Lists and Databases
Forestworld:
Forestworld is a free searchable database of sites relating to the forest products industry that is divided in the following areas, among others:
NewsCenter
Daily forest industry news from all over the world
Certification & Sustainability (FSC Forest Certification Resource Center)
Internet guide to forest certification and sustainable forestry initiatives. Database for finding certified products, forests and companies. More...
Forest Industry
“Resources for industry professionals and forest landowners: Forestry Extension & Outreach, comprehensive directories of foresters, loggers, & sawmills, unit conversions, & more”.
Forest Science Database (former TREECD): The world’s leading bibliographic dataset for forest, wood science and agroforestry research.
Internet Directory
Database of over 6000 forestry industry related web sites.
Woods of the World
Electronic source of information on the world's wood species, including Global Forestry Data, pictures of woods, maps and more.
Marketplace
“Classified ad listings, log prices, certified wood sources, job listings”.
PROMT (Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology) “is a multiple-industry database that provides international coverage of companies, products, markets, and applied technology for all industries. PROMT contains abstracts and full-text records from the world's important trade and business journals, and other sources such as newspapers, business and industry newsletters, market research studies, investment analysts' reports, and Japanese news service”.
Predicasts Basebook. (serial) 1974-1995. Predicasts, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio. HA 214 .P71
Standard and Poor's Industry Surveys. (serial) 1983-2000. Standard and Poor Corporation. New York, New York. HG 4921 .S8
Steve Shook Directory of Forest Products
“Internet information on the forest products industry, forest products, wood science and technology, wood engineering, forest products marketing, wood industry associations, wood industry consultants, wood industry data sources, and wood products-based research institutions”. Currently, this site contains over 1,880 links.
Gale Directory of Databases. 1993-, Gale Research Inc.,