Retail Planning Knowledge Base
The Retail Planning Knowledge Base has been set up at the instigation of the National Retail Planning Forum. It is intended to offer an accessible bibliographic resource for planners and academics interested in research on retail planning. It has been compiled and is maintained by Anne Findlay and Leigh Sparks of the Institute for Retail Studies in the University of Stirling.
The Retail Planning Knowledge Base comprises:
- Comprehensive Knowledge Base: This includes all material from 1998 to 2008 and is intended to be searched electronically.
- Annual Update: This includes material published during 2009 and an accompanying commentary on the references linking research and key practitioner concerns. It may be downloaded and users may prefer to use it in printed form. The previous update, covering 2008, is also available.
- Web Links Base: This is a listing of web sites where reports and data are published which may be of use to planners.
- The Planner’s Bookshelf: This is a listing of ‘must read’ texts.
- Briefing Notes: Launched in 2006 the Briefing Notes comprise a short listing of abstracted references, a list of useful web sites, a list of researchers to contact and a key findings section. The key findings section provides a context for the references giving some insights into the papers which have contributed to different parts of a specific debate and which are based on original research.
Users who are interested in more detailed aspects of the database compilation are referred to the background document Introduction to the Bibliography on Retail Planning.
Search Tips
All files are Adobe Acrobat files. These should be downloaded. The text can then be searched by clicking on ‘Edit’ on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar followed by ‘Search’ on the pop-up menu. Terms of interest can then be entered and a list of all occasions when the term appears will be shown.
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