For publishers of client newsletters
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Fee-based research services
Free online research
Encyclopediae and almanacs
Library card catalogs & reference desks
RESOURCES
Newsletter directories including Oxbridge, Hudson's, PubList, Ezine-Universe, ListCity, etc.
Great links for newsletter writers, editors, and publishers: professional associations, publications, sources of newsletter content, etc.
Articles about newsletter development, writing, and publishing
Reviews of books of interest to newsletter writers and developers
Online reference works for journalists – including dictionaries, thesauri, high-tech glossaries, grammar guides, style manuals, Bartlett's Quotations, acronyms, etc.
Research Sites for Journalists
NAVIGATION
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Definition What's a client newsletter?
Fee-based
services
NEXIS
Subscription-based service offering 30,000 news, business, and legal
information sources. Includes breaking news and analysis; market
research; notices regarding patents, trademarks, mergers &
acquisitions; more. A division of Reed Elsevier.
Free
online research
ANNUAL REPORTS
AnnualReports.com (based in Pembroke Pines, FL) provides corporate annual
reports for investors, free of charge, mostly in PDF, HTML and/or printed
formats.
BUSINESS.COM
A business-focused search engine – very broad, very deep, very well
organized. With news, tools, and tutorials arranged by industry or area of
interest.
BUSINESS RESEARCH U.K.
Business research services in the UK,
and links to research sites around the world.
CENSUS
BUREAU
Part of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce – more than just population figures
and maps; includes searchable information about industries, world trade,
publications, etc.
FINANCIAL
AND LEGAL RESEARCH CENTER
Courtesy of A.G. Orlowsky, Ltd., a law firm in the Chicago area. Alan
Orlowsky is a lawyer and CPA.
THE GALLUP ORGANIZATION
Offers a searchable archive of its famous Gallup polls.
THE INTERNET PUBLIC
LIBRARY
An outstanding collection of resources for researchers. It's more
authoritative than most sites that claim to be one-stop information
sources. The director is David S. Carter, a lecturer at the University
of Michigan's School of Information, where he currently teaches a class
on digital librarianship. He is also the co-author of the "Internet
Public Library Handbook." Sponsored by Bell & Howell.
NEW
YORK TIMES NAVIGATOR
Includes search engines, reference desk, telephone & e-mail
directories, business yellow pages, daily news sites, publications, zip
code directories, and research sites for journalists.
POYNTER
RESEARCH CENTER
Brought to you by Poynter Institute, a school for journalists and
journalism teachers in St. Petersburg, FL.
PUBLIC
REGISTER'S ANNUAL REPORT SERVICE
View online (or order hardcopies of) the annual reports of 2,292 companies
(and growing). It's a free service of Bay Tact Corp. of Woodstock, CT.
STOCK MARKET
YELLOW PAGES
Search for public companies by description of their products or
services, or by key words. Provides links to a multitude of information
about companies on the SMYP results pages. Owned by Roel Zylstra,
Redondo Beach, CA.
THE USUALLY
USEFUL INTERNET GUIDE FOR JOURNALISTS
A research tool created by seven students (from Europe and South
America) in the Global Electronic Journalism program at the Institute
for Journalism, Media and Communications in Stockholm.
"VIBES" provides over 1,300 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information. It's free and easy to use. Maintained by the J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
ENCARTA
The Web version of Microsoft's Encarta features an encyclopedia, audio dictionary, and half-decent atlas. Plus lots of information, junk and advertising.
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
The 200-year-old grandfather of encyclopedias is still free online, but will probably start charging a fee in the near future. The website has the usual A-to-Z information, plus: links to articles from 70 magazines, links to 100,000 other websites, U.S. and world news from the Washington Post (updated thru the day), and various databases.
NOLO LEGAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
Nolo, the legal publisher, has an awesome site that features a legal encyclopedia, law dictionary, legal research center, downloadable legal forms, and much more, all free. Nolo also offers its own publications for sale.
TECH ENCYCLOPEDIA
Defines more than 20,000 technology terms. By TechWeb (owned by CMP Media, Inc.). Also you can subscribe to free tech newsletters published by TechWeb and other publishers at
www.techweb.com/newsletters/subscribe.
INFORMATION PLEASE ALMANAC
Extremely browsable and easily searchable. Updated daily with news analysis. Don't forget this site when you're doing secondary market research.
HOW STUFF WORKS
From high-tech gadgets to the human body to car engines to….Fascinating and fun. Founded by author Marshall Brain.
Library card catalogs & reference desks
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Includes a massive online "card" catalog, news, events, and exhibits.
REFDESK.COM
The mother of all reference sites, Created by Bob Drudge. It was named Best Reference Site for 2001 by Yahoo Internet Life magazine.
ONLINE REFERENCE WORKS FOR WRITERS AND EDITORS
Dictionaries, high-tech glossaries, thesauri, grammar & style guides,
acronyms, Bartlett's quotations, etc.
DEFINITION: A client newsletter is one that you distribute free, primarily to clients, prospective clients, referral sources, and other stakeholders of your firm. Its objective is to be informative, to demonstrate your expertise, and to promote your services, rather than to earn a profit.