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Title:
International Business Information on the Web: Searcher Magazine's Guide to Sites and Strategies for Global Business Research
Review:
This book is an excellent starting point for anyone wishing to undertake international business research on the internet, whether it be looking for company financial information, finding overseas buyers for products, finding suppliers, or if you are looking for market research studies.
The book started out as a series of articles in Searcher magazine called "Around the web in 80 sites". The book contains details of over 1,000 websites and it is split into sections covering geographic regions. The complete list of URLs mentioned in the book are available online at <http://www.infotoday.com/ibidirectory.htm>.
The first section covers international or world resources. The subsequent sections cover each geographic region. They start off with a number of resources relevant to that region, and these are then followed by a number of country specific resources. The book does not attempt to cover every country of the world. Rather there is a selection of countries covered within each regional section.
Coverage concentrates on "open" or "public" websites, albeit that some of these do require the user to complete a free registration process before they are able to access the sites.
Mention is also made of a number of commercial services such as Dialog, Lexis-Nexis, and Factiva. This includes pointing out a number of useful resources for business information searching such as the Dialog company intelligence smart tool sheets and the products & markets smart tool sheets.
The book highlights a wide selection of good quality international business information sites on the internet free of charge; and which are well worth further investigation. Whilst I was aware of quite a few of the sites listed, the book certainly lists a number of sites which I was not so familiar with.
The websites listed in this book cover a wide range of business information topics such as banking, finance and stock exchanges; chambers of commerce and industry; national and local government resources; news resources; and yellow pages. One of the appendices lists the URL's that are covered; and the book also has a detailed index.
All in all this book is well worth the USD 29.95 investment.
Free Pint Reviewer:
Paul Pedley is Head of Research at the Economist Intelligence Unit. He maintains a website at <http://www.paulpedley.com>; is the author of four books - including "Free business and industry information on the web" and "The invisible web: searching the hidden parts of the internet"; and is course director of a number of courses including one on the Invisible Web <http://www.aslib.com/training/6/04.html>.
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