Selected Websites - Business Reference Sources

Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Look up an acronym and see its expansion. From University College, Cork, Ireland.

Acronyms for Company Extensions

This Web site gives definitions of most international company extensions, such as SA, GmbH, etc. and also explains company identifier systems such as CUSIP, ISIN. A service of Corporate Information, which provides information about public, private, and international companies and business resources arranged by country.

AnyWho Toll-Free Directory

A searchable database of 800 numbers (U.S. only).

Calendars, 2000-2010

From Rice University.

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments

A list of presidents, cabinet ministers, heads of central banks, and ambassadors to the U.S. for most world governments.

CIA World Factbook

Brief political, economic, social, and statistical information, including maps.

Code of Federal Regulations

This is a very user-friendly site that arranges the code in a table, but also allows you to search the CFR, retrieve sections by citation, search sections by titles/volumes, and search the Federal Register for related documents.

Country Studies -- Area and Handbook Series

This online series presently contains studies of 85 countries. From the Library of Congress.

Currency Converter: Universal Currency Converter

Interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Web.

Dictionary of Occupational Titles

From the United States Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges Law Library. Also see the O*Net project. The Occupational Information Network, is a comprehensive database system for collecting, organizing, describing and disseminating data on job characteristics and worker attributes. O*NET provides a new conceptual framework that reflects the advanced technologies, adaptable workplace structures and wide-ranging skills required by today's changing workplace.

Enyclopedia of Law and Economics

Includes bibliographies, web sites by topic, and literature reviews. Published by Edward Elgar and the University of Ghent.

Forbes Four Hundred Richest Americans

A list of the 400 richest Americans.

Getty Information Institute Thesaurus of Geographic Names

The Thesaurus of Geographic Names from the Getty Information Institute includes nearly 900,000 place name entries. The Thesaurus also provides vernacular and English names of places, variant names in other languages, and whenever possible, historical names. The record for a place may also contain geographical coordinates, dates, and notes.

Guide to European Legal Databases

"The New York University (NYU) Law School Reference Librarian For International and Foreign Law, Mirela Roznovschi, has prepared this excellent Guide to European Legal Databases. The Guide offers recommendations for search engines and search tips/strategies for researching foreign law topics.

InfoNation

Searched geographically, this site gives basic information on Geography, Economy, Population, and Social Indicators.

InterNIC Directory

Includes the Directory of Directories (dirofdirs) which enables users to obtain references to information resources, products and services associated with the Internet.

InterNIC WhoIs

Search for a person or company in the registry of top-level domains (.com, org., .edu, .gov, .net). Start with a "free form query." When you get a list of results, click on each to see a phone number and address.

Library Servers via the Web

From UC Berkeley, this site is browsable by library type and geographic reguin, is searchable by location, library, type, or name, and links to other related resources.