Research Question: What statistics prove that electronic commerce has future?

1.       Search statements:

 statistics and “e* commerce” and future

 forecast* and (e-commerce or “electronic commerce”) and future

2.       Article from popular magazine:

Beer, Jeff. "The Future is Mobile." Canadian Business Mar 14 2011: 40-. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry; ProQuest Research Library. Web. 24 July 2012 . 

This is the article from the popular magazine in Canada. The author writes in business and economic field. The article is worth to use because it provides up-to-date information about the last researches and the opinions about the future of e-commerce and mobile devices.

3.       Research Article from Scholarly Journal:

Sin, Liem Gai, and Ria Purnamasari. "China E-Commerce Market Analysis: Forecasting and Profiling Internet User." Researchers World 2.3 (2011): 1-8. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 24 July 201

The article is published in a solid journal: Researches World. The Information is up-to-date .The classification of the publication is experimental/theoretical .The authors are credible. They are the professors and doctors of world well-known schools. In footnotes you can find the reference to primary sources such as surveys, analysis and studies, and statistical reports. From the citation it is clear that the article contains factual, documented information to reinforce the position.

4.       Article from Newspaper: 

Totty,Michael "E-Commerce (A Special Report) --- the Researcher: John Jordan Spends His Days Thinking about the Future; we Asked Him what He Sees." Wall Street Journal: R.20. Los Angeles Times; National Newspapers Core; The Wall Street Journal. Jul 16 2001. Web. 24 July 2012 .

I chose this article because it is form popular newspaper; the author has more than 600 hundred publications in different periodicals. It is an interview with Mr. Jordan, who is director of electronic commerce research at the Center for Business Innovation, at Cambridge University. 

Summary:

The research statement gives relevant result. I tried both variants: with “forecast” and only ”future”. I need to tell that the results were pretty much the same. The word “data” did not worked well, because it refers to information data either and it expanded my search, so I deleted it.  I narrowed the results by source type and the date of publication. It was helpful. I was researching using the Proquest, as I am familiar with it already and like it. Also, I tried Ebsco, but it was not as convenient as Proquest.