Business Metasites, Portals & Gateways

• AllBusiness - Has over 2,000 how-to articles, forms & agreements, advice, etc., for small & growing business. Includes a directory of products & services, research, business licenses in all 50 states, a tax/IRS directory, 24 calculators, etc., a site search.



• ArgMax - Has economics news, data, analysis, links, a glossary with 300 definitions, over 1,500 economists' Web pages.



• AsiaSource - A comprehensive site with timely, reliable, unbiased information & assistance on the cultural, economic, social, historical, political dimensions of Asia. Has country comparisons, embassies, a glossary, etc..



• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, The - Can search, browse, compare eversions of important U.S. historical primary documents relevant to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, government. Includes The Federalist Papers, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Palestine 1916 to the present, Relations between The United States and Native Americans, etc..



• Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Has Bank information, has links to central banks worldwide, BIS statistical surveys, committee position papers, etc., a site search.



• BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) - U.S. Department of Commerce. Has national, regional, international, income & product tables & data (most downloadable [pdf,zip]; a glossary, FAQs, working papers, etc.).



• BenefitsLink - A comprehensive collection of information & services for employers sponsoring employee benefit plans, companies providing products & services, participating employees. Has links to IRS & other government publications, newsletters, etc..



• Biz/ed - Has business, accounting, economics, management, marketing learning materials & virtual models, data sets & skills material, company info (business profiles, ratio analysis theory & practice guide, financial database, case studies), 4,900 Internet resources in 16 categories, an educator's section (lesson plans, activities, etc.), a site search.



• BizOffice - Has hundreds of resources; downloadable software; over 500 forms & letters; a library of articles on marketing, selling, writing business plans; etc..



• Business Owner's Toolkit - A collection of model business documents, financial spreadsheet templates, checklists for small business owners who want to start, run, grow their small businesses.



• Business.gov - A U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) gateway. Has official government information on launching, managing, growing, getting out of a business. Covers business laws, employees, finances, government contracting, international trade, taxes, training, work environments, etc..



• Canadian Economy Online - Portal. Covers the pulse of the economy (imports & exports, employment, inflation & prime interest rates, GNP, etc.) & resources about the economy (family & workers, money, international issues, etc.). Includes educational components (concepts, key events).



• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA), The - Can browse programs available to State, local, tribal governments; territories; organizations, institutions; groups; individuals. Covers developing & writing grant proposals.



• Development Gateway - A leading portal on economic development. Has project information, articles, community features, country gateways, information on conflict resolution, etc., a site search.



• Digital Scriptorium, The - Projects of the Duke University Libraries. Includes Ad*Access (7,000 advertisements in U.S. & Canadian newspapers & magazines from 1911-1955); Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (EAA) (9,000 images on the rise of consumer culture, especially after the Civil War); Medicine and Madison Avenue (600 images & 35 documents from 1911 to 1958 on the evolution of health advertisements), etc..



• Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network - Has commentary, information, links on sectors, investment tools, U.S. economic indicators, monetary & fiscal policies, charts (market,s, U.S., global, history), etc..



• Economic Indicators.gov - U.S. Department of Commerce. Provide timely access to daily releases of key economic indicators from the BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) & U.S. Census Bureau.



• Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Has mailing lists, etc., a site search. Includes FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), Economics Working Papers, etc..



• Economic Success Clearinghouse - Was the Welfare Information Network. Has information & resources on welfare, workforce development, work supports, income supplements, asset development.



• EH.Net (Economic History Services) - Includes Abstracts in Economic History, bibliographies, book reviews, EH.NET Course Syllabi, links to over 35 databases, an encyclopedia, etc.. Can Ask the Professor.



• Eldis Gateway to Development Information - A gateway with 14,850 documents, links to 4,500 organizations, 15,000 email messages, esource guides, country profiles, etc..



• EloPortal (European Integration Online Portal) - A portal with European Integration Online Papers (a peer-reviewed online working paper series), the European Research Papers Archive (ERPA), EuroInternet.



• Europa - A portal to European Union information, online documents, Eurobarometer public opinion results back to 1994, downloadable (pdf, zip) Eurostat data, a glossary of 3,000 statistical terms translated into 20 languates..



• eVenturing - Has over 1,000 articles, audio clips, tools, databases, etc., on starting & growing a business; a glossary, resource center (statistics, etc.), enewsletter, etc., site search.



• Export.gov - The portal to all export-related assistance & market information offered by the federal government. Has links, etc., a site search.



• FedBizOpps (FBO) - The single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.



• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) - Has Bank information, economic research & data, the Fed in Print, a Glossary of Economic Terms, Great Economists and Their Times, etc., a site search.



• Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - Has Commission information; a Registered Identification Number Database (RN); Congressional, economic (reports, working papers, etc.), legal resources, etc., a search site.



• FindLaw - A comprehensive legal resource site. Has professional (Encyclopedia of Law & Economics, Law and Economics Journal Bibliographies, etc.), student (academic law reviews & journals, etc.), small business (self-help, etc.), education (articles, briefs, etc.), public resources; documents, Supreme Court decisions, etc.; a site search; Web search via LawCrawler - Legal Web & Databases Search.



• FirstGov.gov - The U.S. government's official Web portal. Has information for citizens, businesses & nonprofits, federal employees; a Reference Center. Can search sites, browse links to federal agencies, departments, commissions, boards, etc..



• ForecastCenter.com - Covers trends in business, demographics, economy, energy, environment, finance, health, human resources, international, politics, technology, etc..



• Free Downloads Center - Has 30,000 downloadable IZArc software in 12 categories (business, information management, multimedia & graphics, network & Internet, programming, Web authoring, etc.).



• Free Management Library - Has resources (675 articles & links in 75 categories) on business, management, organizations. Covers planning, organizing, leading, coordinating activities in for-profit & nonprofit organizations.



• Global Technology Forum - Has insight, news analysis, research, best practice case studies on successful strategies for the global digital economy. Includes Has analysis, e-readiness ranking, etc., of doing ebusiness in 60 countries.



• globalEDGE International Business Resource Desk - Has insights on 196 countries (business climate, economic landscape, etc.), community, academy, a knowledge room, diagnostic tools.



• Grants.gov - An official U.S. government portal. Can find & apply for over 900 grant programs from 26 Federal grant-making agencies. Has FAQs, resources, information on getting started.



• HBS Working Knowledge (Harvard Business School) - Can search, browse links & research articles on entrepreneurship, finance, globalization, leadership, marketing, corporate governance, etc.. Requires free registration.



• HG.org (Hieros Gamos) - Can search worldwide directories (experts witnesses, etc.), browse over 200,000 links in 70 areas (taxation, etc.). Has student resources, a legal business center, etc.. Covers U.S. & international law.



• History of Economic Thought Website, The - Has over 500 biographies, essays & surveys, links (primary resources, think tanks, glossaries, etc.), a site search.



• History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day - Has essays on origins of money & banking; control of money supply; warfare & financial history; 3rd world money & debt; etc..



• ibiblio - A virtual library & digital archive with collections of ebooks, journals, archives, historic material. Includes EdWeb, Famous Artworks Exhibition, etc..



• In the First Person - Includes 3,350 personal narrative collections in English worldwide, over 650,000 pages of full-text by over 15,000 people, 3,500 audio & video files & 30,000 bibliographic records, 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, 17,000 oral history entries.



• internetnews.com - Has news articles in 11 categories (business, developer, ecommerce, enterprise, networking, security, stats, storage, wireless, xSP) with archives back to 1998.



• Investor's Clearinghouse, The - The best investor education resources from 21 leading non-profit, governmental, self-regulatory associations & agencies. Covers stocks, bonds, mutual funds, online investing, financial planning, how to avoid stock market fraud, etc..



• irs.com - A portal with consumer-oriented source for federal, state, local tax-related developments. Has answers to general tax questions & links to federal- & state-sponsored tax sites that allow you to conduct more detailed tax research.



• Knowledge@Wharton - Has editorial content in 14 sections (business ethics, finance & investment, leadership & change, marketing, health economics, strategic management, public policy & management, human resources, business ethics, innovation & entrepeneurship, operations management, managing technology, etc.) & in 4 layers (brief summaries, short articles written by professional business journalists, academic papers, links to Web sites). Requires free registration.



• LLRX.com - Has over 1,400 links to State & Federal court rules, forms, dockets; articles & columns on legal research, technology, management. Includes business filings database; Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources, The; etc..



• MarketingProfs.com - Know-how from professors & professionals. Has articles, tutorials, FAQs, resources (tools, glossaries, etc.), an enewsletter, site search.



• McMaster University Archive for History of Economic Thought - Has primary etexts, studies of those texts & their 150 or so authors, links to 30 other archives.



• Mexican Migration Project (MMP) - Has a downloadable (compressed ASCII) database (Mexican & U.S. survey data), oral histories, folk art exhibit, links. Focus is social & economic.



• National Information Center (NIC) - Has searchable databases of directory & financial information for banks & other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, research interest.



• NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) - Has Bureau & publications (NBER Working Papers, research, data) information, a site search.



• net.TUTOR - Has 15 interactive tutorials (Citing Net Sources, Evaluating Web Sites, Using Web Search Tools, etc.), resource guides (business, education, health, humanities, math & science, social sciences, etc.), etc..



• NetEc - Can search WebEc (World Wide Web Resources in Economic); etc.. Includes &/or sponsors RePEc (Research Papers in Economics).



• Nolo - Has legal information on business & human resources; patents, copyright, art; wills & estate planning; property & money; family law & mmigration; rights & disputes.



• OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) - Has Organization & member country information (links, reports, etc.), OECD Economics Department Working Papers, etc.; a statistics portal with an extensive glossary, etc.; an OECD Publications; site search.



• Online Women's Business Center - U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Has Center information, over 650 hot topic articles, etc., a site search. Covers business basics (starting, financing, growing, etc.).



• Peerspectives.org - Has over 1,400 ideas for second stage (growing) businesses (markets, organization, finances, management, technology, taxes), enewsletter, etc. a site search.



• Project Finance Portal - A portal for practitioners, researchers, students. Has bibliographic references for books, articles, case studies; over 900 links to related sites with data & information projects & companies/organizations involved with finance.



• Quirks.com - Can search over 1,000 case histories & Quirk's Marketing Research Review articles back to 1986. Has links to directories, resources, etc..



• RAW (Rutgers Accounting Web) - Has links to the AAA, ACUA, AGA, FASB, GASB, IIA, IMA, FASAB; accounting resources; the Rutgers Accounting Research Directory; the Hasselback faculty directory; etc.; a site search.



• Search Engine Guide - Has links to over 3,200 tools (search engines, subject directories, databases [company, education, government, health & medicine, law, science, etc.]), news back to 1999, a vendor directory, etc., Web search.



• Securities Class Action Clearinghouse - Has 18,500 complaints, briefs, filings, on the prosecution, defense, settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation back to 1988.



• Shareware.com - Has downloadable software programs in 12 categories (audio & video, Internet, business, IS/IT, mobile, design, Web developer, software developer, utilities & drivers, desktop enhancements, home & dducation, etc.).



• Site-By-Site - Has news & commentaries from leading investment banks, brokerages, banks. Focus is on economic reports & analysis of a country's economical situation rather than on individual stocks. Includes links to stock exchanges, derivative exchanges, central banks; country surveys.



• Small Business Advisor - Has sections on tax advice, state specific information, U.S. government information, FAQs, checklists, a glossary, etc..



• Small Business Gateway - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Has information & links on small business & the environment, information, environmental regulations & laws, contact & experts, assistance & technical help, saving & finding money, FAQs.



• Spire Project, The - Has information & links on how to evaluate & find information on the Web (country profiles, patents, company information, imports & exports, United Nations information, government resources, industry research, theses & dissertations, news & news databases, etc.].



• Strategis - Has Canadian business & consumer information, tools, cost calculators, online planning, etc.. Includes &/or sponsors the The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO); World Regional Trade Statistical Analysis; etc..



• trade.gov - U.S. Department of Commerce. Has trade & industry development statistics & publications, etc.; links to Export.gov, etc.; a site search.



• U.S. Census Bureau - Has Bureau information, downloadable (pdf) publications (County and City Data Book, Economic Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, State & County QuickFacks, etc.), a site search. Includes &/or sponsors the American FactFinder; FirstGov.gov; North American Industry Classification System (NAICS); TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system); the U.S. Gazetteer; etc..



• U.S. Department of Commerce - Has Department information, a site search. Covers economic growth, free trade, international outreach, etc.. Includes &/or sponsors the BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis); Economic Indicators.gov; FedWorld.gov; National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); trade.gov; etc..



• U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) - Has Department information, laws & regulations, economic indicators, etc.. Includes &/or sponsors the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Career Voyages, OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration), etc..



• U.S. Department of the Treasury - Has information on accounting, currency, financial markets, international, small business, taxes, technology; a site search. Includes the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), FMS (Financial Management Service) Regulations & Guidance, Internal Revenue Service IRS.gov, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), etc..



• U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) - Has Commission information, publications (tariffs, congressional bills, etc.), dockets (downloadable [pdf] forms, etc.), links (Electronic Document Information System (EDIS), a site search.



• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - Has Commission & investor information, SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR), etc., a site search.



• U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) - Has information on starting, financing, managing businesses; business opportunities; disaster recovery; laws & regulatory assistance; a library with over 200 publications; etc.; site search. Includes &/or sponsors the Business.gov, Online Women's Business Center, etc..



• United Nations (UN) - Has UN information & a locator, maps & geographic resources; the UNBISnet (UN Bibliographic Information System); etc., a site search. Covers peace & security, economic & social development, human rights, humanitarian affairs, international law. Includes &/or sponsors UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), etc..



• USINFO.STATE.GOV - U.S. Department of State. Has official information on international security, trade & economics, global issues, democracy, human rights, society/culture/values; etc.; a site search.



• World Bank, The - Has Bank information (PovertyNet, etc.), discussions, enewsletters, a site search. Can get data & statistics, World Bank Data & Research, etc.. Includes &/or sponsors Macroeconomics and Growth, etc..



• World Trade Organization (WTO) - Has resources (downloadable [pdf, xls, wd] statistics, etc.), Documents Online, a site search.