Publishers of books and periodicals (see also Exhibit 3.4) |
McGraw-Hill Education
|
Publisher of academic and school textbooks and digital learning products
| http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk |
Pearson
|
Publisher of academic and school textbooks, digital learning products and the Financial Times | http://home.pearsonhighered.com |
Oxford University Press
|
Publisher of academic texts
| http://www.oup.co.uk |
Data Archives |
Social science data archives
|
Links to data archives in many countries
| http://www.sociosite.net/databases.php |
DANS
|
Data archive site of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW)
| http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en |
UK Data Archive
|
Offers access to many research data bases especially from the social sciences.
| http://www.data-archive.ac.uk
/
|
Government and supranational institutions |
Statbase
|
UK national statistics
| http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/mainmenu.asp |
Statline
|
Dutch national statistics
| http://www.cbs.nl/statline |
OECD Statistics
|
Economic statistics at an international level
| http://www.oecd.org |
European Social Survey
|
Information on the values and social background of people in more than 20 European countries
| http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org |
Eurostat
|
Statistical agency of the European Union
| http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home |
Federal Reserve Bank
|
Economic data on federal reserve system and government time series
| http://www.stls.frb.org |
National Trade Data Bank of the US Department of Commerce
|
Offers access to various databases covering topics such as price indices, export opportunities per industry, country and product,
political and socio-economic conditions and so on.
|
Available on CD-ROM. For online access to other trade data, check out the list of links at http://www.commercialdiplomacy.org/links/links_database.htm |
Professional and trade associations |
British Furniture Manufacturers
|
Membership directories, industry information
| www.bfm.org.uk |
CBI (Confederation of British Industry)
|
Business surveys (not free), studies on British industry
| www.cbi.org.uk |
European Express
|
Industry information, studies on the sector
| www.euroexpress.org |
Media sources |
FT Info |
Company information
| http://www.ft.com/companies |
Business Week |
Company information, special reports on selected issues, news
| http://www.businessweek.com |
Commercial sources |
TNS-NIPO |
Market and opinion research, offers some of the results of its studies free of charge
| http://tns-nipo.com/ |
