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| Coverage | [Date range: 1979-present, updated daily] ABI/Inform provides summaries and citations from over 1000 academic management, marketing, and general business journals with full text for more than 500 of these publications. Over 350 English-language titles from outside the United States are included as part of this collection. Topics covered in ABI/Inform include Accounting/Auditing, Banking and Finance, Data Processing/Information Management, Economics, Government, Healthcare, Human Resources, Insurance, Labor Relations, Law and Taxation, Management Science, Marketing and Advertising, Public Administration, Real Estate, Telecommunications, and Transportation. |
| Content | Over 75% full text. Covers newspapers, magazines, academic journals,
and dissertations.
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| Strengths | Academic, research , theoretical focus. Good place to look for topics on leadership, glass ceiling, ethics, downsizing, etc. |
| Weaknesses |
Little coverage of the trade literature.
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| General Business Search Tips | For general business, go to Topic Guide. Click on Browse the Subject Directory/Business & Industry. Business & Industry includes Accounting & Taxation,
Financial management, Human resource management,
Management, Marketing, and Operations management. For specific articles, follow the links or use Advanced Search. For additional search terms, use Browse Topics and select Subjects. Example : For Decision Theory articles, follow links Business & Industry/Management/Management Science/Decision Theory. OR Type in free text search box key words for your topic.
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| Industry Research Search Tips | For industry coverage, go to Topic Guide/Browse the Subject Directory/Business & Industry/Industries. Industries covers Agriculture, Manufacturing
industries, Mining & petroleum industries, and Service
industries. For specific articles, follow the links or use the Advanced Search. For additional search terms, use Browse Topics and select Subjects. OR Type in free text search box key words for your topic.
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| Company Research Search Tips | For company coverage, select Company from drop box and enter company name. For additional search terms, Browse Topics and select Subjects. OR Type in free text search box key words for your topic.
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| Product Research Search Tips | For product coverage, go to Topic Guide/Browse the Subject Directory/Business & Industry/Marketing/Product Management. Product Managment covers
Branding, Packaging, Product Development, and Planning. For specific articles, follow the links or use Advanced Search. For additional search terms, use Browse Topics and select Subjects. OR Type in free text search box key words for your topic.
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Geographic Information Search Tips |
For geographic information coverage, use subject terms like Developing Countries, LDCs, Regionalism or Emerging
Markets in Subject field. For additional search terms, use Browse Topics and select Subjects. OR Type in free text search box key words for your topic.
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Biographical Information Search Tips |
For biographical information, enter a subject term like Personal Profiles in Subject field;
Type a person's name in the next search box and select Person from drop box; Click Search.
For articles on a person, type a person's name in search box and select Person from drop box. Click Search.
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| Boolean | AND, OR, NOT |
| Proximity | W/# (# is a number) Explanation : These words separated by # or less by a specified distance in any order. Example : computer W/3 careers NOT W/# (# is a number) Explanation : Match all words but this one within a field. Example : computer NOT W/2 careers PRE/# (# is a number) Explanation : Match these words within # words in a field and in this order. Example : world pre/3 web W/DOC Explanation : Match these words within either the indexing or the text. Example : internet W/DOC education |
| Truncation | Truncation : ? Explanation : "?" is used as a right-handed truncator only; it will find all forms of a word. Example : Econom? finds "economy", "economics", economical" etc. Wildcard: * Explanation : "*" is used to replace any single character, either inside the word or the right end of the word. Example : Wom*n finds "woman", "women".
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| Keywords | accounting, advertising, auditing, banking, computers, corporate culture, economics, environment, finance, human resources, healthcare, human capital, information management, internet, labor relations, management science, marketing, law, operations management, taxation, research & development, production, purchasing, quality control, security, telecommunication, transportation
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| Last Updated: Thursday, 23-Aug-2007 13:41:21 EDT |