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E-Commerce

Subject Guides: Business & Economics


E-COMMERCE GATEWAYS

The BizTech Network <http://www.brint.com/interest.html>
A popular resource for e-business and for information, technology and knowledge management related content.

E-Business Forum.Com <http://www.ebusinessforum.com/>
From the Economist Intelligence Unit, has e-commerce news, best practices in several industries, market trends and strategies, and surveys of how to do electronic commerce in other nations. Go to the Research section and look under Resources for links to dozens of additional e-commerce sites.

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E-COMMERCE NEWS

E-Commerce Times <http://www.ecommercetimes.com/>
This free online publication is devoted to electronic commerce, with daily news and features aimed at entrepreneurs and companies doing business on the internet. Also includes product guides, newsmaker profiles, and an e-commerce message board.

MagPortal E-Business <http://www.magportal.com/c/net/ebus/>
A collection of full text online periodical articles on electronic commerce from a wide variety of sources (such as Computer User, The Industry Standard, eCompany Now, CIO, Red Herring). See also the subcategories for B2B and B2C articles.

Red Herring <http://www.herring.com/>
This monthly magazine is essential reading for anyone using technology to build or expand their business. It offers news and analysis and maintains an online archive of articles.

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E-COMMERCE RESEARCH

Center for Research in Electronic Commerce < http://crec.mccombs.utexas.edu/>
This University of Texas Austin center aims to be a leader in electronic commerce. Click "EC Research Centers and Business Sites" on their web site for links to more information.

E-Lab: Electronic Commerce on the Web <http://ecommerce.vanderbilt.edu/>
From Vanderbilt University, a collection of links to information about e-commerce of academic interest.

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INTERNET ADVERTISING & MARKETING

Advertising World <http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/>
A section of this extensive collection of advertising links is devoted to Internet advertising. Useful to both students and professionals as a gateway site.

BtoB Online.com <http://www.btobonline.com/>
Bills itself as the online magazine for marketing and e-commerce strategists. Has articles, rankings, lists, discussion groups, links to additional resources, and more.

Interactive Advertising Bureau <http://www.iab.net/>
A non profit association devoted to maximizing the use and effectiveness of advertising on the Internet, you will find research, news and data reports here. See especially the section called "Resources and Research."

Internet Marketing, Web Design & E-Commerce <http://www.knowthis.com/internet.htm>
From KnowThis.com, the Marketing Virtual Library, this section concentrates on the basics of web marketing, electronic transactions, site design, and promotion.

SRDS Media Solutions A UT Libraries business database
Provides current advertising rates and specifications as well as circulation data for consumer and business magazines and for newspapers. Also has specs and rates for direct marketing venues and web sites, ad rate estimates for radio markets, and market profiles and DMA maps for TV and cable.

Web Marketing Info Center <http://www.wilsonweb.com/webmarket/>
Links to articles on web marketing including promotion, paid advertising, email, web design, and more. These articles are currently free, other information on this website requires a subscription.

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INTERNET USAGE STATISTICS

Clicz <http://www.clickz.com/stats/>
Provides statistics and Web marketing information gathered from online research since 1996. Other demographic, geographic, hardware, and traffic data also included.

Tablebase A UT Libraries business database
An index to tables drawn from more than 1000 trade journals and other reports and covering information such as market size, production, sales, product and brand rankings, and forecasts. Full text is available for most articles.

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LOCATING ARTICLES

Business Source Premier A UT Libraries business database
Search by company name, product, or subject in this index of 3000 popular, trade, and scholarly business journals. Full text is available for most of the titles included; coverage begins in the 1960s.

Factiva A UT Libraries business database
Search the full text of over 8,000 newspapers, periodicals, wire services, media transcripts, or web sites for articles about companies, products, and subjects.

General BusinessFile ASAP A UT Libraries business database
Indexes business magazines and newspapers, trade journals, and brokerage reports and can be searched for company names, products, and subjects. Some full text articles included.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe A UT Libraries business database
Search both the News and the Business sections of this database for the full text of articles from a variety of sources.

RDS Business & Industry A UT Libraries business database
This index of trade and industry journals is a primary source of corporate, industry and product information. Full text available for most articles.

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LOCATING BOOKS

Use the UT Libraries catalog to find call numbers and locations of books about electronic commerce.

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Created and maintained by Karmen Crowther, Business Librarian
Last revision:7/7/08