www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home: BusinessWire provides a list of expert sources for important topics in the news. This can be helpful when you’re writing about a topic and are searching for experts to interview.

www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp: One of the best websites out there for accessing public records. This site has nearly 1,700 county, state and federal court URLs where you can access public record information for free.

www.virtualgumshoe.com: Another excellent website for public records and online resources. Virtual Gumshoe has everything from adoption records to where to search for prison inmates by state.

www.powerreporting.com: A site managed by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bill Dedman. Power Reporting has links on how to find people, government sources and resources divided by individual newsroom beats.

www.facsnet.org/tools/biz_econ/biz_econ.php3: Site full of business reporting resources maintained by FACS, an independent, non-profit organization that does journalism training. Good articles on reading financial reports and understanding deregulation.

www.nfoic.org: National Freedom of Information Coalition website. The Resources page has links to every state in the country. These links provide a handy resource for public records and public meetings, as well as links to state agencies. Also included are links on how to write FOI letters.

www.sabew.org: Home page for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. If you’re a member, log in and check out the links and resources for business journalists under the “Members Only” section. There’s also a section here to post resumes and to search for jobs.

BusinessJournalism.org: The website of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University. It provides daily tips on how to cover business better, including a free-training calendar, story ideas, beat-basics primers and self-guided training.

www.ire.org:  Investigative Reporters and Editors website. This location has copies of thousands of stories, as well as tip sheets and guides to writing stories about any topic, available for free if you’re a member.

www.peoplesearchpro.com/journalism: Run by a full-time journalist, this site has 300 different Web pages with more than 6,000 links designed to help journalists (and anyone else) find useful information fast.

www.sigmaxi.org: Sources for science and technology-related stories are available here for free. Run by Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.

profnet.prnewswire.com: Another good sources for finding experts to interview for stories. This site is operated by PRNewswire, but you may send a query to thousands of information officers without registering for ProfNet.

www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/business.html:  This site is run by the American Press Institute and includes handy links to business reporting topics such as Enron, small business and backgrounding companies.

www.score.org: Site run by a nonprofit organization of retired executives and small business owners who act as mentors and trainers for other business executives. Can be valuable for locating experts and for background information on the business world.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/glossary/index.html: The glossary contains more than 1,250 business terms, organized and cross-referenced for your convenience.

topics.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/cybertimesnavigator/index.html: A selective guide to Internet business, financial and investing resources, compiled by Rich Meislin, editor in chief of the New York Times Electronic Media Co.

www.investopedia.com: Good site for tutorials and a business term dictionary. Insert virtually any word, and Investopedia will define it and use it in a business reference.

www.investorwords.com/: The biggest, best site for investing terms on the Web. Also very good for looking up any business term you don’t understand.

www.economist.com/research/Economics: An economics terms glossary organized alphabetically.

www.militarysearch.org: Find out whether a person actually served in the military with a report directly from the Department of Defense. There is a fee to get this information.