Using the internet to locate trade and industry press

When you are looking at a particular industry or trade, magazines, journals or newsletters specific to that industry can be great sources of information. Not only for the obvious - coverage on the industry, major players, trends etc., but for people sources. The reporters and editors of those publications can be great sources for you. Remember, you only see a portion of what information is gathered for each story. Look for the unreported!

In addition to the traditional print sources, like the Standard Periodical Directory, there are a couple of good online sources to use when you are trying to find trade and industry press. Here are just two that we've found useful:

www.mediafinder.com- search by keyword for free; paid subscription offers more options.
www.publist.com - search directory of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters and other periodicals.

Reprinted from Intelligence Weekly, a free newsletter from Washington Researchers. www.researchers.com



Internet articles and sources

AlltheWeb now includes advanced Boolean search options and tools. http://www.alltheweb.com/advanced

AltaVista News searches can now be limited to a specific date range. http://news.altavista.com/

Antarctica Systems released Visual Net 3.0, a software product that creates large-scale interactive maps of information, increasing the value of that information and enabling it to be efficiently shared across the enterprise. http://antarctica.net
 
BrandCrawler Online is a service for discovering the use of brand names on the web. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030121/dctu010_1.html

Corporations are now using internal versions of Google for their internal search needs. http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030117S0006

Daypop, a specialized search site that focuses on news and weblog content, reports that they are now crawling over 10,000 weblogs. http://www.daypop.com/

Directory of companies and institutions from Liechtenstein. http://www.welcome.li/
 
FIND/SVP reports that 73% of US business executives are increasingly using the net for business intelligence. http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?e57524288&e=6423

Germany is one of the ten largest U.S. trading partners, and if you're looking to research opportunities for trade with Germany, one of the best is the Library of Congress Germany Resources. http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/germany/de.html

MSN Money Central allows you to identify a chronology of recent company stories through its ticker symbol. http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/sigdev.asp
 
Purchasing managers’ surveys are popular among forecasters because they quickly identify both macroeconomic and specific market insights before they show up in the more general economic statistics. http://www.bettermanagement.com/Library/Library.aspx?a=12&LibraryID=5236

SearchSystems.net provides over 10,000 links to free public record databases around the world. http://www.searchsystems.net/

Teoma is a specialized search engine that looks at the web in terms of subject specific communities. http://www.teoma.com/

The Web Search Guide is about web searching, web strategies and tools from a Canadian perspective. http://www.websearchguide.ca/