The Online World resources handbook
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Business: Locating country specific information http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/11b.html<br />
industries such as telecommunications, ecommerce, electric power, oil and gas, mining,<br />
metals, infrastructure, privatization, banking, environment. Latin America Related<br />
Information Service is at http://lanic.utexas.edu/.<br />
Tradstat has import and export data on Brazil and Argentina. For South American<br />
census data, try http://lexis.pop.upenn.edu/world/latin_america.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Latin American Data Base (LADB) has SourceMex (economic news and<br />
analysis on Mexico), Chronicle of Latin American Economic Affairs (reports on trade<br />
policy, privatization, monetary policy, and macro economic figures), and Central<br />
America Update.<br />
RNP Rede Nacional de Pesquisa (National Research Network) has links to most<br />
ftp, gopher and WWW servers in Brazil. Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial<br />
offers Brazilian patents data.<br />
Investext closely monitors the region. Dow Jones has Mexico Service,<br />
InterAmerican Opportunities, and Latin America Opportunity Report.<br />
<strong>The</strong> European Common Market and Central Europe<br />
Those exporting to the EEC need to master languages like German, French, Italian, and<br />
Spanish besides having a working knowledge of English. Conversation is the easy part.<br />
<strong>The</strong> problem is writing, and especially when the task is to translate technical expressions<br />
to the languages used within the Common Market.<br />
Check the European Commission's Translation Service for help. Its database<br />
contains around five million entries in twelve languages, including technical terms,<br />
abbreviations, acronyms and phraseology. <strong>The</strong> search interface offers several options,<br />
including source and target languages, subject field, and the kind of data (terms,<br />
abbreviations, or phraseology) sought.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Europe Homepage offers multi lingual information on the European Union's<br />
goals and policies. EUROPA represents EU's institutions, and is run by the European<br />
Commission. Here are also links to official documents from the Union, publications,<br />
online services, statistics, news, and other Web servers of the area.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Common Market's free database service, I*M EUROPE (Information Market<br />
Europe), is set up to "support the actions of DGXIII of the European Commission in<br />
stimulating the European electronic information services market and multimedia content<br />
industries." It offers information on topics such as the Telematics Applications<br />
Programme, the INFO2000 programme, Task Force Multimedia Educational Software,<br />
and links for more about EU's organizations and programmes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> European Commission's CORDIS (Community Research and Development<br />
Information Service) is a database of all European Community information related to<br />
Research and Technological Development programmes.<br />
You're offered multi lingual searches in databases on topics such as News,<br />
Programmes for finding opportunities in your research areas, Projects for Who is doing<br />
What, Results for exploring Innovation, Partners for your Business Research,<br />
Publications for Key R&D, Published Items, Contacts to People who Can Help,<br />
Acronyms relevant to Community R&D, Understanding EU R&D decision making, and<br />
more. Here are also links to R&D in the European Union.<br />
<strong>The</strong> EC's DANTE provides advanced international computer network services for<br />
the European research community. <strong>The</strong> WISE Information Board on R&D Activities<br />
in the European Union is at http://www.igd.fhg.de/wise/.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guide To European Legal Databases provides links to European <strong>resources</strong> on<br />
the web.<br />
ACTS NewsClips is a bi weekly newsfeed about developments in the European<br />
Commission's Advanced Communications Technologies and Services programme. You<br />
can also sign up for deliveries by electronic mail.<br />
EUbusiness provides daily overviews of business news and information about the<br />
European Union. Topics include Agriculture, Competition, Consumers,<br />
Employment/Training, Eastern Europe, Energy, Environment, Food/Drink,<br />
Living/Working, Media/communication, Pharmaceuticals/health, Social policy,<br />
Trade/external relations, Transport, Economy, EMU, Tenders, Facts/Figures, Finance,<br />
Markets update, and much more.<br />
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