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Research for Business
inc. Publishers Research Services (PResS)
 
Postal Address:
17 Coldstream Lane
Hardingstone
Northampton NN4 6DB
United Kingdom
 
Telephone / Fax:
01604 763628
 
Overseas Telephone / Fax:
+44 1604 763628
 
Email:
 
Research for Business
is part of
Bowline Consulting Ltd 

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Antiquarian interest

Bookfinders- in and out of print bookfinders service
Old Book news- previously called the clique, for book collectors and antiquarian booksellers
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls- a collection of over 8,000 American items including Happy Days, and Beadle's New York Dime Library. Features a Guided Tour of the print process and the elements of a dime novel cover.
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Authors, artists, famous people, biography

Society of Authors
Artchive- online encyclopedia of artists and their works
Artcyclopedia- online encyclopedia of artists and their works
Arts links- lots of links on different visual arts subjects from the British Library
Dead or alive- check to see if a famous person has died
Internet Movie database- films and movie stars, all in a database - excellent
Museum network- explore 37,000 museums worldwide
Smithsonian- art & design web site
Bibliographic services
The British Library- the UK's national library
COPAC- free access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK / Ireland.
Nielsen Bookdata database- the merged database from Bookdata & Whitakers
U.S. books in print- In and out-of-print US books
World Cat- search Library catalogues and find materials in your area

Book fairs & reading
British Council- arts & literature
Book reviews / bestseller listings
Book trade online indexes
Bookweb- excellent index featuring links to different book trade players
Publishing Central- U.S. site for publishers, mainly American but with some international links
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Book trade & publishing organisations
Book trade & media publications
 Copyright
Editorial resources
Bartleby's reference- dictionary, thesaurus, quotations & more
Cambridge Dictionaries online
Dictionary of Difficult Words- Does exactly what it says.....!
Electric Editors- lots of resources for editors, including mailing lists to join
Encyclopedia Britannica- The classic ency, limited access to non-subscribers
Finding Data on the Internet - Resources for Journalists- Robert Niles' Web site, U.S. bias but still great.
How stuff works- How the world, and (almost) everything in it, works,
Infoplease Encyclopedia
The Internet Anagram Server- more fun than anything!
I-Tools- lotsof different tools for reference and for finding things on the Web
Online conversion- convert any measurement to another - with ease!
Newspaper links- British Library newspapers links
Ref Desk- a good source containing all manner of reference materials
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Electronic publishing
Association of Online Publishers
Electronic Publishing discussions- American site from The Information Economy - a directory of resources relating to the economics of the Internet
Internet week- American Internet news site with business, technology, education & e-commerce articles and features
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Internet subject guides
About.com- subject directory
Ency. Britannica Internet browse- Choose 'Websites' in drop down box and add a search term. Sites are selected by Britannica.
Michigan E-Library- lots of links, lots of subjects
Pinakes subject launchpad- A British site, developed by academics, points to a selection of multi-subject launchpads
University of Buckingham Library links- good selection of links on many different subjects
Virtual sites index- pointers to over 10,000 selected sites
Yahoo- the classic handpicked directory of websites
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Journalism & media
Ad*Access- 7,000 + advertisements that appeared between 1911 and 1955 in US newspapers and magazines, featuring such subjects as beauty and hygiene, radio, television, transportation, and World War II.
Newslink- links to newspapers, magazines & news around the world
British Journal of Photography
Car Park- journalism resources
National Union of Journalists Web site
Newspaper society
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Market research
Pira International
Book Marketing Ltd- market research for the book industry
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Miscellaneous
Book Aid International- collects donations of books and other reading material for developing countries
Universities in the UK
W3C- The World Wide Web Constorium
Online booksellers
Amazon.com- the 'Earth's biggest bookstore' in the U.S.
Amazon.co.uk- Amazon's UK site
Blackwells bookshop- includes a specialised Academic resource centre featuring news, reviews, articles and interviews
The Bookplace- online magazine & bookshop
Headfiller- the online bookshop designed for students
Internet Bookshop- WH Smith online
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Publishers websites
Lights - Publishers' catalogues

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Search engines
Google - The godfather of search engines
Alta Vista - search engine with a great advanced search screen
Ask Jeeves - just type in a sentence or question
Search engines list - from Search Engine Watch
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Training
 
 
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2009