LibGuides: Rady Career Center Support: Library Resources: Industry Background

Associations & NGOs

Industry associations and NGOs frequently are useful sources of news about market size and trends within an industry. The easiest way to identify potential publications from these sources is through using ProQuest Statistical Insight.

Search by topic or association name (if known).

OECD iLibrary
OECD iLibrary is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development's Online Library for Books, Papers and Statistics and the gateway to its analysis and data. Coverage includes development, economics, education, energy, environment, scitech, social issues, and more.
ProQuest Statistical Insight
1973-present. Huge database of citations to statistical publications from U.S. federal and state governments, international agencies, nonprofit and educational institutions, and private publishers including trade and industry groups. Full text of the publication or report is often included, and many tables are downloadable in Excel. Particularly good for demographic and country-level information. Previous name Statistical Universe.
As of 2020, subscription includes:
Statistical Insight Tables
Statistical Insight Statistical Reference Index Full Text
Statistical Insight American Statistics Index Abstracts and Indexing ONLY (no current full text)
ProQuest Statistical Insight IIS Abstracts and Indexing Web Service (no current full text)
ProQuest Statistical Insight SRI Abstracts and Indexing Web Service

Market Research Highlights

Industry reports highlights from ProQuest Statistical Insight and OECD iLibrary, and other sources (IEEE, Nature), which frequently have specialized reports.

Shining Cities 2020: The Top U.S. Cities for Solar Energy by Adrian Pforzheimer et al.
Call Number: PQ Statistical Insight resource
ISBN: 2020 SRI R4840-2
Publication Date: May 2020
This 57-page annual report is produced by nvironment America, Inc. and Environment America Research & Policy Center, Inc. on installed solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in 70 major cities. Data are as of end of 2019.

Digital America (Consumer Electronics Association Report)
This report, published in 2019, covers consumer electronics industry developments, including data on sales to dealers, and consumer purchasing patterns and preferences. Covers topics like Consumer Wearables, Game Accessories, Smartphones and more.

Private Sources: Analysts, Pre-packaged Risk Analysis

These resources cover background on industries or companies from a risk analysis perspective.

IBISWorld Industry Intelligence
IBISWorld contains U.S. and global industry market research reports, including a specialized collection of China Industry Reports. It also provides U.S. business risk ratings, and selected economic and demographic data. Contents are downloadable as full reports or selected elements, such as SWOT analyses, statistical tables and graphs.
EMIS Next Academic Research (formerly EMIS Intelligence)
Provides economic studies, company & industry reports, country risk, economic and industrial statistics, and political news with a focus on emerging market countries. Covers public & private companies & global industry reports. Includes interactive data analysis tools & news alerts. Excellent China coverage.
LSEG Refinitiv Workspace
Workspace provides financial and economic data, news, equity reports, and company & industry analysis. Its international in scope and covers both public and private company information. Workspace is most often used for investment analysts’ reports, public company financials & filings, business news, economic indicators, stock prices, and data, and a variety of instruments (bonds, commodities, currencies, ETFs, futures, indexes, options and more). Unique content includes ESG data, performance forecasts & consensus estimates, deals & transactions (M&A, IPOs, venture capital & private equity). Download limit of 150 pages per day, reset daily at midnight local time. New users complete self-registration here - https://my.refinitiv.com/productregistration.html
Workspace is only available to UC San Diego students, faculty, and staff; only for non-commercial, academic research. It replaces ThomsonONE/Investext and Datastream, and now works across several browsers.

Register only once; otherwise login to Workspace using the main link. You may use web or desktop app version (includes the Workspace add-in for Excel), once you are registered.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Includes reports, news sources, and other in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, global economies and industries, and trends.
Gale Business Insights
There is more than one way to get to industry overviews in BI:G. On the landing page, click Industries tab, or if you are looking at a company profile, the industries are clickable active links. They also provide NAICS codes for your industry, which can be a useful search term.
BMI Country Risk Global & All Industry Global
BMI provides proprietary data, analyst reports, ratings, rankings, and forecasts covering 175 countries and 25 industry sectors. Login path: choose SSO > Organization ID = UCSD. BMI includes lengthy country and industry reports, financial markets and commodities coverage, plus newsletters and daily alerts.

Specialized - these resources below focus on a specific industry (or a few industries). Read the description for the specifications.

Country Analysis & Forecast (S&P Global Connect)
Country reports, risk ratings, industry analysis, daily alerts, and statistical data. To get to S&P’s strong country coverage, login and go to Connect: Country Intelligence > Research a Geography to pull up a country’s dashboard. NOTE: First time users should follow the Create a New Account link, and use your @ucsd.edu email to register. An activation code will be sent to your @ucsd.edu email in order for you to complete the registration. Once your account is activated, login happens via UCSD’s Single Sign On. Formerly called IHS Markit Connect, and Global Insight.
EIU.com
Economist Intelligence Unit provides news analysis and country risk articles. Some may prefer the look and navigation of http://www.eiu.com/ucsd.

Mergent Online
Provides detailed information about U.S. and International public companies. Content includes: links to SEC EDGAR filings, current and archived company profiles and annual reports, historical financial and stock price data, financial ratios, equity research reports, and industry reports. **This resource will be replaced by Mergent Market Atlas in June 2025.
Winmo (formerly Advertising RedBooks)
This database contains background information on advertisers and advertising agencies and fields related to applied marketing. Topic Search leads to current awareness articles by leaders in the field. Access from on campus is limited to two at a time. If you are on campus and get the 'login' screen, try again in a few minutes.
Sports Market Analytics (formerly SBRnet)
Sports Market Analytics provides "one-stop" access to market research, consumer demographics, and industry news related to a broad range of sporting activities, events and facilities. Coverage includes US and international sport, along the dimensions of professional and college sports, leagues, events, athletes, fans, sponsorship, branding and merchandise (apparel, footwear, equipment), broadcast and social media, mobile sports, attendance and trends. There are some directories with links to sports management education programs and employment resources.
RKMA Market Research
Richard K. Miller & Associates (RKMA) compiles handbooks of market research in business to business, healthcare and consumer markets. The reports include market size, sector analysis, forecasts and other statistics. Annually/biennially updated.
The latest reports include:

Latest Contents

Use UC Library Search to find the latest articles, books, e-books, audiobooks, video and more. Below are selected subjects for easy browsing:

e-books with Technology Background

UC Library Search
Use our search tool to look across any topic and any e-book platform and print format. If you know a specific platform you want to use, skip to one of the links below.

SpringerLink Full-text searching across the ebooks, ebook series, journals, and major reference works published by Springer. Note: We don't license everything from Springer. If the article or chapter is not accessible, check UC Library Search for a print copy, or to request the item from another library.

Taylor & Francis Collection Includes the CRC Press and other e-book collections are primarily based in the sciences, and are great for getting up to speed quickly on a technology. Note: Not all CRC titles are licensed by UCSD.

IEEE Xplore NEW Image Search feature. Learn more. 1988-present [+ archives for select publications.] Full-text access to IEEE & IEE/IET transactions, journals, magazines & conference proceedings, IEEE standards, and IEEE e-books (later titles on Wiley). Browse by journal title, conference name, author. Citing articles of IEEE papers is a feature.
Tip: The default in IEEE Xplore is to search metadata only, which includes abstracts, indexing terms, and bibliographic citation information. To do a full-text search, go to the Advanced Search page and select "Full text & Metadata" from the drop-down list.
ScienceDirect Full-text searching across the ebooks, journals, and major reference works published by Elsevier. Note: We don't license everything from Elsevier. If the article or chapter is not accessible, check UC Library Search for a print copy, or to request the item from another library.
Wiley Online Library Full-text searching across the ebooks, journals, and major reference works published by Wiley. Note: We don't license everything from Wiley. If the article or chapter is not accessible, check UC Library Search for a print copy, or to request the item from another library.

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry Articles on all topics in chemistry and chemical engineering, including production, uses and economic aspects for many important chemicals. Good complement to Kirk-Othmer.

O'Reilly for Higher Education O’Reilly for Higher Education includes more than 45K books from O'Reilly and 200+ publishers, covering programming languages, cloud computing, software architecture, security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and other IT topics, as well as business, data science and management, mathematics, science and engineering, and professional development/soft skills. OHE also has more than 10,000 videos and audiobooks, plus courses and curated playlists prepared by experts in their fields, and you can create your own shareable playlists. O'Reilly for Higher Education does not use VPN. Select UC San Diego from the list of institutions, and then login using Single Sign On. Note: Access is limited to current students, staff, and faculty at the University of California campuses. No community use.
Titles are html only.
Replaces the Safari Tech Books Online collection.

Industry News Coverage

Gale Business Insights GBI is a great first-stop for business and management information. It includes information on companies and industries from business and trade journals, academic journals, industry reports, newspapers, newsletters, and classic business reference sources. Search on a company name. In the search results, click on individual companies to open well-organized company profiles.
Business Source Complete Dates of coverage vary, some journals back to early 20th century. Abstracts and full text in virtually all subject areas related to Business, Management and Finance. Journal and magazine articles; also books, industry reports, company profiles, SWOT analysis, much more
Factiva Provides access to over 16,000 global sources including: * 1,000+ Global and local newspapers * 3,000+ Journals and magazines * 30,000+ Company Reports. Factiva.com delivers content in 27 languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese.
Scroll down on the landing page to the Newsstand: US section for the latest content of Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Barron's & more.
EMIS Next Academic Research (formerly EMIS Intelligence) Provides economic studies, company & industry reports, country risk, economic and industrial statistics, and political news with a focus on emerging market countries. Covers public & private companies & global industry reports. Includes interactive data analysis tools & news alerts. Excellent China coverage.
BMI Country Risk Global & All Industry Global BMI provides proprietary data, analyst reports, ratings, rankings, and forecasts covering 175 countries and 25 industry sectors. Login path: choose SSO > Organization ID = UCSD. BMI includes lengthy country and industry reports, financial markets and commodities coverage, plus newsletters and daily alerts.

p IHS Markit Connect (formerly Global Insight) Country reports, risk ratings, industry analysis, daily alerts, and statistical data. To get to S&P’s strong country coverage, login and go to Connect: Country Intelligence > Research a Geography to pull up a country’s dashboard. NOTE: First time users should follow the Create a New Account link, and use your @ucsd.edu email to register. An activation code will be sent to your @ucsd.edu email in order for you to complete the registration. Once your account is activated, login happens via UCSD’s Single Sign On. Formerly called IHS Markit Connect, and Global Insight.

Consumer Data & Demographics

SimplyAnalytics
An easy to use mapping, analytics, and data visualization app with 100,000+ data variables, including demographic data from the US Census, and the American Community Survey (ACS), consumer spending data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), 2020 Election Data, and D&B's Points-of-Interest business directory providing access to over 5 million US business profiles. The included MRI-SimmonsLOCAL consumer behavior dataset contains data on over 8,000 brands, 450 categories, the MOSAIC segmentation system, and detailed lifestyle information. Community Lifestages presents data based on Householder Age, Income and Household Family Status. Users also have access to the CDC PLACES health dataset which includes 27 diverse health measures, such as Health Outcomes, Prevention, Risk Behaviors, and Health Status. Data is largely available down to the block group level, and custom locations can be created. Includes EASI/MediaMark Research Incorporated (MRI) and Simmons LOCAL data packages. Data is downloadable in GIS-ready shapefiles. Users may log in as a Guest, or create an account to save their work. Access limited to 5 simultaneous users. Try again later if refused. (formerly known as SimplyMap).
Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database
Passport GMID is a product from Euromonitor International that provides reports and statistics on international consumers and markets, including details about consumer market segmentation, industry forecasts, consumer spending and attitudes, and macroeconomic and business trends. It's also a great source to download demographic information to show timeline trends. Coverage is global (200+ countries).