Indeed, over the past five years or so I have seen a major transformation of the Internet. Five years ago it was largely a resource for academics where the vast majority of material was of north American origin. Now, by contrast, there are a vast number of business and economy Internet resources, and the coverage is truly global. A useful starting point is to identify a good portal of economics data. Inomics also includes job openings for economists and conference announcements.
International organisations publish various national and international data.
There is also an email notification service to keep up to date with new developments. Information from a number of key publications is available on the site - for example World Development Indicators. However, when you explore this, you then find that only part of the data which appears in the hard copy publication is actually available on the website. This service makes available on subscription the full text of OECD publications. In addition to providing links to the central banks of member countries, the full text of a range of publications is available from the site.