| Actuarial
Science organisations |
Medical
information on the Internet |
Insurance
Resources |
Politics
and government information |
Company and
Business information |
These links all checked and working on 12th September
1998
Please note that this article is now out of date and is not
updated on a regular basis, so I can't confirm all the links still work.
However, if you do find errors, please let me know and I will update as
appropriate. Thanks. (12th July 2001)
Faculty and Institute of Actuaries
http://www.actuaries.org.uk/
This
site provides information on the organisation, news from the profession,
qualifying, conferences and events, International Congress 1998 and so on.
Society of Actuaries
http://www.soa.org/
International Forum of Actuarial Associations (IFAA)
http://www.actuaries.org/
The Casualty Actuarial Society
http://www.casact.org/
Actuarial Science journals and books
British Actuarial
Journal
http://www.actuaries.org.uk/library/baj.html
EurekAlert
http://www.eurekalert.org/
Journal of Finance
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/~fin/journal/jof.htm
On The Risk (Journal of the Academy of Life Underwriting)
http://www.ontherisk.org/
The Amazon Bookshop
http://www.amazon.com/
(also has a
facility whereby you can be sent details of new books as they are
published)
Link sites
Faculty and Institute of Actuaries
http://www.actuaries.org.uk/search/links.htmlThere
are links from this site to:
Balducci's Actuarial , Risk , and Insurance Links
http://balducci.math.ucalgary.ca/ari.html
University of Waterloo Electronic library of actuarial
science
http://library.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/actuarial/index.html
There are links from this site to:
Academic institutions providing actuarial courses
http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Mathematics/Statistics/Actuarial_Science/Institutes/College_and_University_Departments
AltaVista Search by Subject
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
Under Search for Subject - Business – Data and Statistics
Newsgroups and Mailing
lists
comp.admin.policy
comp.human-factors
comp.risks
sci.econ
sci.econ.research
sci.engr.manufacturing
sci.math.stat
RAMBLINGS
is created as a service to the actuarial profession
in Southern Africa. Its aim is to create a global forum for discussion of
topics of actuarial interest. The list should be of particular interest to
actuaries and those studying to become actuaries outside the United States.
However, United States actuaries and students are welcomed. The list gets its
name from the seminal work by one of the great actuaries Frank Mitchel
Redington, "A Ramble Through The Actuarial Countryside.
Contact:
dblecher@southernlife.com (owner
of Ramblings) for further information.
Statistical list subscription service - lots of lists, with details on subscribinghttp://stattransfer.com/lists.html
and finally…
Actuarial jokes
http://users.aol.com/fcas/jokes.html
Key overview sites
Health on the
Net (http://www.hon.ch/)
Medical Matrix
(http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp) lots of US professionally orientated sites
MEDLINE
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
http://www.glenlib.demon.co.uk/
Details on other medical databases on the Web.
OMNI (http://omni.ac.uk/) especially good for UK
orientated material
UK
Department of Health http://www.open.gov.uk/doh/dhhome.htm
Virtual Hospital http://www.vh.org/
World Health Organisation http://www.who.org/
AIDS resources
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/
http://planetq.com/aidsvl
Key
Journals
British Medical Journal
http://www.bmj.com/bmj
The
Lancet http://www.thelancet.com/
The
New England Journal of Medicine http://www.nejm.org/
Nature http://www.nature.com/
Mailing lists
A list of health related mailing lists can be
found at http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/
Specific
health issues
Headaches
http://www.achenet.org/understand.htm
General health
http://www.healthnet.org.uk/
Mental health
http://www.cmhc.com/welcome.htm
Healthcare statistics
http://www.chime.org/sites/sites.htm
Medical health current affairs
http://www.isleuth.com/heal-news.html
Search Engines
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Health
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Health/
Internet Sleuth provides details of a large number of different
resources. http://www.isleuth.com/heal.html
Demographics
Demographics of
the Commonwealth (The Commonwealth Online) http://www.tcol.co.uk/
WWW Virtual
Library for Demography and population
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ResFacilities/DemographyPage.html
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report (requires Adobe Acrobat to view files)
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/mmwr_wk.html
Selected
sociology and demography resources on the Web. (Very good)
http://www.sun.mdx.ac.uk/~malcol11/school/resources.htm
Virtual libraries and
journals http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/VL/Overview.html
Virtual Reference
Desk http://www.wrclib.noaa.gov/lib/virtual.index.html
The electronic library
http://www.elibrary.com/
Newspapers online
http://www.edoc.com/jrl-bin/wilma/nws
General reference
resources http://web.idirect.com/~bfinance/rmrefres.htm
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Regional/Countries/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Financial_Services/Insurance/General
information on insurance, specifically insurance companies.
http://www.econ.bbk.ac.uk/pi/The
Pensions institute. Just about everything to do with UK pensions can be found
here, including the Pensions Virtual Library
http://wire.co.uk/iil/welcome.htmThe
Insurance Institute of London. Journal of the Insurance Institute, diary of
events, visits
http://www.abi.org.uk/Assoc. British
insurers
http://www.dss.gov.uk/ca/ninews/ninindx.htmContributions
Agency National Insurance News
US Insurance Resources
http://insureinfo.com/conferences/index.htmAmerican
Insurance conferences.
http://www.sedgwick.com/American site, with
information on Environmental issues, govt review, healthcare trends in the US,
Insurance market trends and developments
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/hhes/www/US
Census Bureau. Housing and Household Economic Statistics
http://www.riskweb.com/RISKWeb's primary
purpose is to provide an online forum for academics and professionals with
significant research and/or professional interests in the field of Risk
Management and Insurance. Mailing list from Riskweb
http://www.ircweb.org/Insurance Research
Council
Web sites with general resources/links
http://lattanze.loyola.edu/users/cwebb/insure.htmlInsurance
companies and resources on the Web
http://www.wisc.edu/insure/insure.htmInsurance
activity on the Web, with an index to P&C insurers, brokers, consultants,
health insurance, trade associations, life insurers, professions,
agents
http://www.iiin.com/index_frames.htmlThe
Insurance Industry Internet network contains the largest collection of
insurance related sites on the WWW.
Insurance current affairs/news/journals
http://www.newsre.com/topmain.aspNews
summaries for the insurance industry.
http://www.iiin.com/html/The insurance
newstand. Daily and period information, today's headlines
Mailing lists
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/financial-services/Information
on the financial services UK based mailing list
http://www.liszt.com/select/Business/Finance/A
list of business and financial mailing lists (global)
Government information
UK
Government home site http://www.open.gov.uk/
http://www.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/
This has links into: Agencies, Budget ,Embassies and Consulates, Employment,
Executive, Federal Employees, Judicial Branch, Legislative Branch, National
Symbols and Songs US States.
http://www.undcp.org/unlinks.htmlUnited
Nations links
http://www.coe.fr/
Council of Europe
http://www.worldbank.org/ The World
Bank
Specific resources
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
CIA World Fact book 1997
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Regions/
Yahoo regional list, including links into government details
General resources
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/docs/intlgate.htmGateways
to national information
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/idtf/igo.html
International organisations huge list
http://hermes.ucd.ie/~ipsa/genpols.html
This page provides pointers to a range of resources that are likely to be of
particular interest to political scientists.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/govinfo.htm
General information about governments. Useful stuff, but a little
limited.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1058/rulers.html
Rulers around the world. Heads of state, heads of Government. Subdivisions for
some countries and international organisations. Also foreign ministers as well.
Recent political events
http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen
Herein you will find the mailing addresses for every nation's leaders and
provincial governors (almost). Phone, fax, e-mail and website addresses are
being added where available. Last update: January 22, 1998.
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/psr.htm
Richard Kimber's political science resources Area studies, British politics,
Official websites Info about govts, elections, constitutions, political
parties, theory, thought, International relations, Journals, newspapers, other
politics websites
http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/PoliSci/polisci.htm
Political science virtual library including: Departments of Political Science
and Government, Libraries, Journals and Collections of Papers, Professional
Associations & Research Institutions, News Groups and ListServs, Searching
Tools, WWW Virtual Library: Related Fields
Overview sites
http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Companies/
Overview from Yahoo.
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Business_and_Economy/Companies
UK viewpoint
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Business_andEconomy/Finance_and_Investment/Magazines/
Journals
General sites
BUBL Bulletin Board for Libraries.
http://www.bubl.ac.uk
FINweb Economics and
finance related topics. http://finweb.bus.utexas.edu/finweb.html
IM
Europe data on the European electronic information market.
http://www.echo.lu/
IOMA
Institute of Management and Administration. Strong on banking and finance.
http://www.ioma.com/index.html
Library of Congress. Federal
information and access to the Bureau of Commerce.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Sheila Webbers Business
Sources Just about the best you'll find.
http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/business/index.html
The World Bank. Projects, funding policies
and publications. http://www.worldbank.org/
Stock market and company financial data
Holt Stock market reports.
Daily summaries for major international markets
http://metro.turnpike.net/holt/index.html
Hoover online. Data on the Fortune
500 companies. http://pathfinder.com/fortune/
PC Quote Unlimited delayed quotes (15 mins).
Difficult to get into. http://www.pcquote.com
SEC EDGAR database.
http://www.sec.gov/
Security
APL quote server. Best to search this one in the mornings.
http://www.secapl.com/cgi-bin/qs
UK
Share prices http://www.esi.co.uk/
Company information
Bizweb lists information on 43,164 companies
in 193 categories. http://www.bizweb.com/
Dun and Bradstreet provides
access to 19,000,000 companies. Commercial site.
http://www.dbisna.com/dbis/dnbhome.htm
The
Thomas Register. Information on
155,000 companies. http://www.thomasregister.com/
http://www.dbeuro.com/
Dun and
Bradstreet European Company information.
http://www.britishexports.com/
Kompass
UK company directory.
http://www.mbendi.co.za/index.htm
Lots
of useful and interesting information on Africa, including some company
directory type information
http://www.thomasregister.com/index.html
155000
US and Canadian manufacturing companies, searching is primitive, access is free
but you do need to register.
Http://www.tdc.org.hk/main/
Hong Kong
Trade Development Council home page, information on Hong Kong, China and the
rest of Asia.