MKT2210




           Library Resources
          Marketing Research
              Catherine Funnell
            c.funnell@mdx.ac.uk
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Library Catalogue

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Reading List
Essential

Malhotra,NK and Birks,DF, (2007),Marketing Research:An Applied Approach,3rd
   European ed,London:Prentice Hall

Recommended

Bradley,N, (2010), Marketing Research Tools and Techniques,2nd ed., Oxford:Oxford
   University Press

Mcdaniel,Jr C and Gates,R, (2009), Marketing Research,8th ed., London: John Wiley
  and Sons
Understanding the Catalogue


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Marketing Subject Guide
http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/marketing




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  Subject Guides
Journals and Databases
• Large collections of many journals containing
  many articles
• Different databases cover different subjects
• They all work slightly differently but all have a
  Search Box
• Financial information, industry reports,
  ccountry data
• Trade journals,newspaper articles
Journals
• Contain articles that discuss current research
  in very specific areas
• Short academic, ‘magazines’ that are
  published regularly
• Organised by date, volume and issue number,
  even when online
• You will use the databases to locate the
  journal articles using search strategies
Finding Journal Articles-Journal
                Citation
• Here is an example of a typical reference you
  would find in a database.

• Sengupta,J & Chan.(2010),”Insincere Flattery
  Actually Works:A Dual Attitudes
  Perspective”,Journal of Marketing
  Research,Vol.47,no 1,pp.122-133
Journal Search/Catalogue
Choose Your Date
PDF
My Study
           Primary Marketing
               Databases
               Keynotes
            Business Source
               Complete
           Passport to GMID
Research and Planning
• Have an idea of what you want to find
• Write down lots of subject keywords to help
  you find it
• Include synonyms-words with similar
  meanings or different spellings of the same
  word (eg organization/organisation)
Phrase Searching
• When searching by phrase you might want to
  try different phrases that have a similar
  meaning
• Some of the results may be the same but you
  may also get some new and significant results
Eg.For Market Research try:
Market Analysis,Consumer Research,Product
  Research
Databases/Keynote
• Access to overr 3000 UK and European Market
  Intelligence Reports
• New titles added or updated every month
• Access to Business Ratio Reports which
  compare,contrast and analyse the financial
  performance of the leading companies in each
  sector
Keynote
          Market Research Reports
            Company Profiles
              Market Sectors
                 Products
Market Research Reports
                Choose Toiletries
What do we Want?



                   PDF




Executive
summary
Keynote/Sidebar



Competitor Analysis
Competitors/Brand Strategy




                          Brand
                         Strategy
Major Competitors
      Avon
  Estee Lauder
Keynote/Company Information




     Carphone
     Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse

               Carphone
              Warehouse UK
Business Sources Complete

  Primary Business
      Database
       Articles
   SWOT analyses
       Videos
Company information
Business Source Complete

                   Choose Advanced
                       Search
Search “Mobile Phones”




                               Publication
                           Type=Industry Profile



Place “mobile phones “in
      Quote Marks
Results 374-Too Many?
                     Limit By
                     Full Text
                    Geography




Full Text-No
 Abstracts
 13 results
Full Text/PDF
2012 Company Profile
Passport GMID


          Excellent for Global information
                 Register first time
Mobile Phones




 Limit by
Geography
   UK
Mobile Phones UK
FAME
SUMMON
• Useful for searching multiple databases at one
  time
• Access to many different types of
  information(eg journal articles, press reports,
  SWOT analyses, company information,
  dissertations, book reviews etc)
• Use subject keywords and phrase searching
  when constructing a ‘search statement’
SUMMON
• “How do marketing theory and concepts as
  portrayed in traditional marketing literature
  have limited application in guiding small
  business?”
Possible subject keywords and phrases
“small business” “marketing theory”
Could combine them in the search statement
Results
Limit By Publication Type
                            Preview

Marketing11302012