Open Source Lab
http://osuosl.org/

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is a global, world-class facility and data center for Open Source Software (OSS) knowledge, hosting, infrastructure, development, and collaboration. The Open Source Lab fosters the development of unique OSS products, as well as directly assists in the development, implementation, and use of targeted OSS solutions for use in education, research, government, and business. By working closely with the OSU community, other universities, governments, and private sector business, the OSU Open Source Lab is quickly becoming a critical worldwide center for services related to open source software. Their goal is to help promote collaboration through the nurturing and development of software projects across like-minded institutions. Their experience and world-class infrastructure helps seed development efforts across these communities, which enables them to move forward with investments in open source software that leverage open standards. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Business History Books
http://www.businesshistorybooks.com/

For more than 15 years they have been collecting books and films on business history: industries, companies, executives, products/services, economics, scandals and business fiction. They have gathered essential books on management history: investing, financing and operating decisions. The result: the largest multimedia collection of business history and management literacy available anywhere. Entries are organized by subject, company, year and author. You’ll find the good, the bad and the ugly: operating successes and failures; entrepreneurial heroes and exploitive villains; empire builders, corporate raiders, asset strippers; seized opportunities and lost advantages. Thrill of victory, agony of defeat, photographs of the main characters – all part of Business History. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

MarketingProfs – Marketing Resources for Marketing Professionals
http://www.MarketingProfs.com/

MarketingProfs came together in June of 2000 when a clever marketing professor, Allen Weiss, thought that the two camps of marketing professionals and marketing professors might have a lot to learn from each other. Since then, MarketingProfs has been bridging the gap between theory and business practice, publishing some of the best thinking in the industry – to the benefit of all marketing practitioners. Today, MarketingProfs provides marketing know-how through its newsletters, templates, guides, online seminars, and conferences. It also provides platforms for learning and discussion through its blog, the Daily Fix, and its forum, the Know-How Exchange. More than 304,000 marketers now rely on MarketingProfs to cut through the clutter to bring them the best content from the sharpest minds in marketing. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Internet MiniGuide.

Open Source Lab
http://osuosl.org/

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is a global, world-class facility and data center for Open Source Software (OSS) knowledge, hosting, infrastructure, development, and collaboration. The Open Source Lab fosters the development of unique OSS products, as well as directly assists in the development, implementation, and use of targeted OSS solutions for use in education, research, government, and business. By working closely with the OSU community, other universities, governments, and private sector business, the OSU Open Source Lab is quickly becoming a critical worldwide center for services related to open source software. Their goal is to help promote collaboration through the nurturing and development of software projects across like-minded institutions. Their experience and world-class infrastructure helps seed development efforts across these communities, which enables them to move forward with investments in open source software that leverage open standards. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Business History Books
http://www.businesshistorybooks.com/

For more than 15 years they have been collecting books and films on business history: industries, companies, executives, products/services, economics, scandals and business fiction. They have gathered essential books on management history: investing, financing and operating decisions. The result: the largest multimedia collection of business history and management literacy available anywhere. Entries are organized by subject, company, year and author. You’ll find the good, the bad and the ugly: operating successes and failures; entrepreneurial heroes and exploitive villains; empire builders, corporate raiders, asset strippers; seized opportunities and lost advantages. Thrill of victory, agony of defeat, photographs of the main characters – all part of Business History. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

MarketingProfs – Marketing Resources for Marketing Professionals
http://www.MarketingProfs.com/

MarketingProfs came together in June of 2000 when a clever marketing professor, Allen Weiss, thought that the two camps of marketing professionals and marketing professors might have a lot to learn from each other. Since then, MarketingProfs has been bridging the gap between theory and business practice, publishing some of the best thinking in the industry – to the benefit of all marketing practitioners. Today, MarketingProfs provides marketing know-how through its newsletters, templates, guides, online seminars, and conferences. It also provides platforms for learning and discussion through its blog, the Daily Fix, and its forum, the Know-How Exchange. More than 304,000 marketers now rely on MarketingProfs to cut through the clutter to bring them the best content from the sharpest minds in marketing. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Internet MiniGuide.

Songza – Music Search Engine and Internet Jukebox
http://www.songza.com/

Songza is the brainchild of 23-year-old Aza Raskin — the president of Chicago-based software company Humanized, Inc., and the son of Apple Macintosh founder Jef Raskin. Over the course of a month, he and Humanized’s Web/Systems Architect Scott Robbin worked weekends to bring the idea to life. The site launched on November 8, 2007 and instantly generated significant buzz around the world. Hundreds of bloggers and news writers have praised its elegant user interface, beautiful design, and all-around utility. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Chinese Science Bulletin
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1001-6538/

Chinese Science Bulletin is a comprehensive academic journal cosponsored by
the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation
of China. Its primary mission is to encourage communication of the novel and important research results in various fields of natural sciences. The contributions are required to be readable and have immediate and far-reaching implications to a broader audience. Contributions published in Chinese Science Bulletin:

News & Views: Introduce and comment on the research highlights published in Chinese Science Bulletin and other international journals and outstanding work awarded the national prizes (1800 words).

Progress: Introduce and comment on the substantial advance and its importance in the fast-developing areas (3600 words).

Review: Summarize the representative progress in core scientific disciplines, comment on the research status, and make suggestions for the future work (10,000 words, with a 600-word abstract).

Frontiers: Comment on excitement and existing problems of core fields, and offer suggestions for the future research. The contributions are usually solicited by editor¹s invitation.

Articles: Originally report the innovative and valuable findings in natural sciences (9000 words, with a 300-word abstract).

Brief Communication: Briefly report the novel and innovative findings in natural sciences (1800 words). The accepted contributions will be scheduled for publication within one month.

Forum: Comment on the important academic issues, administration policies and state scientific programmes, and give views about the theoretical problems such as the relation between scientific development and social evolution (6000 words, with a 200-word abstract).

Correspondence: Discuss and make reply to the contributions published in Chinese Science Bulletin, or introduce and comment on a controversial issue of general interest (4000 words).

Trend: Report weighty scientific news, information, and academic affairs, as well as the significant

International conferences held in China (800 words).

Books: Introduce and comment on quality monographs of natural sciences (800 words).