What this section is about
This section has background resources & quick links to specialized, non-business resources (e.g. in medicine and enginnering) that frequently get used by L2M students and others on campus doing market research.
Dictionaries & Handbooks
Need a business quotation? To understand a foreign-language business term? To find a handbook that will help you understand a business or technical process? To look up a word or term and get a specialized definition? Below are some of the most useful titles for market research look-ups.
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AccessScienceThis resource allows you to look up and get definitions for scitech terms and concepts.
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Oxford Reference OnlineHere's the link to cross-search all the business, economics, management and technology dictionaries. See below for some of the most useful titles for market research look-ups.
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E-books/Background
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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, but we may have a print copy. If the article or chapter has a yellow lock 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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JSTOR Search by subject or browse 2,600+ full-text titles, predominantly scholarly journals and books in social sciences, history, humanities, and science and mathematics, to their earliest issues. Many titles extend as far back as late 19th or early 20th centuries; most recent 3-5 years often not included. JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
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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
Quick Links to Career Resources
Quick links are here. The full Career Resources Guide is more wide-ranging in what it helps you accomplish and the range of resources it lists.
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Vault This resource offers company profiles, rankings, and industry and profession profiles. Find career advice using the career guides, résumé templates, and sample cover letters. Search for jobs and interships, and find graduate programs
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Uniworld Online These comprehensive listings of multinational companies are great for company research and for identifying possible primary sources for competitive intelligence, and prospects for internships or jobs. Originally named Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries and Directory of Foreign Firms Operating in the United States, they may be searched by country, region, state, zip/postal code, industry, etc.
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Leadership Library Directories provides searchable information on the management of more than 40,000 major United States government, business, news media, law firm, and nonprofit organizations, including contact information for leadership and key staff details. Originally published in print as “the Yellow Books,” its online search can create lists of organizations grouped by features like geographic area, industry, job title, school affiliation, directorships, type and size of organization, and more.
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Gartner Research Service This 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.
Highlights of Other Useful UCSD Resources & Guides
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Business (general resources guide)Click here for the full business & management resources guide, including company directories, SD business sources and more.
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PubMedThe UCSD's customized link to PubMed content will make it easier for you to link to full text articles.
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Drug Discovery @ NatureThis part of the journal Nature that has a R&D news focus in pharma topics. Check out the tags business strategy in drug development, market analysis, drug regulation, clinical trials, and plain old drug development. This section also contains an archive of past market analysis.
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PsycINFO1597-present. From the American Psychological Association. Provides access to scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Includes journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations. Includes approximately 2,500 journals. Updated weekly.
Web Search & Additional Academic Article Sources
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Google ScholarGS cross searches content like academic journals, working papers and reports in many disciplines. Don't forget to set your Scholar Preferences to UCSD so you can take advantage of fulltext linking into our resources. Also use the webVPN/proxy if you are off-campus so you can link right through to our licensed content.
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Advanced Search in GoogleYou can add limiters such as document type or domain to help focus your search.
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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
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JSTOR Search by subject or browse 2,600+ full-text titles, predominantly scholarly journals and books in social sciences, history, humanities, and science and mathematics, to their earliest issues. Many titles extend as far back as late 19th or early 20th centuries; most recent 3-5 years often not included. JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
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Inspec Indexes 16+ million journal articles and conference papers in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, and computer science. Also good for related disciplines like geophysics, astronomy, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, ocean engineering, and acoustics. Indexes IEEE conference papers and standards. ****You can now cross search with Compendex for a more comprehensive search of the engineering literature; duplicate results can be removed.
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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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MathSciNet The major index to mathematical literature for articles, books, and edited book chapters. Covers 1940 - present. Indexes pre-1940 math articles found in JSTOR.
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Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective 1913-1983. Provides a single resource for seven decades of articles on the most important events, issues & trends in the history of business & industry, plus the most important historical sources in the applied science & technology for the 20th Century.
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Ethnic NewsWatch1960-present. Full text U.S. ethnic community newspapers, newsletters, magazines. Includes African-American, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian-Pacific, European-American, Hispanic, Jewish, Native-American. Searchable in English and Spanish.
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Textile Outlook Internationalup to date research on textiles. In print in Geisel Library.
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Environment Complete Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. It contains more than 2.5 million records from more than 2,350 domestic and international titles dating back to 1888. Formerly Environment Index.
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PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972-present. Lists print and electronic articles, books, and government publications on issues of public policy, including politics, government, economy, marine policy, law.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 1975-present. Research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Use the UC-eLinks button to find full text, print, and/or request the item from another library.
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Urban Studies Abstracts Index for all aspects of Urban Studies from 1992 to the present. Includes abstracts and many full-text links. Formerly Sage Urban Studies Abstracts.