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I’ve added a few new resources to the Biz Wiki. If you’re doing research on the retail industry, take a look at the following:

Retail Industry Guide
This guide offers some suggested databases, periodicals, journals, and reference books about the retail industry.

European Retail Handbook
Contains an overview of the retail industry and economic indicators for 28 European nations. Also includes a comparison of the countries with the United States retail industry.

Asia Pacific Retail Handbook
Contains an overview of the retail industry and economic indicators for 13 Asia Pacific Nations.

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When looking for a new job (this means you, graduating seniors), it is often very important to consider where to start looking. Many graduates have particular companies or industries in mind, while others may want to live in a particular city or state. Klipinger’s has compiled a list of “50 Smart Places to Live,” which may help you in narrowing down your post-graduation location. The complete list can be found here.

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Hoover’s Online now offers a monthly list of its most-searched compaies. From the web release:

Derived by tracking the search requests of Hoover’s subscribers, The Hoover’s 100 provides insight about those companies being most closely watched by corporate executives, as well as sales, marketing, and business development professionals, who represent a large portion of Hoover’s customers seeking business intelligence. Previously tracked internally, The Hoover’s 100 will be publicly released monthly.

Click here to access the press release detailing the list. Hoover’s subscribers may click here to access the full list. Ohio University users should follow this link to access the full list.

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The Ford Library at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business has a very cool tool called “One-Click Company Intelligence.” It’s an A to Z list of companies that are recruiting on the Duke campus. For each company there is a link to the company’s web site, a stock quote in Yahoo! Finance, a general company search in Proquest newspapers, a company profile search in Business Source Premier, and analyst reports in Investext Plus. Clicking on the links on the One-Click Company Intelligence page will actually work for Ohio University users if they are accessing the page on a campus computer.

I can imagine that the page is fairly difficult to maintain, as URLs have a tendency to change quite a bit for subscription databases. I think a wiki could be a good tool to use for such a resource. Just imagine how large the One-Click Company Intelligence list could be if it were in a wiki format that anyone could contribute to. Any faculty, staff, or student researcher could add a company to the list, allowing future researchers quick and easy access to the information. Community editing would also allow for more up-to-date content, as the burden of creating and maintaining the content would be shared by more than one person. I can even see multiple libraries/organizations sharing the same Company Intelligence Wiki, particularly if they all have access to similar resources. This type of scenario would be ideal for business libraries in a consortia such as OhioLINK, as members of consortia may have many of the same resources. Librarians from around the state or region could work together on creating a resource that could be shared by all.

With MediaWiki, (the same software that runs the Wikipedia and the Biz Wiki) the list of companies could be organized by category as well as an A to Z list. Companies could be categorized by industry, employee size, total revenues, location, etc., which could help business researchers in finding not only the company they are looking for, but information about similar companies as well.  I know there would be some issues with off-campus access and proxy servers, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea. Anyone else interested?

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