Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:59:10 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy@icicikp.com> dear Ms. Walters You may try out the following links: http://www.securities.com Provides, for a fee, access to a large number of Indian Market, business, trade info, statistics, special reports in full text. But search facilities are poor. http://ibid.informindindia.co.in provides online/cdrom access on an annual fee basis; Indian Business Trade, commeercial info abstracts - descriptive & usable - are searchable via very powerful field based mechanism; Product coding helps reach highly specific searches for industrial info, say all info on turmeric. Nearly 90 plus periodicals are covered for about 8 years. http://www.cmie.com Government generated original data; trade statistics; very popular and reputed; major industries covered; India-Trades and other databases. Meaningful usage requires investment in training and learning to use the package. http://www.indiainformer.com Formerly Vanscom; Newspaper based info; mostly full text items; search facilities are not sharp. coverage -- about 15 newspapers; http://www.indiastats.com There are many libraries subscribing to these data sources. We get IBID and VANs. IIMs and management institutions are good places to ask for help. www.indianmba.com gives a comprehensive list of MBA institutions. I also remember Lis-forum archives contain details of subscriptions made by several institutions. best wishes *Dr.P.Vyasamoorthy, Advisor, Virtual Information Centre *ICICI Knowledge Park, Turkapalli Village, Shameerpet Mandal, RR District, Hyderabad 500078 INDIA *Ph: +91(40) 2348 0053; Fax:+91(40) 2348 0007 Ph. Res: +91(40) 2784 6631 *Website: http://www.vic-ikp.info and http://www.iciciknowledgepark.com