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Reference
ABS Directories These are ready references to sources of Australian statistical information. The directories are arranged by subject and show the details of data sources used in addition to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' own data. Each entry contains such items as the name of the collection of data, contacts, the purpose of the collection, a description of the collection, data details, geographic coverage, frequency of data availability and historical data.
AustLII's Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Includes various works for Law, Finance and Investment.
Census Dictionary This ABS publication includes a complete listing of the 1996 Census classifications and a glossary of census terms and definitions.
Directory of Online Statistics Sources Statistical sources are listed by subject and are designed to be used by students, researchers and professional.
EDIRC This is a directory of over 6,500 Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers throughout the world.
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance Presents a depth of information on wide-ranging areas concerning business, including accounting, economics, finance, information systems law, management, and marketing. Arranged alphabetically, this two volume set includes extensive cross references and a comprehensive index.
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics Published online by Belgium's University of Ghent.
Encyclopedia of Leadership This encyclopedia explores leadership theories and leadership practice through articles, biographical essays, and case studies focused on leaders (and their followers). Articles and sidebars show leadership in action in corporations and state houses, schools, churches, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations.
Encyclopedia of Small Business Designed to provide entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Contains 600 detailed articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.
Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Provides access to the world of Internet commerce and addresses the concerns of those who want to join the ranks of the Internet business community. Presents answers to common questions about website development, financing, advertising, and more. Features 470 essays covering topics and terms, profiles of the top e-commerce companies, biographies of e-commerce innovators, and coverage of events and legislation related to e-commerce.
Journal abbreviation sources providing the full titles for journal abbreviations.
Statistical Concepts Library Provides easy access to authoritative information about the concepts, sources, methods and classifications underlying Australian official statistics.
Subject guides
Websites and internet resources
Annual company reports
Australian company websites — Swinburne Institute of Technology's links to home pages of Australian companies
Australian Financial Review Business Case Studies — up-to-date information on Australia's leading businesses and organisations.
CAROL — Company Annual Reports Online for Asian, European and American companies. There is no charge, but registration is required.
Connect 4 — Australian company information. Individual reports may be downloaded from this site for a service fee of around A$10. Try the World Wide Web for individual company sites to check out whether their company reports are available for download.
Corporate Information — profiles of Australian companies. Access is free for research purposes but registration by individuals is required. There is a limit to the number of pages which can be accessed each day.
EquitiesInfo — free annual reports and prices of equities for over 1,200 Australian companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Fortune — company profiles and news items
Northcote — free access to current and archive copies of UK company annual reports. Free registration to access the information.
Reports Gallery — access to over 2,200 annual reports covering most of the Fortune 500 companies.
Australian Share Market
Australian Stock Exchange
Financial Analysis Publications web site — how to order financial data including tax data, company profiles, financial reports, stockbrokers' advice, share registries
Sydney Futures Exchange — information on the SFE, statistics, links to other exchanges and sites with trader information
Stock Exchanges Worldwide Links
US Securities and Exchange Commission — includes access to EDGAR (for company information and all SEC filings)
Yahoo Finance — ASX stock quotes, business news highlights, financial news, financial glossary
General sites
Australian Government Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources— comprehensive site covering tourism, small business, industry with statistics, overviews and innovations.
Business Software Association of Australia— promoting a safe and legal digital world with resources to assist knowledge of software licensing.
Country Commercial Guides — an archive of full-text reports prepared annually by US embassies between 1996 and 2001. They present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments, using economic, political and market analysis. An updated series of Country Background Guides are available at the US State Department site. The latest series of Country Commercial Guides is available at the US Export.Gov site. Access requires registration.
dmoz Open Directory Project — business sites arranged by subject.
Index to Theses — provides abstracts to theses published in Great Britain and Ireland 1970-
Social Science Research Network — devoted to the rapid dissemination of social science research. Areas covered include marketing, management, accounting, entrepreneurship. It contains Abstracts and full text articles.
UMI's Dissertations Database — most current two years of citations and abstracts
United Nations system of organizations - an alphabetical index of direct links to all of the United Nations organizations, including joint initiatives, special projects, funds, programmes and specialised agencies.
Universal currency converter — Xenon Laboratories
Marketing and management
Australian Graduate School of Management
BEP (Business Entry Point) — an online government resource for the Australian business community, providing a wide range of information about start-up, taxation, licensing and legislation.
Bplans.com — find, view, download and edit sample business plans optimized for the Web.
Brint.com — an in-depth site with the latest business and technology practices including electronic commerce, virtual corporations, knowledge management, business process reengineering, intranets, organizational learning, complexity and chaos, internet web strategy and design, national and global information policy, and healthcare technology issues.
Business Council of Australia
Business Entry Point — for Australian federal government information
CCH Benchmarking — for Australian industry-based financial information
ClickZStats — provides statistics and and articles on Web marketing information
Codes of Business Ethics — links to corporate codes of ethics, full-text publications and business ethics websites
Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources — Government site detailing competitive and sustainable business practices in Australia
Harvard Business Online — the portal site for the Harvard Business School
ICAC — publications about eCorruption and the public sector
IDEAS: RePEc — Research Papers in Economics, a huge collection of full-text working papers and journal articles, plus software components.
KnowThis — the WWW Virtual Library's site for marketing, advertising, management, market research and internet commerce
Manchester Business School Working Papers
STAT.USA — Economic, trade, business information for USA (US Department of Commerce)
Tourism Australia — includes tourism news, marketing information, statistics and monthly bulletins
Tourism Research Australia — publications, statistics
Trade Marks — provided by the British Library. International in scope and providing sites about classification schemes, databases and gazettes, legislation and litigation, and official manuals on trade mark procedures. Includes links to Trade Mark databases.
Trademark Document Retrieval — US Patent and Trademark Office portal to 460 000 trademark applications.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics data — time series on US CPI, PPI and payroll data
US Census Quick Facts — demographic and business statistics to US County level with easy access to full Census data.
US Economic Census — detailed and authoritative economic data for eighteen areas of US industries, including mining, construction, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, transportation, company management, finance and insurance, service industries and real estate.
Warwick Business School Academic Publications
World Bank Monthly Commodity Price Data
Statistics
Australian statistical internet sites — the National Library of Australia's page of links to authoritative Australian statistics, including regional statistics for the States.
ABS Statistics — the Australian Bureau of Statistics site where you can access all ABS publications in fulltext from 1998 onwards, over 2,000 spreadsheets and Census Basic Community Profiles.
Biz/ed's selection of statistics sources (UK and international)
Bureau of Economic Analysis — produces and disseminates accurate, timely, relevant, and cost-effective economic accounts statistics that provide a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of economic activity in the US. Key issues include US economic growth, regional economic development, and the nation's position in the world economy.
FedStats — access to official statistics provided by over 100 agencies in the US Federal Government.
Internet resources for statistics — University of Melbourne Library's selection of statistics sources for Asia, Australia, Europe, US, and global statistics.
Handbook of International Economic Statistics 1998 — basic worldwide statistics for comparing the economic performance of major countries and regions
OECD Statistics — these include economic statistics, agriculture, energy, development co-operation, public management, education, labour, social affairs, science, technology, industry, health & transport
Offstats — Official statistics on the web provided by University of Auckland Library. Search by country, region or topic, including agriculture, banking, commodities, debt, development, economic growth, finance, income distribution, savings, tariffs and more.
Statistics Norway — providing links to official statistical agencies throughout the world, including Australia's ABS, Japan, China, Iceland, Brazil, USA, Canada and Turkey
Statistics.com — a comprehensive directory of links to data sources
STAT-USA — Economic, trade, business information for USA (US Dept. of Commerce)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data — time series on US CPI, PPI and payroll data
US Census Quick Facts — demographic and business statistics to US County level with easy access to full Census data.
World Bank basic data — national statistics for countries and regions and also data by topics, such as poverty
World Factbook, CIA
Useful journal sites
Australian electronic journals — from the National Library of Australia
Australian Financial Review
Berkeley Law & Economics Working Papers
Centre for International Economic Studies — from the University of Adelaide's Centre for International Economic Studies including links to CIES publications
DOAJ — Directory of Open Access Journals includes free full text scholarly journals.
The Economist
Far Eastern Economic Review
IDEAS — (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service) includes working papers, journal articles, books and software components
Journals, research papers and articles— organised by MSU-CIBER (Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research)
Electronic Journals Library - University Library of Regensburg's list of over 6,500 full-text academic journals can be accessed free of charge.
WebEc List of Economics Journals — information about both print and online journals.