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
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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Uniworld Online Description of this database.
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Gartner Research Service Description of this database.
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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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.