New this semester and available for 2012 is the market research database Frost & Sullivan.  You can access it by clicking here.

What is it?
It’s an in-depth market and industry research report database with global coverage of various high-technology sectors. Reports are available in four categories: Industry, Technical, Economic, and Applications for Growth. Date coverage is from 1998 to present, updated as new reports are produced.

What you can expect to find:
Full text reports related to the following sectors:
-Aerospace & Defense;
-Automotive & Transportation;
-Chemicals, Materials and Food;
-Electronics & Security;
-Energy & Power Supplies;
-Environment & Building Technologies;
-Healthcare;
-Industrial Automation &Process Control;
-Information & Communication Technologies;
-Measurement & Instrumentation.
Contents often include maps, graphs and charts.

Some useful things you can do:
-Search for reports using keywords.
-Filter your results by specifying industry, pub year, geographical region, or report type.

Limitations:
-On campus access only
-When directed to the Frost home page, you must either click on ‘Member Login’ in the top right corner and enter your name and UAH email address (even on campus) or find a report you are interested in and then log in at that point. Once you have successfully logged in, you will see a My Account link.
-Full text is viewable online, but you cannot export PDFs.

Content sources:
In-house analysts’ primary and secondary research; proprietary.

If you have any problems getting logged in, please let us know at the Reference Desk.  You can contact us by phone at 256-824-6529 or send us a message at http://libanswers.uah.edu