1. 1 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, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland isabina@inib.uj.edu.plisabina@inib.uj.edu.pl, sabina.cisek@gmail.comsabina.cisek@gmail.com

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

3. 3 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?

4. 4 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/http://www.altavista.com/ –AlltheWeb http://www.alltheweb.com/http://www.alltheweb.com/ –Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/http://www.dogpile.com/ –Google http://www.google.com/http://www.google.com/ –Mamma http://www.mamma.com/http://www.mamma.com/ –MSN.com http://www.msn.com/http://www.msn.com/ –Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/http://www.yahoo.com/ –and many, many more …

5. 5 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/http://www.digital- librarian.com/ –Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/http://www.intute.ac.uk/ –Librarians’ Internet Index http://lii.org/http://lii.org/ –RefDesk http://www.refdesk.com/http://www.refdesk.com/ –The WWW Virtual Library http://vlib.org/http://vlib.org/

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

7. 7 Open Access full texts – archives, digital collections, full-text databases, e-journals, repositories … DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ Fulltext Sources Online http://www.fso- online.com/home_login.cfm?sid=39968158http://www.fso- online.com/home_login.cfm?sid=39968158 LookSmarts’ Find Articles http://findarticles.com/p/articles/tn_bus http://findarticles.com/p/articles/tn_bus Oaister: http://www.oaister.org/http://www.oaister.org/ OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories http://www.opendoar.org/index.html http://www.opendoar.org/index.html

8. 8 Business information „starting points” – specialized search engines, subject gateways and Web directories – business, economics, management (I) AllBuziness: http://www.allbuziness.com/http://www.allbuziness.com/ BRINT the World's No. 1 Resource for Business Technology Management and Knowledge Management: http://www.brint.com/http://www.brint.com/ Business.com: http://www.business.com/http://www.business.com/

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

10. 10 Business information „starting points” – … (III) Intute: Social Sciences: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/business/ http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/business/ Krislyn’s Strictly Business Site: http://www.strictlybusinesssites.com/ http://www.strictlybusinesssites.com/ RBA Business Information on the Internet: http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/ http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/ The WWW Virtual Library – Business and Economics: http://vlib.org/BusinessEconomicshttp://vlib.org/BusinessEconomics

11. 11 Business dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries Finding dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries: –EuroTermBank http://www.eurotermbank.com/Default.aspxhttp://www.eurotermbank.com/Default.aspx –Glossarist – Business http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/business/ http://www.glossarist.com/glossaries/business/ –OneLook Dictionary Search http://www.onelook.com/http://www.onelook.com/ About.com: Economics http://economics.about.com/http://economics.about.com/ About.com: Business and Finance http://about.com/money/http://about.com/money/ Answers.com – Business http://www.answers.com/main/business.jsp http://www.answers.com/main/business.jsp globalEdge – Glossary http://globaledge.msu.edu/resourceDesk/glossary.asp http://globaledge.msu.edu/resourceDesk/glossary.asp Assignment: Using business information „starting points” find two more dictionaries/glossaries. Work in pairs.