MAGAZINES

• Industry Week
• BoatBiz - Boating Industry Magazine
• American Demographics Magazine - now Advertising Age
• Sensors

MANUFACTURING

• Dept. of Commerce/NIST MFG Engineering Library
• Oklahoma Alliance for Manufacturing Excellence

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

• see Manufacturing Process Home Pages on our sister web site, Manufacturing Industry Research Desk.

MARKETING

• How to Learn About An Industry or A Specific Company our site
• Canadian boat industry statistics
• Market Research Tools and Information
• USA Markets (Leisure Industry Is free Sample)
• Sporting Business Research Network SBRN
• Bureau of Census
• Nielsen Ratings Data
• Bay Area Export Information includes market reports by country

MILITARY

• U.S. Navy
• Naval & Maritime Virtual Library

MUSEUMS

The Vasa Museum below contains the ship which is described in a case study available at our Management Desk. The study describes the management problems associated with a large technology project of this nature.
• Mystic Seaport Museum also has extensive marine bookstore (including charts and maps)
• Franklin Institute of Science Museum
• Museum of Science and Technology

NASA

• Nasa Technical Reports Server NTRS
• Nasa Commercial Technology Transfer Network
• Nasa Tech Briefs (Magazine)

NEWS

NEWSPAPERS


• USA Today
• Wall Street Journal
• New York Times

TELEVISION NEWS SOURCES


• Microsoft /NBC News Network
• CNN News
• ABC News
• Fox News
• NewsOK) News 9
• C-Span (Congressional TV)
• PBS

RADIO NEWS SOURCES


• NPR National Public Radio
• BBC

OTHER NEWS SOURCES


• Google News indexes many news feeds
• Topix news crawler, crawls 6,000 news sources daily
• Current News Early Bird - the military's news clipping service ran by the Air Force, you must be on a military computer to access or get approved access.

OCEANOGRAPHY

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

OKLAHOMA

• Oklahoma Government
• Okla Vo-Tech
• Oklahoma Dept of Commerce

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

• OSU Home Page
• OSU Library
• Breeds of Livestock nice OSU database example
• Livestock Virtual Library Nice OSU virtual library example, could be extended to boating.

PATENTS

• See our Invention Information Center for information surrounding patents and inventions

SAFETY AND HEALTH

• Right To Know (rtk.net)
• OSHA
• Usernaumics (Ergonomics)

SERVICE

• Managing Service Quality an mcb Emerald journal

STANDARDS

• CE Mark European Commission Recreational Craft Directive
• NIST
• OSHA

TELEPHONE

• See OFFICE TOOLS Section for phone number listings
  

TIME

• Time Standard Site

VEHICLE SPORTS

• Landings Nice Aviation site (could be a model for a marine site)
• Air & Space magazine
• EAA Air Show Oshkosh

WEATHER

• The Weather Channel
• Oklahoma Mesonet
• Weather & Climate Data sensational graphics
• NexRad Radar Site

BUOYS AND MARINE WEATHER

• National Data Buoy Center
• Real Time Pacific Ocean Buoy Data Plots
• Ocean Weather
• Navy FNMOC (Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center)

NEWSGROUP TOOLS

The news groups can be searched by the Deja News at www.dejanews.com

LIST OF NEWSGROUPS

Many of the relevant newsgroups to boating and news are listed below. You will have to enter your news reader to read them. They are listed here so you will know their exact titles. Not all newsgroups are available on all servers. The clairinet news services are sometimes available for an additional charge.Note! "alt" groups are not monitored and you may occasionally "burn your ears". Newsgroups relative to boating or the internet are listed on the boating links and internet links pages.

News Group_________________Description

alt.manufacturing.misc_____________Manufacturing

comp.cad.pro-engineer____________Pro Engineering (CAD) Newsgroup

rec.boats________________________Boating

rec.boats.building_________________Boat Building

rec.boats.racing.power_____________Power Boat Racing

rec.boats.cruising_________________Boat Crusing

rec.boats.electronics_______________Boat Electronics

rec.sport.waterski_________________Water Skiing

rec.sport.jetski____________________Jet Ski

fj.rec.marine_____________________Japan boating newsgroup

sci.engr__________________________Engineering

sci.engr.manufacturing______________Manufacturing Engineering

sci.engr.marine.hydrodynamics_______Marine Hydrodynamics

sci.engr.mech_____________________Mechanical Engineering

sci.engr.safety_____________________Safety

sci.materials_______________________Materials Science

sci.physics.computational.fluid-dynamics_Computational Fluid Dynamics

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