73-469 Global Electronic Markets: Economics and the Internet
Fall 2009
Prof. Stephen Spear
Research Guide for The Music Industry

Preliminaries

Industry research

Industry Overviews

Data

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,” "outlook," “industry overview,” etc. along with your own market identifier, i.e. “music" or "digital downloads."

Books on your industry - Use the library catalog to locate entire books focusing on your industry. In this case, you could use "music trade" and "music industry" as keywords. Example: Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music - ML74.7 .K68 2009 (4th floor), Entertainment Industry Economics - PN1590 .F55 V6 2007 (2nd floor)  

Blogs, podcasts, transcripts -

Scholarly research

Can I trust that website?

Acknowledging where the information comes from:

Questions?
Contact the Hunt Librarians:

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