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| Coverage | [Date range: varies by title, updated] Contains extensive full-text information about companies and/or industries. Combines all RDS Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase. The three databases can be search individually or simultaneously. The content of each database is highly complementary. Searching B&I and TableBase together produces results which include the textual content from B&I, supported by the tabular content of TableBase. |
| Content | Full text and tabular information. B&I covers trade and industry publications, newspapers, and newsletters. B&MP covers trade journals. TableBase provides tabular information with textual content.
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| Strengths | Simultaneous searches from three complementary databases. |
| Weaknesses | No date coverage is provided for each source.
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| General Business Search Tips | Type keywords in Words and Phrases or Words in Title. Click on Search. OR Select an appropriate term from Concept Term table. Click on Search.
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| Industry Research Search Tips | Select Industry from Industry Table (example: Application Software), OR use SIC Code from SIC Code Box (example: 737255 or 732224).
Select appropriate term from Concept Table (example: Industry forecasts). OR Type keywords in Words & Phrases if Concept Table does not contain concepts you are looking for (example: outlook or future). OR Type in keywords in Words in Title for a more focused search (example: outlook or future).
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| Company Research Search Tips |
Type Company name in Company box (example: Microsoft).
Select appropriate term from Concept Table (example: market share). OR Type keywords in Words & Phrases if Concept Table does not contain concepts you are looking for (example: (distribution or compet*)). OR Type keywords in Words in Title for a more focused search (example: (distribution or compet*)).
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| Product Research Search Tips | Type keywords in Words and Phrases or Words in Title for more focus. (example: software and new product*)
Click on Search. OR Select a subject term like Production management or Product strategy from Concept Term table. Click on Search.
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| Geographic Information Search Tips | Select geographic regions from Geo Region table; Click Search. OR Type keywords in Words & Phrases and in Words in Title (for more focus) if Concept Table does not contain concepts you are looking for (example: developing countries).
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Biographical Information Search Tips |
For articles on a person, type a person's name in Words and Phrases. Click on Search.
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| Boolean | AND, OR, NOT |
| Proximity | Near Explanation : Searches terms that occur within a specified number of words of each other regardless of order. Example : home near banking
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| 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.
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| Keywords | industry, company, overview, column, cross comparison study, trends, analysis.
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| Last Updated: Thursday, 23-Aug-2007 13:41:26 EDT |