ABI/INFORM - one of the world's first electronic databases, has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. (ABI originally stood for Abstracted Business Information.) The three related products described below offer citations, abstracts, and full text content to help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, coroprate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. It has expanded to include non-periodical content like:
EIU ViewsWire - Coverage of business and economic events from across the globe
Going Global Career Guides - Comprehensive overview for evaluating, selecting, and transitioning into a successful career in a foreign country
ProQuest Business Dissertations™ - Access to 10,000 full-text doctoral dissertations and master’s theses
Author Profiles from Scholar Universe - Broad range of author and institution information, with links to articles found in ProQuest
Another added resource is full text access to the Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, with backfile coverage to 1984.
ABI/INFORM Complete is the primary database, with over 3,570 of which more than 2,620 have full text. Use this for a comprehensive search, as it includes the sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry. ABI/INFORM has a long-standing reputation for high-quality article abstracts, which make searching easier, and help you to decide if the article is appropriate for your purposes.
ABI/INFORM Global is a subset, with 1,800 worldwide business periodicals, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. It provides fast, easy access to information on 60,000 companies, with coverage from 1971 forward.
ABI/INFORM Trade & IndustryTM— This subset covers more than 700 publications. It's designed to help researchers study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others. In fact, every major industry is represented, and all the publications are available in full text. Here's a small sampling of titles: Automotive News, Communications Today, International Construction, Modern Machine Shop, and Network World.
ABI/INFORM DatelineTM— This subset provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications. All articles are available in ASCII full text.
ABI/INFORM ArchiveTM— The editors of ABI/INFORM have been building deep business backfiles containing the complete, full-image runs of 100 titles, including Journal of Business Ethics, Sales and Marketing Management, and Journal of Marketing.