Research Bookmarks
Last updated on February 20, 2013
Compiled
and maintained by the Research staff
in the Office of Alumni Relations and Development at Northwestern University
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Colleges and Universities
Alumni Magazines on the Web
Yahoo!'s small (but reliable) list of links to
alumni magazines in the United States.
SearchEdu.com
A search engine for colleges and
universities. Provides additional useful links to other reference tools.
Company Profiles/Venture Capital
Hoover's Online
Hoover's Online provides
information on private and public businesses. The more comprehensive material
is available only to subscribers.
Yahoo! Finance
Provides profiles, news, SEC
filings, and executive bios, not to mention the all-important insider holdings
and salary reports.
Annual Reports Service from The Wall Street Journal
Online
Free annual reports on many
major companies in PDF format.
Annual
Report Service
Provides annual reports for
companies that participate in the service. You are able to get most on-line and
some are available in a hard copy as well.
BetaBeat
"The Lowdown on High Tech" An amusing and informative site focusing on Silicon Valley and all its suburbs pulled together by The New York Observer.
BigBook
(Superpages.com)
A national Yellow Pages that
maps the location of 11 million businesses. Helps pinpoint sites, especially
for efficient scheduling of appointments. Businesses are searchable by
categories.
Business.com
This site bills itself as
"the leading business search engine."
Business Credit
Reports (Credit.net)
Free basic address
information from a database featuring over 14 million companies. Search by
business name, executive name, company address, company phone number, Web site
URL or UCC listing. Reports with credit information, executive names, sales
information, and number of employees now available for a fee or by
subscription. Free 72-hour trial.
Corporate Information
Offers free bare-bones
reports on companies (meatier profiles are subscriber-based), research links, a
list of the top 100 companies worldwide, and a glossary of business
definitions.
FDIC Bank Data and Statistics
Access comprehensive
financial & structural information about every FDIC-insured institution.
National Venture
Capital Association
General information on
venture capitalism as a career and a membership directory with links to member
firms.
Pinksheets.com
Provides information on
smaller companies traded on the Over The Counter Bulletin Board and the Pink
Sheets. Quotes, stock charts, and company profile information on over six
thousand companies that might be hard to find elsewhere.
Pratt's Guide
Excellent source for information on private equity and venture capital. Fee-based but often available through university libraries.
Preqin
Information and articles on
private equity, real estate and hedge fund firms. Most is fee-based, but some
good free information including a glossary and a list of resources.
Private Business Valuation
Article from Inc. with general information about putting a price on a business.
PSEPS Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory
"The World's Largest Open Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory" Profiles of VC and PE ffirms and executives.
Reuter's
Along with a wealth of
business news articles, you can find comprehensive, nicely formatted
information on public companies. Go to “News & Markets” click on Stocks and get an overview and charts
that show executive compensation and stock ownership.
Venture Capital Journal
Fee-based journal with indepth coverage of the venture capital world.
vFinance
Provides older directories of Venture Capital
firms for free. More up-to-date material is subscription-based.
Wall-Street.com (Small Companies Research)
Specializes in companies
traded over the counter that don't show up on other financial directories,
including profiles, research reports, IPOs, news.
Foundations
For links to non-domestic foundation information, look under International
Guidestar
Search information on the
programs and finances of nearly two million American charities and nonprofit
organizations.
Urban Institute - National Center for
Charitable Statistics
Search information on the
programs and finances of more than two million American charities and nonprofit
organizations. Among its many fine features, the FAQ page of the NCCS site is a
succinct primer on the differences between types of nonprofit
organizations.
Charityblossom
Information about nonprofit, often including latest 990s.
Glossary
from Common Grant Application site
A very helpful glossary of
terms used by foundations and a list of resources.
Council
on Foundations
The Council on Foundations
helps grantmakers effectively manage foundations.
Foundation
Center
The Foundation Center is an
independent nonprofit organization established by foundations in 1956. Its
mission is to increase public understanding of the foundation field. “The
Center’s online subscription database, Foundation Directory Online, provides
detailed information about more than 98,000 U.S. foundations and corporate
donors and 1.7 million grants. It can be used free of charge on site at all
Center locations and Cooperating Collections.”
Internet Prospector Charities Databases on the Web
An archive of information
from December 1994 to November 2008. No longer updated.
NOZA 990-PF Database (formerly Grantsmart)
Database of 990-PF tax forms;
search by assets, location, or name.
Government (Federal)
Opensecrets.org
Search by FEC database by
name and state to find individual donations to political campaigns. You can
also see the top donors to a candidate’s campaign. Brought to you by the Center
for Responsive Politics.
C-SPAN Campaign Finance Database
Search for financial info on
candidates, donors, and fundraisers for federal elections going back to 1994.
Federal Government Internet Guide
The Washington Post's online guide to the federal government.
Institute of Governmental Studies - UC Berkeley
An exceptional compilation of
federal government and California local government links.
The Plum Book
Where to find the salary of
Federal employees, including Presidential appointees (lists names, too). You
must know the department the person is in.
The Political Graveyard
A resource that provides
information on both living and deceased politicians which can be used to
ascertain whether or not a prospect was ever related to a politician, judge, or
diplomat. Most of the people listed have ended their political careers.
Searchable by name, office and state held, date born or died, state and county
of birth or death, ethnicity, religious affiliation, awards, military status,
etc.
SearchGov.com
Excellent starting place to
find information about anything federal. Includes links to state and local
governments. It is really a search engine devoted solely to government.
Thomas
The Library of Congress
sponsors and maintains this database for information on federal legislation,
presidential nominations, committee information and treaties.
U.S. Congressmen Biographical Data
Biographical directory of all
members of Congress since 1774, committee directories, financial disclosure
forms, etc.
Uncle Sam by Google
This special Google search
engine searches only web sites with the ".gov" government suffix.
Government (State and Local)
Illinois Campaign for Political Reform and Illinois State Board of Elections
Two excellent resources that
offer financial disclosure information on Illinois candidates for state office,
including campaign donor databases.
SearchSystems Public Records
Links to over 55,000 free
public records databases in the US.
State
& Government Links
Provides links to the
official home pages of particular states, counties, or cities.
California Directory of Lobbyists, Lobbying Firms, and
Lobbying Employers
Searchable directory of
lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbyist employers in California. Includes
client contact information, who they lobby for, and who their clients are.
California University and State Employees' Salaries
Salaries of California state employees, including faculty at California State and the University of California system, collected by the Sacramento Bee.
Follow the Money
A stellar source for
contribution info for gubernatorial campaigns, etc.
Kentucky Vital Records
Files of Kentucky deaths
(1911-1992), marriages (1973-1993) and divorces (1973-1993).
National Association of Counties
Click on a state on the map
of the United States get links to all the counties in the state. These sites
often have property assessment links. You can search for the home county using
the name of a city, view average household incomes in a county and whole lot
more.
Grants
Grants.gov
Managed by the Department of
Health and Human Services, this site provides an overview of the application
process, lists agencies that provide grants and has links to other resources.
National Institute for the Humanities Grants
Information
Deadlines,
applications and descriptions for current NEH grants.
Society of Research Administrators GrantsWeb
Grants
links and information, with an emphasis on government funding.
Sponsorship.com
While not strictly a grants
site, Sponsorship.com is chock full of news about corporate sponsorships of
both for-profit and non-profit events, projects and programs. Registered users
can access reports and statistics on sponsorship in the U.S., including a list
of the top US corporate sponsors.
U.S. Department of Education Grants Site
Everything
you need to pursue a DOE grant--announcements, downloadable applications, a
forecast of upcoming grants, and an application guide.
International
Canada
United Kingdom
Europe
Asia
Australia/New Zealand
OANDA.com
Offers both current and
historical international currency conversions.
Yahoo! International Stock Exchange Links
Links to stock exchanges
throughout the world.
Corporate Information
Offers free bare-bones
reports on companies around the world (meatier profiles are subscriber-based),
research links, a list of the top 100 companies worldwide, and a glossary of
business definitions.
Enormo
Listings of properties
currently for sale all over the world.
Infobel
Provides links to many international directories.
Internationalist
Links to foreign news items,
government links, foreign business schools, and general information about
countries. The site is designed for international business travelers and
investors.
International
Real Estate Directory
A collection of real estate
related internet sites.
Phonebooks.com International Directories
International directory of robust site with links to many directories
Property Assessment
Directory
Along with links to domestic property assessment databases, this site has a few
international sites, e.g., Bermuda, Northern Ireland, Scotland and others.
Sutter's Who's Who International Red Series
Full-text, searchable company
and biographical information for Italian, Russian, Chinese and Spanish
corporations, executives, and other VIPs. It's also free!
Canada
SEDAR
SEDAR, the Canadian
equivalent of the SEC, offers new public company filings, company profiles, and
other public company documents. See the "About SEDAR" tab for
definitions of filing and document types. Everything is available in both
English and French. Worth checking out when researching Canadian prospects or
companies, even if the company is listed on anAmerican exchange.
SEDI
The System for Electronic
Disclosure by Insiders (SEDI) aims to provide full insider transaction
disclosure reports for Canadian companies. Electronic filing became mandatory
after December 17, 2001.
Boat Register
Searchable by owner
Business Information Centre
List of sourcesabout Canadian companies
Canadia
Revenue Agency Charities Listing
Charity Village
Charity Village is “Canada
's supersite for the nonprofit sector” In your choice of French or English,
this site provides news, job information and other resources for Canadian
nonprofit professionals.
Corporations
Canada
This is a searchable
directory of federal corporations located in Canada, part of the Canadian
government's Industry Canada “Strategis” site. Data provided includes the
corporation number, corporate name, creation date, city, province, corporation
status, incorporation date, directors' names, and more.
Calgary Economic Development
Sources for information about businesses in Calgary
Canadian Property Searches
A mix of free and fee-based Canadian property searches, compiled by JournalismNet.
Canada's Richest Neighborhoods
Postal codes of Canada's wealthiest neighborhoods
Canoe.ca
News digest and links to a
variety of Canadian news sources.
Civil Aircraft Register
Searchable by owner
MLS Online - Canadian Real Estate Database
Searchable Canadian real
estate database
Pitney Bowes
Demographic information about Canadians.
Real
Estate Weekly's Home Guide
Listings of homes
in Lower Mainland and Greater Vancouver Area.
Rich List 100
Compiled by Canadian Business
United Kingdom
Zoopla!
Zoopla! aims to be the Zillow
of the UK. It gives the prices paid for houses in the UK since 1995. Zoopla!
also has the Zed-Index!—the average of estimated market values of home in a
given area. Look-ups seem to work better using the postal code instead of the
specific address.
Mouseprice
Valuations
and property sale prices for homes in the UK.
192.com
The most comprehensive phone
directory (55 million records) currently available for United Kingdom. Features
an impressive number of lookup options, including voting register, family
finder, route maps, relationship search, etc. Unfortunately, it's not free . .
.
CharitiesDirect.com
Database
of information on over 170,000 charities in the United Kingdom.
Companies House
This site provides company
profiles from the United Kingdom. The free WebCheck service is available from
Monday to Saturday 7:00 am to Midnight UK time.
British Telecom Phone Directory
Another useful phone
directory for the UK. Includes both white and yellow page searches. They
generously allow you ten free lookups a day!
The Lawyer Salary Surveys
What American Lawyer does
for American law firms, The Lawyer does for British law firms. This
site includes some great salary surveys: UK 100, UK 200, and Global 100.
Navy CyberSpace
Military pay charts for British armed forces.
UWE Business Sources
The University of the West of England has compiled a fine collection of
company/business information databases and directories.
Budapest
Business Journal
Business news and information
from Central Europe, brought to you by the publisher of the Prague, Warsaw and
Budapest Business Journals. The site offers free access to the archives of all
three of these journals for free on Fridays.
Europages
Information on 2.3 million
businesses in thirty-five European countries. Search by business name, product
or service.
European
Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA)
Information on European
Venture Capital firms
Factary Links
Links to European fundraising sites and other
sites useful for international research.
Federal Association of German Foundations
Links to German foundations
Swedish Telephone Directory
The Consulate General of
Sweden links to the Swedish Yellow Pages and provides simple English
instructions to search by business names
Asia
Hong Kong Property
Valuation Calculator
IRAsia (Investor Relations Asia Pacific)
IRAsia.com (pronounced I-R-Asia) provides corporate information for Asian and
Pacific-based firms.
Japan Foundation Center
Information and links to many
major Japanese Foundations.
Nikkei Net Interactive - Japan Business News Online
Japanese company information,
historical and current stock prices and Japanese IPOs (subscription required;
free trial available).
Australian White Pages Online
Carine Research
Great source for general advice (especially for freelancers) on prospect research and specific info about Australian sources.
Legal/Medical/Dental/Other Professions
ADA Dentist Directory
The
American Dental Association's Find A Dentist database provides information on
ADA members only, but is the most comprehensive listing of dentists available
online.
American Medical Association Directory
From
the "Doctor Finder" you can search by physician's name, specialty, or
a medical condition. Lists name, address info, practice, affiliations,
educational background, whether they are AMA members, etc.
Lawyer and Law Firm Directory from
Martindale
An
excellent resource for finding basic biographical and professional information
on lawyers across the country: Can search by lawyer name, firm name, and location/specialty. .
American Institute of Architects
Search
their database of member firms nationwide.
American Lawyer
The web site of the professional journal
American Lawyer provides free full-text access to the stories in its most
current issues.
American
Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
Has
interviews, events, news, as well as searchable database of performed music,
guides on the business and resources, etc.
AttorneyFind
Limited
searchable database of lawyers and firms by practice area and state.
California
Attorneys
The
State Bar of California maintains a database of California attorneys.
Information available online includes name, address, telephone and fax numbers,
e-mail addresses, date of admission to the California Bar, undergraduate and
law schools attended and whether the member is entitled to practice law in
California at this time.
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Contains
the service record and biographical information for all judges who have served
on the U.S. District Courts, U.S. Circuit Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and
the Supreme Court since 1789.
Findlaw
Searchable
directory of attorneys and law firms.
Law.com
An
excellent source for salary surveys of coporate lawyers.
National Law Journal's NLJ 250 Survey
Download the latest NLJ 250 Poster as a PDF file.
New York State Licensed Professionals
New
York Education Department oversees the licensing of certain professions,
including physicians, chiropractors, CPAs, architects, etc. Information on
licensing, searchable by name and profession.
The Journal of Online Law
This
site is sponsored by Cornell University's Law School. Searchable database of
state and federal laws.
Lists
PRSPCT-L archives
PRSPCT-L (pronounced
"prospect el") is a listserv provided as a forum for discussion of
prospect research issues. The archives of PRSPCT-L are an invaluable resource.
Joseph Boeke founded the list at the University of California, Irvine in 1992.
From 1995-1999, Bucknell University hosted the list. Now it's hosted on
CharityChannel.
How America Gives
An analysis of giving by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. You can sort by state city, zip code.
Forbes lists
All
the lists we love to clip: "The World's Billionaires," "The
Celebrity 100," "The 400 Richest Americans" and many more.
Prospect-dmm
"A discussion group for
development professionals involved or interested in data mining and modeling, particularly
as such concepts may be applied to major gifts."
Helen Brown Group
"Rich Lists" from around the world.
Million Dollar List
A free record of gifts of $1 million or more, spanning the years of 2000 to 2010. Put together by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, this site is in Beta form.
The
Sunday Times “Rich List”
The 2,000 wealthiest people in Britain and Ireland (2010 list), unfortunately
now available only by subscription.
Tile.net
"Originally started
in March 1995 as "The Internet Lotus Exchanger" (T.I.L.E.) this site
has evolved over the years from a comprehensive Internet resource to an email
newsletter, email discussion lists, email alerts and Internet Service Provider
(ISP) directory."
Yahoo! Groups for Educational Fund Raising
Searchable list of thousands
of fund raising groups on Yahoo! Groups.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Booz&Co
White papers, videos and podcasts about mergers and acquisitions and other finance topics.
The Deal
In
its efforts to chart "the Deal Economy" this site logs news of
mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, bankruptcies, venture capital, and private
equity.
Newspapers and Magazines
Bizjournals.com
Good source of regional
business news. Also provides lists of certain area-specific companies and
organizations (top ten law firms, venture capitalists in Minnesota, etc.).
Newslink
Links to newspaper and magazine home pages, arranged
geographically. Very helpful for access to smaller periodicals. Some require a
subscription and/or are fee-based.
PR Newswire
News updates served up
directly from companies, institutions and agencies across the globe. Set up
alerts for people and companies that you want to track.
BBC World Service
Exceptional news source for
world news.
Business Exchange by BusinessWeek
A compilation of articles,
blogs and other content on different business topics, from specific businesses
(e.g., Adobe Systems) to more general topics. Of particular interest: Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Data Mining. Still in beta.
Center for Public Integrity
With newspapers losing staff and readers, investigative journalism is in a bad
way. The Center for Public Integrity tries to pick up some of the slack.
Canoe.ca
News digest and links to a
variety of Canadian news sources.
Editor & Publisher Interactive
Editor & Publisher covers the newspaper industry.
Infoworld
A business journal covering
Silicon Valley and the rest of the techie world.
Patents
Free Patents Online
A well-designed site that
allows you to search for patents by inventors' names, issue dates,
descriptions, etc. It is easier to navigate than the US Patent and Trademark
Office site and claims to hold more data. The site also provides RSS feeds for
patents by class—great for keeping up with a particular industry. See the
Advanced Search for protocol in checking specific portions of the patent (e.g.
IN/"Doe John E" to query on the inventor). Finally it has a
collection called Crazy Patents, which is great fun to browse when you are
crazy for a break.
Google Patent
Over 7 million patents available to search. Still in Beta form. I love the line
drawings of miracle inventions on the opening page: e.g., Device for Cooling an
Infant's Brain.
People
African-American
Biographical Database
Wonderful biographical resource that documents the lives of thousands of
African Americans from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, both famous and
obscure. (NOTE: you may not be able to access this site if your institution's
library doesn't subscribe to it, but you can sign up for a free trial.) .
Legacy.com
Through
partnerships with nearly 800 newspapers worldwide, Legacy.com has
developed a database of millions of obituaries.
AskART.com
Comprehensive
biographical database of American artists that also offers sample images and current
exhibit information. Auction price available only to subscribers.
Biography.com
The popular cable network's database of notable biographies.
Celebrity Net Worth
Maybe more of a diversion than a resource, but CNW estimates the net worth of actors, sports figures, supermodel, rappers and others. Nothing on the site indicates the basis for these estimates.
CBS Sportsline Alumni Tracker
CBS
Sportsline is an excellent source for biographical information on athletes in
every professional sport. A useful( but not always up to date) feature shows allows you to
track professional athletes by their alma maters:
Infoplease Biographies
Search
more than 30,000 biographies of politicians, athletes, artists, and business
leaders.
InfoSpace
Links
to yellow pages, business directories searchable by exec name, city
information, a government section--fed, state, and local.
Little Sis
Little Sis profiles the powers that be. This collaboratively written site approaches
relationship mapping through a political lens, "tracking the key
relationships of politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers, and
their affiliated organizations." Includes links to all kinds of useful
lists.
Michigan Electronic Library Biography Links
National Obituary Archive
Searchable
obituary database, regularly updated. You can sign up for e-mail alerts
"when an obituary that interests you is added to the National Obituary
Archive."
New York Social Diary
Interesting
searchable site documenting the fabulous night life of New York's social elite.
People Spot Biography Links
This
page includes links to many smaller, specialized biography sites for people in
the arts and notables of various ethnicities.
Sutter's Who's Who International Red Series
Full-text,
searchable company and biographical information for Italian, Russian, and
Spanish corporations, executives, and other VIPs. It's also free!
Vital Records
The Centers for Disease Control and Protection site provides information for obtaining birth, marriage, divorce and death records.
Wealthy Families in America: History and Genealogy
This
database of America's wealthiest families can be a bit difficult to navigate,
but it includes valuable background information and family trees on America's
elite.
Zoominfo
Provides
a quick bio or company profile. The results can be repetitive, but Zoominfo is
a great starting point.
Philanthropy/Non-Profit
Matching Gift Database,
through the University of Pennsylvania
Enter
a company name, and the database will return matching gift details, range of
gifts matched, matching ratio, etc.
Charity Navigator
This organization rates the financial health of
10,000 charities in the US and provides its analyses in a
searchable database. In addition to the database, the Web site offers tips and
resources to help donors evaluate the effectiveness of organizations.
Chronicle of Higher Education
This week in Academe--stories
on higher education issues and events. You can create a free account. Paid
subscribers have access to all portions of the Web site and an archive of back
issues. This site is particularly good for facts, figures, charts comparing
endowment levels, salary surveys for faculty members, etc.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Who gave what to whom, and
all kinds of news about the nonprofit world. You can create a free account;
premium content available only to subscribers.You can connect to its"How America Gives"info here.
Estate
Planning Glossary
Don't know a CLUT from a
CLAT? Here’s your guide.
Hudson Institute's Global Philathropy Index
The Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittancescontains a wealth of information about aid to developing nation--who gives what to whom.
Network for Good
This site (formerly helping.org)
is a great resource for nonprofits in recruiting donors and volunteers via the
Internet.
The NonProfit Times
"Leading Business Publication for Nonprofit Management" Some information is free; subscription needed for the rest.
NOZA
Subscription-based site with “world’s largest database of charitable
donations.”
Philanthropic Digest Index
List of large (some
humongous!) gifts to institutions.
Phone/Address/Zip
For links to non-domestic phone and address information, look under International
Whois.net
Ever come across one of those pesky
Web sites that forget to include contact information? Just type in the URL and
Whois will provide you with registration information, including snail mail
address, email address and a phone number!
E-mail Verifiers
Trying to confirm whether an email address is current? These sites connect to the mail server and
confirm whether the address syntax is correct and the e-mail exists.
http://www.verifyemailaddress.org/
http://tools.email-checker.com/ (only three free lookups a day)
Infobel
This site provides links to various telephone directories on the web including:
Yellow Pages - White Pages - Fax Directories - Toll Free Directories - and Regional
Directories.
Switchboard
A free nationwide residential and
business directory from Coordinate.com. Includes over 90 million people and 10
million businesses.
Zip Code Lookup
A web site run by the postal service that will find zips for you.
ZipMath
Click Other Applications for zip codes (listed with the cities) within a
radius.
Real Estate
For links to non-domestic real estate information, look under International
Christina Pulawski's Tax Assessor
Database
Listings of phone numbers,
links, and multipliers for counties and other communities so you can find the
market value of properties.
Property Shark
Great
site for finding information and comparables for New York City property--with free
registration you're allowed one free lookup per day.
Zillow
The real estate site that has become a verb, ala Google. The site provides
current market value estimates.
ACRIS
The Automated City Register Information System (ACRIS)
allows you to search property records and view document images for Manhattan ,
Queens, Bronx, and Brooklyn back to 1966. Maintained by the New York City
Department of Finance.
Chicago Tribune Home Sales Site
Offers transactions for the last seven years of
home sales in the Chicago metro area.
Curbed
This real estate newsletteris no longer covers just the wild world of New York City real
estat. Now it covers LA, Chicago, DC and other places. It remains an entertaining read and a great way for outsiders to learn
about (and keep up with) rapidly changing real estate values.
Luxury Letter
Monthly newsletter tracking luxury real estate in New York City.
Most Expensive Zip Codes
The Forbes list of the most expensive zip codes in the United States.
New York State Equalization Information
I can
easily kill a half hour searching for the equalization rates hidden away on New
York State's Office of Real Property Services site, so here they are. And here
is the explanation for how to use them.
New York City Realty
Provides comps for coops and
condos in Manhattan, describes the buildings, lists recent sale prices, etc.
Good site but others have surpassed it.
Portico's Online Assessor Links
Property Assessment
Directory
Links to property assessment databases from around the country and a few
international sites, e.g., Bermuda, North Ireland, Scotland and others. You
still need to check Christina Pulawksi's
site for multipliers.
StreetEasy
Easily
navigable site for searching New York City and New Jersey properties by
neighborhood or building.
Wealthy Zip Code List - USC
The University of Southern California's list of zip codes that boast average
household incomes of $150,000+, with average property values of $500,000+.
Links to other Zip Code lists as well.
Yahoo! Real Estate
Now incorporating Zillow and
eppraisal.com to give you a range of home value estimates.
Reference (Business)
CEO Express
"The Executive's Internet" is a handy collection of links including newspapers and periodicl, business
research sites and office tools and reference.
Finance Glossary
Brought to you by Professor
Campbell R. Harvey at Duke University, this site boasts over 8.000 entries with
18,000 hyperlinks. It is an excellent source for financial terminology.
A Guide to SEC Corporate Filings
A downloadable PDF file with definitionsof all the SEC reports by
number, as well as many of the terms and regulations behind them all.
Inflation Calculator
This handy calculator can
help you figure out the current value of gifts given as long ago as 1913.
InvestorWords
Provides short definitions of
investing terms.
References (Desktop)
Yahoo! Babel Fish
Named
after Douglas Adams's extraordinarily useful fish from The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, this site will translate any phrase or Web page
from/into most of the major languages spoken on this planet. What's more, you
don't have to stick anything in your ear to use it.
Chicago Manual of Style
Great aid for all your grammar and usage questions.
Currency
Converter
Translate
various currencies to dollars.
Yahoo! Reference
One-stop
reference shopping, courtesy of Yahoo! Access the American Heritage Dictionary
(both English and Spanish) Roget's Thesaurus,Columbia Encyclopedia, World Factbook, Gray's Anatomy, The Oxford Shakespeare, and the
Conversion Calculator.
American Fact Finder
Slice and dice information from the 2010 US Census.
Academicinfo.net
Use the site map as an index to
a wide range of links of topics from 19th Century America to Zoology Societies.
Acronym Finder
A searchable database of more than 5 million common acronyms and abbreviations.
Amortization Table Calculator
Create an amortization table in three easy steps.
Bartleby.com
Searh for quotations from the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Bartlett's and other sources. Indexes by author title and subject.
Boat Buyers Guide
A
searchable database of boat values.
Boat Trader
Using
Boat Trader Online's nationwide database of classified ads, identifies current high,
low, and average prices for specific boats.
BUBL Link
Many excellent links to academic subjects.
ECHO Virtual Center for Science and Technology
This site links to more than 5,000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry.
FindArtInfo.com Auction Results Database
Excellent
resource for those times when you are trying to estimate the value of a
prospect's art collection. The database contains more than 2 million art prices. You must register and pay for the service.
Infomine
An
absolutely massive collection of academic information. Includes a function to
search many academic journals. Also provides a link to another huge collection
of government information. The search engine can be a bit frustrating, but the
links portion of it is very comprehensive.
The
Internet Movie Database
The
IMDb is an excellent movie reference source. Searchable by film and actor name, as well as director and crew. Subscription-based IMDB pro provides access to contacts to the talent.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
Catalogs of art work, manuscripts, books and photographs.
Internet Public Library (ipl2)
Perpetual Calendar
Peterson's College Search
Free
access to information on hundreds of major educational institutions, including
size, tuition, majors, athletics, and student life.
Resource Shelf
"Countless high-quality, free resources .... including databases, lists and rankings, real-time sources, and multimedia." You can subscribe to a free weekly newsletter.
Time Magazine’s “C
Divided into ten different
categories, including News & Info, Financial & Productivity, Social
Media and Education. This page also has links to Best Web Sites lists going
back to 2004.
WolframAlpha
"It'snot a Search engine, it's a Compuational Knowledge Engine." Great for getting stock prices, calorie and nutritional value of foods, distances between cities and all kinds of calculations.
YachtWorld.com
Another
searchable database useful in determining the value of a boat.
Research Web Pages
Excellent resources for development researchers.
Anderson University
APRA Home Page
"The mission of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement
is to foster professional development and promote standards that enhance the
expertise and status of development research and information service
professionals worldwide." Links to many prospect research sites here.
The Internet Prospector
An archive of prospect research information from December 1994 to November
2008. No longer updated.
Although geared towards higher education development, all kinds of research shops will find great resources here.
University of Southern California (NETSource)
University of Virginia (Portico)
Salary Information
USA
Today Pro Athletes' Salaries
Search for the salaries of football, baseball, basketball and hockey players on
this site. Goes back at least seven years in each league.
Reuter's Business and Finance
Comprehensive, nicely formatted information on public companies, including
executive compensation and stock ownership.
Medical
Economics
Great salary information on
doctors by specialty, location.
O*Net OnLine
Occupational Information Network. From “Find Occupations,” you can type in or
find a name of an occupation, get a detailed description of the job – select
“wages and employment” to get to a link where you can choose the state the
position is in. Retrieves a report from Bureau of Labor and other stats.
Salary.com
This site provides salary and compensation package ranges for a comprehensive
list of job titles, by region or zip code.
AAUP Faculty Salary Survey
Search ten years of average faculty salaries arranged by
academic rank at more than 1,200 colleges, universities, and multicampus
systems.
CejkaSearch
Current physician compensation
information compiled by the American Medical Group Association. The advantage
to this site is the wide range of medical specialties covered. Try this link for salaries of non physician medical practitioners.
FindLaw Salary
Information
Look up salaries at individual law firms and branch
offices.
Glassdoor
Salaries, reviews of companies and interviews with employees of nearly 100,000
companies.
Health Career Center Salary Info
Comprehensive list of salaries in the medical profession.
Health Care Job Store
More salaries for health care practitioners
Indeed
Salary estimates derived
from over 50 million job postings. This site has information about some job
titles other sites don't cover.
Jobnob
Gives both average salaries and salaries from specific
businesses. The downside is the small sample size for many occupations.
JobStar
Offers many links to other
salary sites.
Merritt Hawkins Medical Salary Search
Choose specialty and region to get more accurate income estimates
MilitaryPay
Salary information for all branches of US military service.
Navy
CyberSpace
Military pay charts for both American and British armed forces.
Occupational
Outlook Handbook 2010-11 from the U.S. Department of Labor
Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job,
working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected
job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
Pam
Poly's Net Guide (Healthcare Professionals' Salaries)
An extensive list of sites with salary and compensation
information for health care professionals. The sites listed are a mix of free
and fee-based sites.
Salary
Sites: CareerBabe's Best Salary Sites (so far)
An
index and collection of links to salary surveys in a variety of fields and
geographic areas, including sites that detail the pay of women versus men.
SalaryList
This
site provides specific salary information about positions at specific
companies. You can search the site by companies, job titles and state and date.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management Salaries and Wages
Provides information on a variety of Government wide pay programs for Federal
employees, including the General Schedule (GS), Law Enforcement Officer Pay
Schedules, and the Federal Wage System (FWS).
Search Engines
Google
The industry standard. It's a good
idea to check out Google's options
page occasionally for all kinds of search and Web tools.
Google Guide
Lists search operators that work with each Google search service
It's easy to fall into a
Google-only mode, but even Google's huge database misses about half of the
searchable Web. Other search engines can find things Google missed. The
following are well-regarded.
Yahoo!
The Avis to
Google's Hertz.
Bing
Formerly
Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search.
Blekko
Use slash tags to focus your search.
DuckDuckGo
Supposedly pulls fewer sites with spam and useless stuff. DuckDuckGo does not record user information.
Meta Search Engines
These search engines
can pull together results from a number of search engines at once, but don't
delve as deeply into the databases.
Dogpile
Pulls its results
from Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Yandex
Info.com
Pulls from
Google, Yahoo! and Bing.
43Marks
Not a true meta search engine
in that you can't search using a number of search engines simultaneously, but
you can toggle between Google, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and Bing. Register (it's free)
with 43Marks and get your own personal 43Marks URL to organize your bookmarks
so they can be accessed on any computer. This site is still in Beta.
Guides to Search Engines
Search Engine Showdown
This site tracks new
features offered by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask,
Exalead and Gigablast). It also has comprehensive search engine reviews and
chart comparing features, Boolean protocol, etc. of these search engines.
Google
Blogoscoped
An independent site covering all things Google.
Search Engine Guide
A busy-looking site with loads of adverstising, but it is
handy for its Search Engine Directory of search engines devoted to arts,
business, education, government, reference, news, etc.
UC Berkeley Best Internet Guide
A pithy guide to search engines, meta search
engines, web search stategies, etc. Also has a chart with a comparison of
Google, Yahoo! and Ask.
Internet Archive
The Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive
This site can be an absolute lifesaver at those times when you need to capture
a bio or news item that has been deleted from a Web site. Web pages from as
long ago as 1996 (ancient in terms of the Web's short history!) are archived
here.
Securities/IPOs/SEC/Stock Quotes
Big
Charts
Interactive charts, quotes,
reports and indicators on stocks, mutual funds and market indexes. We like it
because it is one of the few sites that provides historical stock quotes going
back to 1970.
IPO Central
From Hoover’s. Lists recent
IPOs and provides links to Edgar documents on the IPO, which include
officer/director names, bios.
Morningstar
Document Research
The site formerly known as 10-K Wizard. Provides
full Boolean searching of SEC documents. You can also set up alerts.
Yahoo! Finance
Register with Yahoo!, and
this site allows you to keep an online "portfolio" that tracks trading
prices for companies of interest, downloadable to spreadsheet format. Offers
news, insider trading, historical quotes and charts, all in one nice, free
package.
The
American Stock Exchange
Links to companies listed on
the American Stock Exchange.
EDGAR Search
Download SEC documents, for
free.
MarketWatch
Insider trading database
searchable by stock ticker or trader's name.
National
Archives
Look to the bottom of the page for links to search for insider trading from
1978 to 2001.
Created by Lance H. Hill, maintained by Al Gabor
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