Retail, E-Commerce & Consumerism
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In addition to this guide with resources specifically for retail, e-commerce, and consumer issues, don't overlook other UT Library Research Guides for information about companies, industries, and products.
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The key starting places for research in these areas include those databases listed below. See also the full list of business related databases for additional options.
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This multidisciplinary database includes articles from hundreds of magazines and scholarly journals, most including the full text of the article. Good for trends, consumer attitudes, etc.
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An index with full text of articles from over 3000 business magazines, including peer-reviewed journals.
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Ads & Images
All these sites have image examples of historical advertising. Not all are free. Be sure to acknowledge the source of any image you use.
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John H.Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History
Located at Duke University this advertising and marketing site includes an image database, Emergence of Advertising in America:1859-1920, which illustrates the rise of consumer culture, especially after the American Civil War.
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Industry Awards
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The Annual Clio Awards Archives which can be searched by advertiser, ad agency, credited people, and media type.
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Honoring excellence in video and television across all screens.
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American Advertising Awards (AAF)
The American Advertising Awards is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting nearly 30,000 entries every year in local AAF Ad Club competitions. The mission of the American Advertising Awards is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising.
News & Hot Topics
Most of the indexes following include the full text of the articles indexed or, alternatively, links to them via this Find Text button:
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This multidisciplinary database includes articles from hundreds of magazines and scholarly journals, most including the full text of the article. Good for trends, consumer attitudes, etc.
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An index with full text of articles from over 3000 business magazines, including peer-reviewed journals, popular and trade magazines, and newspapers.
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An index of several thousand newspapers and business magazines from around the world. Full text of articles is included. Limited to 3 simultaneous users.
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Index to business periodicals and newspapers with full text of most articles.
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General Business File International
For international outlook or analysis, a source of full-text articles.
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Research Articles
Choose any one of these library databases for scholarly research on your topic related to retailing, consumerism, or e-commerce.
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This multidisciplinary database includes articles from hundreds of magazines and scholarly journals, most including the full text of the article. Good for trends, consumer attitudes, etc.
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An index with full text of articles from over 3000 business magazines, including peer-reviewed journals
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Covers psychology and related disciplines. Business topics include human resources, management, marketing, and consumer behavior.
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Primary indexing source for scholarly literature in sociology and related disciplines. Links to full-text where available.
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Citation index covers business as well as the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Search for topics, authors, known article, or for articles cited.
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Back issues of selected scholarly journals in many disciplines including business, economics, and statistics as well as the humanities and social sciences.
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Collection of full-text articles from more than 500 journals in business, the social sciences, and technology.
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Full-text of journals, books and book series published by Springer and including many in business and economics.
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Full-text article collection from journals published by Wiley. Covers business, economics, finance, accounting, and statistics. Select "Journal Finder" to locate a specific journal title.
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Retails
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When researching the retail industry, its companies and products, don't forget to also look at the Company Research and Industry Research guides for additional suggestions of information sources.
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Fashion Design & Merchandising Guide
From Kent State University's Fashion Library, a guide to materials in the field. A great place to find useful web sites on this topic.
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Fashion Resources from Digital Librarian
An up-to-date web site with hundreds of links to fashion associations and organizations, fashion news and magazine sites, fashion designers and photographers, fashion schools, fashion libraries and museums, etc.
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Industries at a Glance: Retail Trade
From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Standards, an overview of the retail industry and its major segments with current statistical data on employment, earnings, trends
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The National Retail Federation's membership includes retailers of all sizes and formats as well as chain restaurants and other industry partners. Useful links to their industry research, but some is limited to members only.
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Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis and market research for vital industry sectors. For each sector, the database gives market research and trend analysis, statistic information, profiles of leading companies, association and organizations lists.
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About E-Commerce
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First Research provides industry profiles covering over 900 industry segments. Updating on a quarterly basis, the industry profiles contain critical analysis, statistics and forecasts.
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From the Economist Intelligence Unit, a guide to conducting e-commerce around the world. Don't miss their Research Portal with dozens of links to additional information.
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Marketing Tutorials by Knowthis.com
A collection of web links to information about internet marketing from KnowThis.com, a well known marketing web portal.
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A collection of full-text market research reports in many product categories. Many discuss aspects of online/electronic applications for marketing and purchase of goods.
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Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis and market research for vital industry sectors. For each sector, the database gives market research and trend analysis, statistic information, profiles of leading companies, association and organizations' lists.
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E-Commerce Statistics
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From the U.S. Census Bureau, an annual report on e-commerce. Also has links to current year quarterly statistics on e-commerce.
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Provides website rankings and traffic information for individual sites including traffic, audience demographics, search analytics, etc.
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Provides statistics and Web marketing information gathered from online research.
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Interactive Advertising Bureau
This industry organization studies online advertising and provides information to help define techniques and measurement methods for it.
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