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Welcome to our Web links. CEASA (Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia) is an economics publisher and research company in Sydney. We specialise in advertising expenditure in main media.  In this page we are building up useful tools to find information on the Internet. This is especially economic and resource data.

Search engines | Resources - World / Australia / USA-Canada / UK / NZ / China / Japan / SE_Asia / Africa | Marketing | Commerce

Searching Facilities, Indexes, Libraries and Directories

• Alta Vista - Australian mirror - excellent and fast
• AOL
• Excite  

Australian classified site index

• InfoSeek
• Lycos - keyword searches with ranking
• Nerd World: Australia
• Telstra WWW meta-indexes - indexes of indexes - organisations, keyword searches, Veronica...
• The Web Wombat Search Engine - Australian sites
• WebCrawler - keyword searches
• Yahoo - hierarchical subject directory
• Index of mailing lists
• A Business Researcher's Interests by Yogesh Malhotra - a searchable knowledge map of Contemporary Business, Management and Information Technology issues - provides access to hundreds of full-text papers, magazines & journals, case studies and tools, and online resources on some of the hottest issues of interest to Business, Technology & Information professionals.
• Student Services Inc. FastWeb - classified Job Search - USA
• NetAbilities Database (NADB) - Northern Adelaide Development Board of South Australia - Australian business directory

Pronet - global interactive business centre

• Rescue Island
• business-to-business directory for commercial goods and services
• search engine
• Aussie Index - Australian sites - good annotated directory of govt sites
• Australian Universities directory - privately maintained
• Book Stacks Unlimited - book service with 400,000 titles
• Business Wire - news service (a la Reuters) - company news, headlines - subscription service available - good
• US Government Technology - USA - news, conferences, jobs about USA government at all levels
• HYTELNET - hypertext directory of all library catalogs on the internet via USask, CA. Maintained by Peter Scott pscott@library.berkeley.edu
• Journalistic Resources - USA, Europe, rest of world - compiled in Sweden - extremely good!
• NetAngels - bookmark database system - manages your bookmarks, email addresses and password protected sites
• Australian Library and Information Association - interlibrary loan vouchers.
• National Library of Australia - jump-off point to Australian government, e-journals
• State Library of New South Wales - ILANET
• UMI InfoStore - document supply service
• Kompass International business directory - by subscription
• Tradegate ECA - low cost electronic commerce (EDI) for small business
• The List - large list of internet service providers worldwide
• New Riders' Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages - submit entry
• OpenMarket's Commercial Sites Index
• Yellow Pages - Australian business phone numbers

Resources and Economics

Worldwide (top)

• International Monetary Fund
• International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO (UN Conference on Trade and Development / World Trade Organization) - UN trade centre for developing countries - CDROM and online statistics (Market News Service)
• International Wool Secretariat
• I-TRADE (International Trade Resource And Data Exchange) - very good international trade directory, part of UNTPDC Global Trade Point Network (GTPN)
• OECD
• United Nations - International Computer Centre - lists all the UN Web servers and gophers
• WebEc - huge list of quality economics sites based in Finland with mirrors. Professionally classified data.
• World Bank

Australia (top)

• Access Economics, Melbourne
• Austrade
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
• Australian Business On-Line
• run on ChamberNet by Australian Business Chamber (Chamber of Manufacturers)
• business info, electronic commerce, industrial relations, OH&S, trade, business services and training, news services, email
• requires registration to be on it
• Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Canberra, +61-6-2732311 - Westpac business survey
• Australian Financial Services Directory - very good extensive directory of Australian finance sites
• Australian Dept of Finance
• Australian Government Home Page - very good directory
• Australian Financial Review
• Australian Securities Commission (ASC)
• Australian Stock Exchange
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia - interest rates, share prices, employment, foreign exchange rates, economic commentary
• Dept. of Industry, Science & Tourism - Industry Brief
• Industry Commission (now Productivity Commission)
• National Australia Bank
• Murdoch University School of Economics and Commerce, WA - strong economics dept, conferences, associations
• Parliamentary Library, Dept. of. Parliamentary Research Service Papers: Monthly Economic and Social Indicators Index - good source of ABS stats online
• Pearson Professional Asia-Pacific
• Financial Times
• the Economist...
• plus other links
• Productivity Commission
• Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) - Web site is being built (11/95)
• Sydney Morning Herald - includes Max Walsh economic commentator, good list of newspapers worldwide
• Tasmanian Businesses - Tassie Net
• University of Sydney Faculty of Economics - includes Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT)
• Treasury of Australia, Commonwealth
• Westpac Banking Corp. - economic summary

Agriculture

• AgNet - Australian agriculture network - many organisations and businesses
• Australia. Primary Industries and Energy, Dept of - PIENet
• Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)
• Australian Geological Survey Organisation
• Bureau of Resource Sciences
• Dairy Research and Development Corporation (DRDC), Canberra
• Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), Canberra - includes Ground Cover grains research newspaper with index
• Meat Research Corp.
• National Registration Authority for Agriculture and Veterinary Chemicals (NRA)
• Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), Canberra
• Australian Barley Board, Adelaide
• Australian Wheat Board, Sydney
• Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs) in Victoria - agriculture, technology, business, mining
• Farm Radio - very comprehensive list of agricultural links
• Foreign Affairs and Trade, Dept of
• Livestock Industries Institute, University of New England, NSW
• National Farmers' Federation Australia - agriculture reports
• National Resource Information Centre
• Ostriches Online - award winning ostrich farming site :)
• Queensland Dept of Primary Industries
• agricultural research
• IOBC/SEARS greenhouse crops IPM group newsletter
• (IOBC=International Organisation for Biological Control of Noxious Animals and Plants; SEARS=South and East Asian Regional Section; IPM=Integrated Pest Management)
• links to non-DPI agricultural information
• WALIS (Western Australian Land Information System) - land management
• About Wool - links to Int'l Wool Sec.

Grocery Industry

• Burns, Philp & Company Limited
• FoodTrack Australia - food and beverage industry products and company information
• Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), Canberra

Motor Industry

• Ford
• Toyota
• Volvo Car Australia
• Industry Sector Fact Sheets - Automotive - Business Victoria
• Industry Commission - The Automotive Industry Draft Report 1996 - in PDF format
• South Australian car industry - Mitsubishi Motors Australia Ltd and General Motors-Holden Automotive Ltd - promo

Communications and Media

• Australia. Dept of Communications and the Arts - related organisations
• Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA)
• Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) - very good list of media sites, community broadcasting issues

Minerals and Resources

• Ampolex - petroleum exploration company - excellent links to exploration sites
• The Analyst - a petroleum e-journal including Energy Review, Crisis Management... - hard core mining industry material (no pun intended!)
• Australian Mineral Foundation - extensive list of mineral links
• BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited) - major Australian minerals, steel and petroleum company with worldwide operations
• CSIRO Coal and Energy
• CSIRO Mineral Processing and Metal Production Section - minerals is best part including videos
• CSIRO Petroleum (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) - huge internet resources list
• Mobil - major oil company - has news column about Mobil
• National Centre for Petroleum, Geology and Geophysics - University of Adelaide and University of South Australia
• Australian Mining Industry Council, Canberra
• Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Limited, Sydney
• Minerals Council of Australia, Canberra

United States and Canada (top)

• Grocery Manufacturers of America - top 500 companies in USA - very good source of industry information including news, company directory...
• Stanford Graduate School of Business - including Stanford Business School Magazine back issues
• The Federal Web Locator - huge directory of depts, very useful
• US Bureau of the Census
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Foreign Labor Statistics
• Stat-USA - US Dept of Commerce - only accessible via password
• A guide to the US Dept of Commerce Agencies
• US Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database of corporate information - stock and company information - searchable
• MedAccess - very good medical and statistical information
• Continuum business links - handful of good links
• Agricultural Resources - very good US based agriculture directory, from ag trade stats to agribusiness
• US Dept of Agriculture (USDA)
• Foreign Agricultural Service - FAS Online - Australian Resources from ABARE and remote sensing
• Economic Statistics - huge database of economic stats
• Statistics Canada
• Nova Corporation, Canada - Gas pipelines and Petrochemical producers
• Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Canada

UK (top)

• CCTA Government Information Service - very good government locator by dept and function
• Office for National Statistics (ONS) Databank Service
• BBC
• YELL - British Telecom Yellow Pages
• VAT Refund Pack for non-European Union businesses

New Zealand (top)

• Statistics New Zealand
• New Zealand Government Web Pages - directory and search interface
• Television New Zealand Online (TVNZ Online)
• Wellington, NZ - business

China (top)

• Sydney-Beijing Information Trade Service Centre
• Cyberexpress - Chinese and English - World Trade Centers Assoc., newspapers, tourism, mall...
• Chinese Economy Research Unit - agricultural economy - University of Adelaide
• China News Service - English/Chinese - requires low cost subscription, plenty only in Chinese! Average quality.
• VicNet Chinese Community links - good starting point
• Latrobe University links

Japan (top)

• Nikkei Net - Japanese/English - business news - very good - see Hit List for best Web sites as rated by Nikkei

Indonesia (top)

• Indonesia Business Centre - Economic & Business Review Indonesia

Singapore (top)

• Commerce Asia - good directory of banking, finance, manufacturing, education, motor...

Brunei (top)

• BruNET - oil and liquified natural gas industries

India (top)

• VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited)

Africa (top)

• MBendi's AfroPedia - mineral, company, stock exchange, country, oil industry info
• Worldnet Africa

Marketing and Advertising (top)

Associations and Directories

• Advertising Media Internet Center - great jumping off point for marketing and media info online
• American Association of Advertising Agencies
• American Marketing Association
• Australian Media Facilities Directory - large list of advertisers, film producers...
• Campaign Brief Directory 1996-97: CB ROM, Western Australia's Advertising, Media and Marketing Database - a CD available from AdRom (CD Publishers & Multimedia Producers) - Ken Sealey, Perth, WA
• The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) - radio, TV
• Clio Awards, USA - advertising awards
• Danish Association of Advertising Agencies (DANSKE REKLAMEBUREAUERS BRANCHEFORENING) - Danish and English versions
• Fairfax @ MARKET - online classifieds from the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review and the Sun-Herald newspapers
• Interesting Information for Marketers - Monash University Dept of Marketing
• International directory of management and business schools by Cranfield University School of Management UK.
• Internet Resource Guide to Advertising - industry associations, publications, agencies, research resources by media, law, universities - annotated address and title catalogs jump station - no links to actual data - a little disappointing, not even any email addresses
• Israeli Advertising Association - Iris Kalka Ph.D
• The Marketing Research Society of Australia Limited
• MediaNet - Web/phone directory of advertisers, TV networks... - North America
• Newsclassifieds - News Ltd online classifieds from The Australian, NSW Daily Telegraph & Cumberland, Victorian Herald Sun & Weekly Times, WA Sunday Times, SA Advertiser, Sunday Mail & Messenger, Tasmanian Mercury, Qld Courier-Mail, Sunday Mail, Townsville Bulletin, Gold Coast Bulletin, Cairns Post & Quest...
• rpdata - heavy equipment, real estate, motor vehicles
• Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW - School of Management and Marketing in Faculty of Business and Computing - advertising agencies directory, marketing resources, Australian business schools
• Trading Post - online classifieds

Direct Marketing

• Australian Direct Marketing Association, Sydney
• Canadian Direct Marketing Association
• British Columbia Direct Marketing Association
• Call Centre Managers Forums - Call Centre Managers Association, Australia
• Japan Direct Marketing Association
• The New Zealand Direct Marketing Association - code of ethics
• NIMA International - online retailing, infomercials, home shopping...
• The Direct Marketing Association (UK) - address only
• US Direct Marketing Association - great resources... - member directory, plus later direct access to their library and research annex
• Mid-America Direct Marketing Association
• Midwest Direct Marketing Association (USA) - links to other direct marketing associations!
• Houston Direct Marketing Association
• New England Direct Marketing Association
• Rocky Mountain Direct Marketing Association
• The BIZ (Business Information Zone) (UK) - very good business directory - mixture of addresses and links
• Direct Email Marketing Association - moderated news group
• Direct Resources International - including Pan-Pacific Seminars
• Extractor Pro - electronic mailing list creation and bulk email software for Windows 95/NT
• Internet Email Marketing Council (IEMCC) - ethics of email direct marketing, removes you from members' spam lists
• Marketing on the Internet - Netresource.com
• MAILNet Services - direct mailing service - list processing e.g. geocoder, NCOA (change of address)
• National PR Network - Web PR service
• PostMaster Direct - selective email direct marketing service - needs Netscape 2.0
• Qwik Secretarial Services (QSS) (shen@cynergy.com.au) - Data Entry and Data Entry Support (ISO 9002:1994) - Brisbane, Australia
• Softcell Marketing - reputable email direct marketing company, not spammer

Publications, Newsletters

• Advertising Age Magazine - online version - excellent!
• Asian Internet Marketing Mailing List - how to join a very large Asian list which reaches Internet marketing, media and sales pioneers in Asia
• B2B eNews International Business Journal - eCommerce, direct marketing
• NTC Publications, UK - World advertising trends - 61 countries' advertising figures in US$ - contact: Toby Howard (100144.3037@compuserve.com)
• TVB Canada - advertising figures on request - 890 Yonge St, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3P4, Canada, tel (416) 923 8813, fax (416) 923 8739
• The Vault - Internet and Direct Response Marketing Information, Contacts and Tools! - tips and commentary...
• Web Marketing Today - a bi-weekly e-mail newsletter - useful tips on maximising Web advertising effectiveness, includes archive of back-issues

Research

• ActivMedia Inc - market research on the World Wide Web
• Advertising Research Foundation - USA
• AGB McNair - research company Sydney
• AIM Data, Sydney (+61-2-99530144) - market research company which covers product category advertising statistics
• APT Strategies Pty Ltd - research company Melbourne
• CommerceNet - base of major companies on the internet
• CommerceNet Australia (1997) - news
• MAID plc (Market Analysis & Information Database)- online market research company with huge searchable Profound databases. They include market research reports, newspapers, magazines and trade journals, wire services such as Associated Press, company reports, analyst reports from top brokerages, country reports and economic forecasts... well worth a visit!! subscription service
• Martec Australia Pty Ltd - Economic Consultants - contact: Grant Burt, +61-3-9509 3133 - Australian motor industry
• Nielsen Media Research - Interactive Services - North America
• NPD Group Inc - marketing research USA, Europe
• SOFRES Group - international group based in France
• SOFRES:IMR - Webmeasure and Admeasure - web site measurement and online auditing of advertising on the internet - Australian made, French funded
• Stollznow Research - Sydney
• TARP - call centre benchmarking
• USA Data - market research into restaurants, fast food, internet advertising, media-market map... - samples and data structure given
• University of South Australia - Marketing Science Centre Projects
• University of Arizona College of Business and Public Administration
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Commerce and Business and Administration (UIUC CCBA) - library of business resources

Commerce, Internet Technology, Electronic Publishing (top)

• Advance Bank, Australia - first bank in Australia to offer customer access via the internet, merchant access Sep 96...
• Anet - the International Accounting Network - Southern Cross University, NSW
• Steve Benson's list of electronic publishing projects and resources - useful snippets of info
• Beverly Hills Software - Windows NT Resource Center - technical support
• CITEC - Qld Govt information technology centre - network management - under construction (7/96)
• CyberCash, USA - electronic funds and banking - CyberCoin, Cyber Wallet
• Dan Fandrich's comparisons of electronic payment systems and methods of privacy - very good!
• Firmware Design - Macromedia agent in Australia plus illustrations of great Web design
• Financial Network Services Pty Ltd, 70 Rosehill St, Redfern NSW 2016, Australia, +61-2-93181088, fax +61-2-93190008 - banking software - Jeff Brown (GM Sales & Marketing, jabfns@ibm.net), David Parker (dparke6@ibm.net)
• Internet Commerce Australia (ICA) mail archive - special interest group
• Internet World - topical information - full text of back issues available
• Maagnum secure commerce server - CT, USA
• Macromedia - multimedia tools for the Internet
• National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) - high tech centre for internet resource management - great gateway for US internet technology infrastructure
• Ngapartji Multimedia Centre, Adelaide - online interactive development and business
• Parallax - Web consultants - handy URL redirector for Win NT
• SRI International - technology research and development consultants, USA
• SunSoft - internet commerce
• www.consult - Australian and SE Asian internet research company - demographics, turnovers...
• development provider
• Spacenet - Russian Space Program

(Updated 8 December 1999)