Super Searchers Cover the WorldSuper Searchers Make It On Their Own:
Top Independent Information Professionals Share Their Secrets for Starting and Running a Research Business
By Suzanne Sabroski; Edited by Reva Basch

About the Author • About the Editor



Entrepreneurial Research Resources

INTERNET SITES, SEARCH ENGINES, SOFTWARE, AND ONLINE RESOURCES

1. 10K Wizard • www.10kwizard.com
Search tool for information available to the public via the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) system, including keyword searches on up-to-the-minute SEC filings. 

2. 80-20 Retriever • www.80-20.com
Software to organize and search files, including email, on personal computers and enterprise-wide systems.

3. ABI Inform • www.silverplatter.com/catalog/umai.htm
Commercial database consisting of business and management literature 
covering hundreds of industries around the world. 

4. About.com • www.about.com
A subject-based guide to the Internet, with content selected and written by individual subject experts.

5. Adobe Acrobat • www.adobe.com
Software that allows users to view, print, and create Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. 

6. Allaire's HomeSite • www.allaire.com
Macromedia's HTML editor that allows users to build and maintain Web sites.

7. AllNetReseach • www.allnetresearch.internet.com
Part of the internet.com network, a complete marketplace for Internet research reports, newsletters, directories, and databases.

8. AltaVista • www.altavista.com
A leading search engine among Web users and provider of high-powered search software to intranet, enterprise, and e-commerce clients.

9. AOL—America Online • www.aol.com
A leading Internet service and content provider. 

10. Arizona State University College of Engineering and Applied Science • www.eas.asu.edu
General information about the university and the college.

11. Ask Jeeves • www.ask.com
A natural language search engine providing links to relevant Web sites.

12. Bitpipe • www.bitpipe.com
A leading syndicator of in-depth information technology (IT) content. 

13. BRB Publications, Inc. • www.brbpub.com
Publisher of sourcebooks and news used by public records researchers.

14. British Medical Journal • www.bmj.com
Journal Web site with full text medical articles and archival searching.

15. BRS • www.opentext.com
Formerly BRS Online, BRS/Search is now part of Open Text's LiveLink Intranet product.

16. BullsEye • www.intelliseek.com
A Windows-based application to find, track, and manage relevant information on the Web. 

17. Business.com • www.business.com
A comprehensive Web directory and search engine that focuses exclusively on business. 

18. Calendar Creator • www.microsoft.com
Windows-based software program for creating customized calendars.

19. Call Notes • www.swbell.com
Voice mail management system offered through Southwestern Bell.

20. CDB InfoTek • www.cdb.com
Provider of search tools and access to county, state, and federal public records information.

21. CEO Express • www.ceoexpress.com
A business news and information portal designed by and for company executives.

22. Chemical Abstracts • www.cas.org
Producer of the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information.

23. ChoicePoint • www.choicepoint.net
Provider of decision-making intelligence to businesses and government, including public records information.

24. Chris Olson and Associates • www.chrisolson.com
A full-service marketing firm that specializes in promoting the services and products of information service professionals.

25. CompuServe • www.compuserve.com
An early Internet Service Provider, offering a wide range of Internet services today.

26. Computers, Freedom and Privacy • www.cfp.org
Annual conference exploring the role of computers in society.

27. Corporate Information • www.corporateinformation.com
Business portal offering company, industry, country, and state searching.

28. CorpTech • www.onesource.com/products/corptech.htm
The CorpTech database is now being marketed as OneSource CorpTech Profiles. It covers more than 50,000 U.S. high-tech companies.

29. Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) • www.silverplatter.com/catalog/nurs.htm
Database serving as an authoritative source of information for the professional literature of nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and health care. 

30. DataStar • www.dialog.com
Europe's leading online database service, providing access to more than 350 databases with worldwide coverage; part of the Dialog Corporation, a Thomson company.

31. DBT • www.dbtonline.com
See ChoicePoint.

32. Delphi • www.delphi.com/dir
An early Internet service provider, now focusing on development for forum communities.

33. Delphion Intellectual Property Network • www.delphion.com
A Web site for searching, exploring, analyzing, and tracking patents and related information. 

34. Derwent • www.derwent.com
Provider of value-added patent and scientific information.

35. Dialog • www.dialog.com
A Thomson company, offering more than 600 industry databases with specialized indexing software.

36. Directsearch • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm
A growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible via general search tools. 

37. Disclosure • www.primark.com/pfid
Information on companies publicly traded on U.S. exchanges, including annual reports, SEC filings, stock price data, earnings estimates, and research reports. 

38. Dow Jones Business Directory • www.bd.dowjones.com
Business portal for Internet resources selected by Dow Jones Interactive staff.

39. Dow Jones Interactive (see also Factiva) • www.djinteractive.com
A customizable, enterprise-wide business news and research solution, including content from Dow Jones & Reuters newswires, business journals, market research reports, analyst reports, and Web sites. 

40. Dun & Bradstreet • www.dnb.com
A leading provider of business information for credit, marketing, purchasing, and receivables management decisions worldwide. 

41. eContent Expo • www.econtent2001.com
Produced by Online Inc., a conference for people, companies, products, and issues in the electronic content industry. 

42. Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) • www.accesseric.org
A national information system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. 

43. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) • www.eff.org
A donor-supported membership organization founded to protect individual rights regardless of technology.

44. EudoraPro • www.Eudora.com/email
Windows-based email management software.

45. Factiva • www.factiva.com
Provider of Web-based global business information from more than 8,000 sources; producer of Dow Jones Interactive.

46. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) • www.fcc.gov
U.S. government agency charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. 

47. First Call • www.firstcall.com
A Thomson Financial company, providing real-time, commingled equity and fixed income research, corporate news, quantitative, and shareholdings data. 

48. FirstGov • www.firstgov.gov
A public-private Internet partnership connecting the world to extensive U.S. government information and services. 

49. FreeEdgar • www.FreeEdgar.com
Offers the individual user easy, basic access to SEC EDGAR filings.

50. Gale Group • www.galegroup.com
Publisher of reference books, CD-ROMs, and Internet-delivered products to serve the information needs of students, businesspeople, and other researchers.

51. GDSourcing • www.gdsourcing.com
A reference point for Canadian statistics and an official distributor of Statistics Canada products.

52. Gnutella • www.gnutella.wego.com
A Web-based file-sharing network.

53. Google • www.google.com
General search engine with broad Internet coverage.

54. Google Web Directory • www.directory.google.com
Search directory for the Internet arranged by topic.

55. Grateful Med • http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
Search tool for MEDLINE using the retrieval engine of the National Library of Medicine's PubMed system. 

56. Hoover's • www.hoovers.com
Company profile and business news portal, offering in-depth reports with subscription. 

57. HotBot • www.hotbot.com
General Internet search engine.

58. Index Medicus • www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html
International indexing system to provide access to the world's biomedical journal literature.

59. Individual.com • www.individual.com
Personalized general news subscription site. 

60. Industry Week • www.industryweek.com
Daily news and information portal, with specific industry news options.

61. InformIT • www.informit.com
An information technology portal with customizing options. 

62. InfoUSA • www.infousa.com
Verified business profile information provider, specializing in customized mailing lists.

63. Intelliscope • www.intelligencedata.com
Customized reports and current business news and expert analysis for subscribers.

64. International Market Research Mall (IMR Mall) • www.imrmall.com
Specialized access to search, select, buy, and view full-text market research reports online.

65. Internet Lawyer • www.internetlawyer.com
Research and information portal for the legal profession.

66. Knowledge Express • www.knowledgeexpress.com
Business development and competitive intelligence for organizations involved with science/technology research and new inventions. 

67. KnowX • www.knowx.com
Web-based public records information provider.

68. Law Seminars International • www.lawseminars.com
Professional education programs focusing on the risks and opportunities created by current and emerging legal issues for lawyers, executives, and government officials.

69. LexisNexis • www.lexis-nexis.com
Major online information provider of legal information (Lexis) and specialized business and news databases (Nexis). 

70. Librarians' Index to the Internet • www.lii.org
A searchable, annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians. 

71. Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) • www.silverplatter.com/catalog/out/LISA
Scholarly information clearinghouse covering the library and information science field.

72. LLRX • www.llrx.com
Web journal dedicated to providing legal professionals with information on a wide range of Internet legal research and technology-related issues.

73. LookSmart • www.looksmart.com
A Web-based directory for business listings around the world.

74. Lycos • www.lycos.com
General Internet search engine.

75. Maricopa Community College District • www.maricopa.edu
General Web page of Maricopa Community College.

76. MarketResearch • www.marketresearch.com
Search and information portal for buying market research reports.

77. MD Express • www.mdexpress.com
Portal for physicians and health professionals that provides links to medical search engines, professional associations, education resources, health statistics, office tools, business news, and more.

78. Medical Data International • www.medicaldata.com
Provider of compliance, coding, reimbursement, and market and technology intelligence for the worldwide healthcare industry. 

79. Medical Subject Headings (MESH) • www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html
U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) controlled vocabulary terminology source.

80. MEDLINE • www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/medline.html
U.S. National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database, containing more than 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. 

81. Metacrawler • www.metacrawler.com
Web directory and search engine with capability to search multiple search engines at once.

82. Mighty Words • www.mightywords.com
Web-based digital document distribution network. 

83. MindBranch • www.mindbranch.com
Market research clearinghouse offering reports and other information from a variety of publishers. 

84. Multex • www.multex.com
A global provider of investment information and technology solutions for the financial services industry.

85. Napster • www.napster.com
Web-based music file sharing network; no longer available.

86. National Library of Medicine • www.nlm.nih.gov
Official medical library of the United States.

87. National Online Meeting • www.infotoday.com/nom2000/default.htm
2000 North America's largest electronic information conference and exhibition sponsored by Information Today; now part of InfoToday 2002.

88. Neat New Stuff • www.marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Weekly reviews of new sites and developments by "librarian without walls" Marylaine Block.

89. Northern Light • www.northernlight.com
A research engine covering both free and fee-based Web resources.

90. Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) • www.libdex.com
Searchable library catalogs available through the Internet.

91. Online World • www.onlineinc.com
Former online industry trade show sponsored by Online, Inc. Last held in September 2000.

92. Orbit • www.questel.orbit.com
Online database information provider in the areas of intellectual property, 
scientific research, and international business.

93. Pacer • http://pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov
Public records information provider offering U.S. party/case indexing.

94. Paintshop Pro • www.jasc.com
Windows-based program for graphics management and capturing screenshots.

95. PatentValuePredictor.com
— See StockPricePredictor.com.

96. Paul & Sarah Edwards: Working from Home • www.paulandsarah.com
Web site of work-at-home experts Paul and Sarah Edwards.

97. PowerMarks • www.kaylon.com/power.html
Bookmark manager and personal search engine for the Internet.

98. PR Newswire • www.prnewswire.com
Newswire service for press releases and company news.

99. Price's List of Lists • http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm
Clearinghouse for lists of information on the Internet, including rankings of people, organizations, and companies. Compiled by Gary Price.

100. Profound • www.profound.com
Online business information service for end-users and professional searchers.

101. Psychiatry-Online • www.psychiatry-online.com
A fee-based consulting service that provides individuals with access 
to psychiatrists online.

102. PubMed • www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

103. Query Server • www.queryserver.com
A meta-search tool that broadcasts a single query across a set of Web-enabled search engines. 

104. QuickBooks / QuickBooks Pro • www.quickbooks.com
Accounting and financial management software for small businesses.

105. Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature • www.silverplatter.com/catalog/wipl.htm
An index to general-interest periodicals and magazines.

106. Reference Manager • www.refman.com
Software for Internet reference searching, database management, and bibliography development.

107. Research Bank / Investext • www.investext.com
A comprehensive collection of market research analyst reports on the Web. 

108. ResearchBuzz • www.researchbuzz.com
Web site devoted to Internet research news and information. 

109. Robot Wisdom Weblog • www.robotwisdom.com
Weblog providing links to obscure Web sites.

110. Salomon Smith Barney • www.salomonsmithbarney.com
Subscription site for financial services and portfolio management.

111. The Scout Report • www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report
Weekly news of Internet resources; professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource.

112. Search Adobe PDF Online • www.searchpdf.adobe.com
Search tool for locating Adobe PDF files.

113. SearchDay • www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday
Chris Sherman's daily column featuring news and analysis of search engine technologies.

114. Search Engine Watch • www.searchenginewatch.com
Danny Sullivan's Web site devoted to trends and developments on the search engine front.

115. Sears List of Subject Headings • www.hwwilson.com/print/searslst.htm
Authoritative listing of subject headings for cataloging materials in libraries. 

116. Sherlock • www.apple.com/sherlock
Specialized search tool for the Apple Macintosh system.

117. Slashdot • www.slashdot.org
Offbeat "news for nerds and stuff that matters," featuring articles, interviews, and online discussion forums. 

118. Small Business Administration (SBA) • www.sba.gov
U.S. government agency charged with small business development and regulation.

119. Standard & Poor's • www.standardpoor.com
In-depth opinions and analyses on global equities, fixed-income credit ratings, risk management, and market developments.

120. Stat-USA • www.statusa.gov
Offers CD-ROM and Internet access to international trade and business information. 

121. STN • www.cas.org/stn.html
Online information for a broad range of scientific fields, including chemistry, engineering, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, regulatory compliance, patents, and business.

122. StockPricePredictor.com • www.patentvaluepredictor.com
Subscription-based information service to assess values of individual patents and company patent portfolios.

123. Superior Information Services • www.superiorinfo.com
Online search service for public records data.

124. SurfWax • www.surfwax.com
Innovative meta-search engine featuring real-time page summaries.

125. Thomson & Thomson • www.thomson-thomson.com
Online search service specializing in trademark and copyright searches.

126. Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) • www.law.cornell.edu/uniform/ucc.html
Federal law designed to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing commercial transactions; filings are public record.

127. Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) • www.ucita.com
A proposed state contract law designed to standardize the licensing of software and all other forms of digital information. 

128. Usenet  • http://groups.google.com
Wide-ranging Internet-based discussion groups; searchable and browsable. 

129. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) • www.uspto.gov
U.S. government agency charged with regulation and recording of all patents and patent applications.

130. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) • www.edgar.sec.gov
U.S. government agency charged with regulation of publicly traded companies and their stocks and other investment instruments.

131. Vault.com • www.vault.com
An employment and career information portal, offering specific industry and company news and profiles.

132. Venture Source • www.venturesource.com
Online database of focused research on the venture capital industry. 

133. Verizon • www.verizon.com
Telecommunications provider; formerly GTE and Bell Atlantic.

134. Virtual Acquisition Shelf • http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Gary Price's weekly updates of resources and news for information professionals and researchers.

135. Vivisimo • www.vivisimo.com
Search engine technology available for licensing for use on the Web, an extranet, or an intranet.

136. Wall Street Journal • www.wsj.com
Online version of daily newspaper, available by subscription.

137. Wall Street Research Net • www.wsrn.com
Up-to-date customized market and company news.

138. WebCrawler • www.webcrawler.com
General Internet directory and search engine.

139. Web Search University • www.websearchu.com
Conference launched in 2001 by Online, Inc. Focused on the specifics of the latest news and developments in Web searching.

140. WIRED • www.wired.com
Technology-oriented news and information for Web users.

141. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) • www.wipo.org
An international organization dedicated to protecting intellectual property through legislation, regulation, and standardization. 

142. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)  • www.w3c.org
Organization that develops specifications, guidelines, software, and tools to promote the Web as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

143. World Wide Web Virtual Library • http://vlib.org
Subject-based, decentralized Internet directory.

144. WS-FTP • www.ipswitch.com/Products/WS_FTP
Windows application used to transfer files between a local PC and a remote computer on the Internet. 

145. Yahoo! • www.yahoo.com
General Internet search engine and subject directory. 
 

ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUPS, MAILING LISTS, AND NEWSLETTERS

146. AIIP-L • www.aiip.org
— Available to AIIP members only

147. The Airline List
— To subscribe, send email to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU

148. BUSLIB-L
— To subscribe, send email to: Listserv@listserv.boisestate.edu
In message body type:
Subscribe buslib-l firstname lastname

149. Chemical Information Listserv (CHMINF-L) • listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html

150. Free Pint
— To subscribe, send email to: subs@freepint.co.uk
Monthly news and developments in Internet information research.

151. LIMS (Environmental regulation of laboratories list)
To subscribe, send email to: Listserv@list.uvm.edu

152. MEDLIB-L
— To subscribe, send email to: Listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu
In message body type:
SUBSCRIBE MEDLIB-L firstname lastname

153. New Business Development • Groups.yahoo.com/group/NewBizDev/join
A public discussion list for sharing new business development ideas.

154. Nua Internet Surveys  • www.nua.ie/surveys/subscribe.html
Weekly newsletter containing news on Internet trends and statistics.

155. Patent Information Users Group • www.piug.org

156. PRSPCT-L • www.usc.edu/dept/source/research.htm
Discussion list for Internet fundraising prospect researchers.

157. SLA Business & Finance Division
— To subscribe, send email to: listserv@lists.psu.edu
In message body type:
Subscribe SLABF-L firstname lastname

158. SLA Law Librarians Division
To subscribe, send email to: listserv@listserv.uh.edu
In message body type:
Subscribe SLA-LAW firstname lastname

159. SLA News Division
— To subscribe, send email to: Listproc@listserv.oit.unc.edu
In message body type:
Subscribe NEWSLIB firstname lastname

160. SLA Pharmaceutical and Health Technology Division
— To subscribe, send email to: listserv@lists.sla.org
In message body type:
Subscribe SLA-DPHM firstname lastname

161. SLA Solo Librarians Division
— To subscribe, send email to: listserv@silverplatter.com
In message body type:
Subscribe SOLOLIB-L firstname lastname

162. SLA Toronto
— To subscribe, send email to: Lists@lists.sla.org
In message body type:
Subscribe SLA-CTOR firstname lastname

163. Wall Street Journal daily alerts • www.wsj.com
Customized news coverage available to subscribers.

164. Web Search Newsletter
— To subscribe, fill out form on Newsletter page at www.websearch.about.com
Weekly news on Web research and search engines from About.com.
 

ORGANIZATIONS

165. Aero Club of Washington • www.aeroclub.org

166. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) • www.aopa.org

167. American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) • www.ahima.org

168. Arizona Software and Internet Association (ASIA) • www.azsoft.net

169. Arizona State University • www.asu.edu

170. Arizona Telecommunications & Information Council (ATIC) • www.ArizonaTele.com

171. Association of Consulting Chemists & Chemical Engineers (ACC&CE) • www.chemconsult.org

172. Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP) • www.aiip.org

173. Association of Internet Professionals (AIP) • www.association.org

174. Biotechnology Industry Cluster • www.azbiocluster.org

175. California Association of Licensed Investigators • www.cali-pi.org

176. Canadian Library Association (CLA) • www.cla.ca

177. Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) • www.copyright.com

178. Dallas Association of Law Librarians • www.aallnet.org/chapter/dall

179. Dayton Chamber of Commerce • www.daytonchamber.org

180. E-Healthcare World • www.ehealthcareworld.com

181. Environmental Technology Industry Cluster • www.futurewest.com/economy/etic

182. Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) • www.eaa.org

183. Fast Company • www.fastcompany.com

184. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) • www.faa.gov

185. Global Arizona E-Learning • www.gazel.org

186. Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development (GSPED) • www.commerce.state.az.us/gsped.htm

187. High Tech Industry Cluster • www.azhitechcluster.org

188. IHS—Emerging Medical Technologies  • www.ihshealthgroup.com

189. International Aviation Club of Washington DC • www.iacwashington.org

190. Medical Library Association (MLA) • www.mlanet.org

191. Medical Marketing Association • www.mmanet.org

192. Medtech Insight • www.medtechinsight.com

193. National Air Transportation Association (NATA) • www.nata-online.org

194. National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) • www.nawbo.org

195. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) • www.ntsb.gov

196. Public Record Retriever Network (PRRN) • www.brbpub.com/prrn

197. Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) • www.score.org

198. Small Business Development Center (SBDC) • www.sba.gov/sbdc

199. Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) • www.scip.org

200. Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) • www.siia.net

201. Special Libraries Association (SLA) • www.sla.org

202. Tech Oasis • www.techoasis.org

203. United States Department of Transportation (DOT) • www.dot.gov
 

PRINT JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, NEWSLETTERS, NEWSPAPERS

204. African Aviation
African Aviation Services Limited, UK, monthly
www.africanaviation.com

205. Airport Business
Cygnus Business Media, Janesville, WI, 9x/year
www.airportbiz.com

206. Aviation Week
McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, weekly
www.aviationnow.com

207. Business 2.0
Imagine Media, Brisbane, CA, monthly
www.business2.com

208. Business & Commercial Aviation
McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, monthly
www.AviationNow.com/BCA

209. Business Week
McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, weekly
www.businessweek.com

210. CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research
Bibliodata, Needham Heights, MA, monthly
www.bibliodata.com/skeptic/skepdata.html

211. The Economist
Economist, New York, NY, weekly
www.economist.com

212. EContent
Online Inc., Wilton, CT, bimonthly
www.ecmag.net
www.onlineinc.com/database (archives)

213. Financial Times
Financial Times, New York, NY, daily
www.financialtimes.com

214. The Globe and Mail
Bell Globemedia, Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, daily
www.theglobeandmail.com

215. Information Advisor
Find/SVP, New York, NY, monthly
www.findsvp.com

216. Information Outlook 
Special Libraries Association, Washington DC, monthly
www.sla.org/pubs/serial/io/index.shtml

217. Information Today
Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, monthly
www.infotoday.com

218. Library Journal
American Library Association, Washington DC, monthly
www.libraryjournal.com

219. New York Times
The New York Times Company, New York, NY, daily
www.nytimes.com

220. Online
Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ
www.infotoday.com/online

221. Regional Airline World
Shephard Press Limited, UK, monthly
www.shephard.co.uk

222. Santa Rosa Business Journal
Regional news for Santa Rosa, California.
www.busjrnl.com

223. Searcher
Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 10x/year
www.infotoday.com/searcher

224. Women in Management
Ivey Publishing, University of Western Ontario, quarterly
www.ivey.uwo.ca/publications/wim
 

BOOKS

225. Encyclopedia of Associations
Gale Research, Detroit, MI, annual
www.galegroup.com

226. Free Agent Nation: How America's New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live
By Daniel H. Pink
Warner Books, New York, NY, 2001

227. Growing a Business
By Paul Hawken
Simon and Schuster, New York, NY 1987
www.simonandschuster.com

228. How to Avoid Liability: The Information Professional's Guide to Negligence and Warranty Risks
By T.R. Halvorson
Burwell Enterprises, Dallas, TX 1998
www.burwellinc.com

229. Information Brokering: A How-To-Do-It-Manual
By Florence Mason and Chris Dobson
Neal-Schuman, New York, NY 1998
www.neal-schuman.com

230. The Information Broker's Handbook (3rd Edition) and Information Broker's Seminar
By Sue Rugge and Alfred Glossbrenner 
Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, New York, NY 1997
Out of print

231. Information Brokers: How to Start and Operate Your Own Fee-Based Service
By Kelly Warnken
Out of print

232. The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See
By Chris Sherman and Gary Price
CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 2001
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm

233. Mining for Gold on the Internet: How to Find Investment and Financial Information on the Internet
By Mary Ellen Bates
McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 2000
www.mcgraw-hill.com

234. Pan Africa: Across the Sahara in 1941 with Pan Am
By Thomas M. Culbert
Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, 1998

235. Researching Online For Dummies (2nd Edition)
By Reva Basch and Mary Ellen Bates
Hungry Minds Inc., (formerly IDG Books), New York, NY, 2000
www.hungryminds.com

236. Super Searchers Cover the World: The Online Secrets of International Business Reseachers
By Mary Ellen Bates
CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 2001
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm

237. Super Searchers Do Business: The Online Secrets of Top Business Researchers
By Mary Ellen Bates
CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 1999
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm

238. Super Searchers on Wall Street: Top Investment Professionals Share Their Online Research Secrets
By Amelia Kassel
CyberAge Books, Information Today Inc., Medford, NJ, 2000
www.infotoday.com/catalog/books.htm

239. World Aviation Directory
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About the Author
Suzanne Sabroski is principal of Sabroski & Associates, providing general research and writing support to business professionals since 1995. Prior to going on her own she worked as a corporate librarian, with additional experience in nonprofit administration, tourism, and freelance writing. She obtained her bachelor's degree in political science and mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and her master's in Educa-tional Media from the College of St. Scholastica, writing her thesis on company information needs assessment. Suzanne was editor of the Association of Independent Information Professionals' first white paper, The Independent Information Profession, and has written for Searcher and Washington Researchers. She is a recipient of AIIP's Myra T. Grenier Award, and served on the AIIP Board of Directors as Chair of Public Relations.

Suzanne lives with her husband, Alan; their three children; and their dog in the beautiful wilderness of northern Minnesota, where she is an active volunteer in school and church activities, and Suzuki parent to their three young violinists. 

About the Editor
Reva Basch, executive editor of the Super Searchers series, has written four books of her own: Researching Online For Dummies (Hungry Minds, 2nd edition with Mary Ellen Bates), Secrets of the Super Net Searchers (Information Today, 1996), Secrets of the Super Searchers (Information Today, 1993), and Electronic Information Delivery: Evaluating Quality and Value(Gower, 1995). She has edited and contributed chapters, introductions, and interviews to several books about the Internet and online information retrieval. She was the subject of a profile in Wired magazine, which called her "the ultimate intelligent agent."

Prior to starting her own business in 1986, Reva was Vice President and Director of Research at Information on Demand, a pioneering independent research company. She has designed front-end search software for major online services; written and consulted on technical, marketing, and training issues for both online services and database producers; and published extensively in information industry journals. She has keynoted at international conferences in Australia, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom, as well as North America. 

Reva is a Past-President (1991­1992) of the Association of Independent Information Professionals. She has a degree in English literature, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master's degree in library science from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her career as a corporate librarian, ran her own independent research business for ten years, and has been online since the mid-1970s. 

Reva lives on the remote northern California coast with her husband, cats, and satellite access to the Internet. 


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