Hoover's Company Reports
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Hoover's Company Profiles in Nexis Uni (aka Lexis-Nexis Academic)A simple company search in Nexis Uni yields a number of useful results, including our online access to full Hoover's Company Profiles, which contain quick background on companies, their competitors, exceutives and operations.
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ProQuest Business Market Research CollectionThis database contains U.S and international company, industry, economic and geopolitical reports from four sources, which can be helpful for market research. Contents include Hoover's Company Profiles (2012-present), OxResearch for country reports and political/economic news by Oxford Analytica (date coverage varies 1986-present); and the Snapshot Series of historical international industry reports (2001-2008).
Associations
Industry associations 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).
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ProQuest Statistical Insight1973-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.
Market Research Highlights
Industry reports highlights from ProQuest Statistical Insight and OECD iLibrary, and other souces (IEEE, Nature), which frequently have specialized reports.
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Shining Cities 2020: The Top U.S. Cities for Solar Energy by
Call Number: PQ Statistical Insight resourceISBN: 2020 SRI R4840-2Publication Date: May 2020This 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.
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IEEE Smart Grid Research
A set of 15 documents and standards about smart power grids, including vision and road maps for 2030 and beyond.
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World Energy Outlook by Call Number: OECD iLibrary ebookISBN: 9789264282056Publication Date: latestThe World Energy Outlook series is a leading source of strategic insight on the future of energy and energy-related emissions, providing detailed scenarios that map out the consequences of different energy policy and investment choices.
This year's edition updates the outlooks for all fuels, technologies and regions, based on the latest market data, policy initiatives and cost trends.
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2016 Vehicle Technologies Market Report
Published in May 2017 by the Dept. of Energy, this report provides an overview of developments and trends in the U.S. vehicle technologies market with data sourced from the federal government, Wards, Crains, and other private sources. Energy economics and technologies are emphasized across all major vehicle classes. -
Digital America (Consumer Electronics Association Report)
This report, published in 2018, 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. -
Festival Statistics: Key Concepts & Current Practices (2015)
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E-Stats: Measuring the Electronic Economy
Published in 2019, this annual report studies trends in the retail sector involved in online commerce, 1992-2017. Graphics, tables included.
Private Sources: Analysts, Pre-packaged Risk Analysis
These resources cover background on industries or companies from a risk analysis perspective.
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IBISWorld Industry IntelligenceIBISWorld 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. IBISWorld’s market analysis includes industry overviews, performance and outlook, competitive and regulatory environment, major competitors, operational conditions and key statistics. The U.S. risk reports discuss market risk, including industry life cycle, growth potential, economic sensitivity, etc. Contents are downloadable as full reports or selected elements, such as SWOT analyses, statistical tables and graphs.
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EMIS Intelligence (formerly ISI Emerging Markets)Provides economic studies, company & industry reports, country risk, statistics and political news on emerging market countries. Covers public & private companies & global industry reports. Includes interactive data analysis tools & news alerts. Excellent China coverage.
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Thomson ONE/InvestextThis database specializes in analyst research reports on companies, industries, and countries prepared by analysts at leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and trade associations. Its strength is investment reports on public companies. Thomson ONE platform primarily works with the Internet Explorer (IE) browser; most other browsers need a plugin, or won't work at all. See "more" for instructions for a Chrome browser work-around.)
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Global Market Information Database (GMID)The GMID presents reports on customers, companies, industries and countries that focus on consumer market research. Reports include details about market segmentation, leading companies, industry forecasts, consumer spending and attititudes, and economic and business trends.
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Global InsightUseful resource for same-day news analysis of country risk. Our subscription includes the automotive, healthcare & pharma and telecoms modules, plus the U.S. macroeconomic dataset.
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Business Monitor OnlineBMO features reports on country, economic and international business risk, and contains some industry reports.
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EIU.comEconomist Intelligence Unit provides news analysis and country risk articles. Some may prefer the look and navigation of http://www.eiu.com/ucsd.
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Gartner Research ServiceThis well-known collection of market analyst reports, international news and real-world analysis focuses on a broad coverage of computing and technology sectors. Students will like the market research and IT staff will like its tools and benchmarking contents. Gartner analysts cover a broad range of business functions that impact the technology sector. NOTE: use your Business Systems credentials to login. Gartner also recruits and hires; see the careers section of their webpage.
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Cutter Consortium Membership
Cutter acts as a “global business-technology advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations leverage emerging technologies and the latest business management thinking to achieve competitive advantage and mission success” and UC San Diego has a subscription to its web contents, which includes expert research and analysis of industry trends in information technology. Cutter focuses on these practice areas:
- Agile product management and software engineering excellence
- Business and enterprise architecture
- Business technology and digital transformation strategies
- Data analytics and digital technologies
Its website contents include reports, Cutter IT Journal, the Cutter blog, training and events. Some of Cutter’s content is free, but to see the industry reports that come with the UCSD membership, you must register for an account. Instructions are here - http://blink.ucsd.edu/sponsor/ITS/services/cutter.html. Please use your ucsd.edu email address to register.
If you are interested in talking to a Cutter consultant directly, some restrictions apply; please contact Adele Barsh or Jessica Hilt about your research need. Also contact us if you are not finding what you want within the Cutter site. -
StatistaUPDATE MAY 5; UCSD has temporary campus access to the full, premium Statista content suite, with data, consumer survey results, and studies covering 600 industries and 50+ countries. Trial ends after July 5, 2020.
Easy-to-search database of frequently sought statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources. Data is usually displayed as a graph and downloadable in Excel. Although the UC Libraries recently canceled our subscription access, Basic-level data is still available with free registration. -
Business Source CompleteThese reports include industry overviews, SWOT analysis, competitor analyses, and much more for selected industries.
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Business Insights: GlobalThese reports include industry overviews, SWOT analysis, competitor analyses, and much more for selected industries.
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Mergent OnlineProvides 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, equity research reports, and industry reports.
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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.
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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.
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RKMA Market ResearchRichard 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.
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ABI/INFORM Trade & IndustryIncludes reports, news sources, and other in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, global economies and industries, and trends.
e-books with Technology Background
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SpringerLinkThis e-book collection frequently has academic titles that explain technologies and their implications.
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Taylor & Francis CollectionIncludes 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.
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IEEE Xplore 1988-present [+ archives for select publications.] Full-text access to IEEE & IEE/IET transactions, journals, magazines & conference proceedings, IEEE standards, and IEEE e-books. Browse by journal title, conference name, author. Citing articles of IEEE papers now listed.
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ScienceDirect Full-text searching across the ebooks, journals, and major reference works published by Elsevier. Note: We don't license everything from Elsevier, but we may have a print copy. If the article or chapter does not have a green box next to it, check the library catalog, or request from another library.
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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, but we may have a print copy. If the article or chapter does not have an open lock next to it, check the library catalog or request from another library.
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Direct link to Library CatalogUse this to look across any topic and any e-book platform and print format.
Scanning Your Regulatory Environment? Think Newsletters
Nexis Uni has nearly 1000 fulltext online newletters that provide constantly-updated analysis about the regulatory environment of business and Washington policy making. This timely content is uncovered simply by doing a News search on the Nexis Uni home page.
You also may limit your search specifically to these newsletters by path: Sources > Browse Sources > News > Newsletters or doing a title search in Find Soures, if you know the title you want.
Example: Inside Washington Publishers group contains 25+ titles on a range of topics, including – California Energy & Climate Report, Clean Energy Report, Health Exchange Alert, Inside Cal/EPA, Inside EPA Weekly Report, Inside Health Reform, Inside US-China Trade, Water Policy Report, and more.
Although you can search across all of them inside the Newsletters search in Nexis Uni, some titles have direct links: