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Business InformationModule 2: Seeking for business information

– Web-based information resourcesPart D: Product and service information

International Summer School on Information Literacy, funded by CEI, 10-14 September 2007, Fermo, Italy

Sabina Cisek, PhDAssociate Professor

Institute of Information and Library Science Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

isabina@inib.uj.edu.pl, sabina.cisek@gmail.com

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Products/services information sources (I)

• Many company information sources (databases, directories, classifications) are useful also for products/services information, for example: – Central & Eastern European Directory On-Line:

http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceebd/industdi.htm – Kompass: http://www.kompass.com/ – The United Nations – List of international family of

economic and social classifications: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/family1.asp

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Products/services information sources (II)

• Product-dedicated vortals, for example – Polish Products http://www.polishproducts.pl/

• Online auction websites, e-shops, advertising services, etc., for example– Google Product Search http://www.google.com/products

• Consumer protection and products/services quality websites– EConsumer.gov http://www.econsumer.gov/english/ – Europa – Food Safety http://ec.europa.eu/food/index_en.htm

• Commodities exchanges

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Commodities exchanges websites (I) • Good entry in Wikipedia on commodities exchange and

commodities market – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodities_exchange – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_markets

• Finding commodities exchanges: – INO Global Exchange Links

http://www.ino.com/resources/exchanges/ – Stock and Commodity Exchanges

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/busi/stocks.shtml

– Note: these sources are also useful for Financial information – Stock exchanges

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Commodities exchanges websites (II)• Examples of commodities exchanges:

– Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange http://butb.by/Eng/

– European Energy Exchange http://www.eex.com/en – Sofia Commodity Exchange http://www.sce-bg.com/

• Assignment: Do you know what „ask, bid, futures, spot market” are? If not – check it with InvestorWords.com http://www.investorwords.com/ or other source