Internet impact on the music industry: how to do the research

Global Electronic Markets 73-469

How is the library like the music industry?

• Used to have a captive audience• Internet has changed the rules• Can now be bypassed• Strategy to maintain value• Here’s one: research guide for this class

What are our options for research?

Where?• Google• Smart Google, Google

Scholar, Google Books• Library databases• Library catalog

What?• Scholarly articles• Industry reports/news• Data• Books• People: podcasts,

transcripts, blogs

(SEARCH tends to lump unlike objects together – a good thing?)

http://www.google.com/

How to evaluate a site

3 top hits from that page:• Business Blog » Blog Archive » The Internet's Impact

on the Music ...

• Impact of MP3 on the Music Industry

• The influence of Internet on the music industry

Internet music industry

recording industry record label

filesharing audio digital download mp3

online music music business

Generating keywords:

Refine:Advanced Search

Refine more: Google Scholar

What are databases?

• Collections of proprietary data and text

• Sold by information vendors

• Copyrighted material

• Fee v. Free

• Result: more value, less worry

• How do they compare to Google?

Database: Standard & Poor’s Netadvantage

Database: Business & Company Resource Center

Database: SSRN (research papers)

Database: Simply Map

Site: Recording Industry Association of America

Site: Census Bureau Economic Programs

Books – using the library catalog

Database: LexisNexis Academic (blog search)

Site: iTunes audio podcasts

Citing your sources

Why do you need to say where your information comes from?

• Your credibility gains from having located authoritative, valid sources

• Using other people’s ideas without attribution is theft (plagiarism is a serious offense)

• You help others who are doing research• How do you do it ? A guide to citing your sources

Someday, you’ll be cited!

Questions?Ask the librarians:

Roye WernerBusiness & Economics Librarian

rwerner@andrew.cmu.edu 412.268.2453

Everyone else at the library who can help:search.library.cmu.edu 412.268.2442

reference hours, link to chat, email, etc.

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