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Emerging Technologies in Business: 3-D Printing

This guide will highlight resources to help you learn about and keep current on emerging technologies in the business world.

Research

Keeping Current: Sources & Search Strategies for 3-D Printing

Use these suggestions to perform your own searches for current content about 3-D Printing technology.

As a keyword search strategy in LibrarySearch or one of the other research databases, try: "3-D printing" OR "3-D printers" OR "Three-dimensional printing" OR "additive manufacturing". As a next step, add additional terms or concepts using a Boolean "AND" operator like: "3-D printing" AND "sustainability". As you find quality articles, look in the item's record for any subject headings that seem promising to expand your search.

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Use LibrarySearch to find articles, books, and more

Search Tips:

  • to focus your search, use the limits on the left side of the result page
  • try the Peer Review limit to focus your results on scholarly articles
  • learn more about LibrarySearch

Suggested Library Research Databases to Search for 3D Printing

Try the following sources to search for articles or data on this topic:

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Selected Readings

The literature on these emerging technologies is vast and growing. To whet your appetite and explain some of the basics, here's a very brief selection of articles, reports, and ebooks on 3-D Printing (updated periodically).

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