Telephone Directories on the Web (geographical)
[http://www.contractjobs.com/tel]
Trade Show Central (searchable, geographical)
[http://www.tscentral.com]
U.S. Bureau of the Census (statistics - searchable)
[http://www.census.gov]
U.S. International Trade Administration (geographical)
[http://www.ita.doc.gov]
Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (by subscription)
[http://wsj.com]
Wall Street Research Net (company research - many links)
[http://www.wsrn.com]
ZD Net (full-text of Ziff-Davis magazines - searchable)
[http://www.zdnet.com]
Questions

2. Topical Pathfinders

Accounting Resources on the Internet (accounting and taxation - topical)
[http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/resources/internet1.htm]
BRINT: A Business Researcher's Interests (topical)
[http://www.brint.com/interest.html]
Business & Economics Numeric Data (statistics - alphabetical)
[http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/ecostats.html]
Business Electronic Journals and Newspapers (mostly alphabetical)
[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/busi/busejour.htm]
Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet (Riley Guide)
[http://www.dbm.com/jobguide]
Electronic Commerce Guide (topical: see under Resources)
[http://e-comm.internet.com]
PC Week ExecConnect (industry & management - topical) ** use text links **
[http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/ExecConnect]
smallbizNet (small business & entrepreneurship - topical)
[http://www.lowe.org/smbiznet]
U.S. Business Advisor (business & government - topical)
[http://www.business.gov/Browse.html]
VIBES (international business - geographical)
[http://www.uncc.edu/lis/library/reference/intbus/vibehome.htm]
Questions

3. Organized Lists

Business (Librarians' Index to the Internet - mostly alphabetical)
[http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/searchindex?title=Business&query=business&searchtype=subjects]
Business and Commerce (Galaxy - topical)
[http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Business-and-Commerce.html]
Business and Economy (Yahoo - heirachical)
[http://www.yahoo.com/Business]
Business Directory (Institute of Management & Administration - topical)
[http://www.ioma.com/directory]

Ka-Neng Au (au@newark.rutgers.edu)
& Theodora Haynes (haynes@camden.rutgers.edu)
Questions? Comments?
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~au/workshop/best-s.htm
Updated June 23, 1998