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Carla-Mae Crookendale
Visual Arts Research Librarian
cmcrookendale@vcu.edu
(804) 827-0367

Janet Reid
Business Research Librarian
jmreid@vcu.edu
(804) 828-6339

Business Model Generation: a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers by Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2010
Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context.

IBISWorld
Industry reports by NAICS and more (everything from Comic Book Publishing to Food Trucks).
Additional Industry Research Resources...

Plunkett Research Online
Analysis and market research for important industry sectors. Includes trend analysis, statistics, organizations, company profiles, information for job-seekers, and ability to create custom reports.
Dow Jones Factiva
Comprehensive, full text up-to-the-minute news and business information from Dow Jones and Reuters. Includes industry and company profiles, and the full text of the Wall Street Journal.
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Entrepreneurial Studies Source provides business students and researchers with current insights and trends in entrepreneurship and small business topics. It offers full-text business journals, books, case studies and company profiles.
Additional Company Research Resources...

Mintel
Full-text market research reports covering US and global consumer markets.
SimplyAnalytics
Create thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business, and marketing data (like Simmons and Claritas). Allows you to access data by geography, so you can focus on a city, county, zip code, or neighborhood. (5 concurrent users)
WARC
Global advertising and marketing trends, including market intelligence, case studies, conference reports, articles, expenditure data, profiles of major brand owners, and consumer insight.
Additional Consumer Research Resources...

Business Source Complete
Great starting place for almost any business topic. Includes a wide selection of scholarly, trade and business news publications.
ABI/INFORM Complete
Abstracts, full-text journals and periodicals on business, finance, and management topics. Includes full text access to The Wall Street Journal.
Dow Jones Factiva
Comprehensive, full text up-to-the-minute news and business sources, including the full text of The Wall Street Journal.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) - (Proquest)
International index to articles in more than 450 design and craft journals. Also contains data on designers, craftspeople, studios, schools, workshops, and firms.
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Major areas of coverage include:
Product design
Interior design
Graphic design
Ceramics
Glass
Jewellery
Textiles
Furniture
Fashion and clothing
Illustration
Typography and type design
Metalsmithing
Retail design
Architecture
Industrial design
Sustainability
Advertising
Packaging
Theatre
Vehicles
Exhibitions
Book design
Web design
Computer aided design
Computer graphics
Animation
Garden design
Landscape architecture
Urban design
Education
Design management
Inclusive design
Universal design
Design history

(1973 - present) VCU access only

LinkedIn Learning
Leading online learning company providing tutorials aimed at teaching business, software, technology and creative skills. Provided by VCU Technology Services and VCU ALT Lab.
Visual Arts Research Guides
More resources for design research, including fashion, crafts and graphic design.
Innovative Media's Workshop
Offers a comprehensive suite of resources, services and workspaces designed to build a creative ecosystem for learning and using varied real and digital tools. Visit The Workshop on the lower level of Cabell for workstations, a makerspace and much more.
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
Focusing on the areas and intersections of fashion, style, and commerce, WGSN provides a global view on trends in design. Its archive contains more than 5 million images from the runways, the street, retail outlets, and design sketches.
O'Reilly for Higher Education
Includes ebooks and videos on all aspects of technology such as digital media, software, programming and business and professional development. Features books on Graphic Design, Gaming, Mobile, Web Design, Animation, Sound Design and UX.
Material Connexion
Collection of over 4,500 innovative materials and processes. Resource for designers of all disciplines - industrial, furniture, packaging, graphics, fashion, interior design, landscape architecture, and transportation.