1. 1 Business Information Module 2: Seeking for business information – Web-based information resources Part D: Product and service information 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 Products/services information sources (I) Many company information sources (databases, directories, classifications) are useful also for products/services information, for example: –Central & Eastern European Directory On-Line: http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceebd/industdi.htm http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceebd/industdi.htm –Kompass: http://www.kompass.com/http://www.kompass.com/ –The United Nations – List of international family of economic and social classifications: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/family1.asp http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/family1.asp

3. 3 Products/services information sources (II) Product-dedicated vortals, for example –Polish Products http://www.polishproducts.pl/http://www.polishproducts.pl/ Online auction websites, e-shops, advertising services, etc., for example –Google Product Search http://www.google.com/productshttp://www.google.com/products Consumer protection and products/services quality websites –EConsumer.gov http://www.econsumer.gov/english/http://www.econsumer.gov/english/ –Europa – Food Safety http://ec.europa.eu/food/index_en.htmhttp://ec.europa.eu/food/index_en.htm Commodities exchanges

4. 4 Commodities exchanges websites (I) Good entry in Wikipedia on commodities exchange and commodities market –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodities_exchangehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodities_exchange –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_marketshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_markets Finding commodities exchanges: –INO Global Exchange Links http://www.ino.com/resources/exchanges/ http://www.ino.com/resources/exchanges/ –Stock and Commodity Exchanges http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/ busi/stocks.shtml http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/ busi/stocks.shtml –Note: these sources are also useful for Financial information – Stock exchanges

5. 5 Commodities exchanges websites (II) Examples of commodities exchanges: –Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange http://butb.by/Eng/ http://butb.by/Eng/ –European Energy Exchange http://www.eex.com/enhttp://www.eex.com/en –Sofia Commodity Exchange http://www.sce-bg.com/http://www.sce-bg.com/ Assignment: Do you know what „ask, bid, futures, spot market” are? If not – check it with InvestorWords.com http://www.investorwords.com/ or other source http://www.investorwords.com/