Pertinent to all topics:	Sources for Specialized Areas
General Indexes	Health Care Organizations
Search Terms	Internet Service Providers
Statistics & Demographics	Higher Education
Public Opinion	Bill Collection
Public Relations
Legislators

 

General Indexes

The Ely Library Catalog	MasterFile Premier
Expanded Academic ASAP	InfoTrac OneFile
Academic Search Premier	Boston Globe Online (Full Text)

• Books:

Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media. [Ref Z 6951 .A97]
Simmons Study of Media and Markets. [Ref HF 5415.3 .S78]
Encyclopedia of Associations (10^th Ed.). [REF AS22 .E53 2000]
• Web Sites:

Government Web Sites.  Use Subject sites to access Gov't Docs related to your specialized sectors.

• Indexes: General BusinessFile  [Library Home Page - Quick Links to Databases]
Business Source Premier  [Library Home Page - Quick Links to Databases]
• Books:

Massachusetts Business Directory.  Standish, ME : Tower Pub. ; 1999.
[Ref HF5065.M3 M37 1999-2000]
    This is a good place to start your search for competitors.
D & B’s Regional Business Directory. Bethlehem, PA: Dun & Bradstreet, 2000.
[Ref HG 4057 .N35 D86]
U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook. DRI/McGraw-Hill and Standard & Poor’s and U.S.Department of Commerce/International Trade Administration. New York : McGraw Hill.  Annual.
[Ref HC101 .U54]
Refer to this volume for industry reviews, analyses, forecasts, and trends for both public and private companies and industries.
Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys [Ref HC 106.6 .S74]
Browse the Table of Contents to locate an appropriate broad industry classification.
Statistical forecasts of the United States. Edited by James E. Person, Jr., Sean R. Pollock, associate editor. Detroit : Gale Research, c1993. [Ref HC106.8 S7357 1993]

• Web Sites:

WSC Business Web Sources    [http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/business.htm]
Westfield Chamber of Commerce  (Currently unavailable 6-20-03)  [http://www.westfieldchamber.org/]
Springfield Chamber of Commerce   [http://www.springfieldchamber.org/]
Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce  [http://www.holycham.com/]
Greater Easthampton Chamber of Commerce [http://chamber.easthampton.ma.us/]
Westspringfield Chamber of Commerce  [http://www.westspringfieldchamber.org/]

• Web Sites:

Government Documents Statistics  [http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/govdocs.htm#Statistics]
Statistics[http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/gref.htm#Statistics]
Statistics and Public Opinion   [http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/stats/index.htm]
This Canadian Media Awareness site also contains statistics on U.S. media.
• Books:

Places, Towns and Townships. Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, 1998. [Ref HA203 .P58 1998]
County and City Extra : annual metro, city, and county data book. Lanham, MD : Bernan Press. Annual [Ref HA203 .C68]
Massachusetts Municipal Profiles. Wellesley Hills, Mass. : Information Publications, Annual.
[Ref HA431 .M37]
Demographics USA 1999 : county edition. [New York, NY] : Market Statistics, c1999.
[Ref HF5415.1 .D46 1999]
Statistical abstract of the United States.  Washington : G.P.O.  Annual  [Ref HA 202]
Also available online at:  http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Public Opinion Quarterly—Available in Print in Ely Library [Periodical Stacks]
Also indexed and available in full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP
Public Agenda Online [http://www.publicagenda.org/]
Public Opinion and Policy Analysis
People and the Press   Pew Charitable Trusts  [http://www.people-press.org/]
Public Opinion Surveys on topics such as health-care reforms, national debt, etc.
Gallup Poll Online  [http://www.gallup.com/poll/]
Here find public opinion on Business and the Economy, Social Issues and Policy, Managing, and Lifestyle.  Included are poll surveys and analyses.
Lewis Harris Poll Data Archive  [http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/home.asp]
This archive "allows any researcher to search for specific poll questions among the more than 230,000 questions in the Institute's archive by key words, date, study number, study title, or state. The system displays the full question text, study information, and frequency distributions, so it is useful both to users interested in looking up previous question wordings to develop questions for their own studies and to users interested in frequencies or in locating particular variables for statistical analysis."
 
• Books:
American Attitudes  [Ref HN90 P8 M58 1998]
Gallup Poll [Ref HN90.P8 G35] (Most recent is 2000) See link to online version above
Opinions ’90 [Ref HN90.P8 B87]

Public Relations Quarterly —Available in Print in Ely Library [Periodical Stacks]
Also indexed and available in full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP
Public Relations Review Indexed & available in Full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP
• Books:
Advertising and Public Relations Law. Roy L. Moore. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998.
[Stack KF 1614 .M66 1998]
Lesly’s Handbook of Public Relations and Communications, 5^th ed. Philip Lesly. Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1999.  [Ref HM 263 L472 1998]

• U.S. House of Representatives Member List:

http://clerk.house.gov/index.php
• U.S. Senate: Connect with Your Senators:

http://www.senate.gov/
• The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Legislative Directory

http://www.state.ma.us/
• Massachusetts City and Town Clerk Directory

http://www.state.ma.us/sec/ele/eleclk/clkidx.htm
Provides addresses and telephone numbers of municipal clerks' offices throughout the Commonwealth.

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