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AGEC 431: Advanced Agri-Sales and Marketing

This guide contains information and resources helpful to students taking AGEC 431.

Creating a Search Strategy

Articles

ABI/INFORM Global
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A comprehensive business database covering the broadest range of business topics for both academic researchers and professionals in the workplace. In addition to thousands of scholarly journals, includes full articles from The Economist, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal. Can also be searched as part of the larger ABI/INFORM Collection.
Business Source Complete
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An all-purpose, vast business database with thousands of full-text academic journals and mainstream publications. Also includes thousands of case studies, SWOT analyses, industry reports, and a selection of brief company profiles.

Market and Industry Research

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Market research reports and news articles: primarily advertising, marketing, financial services, and technology with particularly strong coverage of overlap topics like ecommerce, digital marketing, digital payments, mobile banking, etc.
Frost and Sullivan
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Strong on technology.

Government Resources

U.S.D.A
U.S.D.A. Economics, Statistics and Market Systems
The USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS) contains nearly 2,500 reports and datasets from several agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly.
Bureau of Economic Analysis: Regional Economic Accounts
Regional data down to the MSA level of economic conditions
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Dept. of Labor statistical arm preparing statistics on employment and unemployment, workforce trends, consumer expenditures and prices, and wholesale prices.
U.S. Census Bureau

Research Management

OWL Research and Citation Resources
Citation Software
Information about EndNote and Zotero.

Citation Management

Zotero
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