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Text Books

Retail Management by Sheikh, Arif

ISBN: 9788184881936
Barcode: 80194

Retail Handbook: Helping You Achieve Your Potential

in Retail by Welfare Anthony.
ISBN: 9788184955033
Barcode: 80203

Strategic Retail Management by Srinivasan, Srini R.

ISBN: 9788177226706
Barcode: 91229
Related Books

Retail Buying Techniques by Elliot, Fiona

ISBN: 9788179927366
Barcode: 91828

How to Succeed At Retail by Lincoln, Keith

ISBN: 9780749453008
Barcode: 90778

Retail Management in New Dimension by Singh, Kuldeep.

ISBN: 9729321695146
Barcode: 87801
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 Databases
Searching Tips Suggested Keywords
Search here for journal articles on your subject. Start with  Retail stores
these databases, they cover a wide range of relevant
subjects therefore you can find some resources on your topic,
 Chain stores
or use search engines to explore all the library collections  College stores
and the web.
 Convenience stores
Examples of "smart searching" techniques:  Department stores.

 Narrow a search using AND  Discount houses (Retail trade)

o Example: Econometric AND integration  Drugstores

 Broaden a search by using OR (Separate synonyms

 General stores
with an OR)  Self-service stores
o Example: (econometric OR economics) AND
 Shophouses
(techniques OR statistics tools)
 Specialty stores
 Broaden a search by using Truncation (Use a  Store hours
truncation symbol to search for different endings to
words)
 Storefronts.
o Example: (econom* OR business OR  Retail Trade
financial) AND
 Automobile Dealers
(evaluat*)
 Book and Music Stores
 Search for words as phrases by enclosing them in  Building Material and Garden
quotation marks Equipment and Supplies Dealers
o Example: "regression analysis"
 Clothing and Clothing
Librarians can also help you with any questions you Accessories stores
have. Speak with them in person or send a query online  Electronics and Appliance Stores
to Ask a Librarian.
 Food and Beverage Stores
 Furniture & Home Furnishings
Stores
 Gasoline Stations
 Grocery Stores
 Health and Personal Care Stores
 Sporting Goods stores
 Other Miscellaneous Store
Retailers - including art dealers,
florists and used merchandise
 Fashion Merchandising
Databases
 Business Source Complete
The most comprehensive scholarly business database with a large percentage of full-text material from
journals, conference proceedings, investment research, industry, market research, and country reports,
SWOT analysis and more.

 J-Gate
J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. Launched in 2001 by Informatics India Limited, J-
Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online offered by 13,356 Publishers. It
presently has a massive database of journal literature, indexed from 45,900 e-journals with links to full text at
publisher sites.

 Economic Outlook
Economic Outlook provides forecasts on growth, inflation, fiscal balance, balance of payments, corporate
earnings and a host of sectorial indicators. It provides its analytical view explaining these forecasts.

 Industry Outlook
A total of 193 industries are covered. The service provides detailed historical data on capacity, production,
foreign trade, sales, prices, annual and quarterly financial performance of the industry and its detailed break-
up by companies, new capacities built and expected to be commissioned, performance of listed companies
on the bourses, data culled from the Annual Survey of Industries and from RBI's industrial outlook surveys.

 Prowess IQ
ProwessIQ, or Prowess for Interactive Querying, is a powerful internet-based application for querying CMIE's
database on performances of listed and unlisted companies. ProwessIQ consist of 38,371 companies data.

 EMIS—Emerging Markets Information Services

Comprehensive coverage of $1.3M+ emerging market companies, from the world’s most trusted sources. In-
depth news, research statistics and forecasts – covering 250+ industry sectors in the emerging markets.
Multisource news, research, forecasts and macroeconomic statistics from 150+ emerging market countries.

 Ace Equity
Database of more than 38,000 Indian companies. Historical Financials & Share Price Data of over 15 Years.
Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash flows are directly linked with Annual report to ensure data is authentic,
"as reported" by the company.

 Crisil Research
Its Industry Information Service tracks the performance of 60 industries, by giving near real-time access to
data, research and analysis in a timely, relevant and interactive manner through an online delivery platform
[Link]. It provides long and short term outlooks and details the factors that affect and
influence the performance and profitability of relevant industries.
  Capitaline
Capitaline database provides fundamental and market data on more than 35,000 Indian listed and unlisted
companies, classified under more than 300 industries, along with powerful analytic tools.

 IndiaStat
[Link] provides secondary level socio-economic statistical information about India, its states, regions
and sector. [Link] is a cluster of 56 associate websites wherein 19 websites are sector-specific, 6 are
regional websites and 31 websites are state-specific. [Link] contains all the statistical information
available on its 56 associate websites.

 Jstor Collections

Complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals.

For further details please click on the link.

Database Overview

Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly
literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
 Journals
Journals
Journals are collections of information that you can use to find information for your
assignments. One can find scholarly and research articles in these journals on his/her topic.

Impact Factor Journals Print Journals

 International Journal of Business &  Materials Management Review
Economic Development
 International Journal of Sales,
Retailing & Marketing
Print Magazines
 Journal of Business & Retail
Management Research  Images Retail

 Journal of Retail & Leisure Property  Packaging India (April to March)

 Journal of Retailing  Progressive Grocer (Indian)

 Journal of Retailing and Consumer  Shopping Centre News
Services
 International Journal of Retail &
Distribution Management
Open Access Journals
ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and
Retail Management

The Journal of business and retail

Management Research

Directory of Open Access Journals

 Reference Sources
Reference Books

Macmillan Dictionary of Retailing by Baron Steve.

ISBN: 0333564499
Barcode: 8246

Dictionary of Retailing and Merchandising by Rosenberg

Jerry M.
ISBN: 047111023X
Barcode: 10749

Why Use Reference Books

Locating background information in general and subject specific encyclopedias and dictionaries
and other reference resources will help you put information in context.
Consulting reference materials will help you:
Get an overview of the subject.

 Note key concepts/developments.

 Identify significant authors.
 See a chronology/timeline.
 Discern connections/interrelationships with other developments.
 Develop a list of search terms.
 Use the bibliographies to locate other information on your topic
Encyclopedias
 Britannica Online Academic Edition
Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Use this powerful resource to search or
browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites.
 Highbeam Encyclopedia
[Link] has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries,
and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word
origins, and abbreviations.
 Internet Resources
Websites
Deloitte: Retail
Research from Deloitte's Retail & Consumer practice.

STORES Top 100 Lists

Features Top 100 Retailers, 100 Fastest Growing Retailers, Top 250 Global Retailers.

Census of Retail Trade

Monthly and annual statistics from the US Census Bureau that summarize sales at broad
industry levels.

Associations & Trade Associations

American Wholesale Marketers Association (AWMA)
Lists the organization contacts, activities, and publications such as state of the industry reports
(free for members).

Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)

Gives position papers and research in the areas of asset protection, finance, human resources,
supply chain, sustainability and government affairs.

National Retail Federation (NRF)

Represents state and national associations as well as large and small corporate members. Its
Web site offers industry news, trends and statistics, directories, links to retailing resources on
the Web, information on hot topics and government affairs.

Gale Ready Reference Shelf

Includes the Encyclopedia of Associations, which is a good source for finding specialized trade
associations.
 Indian Associations & Websites
Retailers Association of India (RAI)
RAI is the unified voice of retailers in India. A not for profit organization, RAI works with all stakeholders
for creating the right environment for the growth of modern retail industry in India.
v
Retailers Association’s Skill Council of India
RASCI is a collaborative and comprehensive source of retail expertise and independent advice for
industry, training organizations, educational institutions, certifying bodies, employees, students or
jobseekers about skills development in the retail industry.

Retail leadership Summit

India Retail Forum

IRF presents the most comprehensive opportunities for retailers, consumer-facing businesses and
support organisations to intelligently navigate the changing marketplace dynamics, and capitalise on
emerging consumer expectations and aspirations.

Association of System Integrators and Retailers in Technology

ASIRT is a focused association for System builders, System integrators and Retailers in India. Promoted
by leading IT SIs in Mumbai, This association aims to build partnerships & help this community of IT
companies to reach higher goals & expand business boundaries
 Citing Sources

Citation Sources
The primary reasons for citing sources in a research paper are to give credit to the authors
whose work you have drawn upon and to allow readers to track down your sources, should they
wish to do so.

There are many style guides for formatting citations and creating bibliographies. APA and
Chicago are frequently used in economics, but you may be called upon to use others.

Style Manuals
1. APA Style and Formatting Guide
2. MLA 2009 Formatting and Style Guide
3. Chicago Manual of Style Online
4. CSE (formerly CBE) documentation style
5. Bluebook 101
6. Harvard Style
7. Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources
8. Citing Sources
9. NoodleBib
10. Web Style Guide

Which tool is Best for You?

 Citation Management Tools Comparison Chart
Citation Tools
EndNote Web: It is a Web-based service designed to help students and researchers through the
process of writing a research paper. Undergraduate students can organize their references for
citing in papers. Professional researchers and graduate students can use EndNote Web as the
perfect complement to EndNote and other desktop writing tools, as well as storing references
between ISI Web of Knowledge search sessions.

Zotero: an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze
sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the
results of your research in a variety of ways. It has the ability to store author, title, and
publication fields and to export that information as formatted references and the best parts of
modern software and web applications (like iTunes and [Link]), such as the ability to
interact, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero integrates tightly with online resources; it
can sense when users are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, and on many
major research and library sites find and automatically save the full reference information for
the item in the correct fields.

Mendeley: It is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you
organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

RefWorks: It is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool designed to

help researchers gather, manage, store, and share information and generate citations and
bibliographies.
Citation Tracking
Journal Impact Factor
The impact factor is an indicator of journal quality. A measure of the frequency with which the
"average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year, the impactor factor is calculated by
dividing the number of current citations to articles published in the two previous years by the total
number of articles published in the two previous years. Ultimately, the impact factor will help you
evaluate a journal's relative importance, especially when you compare it to others in the same
field.
ISI Journal Citation Reports (JCR Online)
Click on the "select a database" tab, and then the "Journal Citation Reports" tab. Select the "JCR
Social Sciences Edition." You can browse a group of journals by category (e.g. "Communication),
search for a specific journal, or view all journals.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
You can look for 'refereed' indicator, circulation statistics, and included abstracting/indexing
services for a good indication of a journal's impact.
WorldCat
The number of libraries owning a journal is an indication of the impact and importance of the
journal. Go to 'advanced search' and search by title or ISSN. Look at the 'libraries worldwide' link.
Citation Analysis
Citation Analysis or citation tracking is a way to see the impact of an article in its field. Also, it's a
great way to use a "landmark" or influential article to find more recent, related articles that cite the
landmark article.

 ISI Web of Science

Select the "Web of Science" database. Then use the "Cited Reference Search" link to find
articles that cite the work(s) of an author. Use the format [Last Name First Initial*] (e.g.
Smith H*).

 Wiley InterScience

Go to "advanced search" and use the "references" field.

 Sage Journals Online

Click on "advanced search" and select the "References" field from the drop-down box.

 Google Scholar