Business Information Module 2 Seeking for business information

Business Information Module 2: Seeking for business information – Web-based information resources Part A: Getting started International Summer School on Information Literacy, funded by CEI, 10 -14 September 2007, Fermo, Italy Sabina Cisek, Ph. D Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland isabina@inib. uj. edu. pl, sabina. cisek@gmail. com 1

Getting started • Web searching tips • General Internet resources • Business information „starting points” • Business dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries 2

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? 3

General Internet resources and services (I) – may be useful for business information • General-purpose, global in scope, search engines/services – – – – Alta. Vista http: //www. altavista. com/ Allthe. Web 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 … 4

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. digitallibrarian. com/ – Intute http: //www. intute. ac. uk/ – Librarians’ Internet Index http: //lii. org/ – Ref. Desk http: //www. refdesk. com/ – The WWW Virtual Library http: //vlib. org/ 5

General Internet resources and services – … (III) • Deep Web / Invisible Web search tools – Complete. Planet http: //aip. completeplanet. com/ – Deep Web Research [weblog] http: //www. deepwebresearch. info/ – The Search. Systems. net Public Records Directory http: //www. searchsystems. net/ • Scholarly search services – Google Scholar http: //scholar. google. com/ – INFOMINE http: //infomine. ucr. edu/ 6

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. fsoonline. com/home_login. cfm? sid=39968158 • Look. Smarts’ Find Articles http: //findarticles. com/p/articles/tn_bus • Oaister: http: //www. oaister. org/ • Open. DOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories http: //www. opendoar. org/index. html 7

Business information „starting points” – specialized search engines, subject gateways and Web directories – business, economics, management (I) • All. Buziness: 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/ 8

Business information „starting points” – … (II) • CEOExpress: http: //www. ceoexpress. com/default. asp • European business directory: http: //www. bizeurope. com/ • global. EDGE: http: //globaledge. msu. edu/ • Inomics® Econ. Directory: http: //www. inomics. com/cgi/econdir 9

Business information „starting points” – … (III) • Intute: Social Sciences: http: //www. intute. ac. uk/socialsciences/business/ • Krislyn’s 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/Business. Economics 10

Business dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries • Finding dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries: – Euro. Term. Bank http: //www. eurotermbank. com/Default. aspx – Glossarist – Business http: //www. glossarist. com/glossaries/business/ – One. Look 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 • global. Edge – Glossary http: //globaledge. msu. edu/resource. Desk/glossary. asp • Assignment: Using business information „starting points” find two more dictionaries/glossaries. Work in pairs. 11