73-474 - Economics of Ideas

Prof. Stephen Spear
Library Resource Guide

 

Preliminaries

• Databases listed below are in italics, and also can be found on this list.
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• Library homepage – everything else.

 

Industry research

 

Industry Overviews
Find industry leaders, statistics, current status, future trends, histories and profiles of the industries here:

 

• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage website - use "Industry" tab - here you will want to select "Movies and Home Entertainment" for coverage of the music industry.

 

• MarketLine – in-depth profiles of thousands of specific industries in many countries, from the research firm Datamonitor. Their reports group "music and video" together; search for "music" and go to the section: "Relevant Industry Profiles."

 

• Industry section of Business & Company Resource Center - use Overviews, Rankings, and Market Research tabs for lengthy industry profiles and company comparisons. Best way to search this for your purpose is to use "Advanced Search" - then change dropdown box to "Industry Overviews" and use "music" as a keyword.

 

• Gartner – specializes in technology products and services. (Note: Dataquest reports are not in our subscription.)

 

• Association website for your industry – find it in online Encyclopedia of Associations , or googling key words (i.e. "music industry association".) Other sources: valuationresources.com's industry links; Google's Directory: Associations by Industry. When you've found your association's website, look for links to research, data, publications, statistics, conference proceedings, etc. For the music industry, some of these would be: the Recording Industry Association of America, the IFPI.

 

• Industry statistics from U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Programs

 

News sources about markets and industries
There is considerable overlap among these databases, but also many unique items in each one. Use search terms such as “market,” “forecast,” “trends,” “industry overview,” etc. along with your own market identifier, i.e. “music" or "digital downloads."

• Proquest – wide-ranging news database containing many smaller databases within it - thousands of publications, including complete Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

 

• General BusinessFile – thorough and international coverage, large range of industry publications

 

• Lexis-Nexis Academic– most wide-ranging industry news database available

 

Books on your industry - Use the library catalog to locate entire books focusing on your industry. In this case, use "music trade" and "music industry" as keywords.

 

 

Economics research

• EconLit - the primary resource for locating economics literature, and online version of the Journal of Economic Literature; primarily has abstracts, but you can use the “Get It” feature to find the full text of a document

 

• JSTOR - historical collections of important academic journals, including those in economics, finance, marketing, operations research, statistics and management

 

• NBER – working papers and datasets from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization

 

• Economics Section of Social Science Research Network (SSRN) – early research results through working papers and forthcoming papers

 

• Research Papers in Economics (RePec) – international database of working papers and articles.

 

Information Literacy

• Best advice on how to do generalized internet searching and how to evaluate websites

 

Questions?
Contact the Hunt Librarians:

• Call: (412) 268-2442
• Email: huntref@andrew.cmu.edu
• At the reference desk in Hunt Library, M-Th 9 - 8; Fr 9 - 5; Sa-Su 1-5.
• Ask a question via the library's chat service , Mondays - Fridays from 1- 5 pm.

 

Or, contact me directly:
Roye Werner, Business & Economics Librarian, rwerner@andrew.cmu.edu , (412) 268-2453