Selected Resources for Research in E-Commerce

Basic Guide to E-Commerce
http://www.mapnp.org/library/infomgnt/e_cmmrce/e_cmmrce.htm
Includes "Overviews About Getting Started", "Building, Promoting and Managing Your Web Site," "Building and Managing a Virtual Team" and "Product Development."

Center for Research in Electronic Commerce
http://cism.mccombs.utexas.edu/
This research center, located at University of Texas at Austin, focuses on supporting research and education in the area of electronic commerce. Research papers and projects included.

ClickZ Network(formerly CyberAtlas)
http://www.clickz.com/stats/
Up-to-date source for Internet market research. Contains a summary of all available Internet data including market size, growth, forecasts, demographics, plus information on areas such as advertising, banking/finance, commercial online services and Internet service providers.

E-business
http://www.zdnet.com
An e-journal that provides e-commerce headlines as well as links to other resources including reports and white papers.
(Free but registration required)

E-Business Research Center
http://www.cio.com/research/ec/
CIO Magazine's e-commerce site includes discussion forums, articles, and other useful resources.

The eCommerce Guidebook
http://www.online-commerce.com/
Provides a step-by-step guide to the process of becoming e-commerce enabled, a directory of online transaction providers, and a compilation of Web resources.

E-Commerce Research Room
http://www.wilsonweb.com/research/
Maintained by Wilson Web, who claims that this site has "The largest collection of articles, links and resources on e-commerce to be found at any single place on the planet."

E-Commerce News
http://www.internetnews.com/EC-news/
News site with the latest e-commerce news headlines. Register for email updates.

E-Commerce Times
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/
This site is "For industry insiders covering all the latest news and analysis."

eLab
http://elab.vanderbilt.edu//
eLab is a corporate sponsored research center at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management founded in 1994 to study the marketing implications of commercializing the Internet.

Federal Electronic Commerce Program Office
http://www.estrategy.gov/
Created for governmental agencies providing awareness in e?commerce. Includes links to EC topics from several categories and federal EC web sites.

Internet & Marketing
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lib/mktg/int-mktg.htm
Compiled by the Nanyang Technological University Library in Singapore. Has extensive list of links covering topics ranging from reports to newsletters to cyber banking to Internet Security.

U.S. Government Electronic Commerce Policy
http://www.technology.gov/digeconomy/usdocume.htm
The official government site for electronic commerce policy, with links to press releases, government reports, and other resources.

Davis Library Resources

To find books in Davis Library search the online catalog using the subject terms:
Electronic commerce. Electronic data interchange.
Internet advertising. Internet banking.
Internet bookstores. Internet marketing.

Plunkett's E-Commerce & Internet Business Almanac.
Davis Reference Row 5 --CALL NUMBER: HF5548.32 .P55 2003/4
Includes: Complete e-commerce statistics and trends
Internet research and development
Internet growth companies
On-line services, markets, trends and data
On-line Retailing and Electronic Commerce formats and strategies
Emerging e?commerce technology
Internet and World Wide Web trends
Internet and e-commerce careers and job opportunities
Plus complete profiles of the companies that are making news today, the 300 largest, most successful corporations in all facets of the E-Commerce & Internet Business.

Journals & Newspapers
Go directly to business databases :
Some databases to search:
Business Source Premier
LexisNexis Academic
Factiva
Gartner.com
Business Insights
TableBase

For more Business and Economics Assistance,
Please contact Rita W. Moss, Business and Economics Librarian
moss@unc.edu
(919)962-1151

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