Business faculty research: Satisfaction with the Web versus library databases

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Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 313-328

  Dewald, Nancy H ^a   Silvius, Matthew A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 24944516262     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2005.0040     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Susan Davis Herring, "Using the World Wide Web for Research: Are Faculty Satisfied?" Journal of Academic Librarianship 27, 3 (May 2001): 213-19.
2. Herring, 216.
3. _, 213.
4. For a brief history of the Gopher Protocol, see "The Internet Gopher: History of the Gopher Protocol" n.d., http://www.codeghost.com/ gopher_history.html (accessed March 25, 2005).
5. Susan S. Lazinger, Judit Bar-Ilan, and Bluma C. Peritz, "Internet Use by Faculty Members in Various Disciplines: A Comparative Case Study," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48, 6 (1997): 508-18.
6. Marybeth Hessian Grinnan, "The Internet Skills of MBA Students and Business School Faculty" (master's thesis, University of North Carolina, 1995).
7. Herring, 213-4.
8. Maria Anna Jankowska, "Identifying University Professors' Information Needs in the Challenging Environment of Information and Communication Technologies," Journal of Academic Librarianship 30, 1 (January 2004): 56.
9. Jankowska, 66, note 27 (italics inserted).
10. _, 56, table 3.
11. Xue-Ming Bao, "A Comparative Study of Library Surveys of Internet Users at Seton Hall University in 1998 and 2001," College & Research Libraries 63, 3 (May 2002): 251-9.
12. Mike Thelwell and Liz Price, "Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence - A Statistical Study of the UK," LIBRI 53, 4 (December 2003): 242-53.
13. U.S. government sites useful for business purposes include, for example, the U. S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/ (accessed March 29, 2005) with population, business, and economic statistics;
14. the Security & Exchange Commission's EDGAR site, http://www.sec.gov/ edgar.shtml (accessed March 29, 2004);
15. the Federal Reserve, http://www.federalreserve.gov/ (accessed March 29, 2005);
16. the Department of Commerce, http://www.commerce.gov/ (accessed March 29, 2005);
17. the Bureau of Economic Analysis, http://www.bea.doc.gov/ (accessed March 29, 2005);
18. the Bureau of Labor Statistics, http://www.bls.gov/ (accessed March 29, 2005);
19. and the Small Business Administration, http://www.sba.gov/ (accessed March 29, 2005).
20. In addition the U.S. Government Printing Office is increasingly making materials available online, including for example the monthly Economic Indicators, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html (accessed March 29, 2005).
21. Industry associations can be found via Internet searching or in The Encyclopedia of Associations (Detroit: Gale Research Co., annual)
22. or the Associations Unlimited database available by subscription, http://www.gale.com/pdf/facts/au.pdf (accessed March 29, 2005).
23. See, for example, The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, http://www.aicpa.org/members/div/acctstd/index.htm (accessed March 29, 2005);
24. the Financial Accounting Standards Board, http://www.fasb.org/ (accessed March 29, 2005);
25. the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, http://www.gasb.org/ (accessed March 29, 2005);
26. and Economic Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ (accessed March 29, 2005).
27. See David Vine, Internet Business Intelligence: How to Build a Big Company System on a Small Company Budget (Medford, NJ: Cyber Age Books/Information Today, 2000);
28. Edward Forrest, Internet Marketing Intelligence: Research Tools, Techniques, and Resources (Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2003).
29. See Jan Davis Tudor, Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M & A Pros (Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books/Information Today, 2001).
30. See Grace Avellana Villamora, Super Searchers on Madison Avenue: Top Advertising and Marketing Professionals Share Their Online Research Strategies (Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books/Information Today, 2003).
31. See Paula Berinstein, Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast - At Little or No Cost (Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books/Information Today, 2003).
32. See Eva M. Lang and Jan Davis Tudor, Best Websites for Financial Professionals, Business Appraisers, and Accountants, 2nd ed. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, 2003).
33. See Sheri R. Lanza, International Business Information on the Web: Searcher Magazine's Guide to Sites and Strategies for Global Business Research (Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books/Information Today, 2001);
34. Garrett Wasny, World Business Resources.com: A Directory of 8,000+ Business Resources on the Internet (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000).
35. See, for example, Nancy Levenburg, "Research Resources Exist for Small Businesses," Marketing News I (January 4, 1999): 19;
36. Madonna Aveni, "Small-Business Bookmarks," Civil Engineering 69, 4 (April 1999): 62-3;
37. _, "Recommended Resources," Civil Engineering 70, 5 (May 2000): 58-9;
38. and Art Klein, "Want Information Faster?" Forming & Fabricating 9, 6 (June 2002): 4.
39. See for example Forbes.com, http://www.forbes.com/ (accessed March 29, 2005)
40. and the BBC, http://news.bbc.co.Uk/1/hi/business/default.stm (accessed March 29, 2005).
41. Fortune.com, http://www.fortune.com (accessed March 29, 2005)
42. and CNN Money, http://money.cnn.com/ (accessed March 29, 2005) provide some content free while other content requires subscription.
43. See for example PC Quote, http://www.pcquote.com/ (accessed March 29, 2004)
44. and Yahoo! Finance, http://finance.yahoo.com/ (accessed March 29, 2005).
45. See for example The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/ (accessed March 29, 2005).
46. EU Business from the European Union, http://www.eubusiness.com/ (accessed March 29, 2005)
47. and Reuters news service, http://www.reuters.com/ (accessed March 29, 2005) are mainly free but provide some additional services free with registration.
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53. Doll and Torkzadeh.
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55. Calculation based on Herring, 215, table 2.
56. Grinnan, 14-6.
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60. Lazinger et al., 515.
61. Bao, 258.
62. Jankowska, 61.