73-469 Global Electronic Markets: Economics and the Internet
Fall 2009
Prof. Stephen Spear
Research Guide for The Music Industry

Preliminaries

• Databases listed below are in italics, and also can be found on this list of all our business & economics databases.
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• Library homepage for Tepper – everything else.

Industry research

Industry Overviews

• Business & Company Resource Center - Do an "Advanced" Search, change "Content Area" to "Industry Overviews" and search for "music" as a keyword. Choose a profile, and then click on the tabs at the top for industry profile, market share, history, company comparisons, etc.


• Standard & Poor's Netadvantage - choose "Industries" tab, and then "Movies and Home Entertainment" for analysis, statistics, projections on the music industry.

Data

• Association website for your industry, examples: the Recording Industry Association of America, the IFPI. You can find them it by googling keywords (i.e. "music industry association".) Other ways: valuationresources.com's industry links; Google's Directory: Associations by Industry. Look for links to research, data, publications, statistics, conference proceedings, etc.

• Industry statistics from U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Programs - NAICS code for music publishers: 512230


• Simply Map - in case you would like to map your data; contains marketing as well as demographic data.

News sources about markets and industries
There is considerable overlap among these databases, but also many unique items in each one. Use search terms such as “market,” “forecast,” “trends,” "outlook," “industry overview,” etc. along with your own market identifier, i.e. “music" or "digital downloads."

• Proquest – wide-ranging news database containing many smaller databases within it - thousands of publications, including complete Wall Street Journal and New York Times.

• Business & Company Resource Center – hint: use "Articles" tab, and search for "music industry" - then look for subdivision: industry forecasts.

Books on your industry - Use the library catalog to locate entire books focusing on your industry. In this case, you could use "music trade" and "music industry" as keywords. Example: Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music - ML74.7 .K68 2009 (4th floor), Entertainment Industry Economics - PN1590 .F55 V6 2007 (2nd floor)  

Blogs, podcasts, transcripts -

• LexisNexis Academic – wide-ranging news database, but you can narrow search to blogs and/or transcripts. These will be selective.

• Google Blogs , Technorati - search blogs; use I-tunes for free podcasts.

Scholarly research

• Google Scholar - scholarly literature in all subjects; includes many papers and articles from all of the following and more.

• Pew Research Center: Internet & American Life Project - search for "music" and get reports such as: "The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster"


• JSTOR and Academic Onefile - articles in important academic journals in all fields, including those in economics, finance, marketing, operations research, statistics and management

• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) – early research results through working papers and forthcoming papers

Can I trust that website?

• Best advice on how to do generalized internet searching and how to evaluate websites

Acknowledging where the information comes from:

• A guide to citing your sources

Questions?
Contact the Hunt Librarians:

• Call: (412) 268-2442
• Email: huntref@andrew.cmu.edu
• At the reference desk in Hunt Library, M-Th 9 - 8; Fr 9 - 5; Sa-Su 1-5.
• Ask a question via the library's chat service , Mondays - Fridays from 1- 5 pm.

Or, contact me directly:
Roye Werner, Business & Economics Librarian, rwerner@andrew.cmu.edu , (412) 268-2453