Dirt Diggers Network: Digest No. 16
August 16, 2002
Editor: Philip Mattera
1. Query about researching distributors and retailers
2. LiveEdgar database to be available on Lexis-Nexis
3. Research guide on U.S. and international laws on white collar crime
4. New domain name search engine
5. Complete Who's Who database to be on web
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1. Query about researching distributors and retailers
Marcia Carroll writes:
World Wildlife Fund Peru is organizing a campaign against a timber company
called "BTP" (Bozovich Timber Products) in Evergreen, Alabama. The company is
undermining a new Peruvian forest law. WWF wants to know who are BTP's
major distributors and retailers that move or buy BTP wood so that they
can go after them to put pressure on the company. The company has no
filings with the SEC. Anyone with ideas on how to get this information
please email Darron Collins <darron.collins@wwfus.org> Thanks.
The moderator suggests that anyone with general suggestions on researching
a company's distributors and retailers send them in for posting on this list.'
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2. LiveEdgar database to be available on Lexis-Nexis
Global Securities Information Inc. and Lexis-Nexis have announced that GSI's
LiveEdgar database of real-time securities filings will soon be available on Lexis-Nexis.
LiveEdgar is a premium service that provides full-text search capability not only
for EDGAR filings but also for paper-submitted filings such as 20-F's and 6-Ks. It
also has an M&A database and an archive of international prospectuses. A press
release can be found at http://www.lexisnexis.com/about/releases/0534.asp.
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3. Research guide on U.S. and international laws on white collar crime
The legal research website LLRX.com has just published an article
entitled "Fighting Corporate and Government Wrongdoing: A Research Guide to
International and U.S. Federal Laws on White-Collar Crime and Corruption." The
guide, written by Kumar Percy of the law library at the University of Texas, can
be found at http://www.llrx.com/features/whitecollarcrime.htm
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4. New domain name search engine
Name Intelligence Inc. recently introduced a new domain name search engine
called Whois Report. The site, which can be found at http://www.whoisreport.com/,
allows searching by keyword and displays both domain registration info and links
to the sites that meet your search criteria.
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5. Complete Who's Who database to be on web
Marquis Who's Who has announced that it is getting ready to introduce a website
<www.marquiswhoswho.com> that will contain its entire database of some 1 million
biographies. The service will apparently be priced so that only libraries can afford it.
Philip Mattera
pmattera@goodjobsfirst.org