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The IS & Business Press Pass
links to full-text search engines - a quick reference for students, faculty, & researchers

BC Resources **	IS & Tech Press & Blogs		Business Press
BC Online Databases Index Business Source Premier (magaznies) Lexis-Nexis (newspapers) Factiva (Wall St. Journal & others) Forrester Research (IT research) Investext Plus (analyst reports, industry info) BC Research Guides	Good Morning Silicon Valley ! Wired News ! Business 2.0 $ ! CIO The Register W eWeek Line56 (b2b) InfoWorld ComputerWorld InformationWeek TechCrunch (Web 2.0) Engadget (geek toys) VentureBlog (VC) FastForward (Kirkpatrick)	Darwin news.com W ZDNet CMPNet * IDG.net * TechTarget W IT World	Business 2.0 $ ! Wired Magazine ! Forbes The Economist $ BusinessWeek $ Fortune $ Wall St. Journal $t Financial Times $ Inc. Fast Company Google News

! - must read if you want to build geek chops
* - archive capable of retrieving information from several sources

** - only available to the Boston College community (BC local & dialup access)

W - web only, there is no print version of the informaton on the site

$ - articles and/or archive search available for fee/subscription

t - free trial period

Hints:

Business Source Premier, Lexis-Nexis, and Factiva are the most comprehensive resource and contains access to many sites that are listed above as 'fee/subscription', however it's only available within the bc.com domain. Most of the tech press is not in Lexis-Nexis.
Wired News, Wired Magazine, and Business 2.0 are strong at following Internet news. Note that the text from Wired Magazine is accessible from a pulldown on the Wired News site.
ComputerWorld, InfoWorld, and eWeek have more thorough coverage of broader IS and business cases
InfoWorld & various sources in ZDNet and CMPNet (in particular PCWeek and Network Computing ) have thorough, non-biased product reviews.