 Hey there, Chad Bonsha here for High University Libraries. I've got the great pleasure of meeting with some OPI students, the Ohio Program for Intensive English Students, who are doing some pretty challenging research. One group is researching convenience stores targeted to Asian international students, and the other is also doing a business plan on karaoke bars. Now, both those are really, really niche industries or niche areas, and there's not really a whole lot specifically on each each business. So, this video kind of shows you what available information I think would best suit those students doing research on those topics. So, here you go. Okay, so the first database we'll look at here is called Ibisworld, and we're doing these in order of how they appear on my blog. So, just to kind of show you, if you go in here and search for karaoke, karaoke is probably not the way to go because all you get is music publishing in the U.S., which is not really what you're looking at there. Okay, so what we're going to do is go back in and let's just look for, let's just look for bars. Okay, or we could go, here we have bars and nightclubs in the U.S. Okay, so that's a good report that we could look at. It's not necessarily just a karaoke report, but it would give you information as far as who's going to a bar, what the outlook is for bars and nightclubs in the U.S., things like that. So, if you're doing an industry analysis karaoke industry, probably be a good idea to look at a report like this because there's not a report just for karaoke in Ibisworld. We can also go back and search for convenience stores and get some results that way. And here's our convenience stores in the U.S. Or gas stations with convenience stores, either one. So, there we go, convenience stores in U.S., another good report to look at as you're doing, if you're working on the team that's doing the convenience stores business plan. The next database to look at is called Mintel. And the way Mintel works, when you first get there, you have to go down and say, I agree to their terms and conditions. And then if you have not done so, you actually have to create a personal profile in order to use this. You can just give them your email address, your Ohio email address, and create your own password there, and they'll send you an email later to confirm that. I've already created my own account, so I'm going to sign in here. And once again, if we go up here and search for karaoke, we're not going to get anything, but if we search for things like Asian, Asian will give us things like ethnic foods in the U.S. It's a nice market research report there, so good stuff there. We could also go in and search for convenience. And so, here is the convenience store food service in the U.S., so if you're doing the report on that, nice information there. If we go in and search for maybe nightclub instead of karaoke, here we have nightclubs in the U.S., a little bit dated, a little bit old there, but here is on-premise alcohol consumption trends, which basically is talking about drinking in bars. So it would be a place to look for that kind of information. So it's good to know about that as well. Like I said, there's not anything in here specifically about karaoke business, but you can probably use some of the data in here on some of the other stuff. The next database to look at is called Passport GMID, and just like Mintel, you have to scroll down and accept their terms and conditions before you can use the database. Once we're into Passport GMID, there's a couple of different ways you can use this for your particular project. Now if we actually go up here and search for karaoke, it's not really going to give us a whole lot of information. What it's going to do, it's actually going to reference these things, these reports called consumer lifestyles in particular areas. If we go to consumer lifestyles in China, it's finding the keyword terms. If we click on show whole report here, we can actually go down and find where it's pulling out karaoke. And it should be highlighted, sorry for the scrolling here. There it goes. It's highlighted right there in karaoke. Okay? And so it's really that's the only instance of it bringing up the term karaoke in this particular report. But if you look at this report, this report covers all kinds of things such as eating and drinking and smoking and consumer expenditure and things like that, consumer trends. This would be a good report to look at if you're looking at not only the karaoke business plan model, but also the folks here doing the research on the convenience stores. Okay? So I know part of the business plan refers to the business plan for convenience stores in US for particularly for Asian population for international students. But so you might look at it, you know, consumer lifestyles from other areas. So you can also go up here and let's try to search for convenience. And what is to convenience stores there? Do a search there. From the list of results or you get all kinds of information you can look at. For example, we scroll down, we find things like convenience retail and market drivers. We find things like we scroll one down some more convenience convenience convenience. Keep going. All kinds of good information here. Some nice articles that you can find to use for you for your paper. As an example, here's one that says convenience stores in Taiwan become a strong competitive factor. So this report will give us some good information that we could probably use on our convenience store business plan where we're serving Asian students in the US. So good information you can find there. If this list of information becomes overwhelming, you could also go in and actually limit by country or by region. What I would recommend first is going down and filtering this by whatever part of the world you're interested in. So let's look at maybe let's do US. Okay, so we do that. And then you might also go down a limit by country reports because either are going to get you these industry overviews here. So here we have retail in the US, consumer lifestyles in the US brings those reports up back up again and where people buy things like cigarettes, ice cream, stuff like that. Of course, you can also go back and get rid of USA and change that if you're looking to market to Asians in the US, you can actually do that and go back and limit by go go look at reports about China. So you can do that as well. So one good way that you can look at look at that as well. So another place to look here is business source complete. And what you can do is actually go in and type in convenience stores and then type in Asian Americans. And this will give you good content on articles. We get 17 articles here, not too many, but you can see that we're getting things from convenience store news, which is a nice publication for what you're looking at. So here we have things like the Asian persuasion tapping into the Asian market, different kinds of articles like that that will give you, you know, smaller little bits of information that look like they might work pretty good for your paper there. So good content there. I will say if you go in and search for karaoke, I don't think there is anything in here much on karaoke. Well, we get some there. Let's see. So we get some articles that mention the term karaoke. What if we do karaoke and United States? Let's see if we do anything there. Okay, so now we're down to 67. So that's a that's a way to to get some other things from articles like business week, billboard, places like that. So if we do karaoke United States and let's do Asian, maybe we'll try to see if that gets anything, didn't get anything that way. We might do karaoke and Asian and let's see if we get any articles that way. Okay, so we get 19 articles that way. So so good information that you can find there. Finally, this is a database called academic search complete. It looks just like business source complete, but it's looking in different kind of publications. And so this is actually a better might be a better resource than business source complete, particularly on the karaoke topic. If we do that and click search, we get some different kind of articles consuming karaoke in China. Karaoke is coming home perspectives of school into karaoke. Okay. So different things like that. So you can go in and find things like you can also go in and limit to just a karaoke over here on the left hand side, click update. And then now we're down to 214 articles about karaoke, which may be worth looking at for for your paper, paper there. Hopefully this helps you understand some of the tools that are available to you. Once again, you know, there's not a whole lot specifically on convenient stores geared towards international Asian students or for making karaoke bars in the US. So what we found are some information on just convenient stores, consumer lifestyles, alcohol and eating and drinking places, things like that. So you can use that content to as good information as you write your papers and business plans. If you need more help, look for the contact link on the business blog and be glad to help you any way I can. Take care.