The National Technical Information Service NTIS –
the largest, central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. The National Technical Information Service(NTIS) serves the nation as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Here you will find information on more than 600,000 information products covering over 350 subject areas from over 200 federal agencies.

The National Technical Information Service, as part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration, supports the nation’s economic growth and job creation by providing access to information that stimulates innovation and discovery. NTIS accomplishes this mission through two major programs:

* Information collection and dissemination to the public
* Production and other services for federal agencies

Quick Facts

The NTIS collection (by topic) contains well over 3 million publications and other products covering:

* business and management studies
* health and safety reports
* environmental research reports and site clean-up
* technology innovations
* international market reports
* training tools and materials

NTIS annually distributes more than 1,000,000 products to over 60,000 customers. This includes shipping:

* 100,000 business, technical and scientific reports
* 45,000 best selling books
* 170,000 subscription issues for 200 subscription products distributed to 30,000 subscribers
* 16,000 CD-ROMs, magnetic tapes, and diskettes
* 6,000 audiovisual products
* 700,000 microfiche products

NTIS acquires information from:

* Over 200 government agencies, including the departments of: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, State, Treasury, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, and much more.
* International contributors including: Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, the former Soviet Union, Western Europe and former Eastern Block countries
* Contracts or cooperative agreements with: the private sector, individuals, firms, and other organizations

NTIS’ Primary Purpose
Assist U.S. industries to accelerate the development of new products and processes as well as helping the U.S. maintain a leading worldwide economic competitive position.

NTIS’ Responsibilities

* Facilitate public access to Federal information
* Develop guidelines for federal agencies to transfer their government information to NTIS
* Develop implementation methods and procedures to facilitate federal agencies in the smooth transfer of information to NTIS
* Maintain a permanent repository of unclassified scientific, technical, engineering, and business information
* Collect and disseminate this information worldwide
* Develop new and enhanced methods for expeditious dissemination of information

They also provide downloadable PDFs containing:

* 2004 Annual Report
* 2003 Annual Report

You can view this informative business resource here:
http://www.ntis.gov/

NetLingo – the award-winning dictionary of Internet terms. It contains thousands of words and definitions that describe the online world of business, technology, and communication. They’re there to educate and entertain you about the lingo used in the online world. They have articles, a “cheat sheet” and much much more:

An online dictionary of Internet terms
You can download the ebook version
You can download Netlingo as a PDF

And they have other internet resources as well including:

Acronyms
Text Messaging (IM)
Smileys & Emoticons
Web Coloring Tool
File Extensions
Useful Business Links

And different categories which include:

Acronyms & Shorthand
Online Business Terms
Online Jargon
Online Marketing
Net Organizations
Net Technology
Net Software
Net Hardware
Net Programming
Technical Terms

You can brush up on your Internet lingo here:
http://www.netlingo.com

ManagementHelp.org

One of world’s largest free, on-line, well-organized business libraries for for-profit and nonprofit service providers, entrepreneurs, leaders, managers and practitioners.

This library is a free community resource to be shared and contributed to by users and readers across the world. The overall goal of the library is to provide leaders and managers (especially those with very limited resources) basic and practical information about personal, professional and organizational development.

Design, development and administration of the library are done primarily as a volunteer effort to the community by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, of Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Carter conceived, developed and maintains the Library, including planning and implementing upgrades, making major modifications, adding miscellaneous links, fixing broken links, answering inquiries about the Library, etc.

Items in the library are relevant to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations unless otherwise marked at the top of the Web page containing the item.

Categories of information include:
Scope, Focus and Design of the Library
Development of the Library
Myths to Overcome Regarding Information About Business, Management and Organizations
Unique Benefits of Getting Management Information on the Web
Advantages and Disadvantages of Web
Guidelines to Get the Most Out of the Library
To Contribute Resources to the Library
Recommended Free Software for Viewing Many of the Documents in This Library (optional)

Their vast amount of links to resources include:
Advertising and Promotion
Benefits and Compensation
Boards of Directors
Business Planning
Capacity Building (Nonprofit)
Career Development
Chief Executive Role
Communications (Intrprsnl)
Communications (Writing)
Computers, Internet & Web
Consultants (using)
Coordinating Activities
Creativity and Innovation
Crisis Management
Customer Satisfaction
Customer Service
E-Commerce
Employee Performance
Employee Wellness
Ethics & Social Respons.
Perf. Mgmnt (basics)
Personal Development
Personal Productivity
Personal Wellness
Planning (many kinds)
Policies (Personnel)
Problem Solving / Decisions
Product/Service Mgmnt
Project Management
Program Management
Public and Media Relations
Quality Management
Research Methods
Risk Management
Sales

And even more….

You can visit this resource here:
http://www.managementhelp.org/