Super
Searchers Make It On Their Own:
Top Independent
Information Professionals Share Their Secrets for Starting and Running
a Research Business
By Suzanne
Sabroski; Edited by Reva Basch
About
the Author About the Editor
Entrepreneurial
Research Resources
INTERNET SITES,
SEARCH ENGINES, SOFTWARE, AND ONLINE RESOURCES
1. 10K Wizard
www.10kwizard.com
Search tool for
information available to the public via the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission's EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval)
system, including keyword searches on up-to-the-minute SEC filings.
2. 80-20 Retriever
www.80-20.com
Software to organize
and search files, including email, on personal computers and enterprise-wide
systems.
3. ABI Inform
www.silverplatter.com/catalog/umai.htm
Commercial database
consisting of business and management literature
covering hundreds
of industries around the world.
4. About.com
www.about.com
A subject-based
guide to the Internet, with content selected and written by individual
subject experts.
5. Adobe Acrobat
www.adobe.com
Software that
allows users to view, print, and create Adobe Portable Document Format
(PDF) files.
6. Allaire's
HomeSite www.allaire.com
Macromedia's HTML
editor that allows users to build and maintain Web sites.
7. AllNetReseach
www.allnetresearch.internet.com
Part of the internet.com
network, a complete marketplace for Internet research reports, newsletters,
directories, and databases.
8. AltaVista
www.altavista.com
A leading search
engine among Web users and provider of high-powered search software to
intranet, enterprise, and e-commerce clients.
9. AOLAmerica
Online www.aol.com
A leading Internet
service and content provider.
10. Arizona
State University College of Engineering and Applied Science www.eas.asu.edu
General information
about the university and the college.
11. Ask Jeeves
www.ask.com
A natural language
search engine providing links to relevant Web sites.
12. Bitpipe
www.bitpipe.com
A leading syndicator
of in-depth information technology (IT) content.
13. BRB Publications,
Inc. www.brbpub.com
Publisher of sourcebooks
and news used by public records researchers.
14. British
Medical Journal www.bmj.com
Journal Web site
with full text medical articles and archival searching.
15. BRS www.opentext.com
Formerly BRS Online,
BRS/Search is now part of Open Text's LiveLink Intranet product.
16. BullsEye
www.intelliseek.com
A Windows-based
application to find, track, and manage relevant information on the Web.
17. Business.com
www.business.com
A comprehensive
Web directory and search engine that focuses exclusively on business.
18. Calendar
Creator www.microsoft.com
Windows-based
software program for creating customized calendars.
19. Call Notes
www.swbell.com
Voice mail management
system offered through Southwestern Bell.
20. CDB InfoTek
www.cdb.com
Provider of search
tools and access to county, state, and federal public records information.
21. CEO Express
www.ceoexpress.com
A business news
and information portal designed by and for company executives.
22. Chemical
Abstracts www.cas.org
Producer of the
world's largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information.
23. ChoicePoint
www.choicepoint.net
Provider of decision-making
intelligence to businesses and government, including public records information.
24. Chris Olson
and Associates www.chrisolson.com
A full-service
marketing firm that specializes in promoting the services and products
of information service professionals.
25. CompuServe
www.compuserve.com
An early Internet
Service Provider, offering a wide range of Internet services today.
26. Computers,
Freedom and Privacy www.cfp.org
Annual conference
exploring the role of computers in society.
27. Corporate
Information www.corporateinformation.com
Business portal
offering company, industry, country, and state searching.
28. CorpTech
www.onesource.com/products/corptech.htm
The CorpTech database
is now being marketed as OneSource CorpTech Profiles. It covers more than
50,000 U.S. high-tech companies.
29. Cumulative
Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) www.silverplatter.com/catalog/nurs.htm
Database serving
as an authoritative source of information for the professional literature
of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and health care.
30. DataStar
www.dialog.com
Europe's leading
online database service, providing access to more than 350 databases with
worldwide coverage; part of the Dialog Corporation, a Thomson company.
31. DBT www.dbtonline.com
See ChoicePoint.
32. Delphi
www.delphi.com/dir
An early Internet
service provider, now focusing on development for forum communities.
33. Delphion
Intellectual Property Network www.delphion.com
A Web site for
searching, exploring, analyzing, and tracking patents and related information.
34. Derwent
www.derwent.com
Provider of value-added
patent and scientific information.
35. Dialog
www.dialog.com
A Thomson company,
offering more than 600 industry databases with specialized indexing software.
36. Directsearch
http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
A growing compilation
of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily
or entirely searchable/accessible via general search tools.
37. Disclosure
www.primark.com/pfid
Information on
companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges, including annual reports,
SEC filings, stock price data, earnings estimates, and research reports.
38. Dow Jones
Business Directory www.bd.dowjones.com
Business portal
for Internet resources selected by Dow Jones Interactive staff.
39. Dow Jones
Interactive (see also Factiva) www.djinteractive.com
A customizable,
enterprise-wide business news and research solution, including content
from Dow Jones & Reuters newswires, business journals, market research
reports, analyst reports, and Web sites.
40. Dun &
Bradstreet www.dnb.com
A leading provider
of business information for credit, marketing, purchasing, and receivables
management decisions worldwide.
41. eContent
Expo www.econtent2001.com
Produced by Online
Inc., a conference for people, companies, products, and issues in the electronic
content industry.
42. Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC) www.accesseric.org
A national information
system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related
literature.
43. Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) www.eff.org
A donor-supported
membership organization founded to protect individual rights regardless
of technology.
44. EudoraPro
www.Eudora.com/email
Windows-based
email management software.
45. Factiva
www.factiva.com
Provider of Web-based
global business information from more than 8,000 sources; producer of Dow
Jones Interactive.
46. Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) www.fcc.gov
U.S. government
agency charged with regulating interstate and international communications
by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
47. First Call
www.firstcall.com
A Thomson Financial
company, providing real-time, commingled equity and fixed income research,
corporate news, quantitative, and shareholdings data.
48. FirstGov
www.firstgov.gov
A public-private
Internet partnership connecting the world to extensive U.S. government
information and services.
49. FreeEdgar
www.FreeEdgar.com
Offers the individual
user easy, basic access to SEC EDGAR filings.
50. Gale Group
www.galegroup.com
Publisher of reference
books, CD-ROMs, and Internet-delivered products to serve the information
needs of students, businesspeople, and other researchers.
51. GDSourcing
www.gdsourcing.com
A reference point
for Canadian statistics and an official distributor of Statistics Canada
products.
52. Gnutella
www.gnutella.wego.com
A Web-based file-sharing
network.
53. Google
www.google.com
General search
engine with broad Internet coverage.
54. Google Web
Directory www.directory.google.com
Search directory
for the Internet arranged by topic.
55. Grateful
Med http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
Search tool for
MEDLINE using the retrieval engine of the National Library of Medicine's
PubMed system.
56. Hoover's
www.hoovers.com
Company profile
and business news portal, offering in-depth reports with subscription.
57. HotBot
www.hotbot.com
General Internet
search engine.
58. Index Medicus
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html
International
indexing system to provide access to the world's biomedical journal literature.
59. Individual.com
www.individual.com
Personalized general
news subscription site.
60. Industry
Week www.industryweek.com
Daily news and
information portal, with specific industry news options.
61. InformIT
www.informit.com
An information
technology portal with customizing options.
62. InfoUSA
www.infousa.com
Verified business
profile information provider, specializing in customized mailing lists.
63. Intelliscope
www.intelligencedata.com
Customized reports
and current business news and expert analysis for subscribers.
64. International
Market Research Mall (IMR Mall) www.imrmall.com
Specialized access
to search, select, buy, and view full-text market research reports online.
65. Internet
Lawyer www.internetlawyer.com
Research and information
portal for the legal profession.
66. Knowledge
Express www.knowledgeexpress.com
Business development
and competitive intelligence for organizations involved with science/technology
research and new inventions.
67. KnowX
www.knowx.com
Web-based public
records information provider.
68. Law Seminars
International www.lawseminars.com
Professional education
programs focusing on the risks and opportunities created by current and
emerging legal issues for lawyers, executives, and government officials.
69. LexisNexis
www.lexis-nexis.com
Major online information
provider of legal information (Lexis) and specialized business and news
databases (Nexis).
70. Librarians'
Index to the Internet www.lii.org
A searchable,
annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated
by librarians.
71. Library
and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) www.silverplatter.com/catalog/out/LISA
Scholarly information
clearinghouse covering the library and information science field.
72. LLRX www.llrx.com
Web journal dedicated
to providing legal professionals with information on a wide range of Internet
legal research and technology-related issues.
73. LookSmart
www.looksmart.com
A Web-based directory
for business listings around the world.
74. Lycos
www.lycos.com
General Internet
search engine.
75. Maricopa
Community College District www.maricopa.edu
General Web page
of Maricopa Community College.
76. MarketResearch
www.marketresearch.com
Search and information
portal for buying market research reports.
77. MD Express
www.mdexpress.com
Portal for physicians
and health professionals that provides links to medical search engines,
professional associations, education resources, health statistics, office
tools, business news, and more.
78. Medical
Data International www.medicaldata.com
Provider of compliance,
coding, reimbursement, and market and technology intelligence for the worldwide
healthcare industry.
79. Medical
Subject Headings (MESH) www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
U.S. National
Library of Medicine's (NLM) controlled vocabulary terminology source.
80. MEDLINE
www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/medline.html
U.S. National
Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database, containing
more than 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with
a concentration on biomedicine.
81. Metacrawler
www.metacrawler.com
Web directory
and search engine with capability to search multiple search engines at
once.
82. Mighty Words
www.mightywords.com
Web-based digital
document distribution network.
83. MindBranch
www.mindbranch.com
Market research
clearinghouse offering reports and other information from a variety of
publishers.
84. Multex
www.multex.com
A global provider
of investment information and technology solutions for the financial services
industry.
85. Napster
www.napster.com
Web-based music
file sharing network; no longer available.
86. National
Library of Medicine www.nlm.nih.gov
Official medical
library of the United States.
87. National
Online Meeting www.infotoday.com/nom2000/default.htm
2000 North America's
largest electronic information conference and exhibition sponsored by Information
Today; now part of InfoToday
2002.
88. Neat New
Stuff www.marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Weekly reviews
of new sites and developments by "librarian without walls" Marylaine Block.
89. Northern
Light www.northernlight.com
A research engine
covering both free and fee-based Web resources.
90. Online Public
Access Catalogs (OPACs) www.libdex.com
Searchable library
catalogs available through the Internet.
91. Online World
www.onlineinc.com
Former online
industry trade show sponsored by Online, Inc. Last held in September 2000.
92. Orbit
www.questel.orbit.com
Online database
information provider in the areas of intellectual property,
scientific research,
and international business.
93. Pacer
http://pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov
Public records
information provider offering U.S. party/case indexing.
94. Paintshop
Pro www.jasc.com
Windows-based
program for graphics management and capturing screenshots.
95. PatentValuePredictor.com
See StockPricePredictor.com.
96. Paul &
Sarah Edwards: Working from Home www.paulandsarah.com
Web site of work-at-home
experts Paul and Sarah Edwards.
97. PowerMarks
www.kaylon.com/power.html
Bookmark manager
and personal search engine for the Internet.
98. PR Newswire
www.prnewswire.com
Newswire service
for press releases and company news.
99. Price's
List of Lists http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm
Clearinghouse
for lists of information on the Internet, including rankings of people,
organizations, and companies. Compiled by Gary Price.
100. Profound
www.profound.com
Online business
information service for end-users and professional searchers.
101. Psychiatry-Online
www.psychiatry-online.com
A fee-based consulting
service that provides individuals with access
to psychiatrists
online.
102. PubMed
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
A digital archive
of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for
Biotechnology Information.
103. Query Server
www.queryserver.com
A meta-search
tool that broadcasts a single query across a set of Web-enabled search
engines.
104. QuickBooks
/ QuickBooks Pro www.quickbooks.com
Accounting and
financial management software for small businesses.
105. Reader's
Guide to Periodical Literature www.silverplatter.com/catalog/wipl.htm
An index to general-interest
periodicals and magazines.
106. Reference
Manager www.refman.com
Software for Internet
reference searching, database management, and bibliography development.
107. Research
Bank / Investext www.investext.com
A comprehensive
collection of market research analyst reports on the Web.
108. ResearchBuzz
www.researchbuzz.com
Web site devoted
to Internet research news and information.
109. Robot Wisdom
Weblog www.robotwisdom.com
Weblog providing
links to obscure Web sites.
110. Salomon
Smith Barney www.salomonsmithbarney.com
Subscription site
for financial services and portfolio management.
111. The Scout
Report www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report
Weekly news of
Internet resources; professional librarians and subject matter experts
select, research, and annotate each resource.
112. Search
Adobe PDF Online www.searchpdf.adobe.com
Search tool for
locating Adobe PDF files.
113. SearchDay
www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday
Chris Sherman's
daily column featuring news and analysis of search engine technologies.
114. Search
Engine Watch www.searchenginewatch.com
Danny Sullivan's
Web site devoted to trends and developments on the search engine front.
115. Sears List
of Subject Headings www.hwwilson.com/print/searslst.htm
Authoritative
listing of subject headings for cataloging materials in libraries.
116. Sherlock
www.apple.com/sherlock
Specialized search
tool for the Apple Macintosh system.
117. Slashdot
www.slashdot.org
Offbeat "news
for nerds and stuff that matters," featuring articles, interviews, and
online discussion forums.
118. Small Business
Administration (SBA) www.sba.gov
U.S. government
agency charged with small business development and regulation.
119. Standard
& Poor's www.standardpoor.com
In-depth opinions
and analyses on global equities, fixed-income credit ratings, risk management,
and market developments.
120. Stat-USA
www.statusa.gov
Offers CD-ROM
and Internet access to international trade and business information.
121. STN www.cas.org/stn.html
Online information
for a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering,
life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents,
and business.
122. StockPricePredictor.com
www.patentvaluepredictor.com
Subscription-based
information service to assess values of individual patents and company
patent portfolios.
123. Superior
Information Services www.superiorinfo.com
Online search
service for public records data.
124. SurfWax
www.surfwax.com
Innovative meta-search
engine featuring real-time page summaries.
125. Thomson
& Thomson www.thomson-thomson.com
Online search
service specializing in trademark and copyright searches.
126. Uniform
Commercial Code (UCC) www.law.cornell.edu/uniform/ucc.html
Federal law designed
to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions;
filings are public record.
127. Uniform
Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) www.ucita.com
A proposed state
contract law designed to standardize the licensing of software and all
other forms of digital information.
128. Usenet
http://groups.google.com
Wide-ranging Internet-based
discussion groups; searchable and browsable.
129. U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO) www.uspto.gov
U.S. government
agency charged with regulation and recording of all patents and patent
applications.
130. U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) www.edgar.sec.gov
U.S. government
agency charged with regulation of publicly traded companies and their stocks
and other investment instruments.
131. Vault.com
www.vault.com
An employment
and career information portal, offering specific industry and company news
and profiles.
132. Venture
Source www.venturesource.com
Online database
of focused research on the venture capital industry.
133. Verizon
www.verizon.com
Telecommunications
provider; formerly GTE and Bell Atlantic.
134. Virtual
Acquisition Shelf http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Gary Price's weekly
updates of resources and news for information professionals and researchers.
135. Vivisimo
www.vivisimo.com
Search engine
technology available for licensing for use on the Web, an extranet, or
an intranet.
136. Wall Street
Journal www.wsj.com
Online version
of daily newspaper, available by subscription.
137. Wall Street
Research Net www.wsrn.com
Up-to-date customized
market and company news.
138. WebCrawler
www.webcrawler.com
General Internet
directory and search engine.
139. Web Search
University www.websearchu.com
Conference launched
in 2001 by Online, Inc. Focused on the specifics of the latest news and
developments in Web searching.
140. WIRED
www.wired.com
Technology-oriented
news and information for Web users.
141. World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) www.wipo.org
An international
organization dedicated to protecting intellectual property through legislation,
regulation, and standardization.
142. World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) www.w3c.org
Organization that
develops specifications, guidelines, software, and tools to promote the
Web as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective
understanding.
143. World Wide
Web Virtual Library http://vlib.org
Subject-based,
decentralized Internet directory.
144. WS-FTP
www.ipswitch.com/Products/WS_FTP
Windows application
used to transfer files between a local PC and a remote computer on the
Internet.
145. Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com
General Internet
search engine and subject directory.
ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION
GROUPS, MAILING LISTS, AND NEWSLETTERS
146. AIIP-L
www.aiip.org
Available to
AIIP members only
147. The Airline
List
To subscribe,
send email to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
148. BUSLIB-L
To subscribe,
send email to: Listserv@listserv.boisestate.edu
In message body
type:
Subscribe buslib-l
firstname lastname
149. Chemical
Information Listserv (CHMINF-L) listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html
150. Free Pint
To subscribe,
send email to: subs@freepint.co.uk
Monthly news and
developments in Internet information research.
151. LIMS (Environmental
regulation of laboratories list)
To subscribe,
send email to: Listserv@list.uvm.edu
152. MEDLIB-L
To subscribe,
send email to: Listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
In message body
type:
SUBSCRIBE MEDLIB-L
firstname lastname
153. New Business
Development Groups.yahoo.com/group/NewBizDev/join
A public discussion
list for sharing new business development ideas.
154. Nua Internet
Surveys www.nua.ie/surveys/subscribe.html
Weekly newsletter
containing news on Internet trends and statistics.
155. Patent
Information Users Group www.piug.org
156. PRSPCT-L
www.usc.edu/dept/source/research.htm
Discussion list
for Internet fundraising prospect researchers.
157. SLA Business
& Finance Division
To subscribe,
send email to: listserv@lists.psu.edu
In message body
type:
Subscribe SLABF-L
firstname lastname
158. SLA Law
Librarians Division
To subscribe,
send email to: listserv@listserv.uh.edu
In message body
type:
Subscribe SLA-LAW
firstname lastname
159. SLA News
Division
To subscribe,
send email to: Listproc@listserv.oit.unc.edu
In message body
type:
Subscribe NEWSLIB
firstname lastname
160. SLA Pharmaceutical
and Health Technology Division
To subscribe,
send email to: listserv@lists.sla.org
In message body
type:
Subscribe SLA-DPHM
firstname lastname
161. SLA Solo
Librarians Division
To subscribe,
send email to: listserv@silverplatter.com
In message body
type:
Subscribe SOLOLIB-L
firstname lastname
162. SLA Toronto
To subscribe,
send email to: Lists@lists.sla.org
In message body
type:
Subscribe SLA-CTOR
firstname lastname
163. Wall Street
Journal daily alerts www.wsj.com
Customized news
coverage available to subscribers.
164. Web Search
Newsletter
To subscribe,
fill out form on Newsletter page at www.websearch.about.com
Weekly news on
Web research and search engines from About.com.
ORGANIZATIONS
165. Aero Club
of Washington www.aeroclub.org
166. Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) www.aopa.org
167. American
Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) www.ahima.org
168. Arizona
Software and Internet Association (ASIA) www.azsoft.net
169. Arizona
State University www.asu.edu
170. Arizona
Telecommunications & Information Council (ATIC) www.ArizonaTele.com
171. Association
of Consulting Chemists & Chemical Engineers (ACC&CE) www.chemconsult.org
172. Association
of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) www.aiip.org
173. Association
of Internet Professionals (AIP) www.association.org
174. Biotechnology
Industry Cluster www.azbiocluster.org
175. California
Association of Licensed Investigators www.cali-pi.org
176. Canadian
Library Association (CLA) www.cla.ca
177. Copyright
Clearance Center (CCC) www.copyright.com
178. Dallas
Association of Law Librarians www.aallnet.org/chapter/dall
179. Dayton
Chamber of Commerce www.daytonchamber.org
180. E-Healthcare
World www.ehealthcareworld.com
181. Environmental
Technology Industry Cluster www.futurewest.com/economy/etic
182. Experimental
Aircraft Association (EAA) www.eaa.org
183. Fast Company
www.fastcompany.com
184. Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) www.faa.gov
185. Global
Arizona E-Learning www.gazel.org
186. Governor's
Strategic Partnership for Economic Development (GSPED) www.commerce.state.az.us/gsped.htm
187. High Tech
Industry Cluster www.azhitechcluster.org
188. IHSEmerging
Medical Technologies www.ihshealthgroup.com
189. International
Aviation Club of Washington DC www.iacwashington.org
190. Medical
Library Association (MLA) www.mlanet.org
191. Medical
Marketing Association www.mmanet.org
192. Medtech
Insight www.medtechinsight.com
193. National
Air Transportation Association (NATA) www.nata-online.org
194. National
Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) www.nawbo.org
195. National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) www.ntsb.gov
196. Public
Record Retriever Network (PRRN) www.brbpub.com/prrn
197. Service
Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) www.score.org
198. Small Business
Development Center (SBDC) www.sba.gov/sbdc
199. Society
of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) www.scip.org
200. Software
& Information Industry Association (SIIA) www.siia.net
201. Special
Libraries Association (SLA) www.sla.org
202. Tech Oasis
www.techoasis.org
203. United
States Department of Transportation (DOT) www.dot.gov
PRINT JOURNALS,
MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS, NEWSPAPERS
204. African
Aviation
African Aviation
Services Limited, UK, monthly
www.africanaviation.com
205. Airport
Business
Cygnus Business
Media, Janesville, WI, 9x/year
www.airportbiz.com
206. Aviation
Week
McGraw-Hill, New
York, NY, weekly
www.aviationnow.com
207. Business
2.0
Imagine Media,
Brisbane, CA, monthly
www.business2.com
208. Business
& Commercial Aviation
McGraw-Hill, New
York, NY, monthly
www.AviationNow.com/BCA
209. Business
Week
McGraw-Hill, New
York, NY, weekly
www.businessweek.com
210. CyberSkeptic's
Guide to Internet Research
Bibliodata, Needham
Heights, MA, monthly
www.bibliodata.com/skeptic/skepdata.html
211. The Economist
Economist, New
York, NY, weekly
www.economist.com
212. EContent
Online Inc., Wilton,
CT, bimonthly
www.ecmag.net
www.onlineinc.com/database
(archives)
213. Financial
Times
Financial Times,
New York, NY, daily
www.financialtimes.com
214. The Globe
and Mail
Bell Globemedia,
Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, daily
www.theglobeandmail.com
215. Information
Advisor
Find/SVP, New
York, NY, monthly
www.findsvp.com
216. Information
Outlook
Special Libraries
Association, Washington DC, monthly
www.sla.org/pubs/serial/io/index.shtml
217. Information
Today
Information Today,
Inc., Medford, NJ, monthly
www.infotoday.com
218. Library
Journal
American Library
Association, Washington DC, monthly
www.libraryjournal.com
219. New York
Times
The New York Times
Company, New York, NY, daily
www.nytimes.com
220. Online
Information Today,
Inc., Medford, NJ
www.infotoday.com/online
221. Regional
Airline World
Shephard Press
Limited, UK, monthly
www.shephard.co.uk
222. Santa Rosa
Business Journal
Regional news
for Santa Rosa, California.
www.busjrnl.com
223. Searcher
Information Today,
Inc., Medford, NJ, 10x/year
www.infotoday.com/searcher
224. Women in
Management
Ivey Publishing,
University of Western Ontario, quarterly
www.ivey.uwo.ca/publications/wim
BOOKS
225. Encyclopedia
of Associations
Gale Research,
Detroit, MI, annual
www.galegroup.com
226. Free Agent
Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way
We Live
By Daniel H. Pink
Warner Books,
New York, NY, 2001
227. Growing
a Business
By Paul Hawken
Simon and Schuster,
New York, NY 1987
www.simonandschuster.com
228. How to
Avoid Liability: The Information Professional's Guide to Negligence and
Warranty Risks
By T.R. Halvorson
Burwell Enterprises,
Dallas, TX 1998
www.burwellinc.com
229. Information
Brokering: A How-To-Do-It-Manual
By Florence Mason
and Chris Dobson
Neal-Schuman,
New York, NY 1998
www.neal-schuman.com
230. The Information
Broker's Handbook (3rd Edition) and Information Broker's Seminar
By Sue Rugge and
Alfred Glossbrenner
Windcrest/McGraw-Hill,
New York, NY 1997
Out of print
231. Information
Brokers: How to Start and Operate Your Own Fee-Based Service
By Kelly Warnken
Out of print
232. The Invisible
Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See
By Chris Sherman
and Gary Price
CyberAge Books,
Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 2001
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm
233. Mining
for Gold on the Internet: How to Find Investment and Financial Information
on the Internet
By Mary Ellen
Bates
McGraw-Hill, New
York, NY, 2000
www.mcgraw-hill.com
234. Pan Africa:
Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am
By Thomas M. Culbert
Paladwr Press,
McLean, VA, 1998
235. Researching
Online For Dummies (2nd Edition)
By Reva Basch
and Mary Ellen Bates
Hungry Minds Inc.,
(formerly IDG Books), New York, NY, 2000
www.hungryminds.com
236. Super Searchers
Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Reseachers
By Mary Ellen
Bates
CyberAge Books,
Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 2001
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm
237. Super Searchers
Do Business: The Online Secrets of Top Business Researchers
By Mary Ellen
Bates
CyberAge Books,
Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 1999
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm
238. Super Searchers
on Wall Street: Top Investment Professionals Share Their Online Research
Secrets
By Amelia Kassel
CyberAge Books,
Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 2000
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm
239. World Aviation
Directory
McGraw-Hill, New
York, NY, annual
www.wadaviation.com
About
the Author
Suzanne Sabroski
is principal of Sabroski & Associates, providing general research and
writing support to business professionals since 1995. Prior to going on
her own she worked as a corporate librarian, with additional experience
in nonprofit administration, tourism, and freelance writing. She obtained
her bachelor's degree in political science and mass communications from
the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and her master's in Educa-tional
Media from the College of St. Scholastica, writing her thesis on company
information needs assessment. Suzanne was editor of the Association of
Independent Information Professionals' first white paper, The Independent
Information Profession, and has written for Searcher and Washington
Researchers. She is a recipient of AIIP's Myra T. Grenier Award, and served
on the AIIP Board of Directors as Chair of Public Relations.
Suzanne lives with
her husband, Alan; their three children; and their dog in the beautiful
wilderness of northern Minnesota, where she is an active volunteer in school
and church activities, and Suzuki parent to their three young violinists.
About the Editor
Reva Basch, executive
editor of the Super Searchers series, has written four books of her own:
Researching
Online For Dummies (Hungry Minds, 2nd edition with Mary Ellen Bates),
Secrets
of the Super Net Searchers (Information Today, 1996), Secrets of
the Super Searchers (Information Today, 1993), and Electronic Information
Delivery: Evaluating Quality and Value(Gower, 1995). She has edited
and contributed chapters, introductions, and interviews to several books
about the Internet and online information retrieval. She was the subject
of a profile in Wired magazine, which called her "the ultimate intelligent
agent."
Prior to starting
her own business in 1986, Reva was Vice President and Director of Research
at Information on Demand, a pioneering independent research company. She
has designed front-end search software for major online services; written
and consulted on technical, marketing, and training issues for both online
services and database producers; and published extensively in information
industry journals. She has keynoted at international conferences in Australia,
Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom, as well as North America.
Reva is a Past-President
(19911992) of the Association of Independent Information Professionals.
She has a degree in English literature, summa cum laude, from the
University of Pennsylvania, and a master's degree in library science from
the University of California, Berkeley. She began her career as a corporate
librarian, ran her own independent research business for ten years, and
has been online since the mid-1970s.
Reva lives on the
remote northern California coast with her husband, cats, and satellite
access to the Internet.
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