Professional practice resources
These databases provide articles and resources on the professional-practice aspect of industrial design.
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ABI/INFORM from ProQuest
ABI/INFORM from ProQuest
ABI/Inform indexes citations, abstracts, and full text news articles, market and SWOT analyses, industry reports, country reports, downloadable data sets, dissertations, business cases, working papers, annual reports from North American companies, and company profiles and histories. You can limit searches to peer-reviewed journals. Full text provided in HTML and PDF. 1971-present.
Business Source Complete from EBSCOhost
Business Source Complete from EBSCOhost
Business Source Complete is a citation, abstracts, and full-text database that indexes journals; books; financial data; reference works; conference proceedings; company, industry, investment, marketing, and country reports; SWOT analyses; and case studies. Full text is provides as HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1886-present; most content is 1980s-present.
Business Reference Suite
Business Reference Suite
Search any combination of these three databases:
- Business & Industry from RDS : company, industry, product and market information.
- Business & Management Practices from RDS : the practical side of business and management including case studies and "how-to" guidelines.
- TableBase from RDS : business information in tabular format.
1992-present.
Mintel Oxygen Academic
Mintel Oxygen Academic
Mintel offers over 900 market research reports focused on the broad categories of: beauty and personal, drink, electronics, food and foodservice, health and medical, health and wellness, household, lifestyles, retailing and travel. The reports can be searched for product, brand name or keyword. Mintel also offers news articles related to marketing, reports of company management changes, and company profiles.
When logging into the database, you must accept conditions of use and login with your email and a password that you create. You must use your Virginia Tech email for this system. Limited to simultaneous users.
Factiva
Factiva
Factiva provides full-text news articles and business/industry information from newswires, newspapers, business and industry magazines, television and radio transcripts, financial reports, and photos from news services. Most content is HTML, though other formats are available for export. News sources 1979-present; financial data 1960s-present.
Mergent Online
Mergent Online
Provides company, industry, and country reports for active and inactive, public and some private companies. Reports provided in PDF and can be exported as Word or Excel files. It includes 15 years of financial statement.
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Resource provides open access publishing opportunities and open access publications.
Resource provides self archiving opportunities and open access documents.