Trends & Forecasts

Sources

• ABI/INFORM
  Choose between a basic, guided, advanced, publication or natural language search
  Guided searches are good if information about a particular company, industry,
  product, person or geographic region is desired
  There is a Field for Company/Organization and most industries can be used in the Subject field
  Keywords such as Trends, Future, Prediction or Forecast can help limit the search
  The Article Type and Publication Type can also be specified
  If the article needs to be from an Academic Journal, check the Peer Review box
  There is also a box to check if only Full text articles are needed
  Enter a date range
  Click on Search
  
• LexisNexis ACADEMIC
  Select Business
  Select the Industry & Market section
  Choose the Industry related to the search from the pull down box
  Enter keywords(such as product names or company names, etc...) in the box
  Enter other terms or keywords(such as trends,projections, predictions, forecasts, etc...) to narrow the search in the Narrow Search box
  Select a predefined date from the pull down box or enter a date range for the search
  Click on the Search button
  
• RDS BUSINESS REFERENCE SUITE
  Results from searching Business & Industry will probably generate the best results, but you can search all 3 at the same time
  Some fields and concepts do change from database to database, so searching each database individually may yield better and more results
  Check the Business & Industry box and click on Start
  Go to the Concept Terms section
  Trends is one of the concept terms
  Scroll down and Highlight it
  To select more than just Trends, scroll up or down to find the next term to add
  Hold down the Control key and click on it
  To find trends in an industry, go to the industry selction and Highlight the industry to be searched
  A company name can be typed in to search for trends within a company
  Keywords can also be added to narrow the search
  A Geographic Region can also be specified by going to the Geo Region section at the bottom of the page
  After all the search items have been entered, click on Search
  
• S&P's NetAdvantage
  Select Industries from the menu bar at the top.
  You can select an industry by using the drop down menu located under the heading Industry Surveys
  Or, you could search by company which will retrieve information for that industry