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File Description [top]

Business & Industry^TM (B&I) database contains information with facts, figures, and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, markets products for all manufacturing and service industries at an international level. B&I coverage concentrates on leading trade magazines and newsletters, the general business press, regional newspapers and international business dailies. The database includes abstracts and fulltext of relevant articles, and is enhanced with rich indexing that enables highly specific retrieval of relevant articles.

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Subject Coverage [top]

Business & Industry^TM is used when searching for information on companies, industries, markets and products. The type of information that can be specifically retrieved include:

market size, market share, shipments, users, test marketing, company and industry forecasts, trends, demographics, company strategy, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, privatization, foreign investment, capacity, product development, introductions, and recalls and information dealing with markets, such as the African-American market, Green market, Asian-American market, youth market, and baby boomers.

All major industries are covered in B&I including advertising, aerospace and defense, agriculture, apparel, automotive, biotechnology, chemical, computers and software, electronics, energy, fast foods, financial services, food and beverages, furniture, health care services, information, insurance, mining, oil and gas, plastics, pulp and paper, retailing, telecommunications, and transportation.

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• None

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Related Search Aids [top]

Business & Industry® (DIALOG File 9) Concept Terms can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/f009_concept_terms.shtml

Business & Industry® (DIALOG File 9) Industry Terms can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/f009_industry_terms.shtml

Business & Industry® (DIALOG File 9) Marketing Terms can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/f009_marketing_terms.shtml

Database Content [top]

• Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Journal Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• DIALOG Alert Available
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
• CURRENT Feature Available

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Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

Copyright 2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Business & Industry database is copyrighted by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. Selected articles contained in the database are copyrighted by individual publishers whose names are included with each appropriate record. Content from this database is provided for internal use as a single copy by the customer or patron and may only be duplicated, stored in machine readable form or optical form or redistributed with the proper license agreements from Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, or its agents, or through Dialog's ERA program. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online.

Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, Terms and Conditions for the Dialog redistribution program: A Dialog service customer organization shall be limited to a location and shall not apply to affiliates or contractors. An organization in its capacity as an information broker may make and provide one copy of information obtained from the Dialog service to a single customer, provided the information broker retains the copyright notice on the material, and informs the customer that the intent must not be to create a derivative work. If a single customer requests redistribution within his/her organization, the information broker must report the redistribution directly into the Dialog service so that the proper reporting/pricing will occur. An organization or user may not electronically store (archive) records from a GALE database for more than twelve (12) months. Authorized redistribution and/or archiving requires the intent not to create a derivative work.

Archiving and redistribution rights do not extend to the abstracts or fulltext of the Financial Times newspapers found in File 9. No part of this database may be used except for research purposes, and the DATABASE(S) may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of GALE GROUP. Reproduction for rental of mailing list names is also prohibited. The DATABASE(S) may not be duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without the prior written authorization of Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, except that limited reproduction of output is permitted solely for internal distribution within the user's organization in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and GALE's Terms and Conditions. Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL GALE GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF A GALE DATABASE OR ITS USE.

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BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ The Extract field (/XT) searches both the Abstract and Lead Paragraph fields.

² Effective from July 2000 forward, abstracts are no longer produced for records having the complete text of the article; use /LP to search the first paragraphs of text.

³ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

⁴ /DE includes Concept Terms, Marketing Terms, and Industry Names.

⁵ Slogan will cease indexing as of March 2002, but backfile data will remain online.

⁶ Spokesperson and Named Character will cease indexing as of March 2002, but backfile will remain online.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁷ Expanding GC= will provide a list of the 3-digit codes with the associated geographic name

⁸ Special Feature will cease indexing as of March 2002, but backfile data will remain online.

⁹ Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.

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Rates [top]

Rates For File: Business & Industry™[9]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $6.85
Cost per minute:                   $2.08
TITLES Report(s)                   $0.00
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $15.75
ALERT (Monthly)                   $28.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $21.00
ALERT (Weekly)                    $15.75
ALERT (Daily)                      $4.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $15.75
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $4.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

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     6    $0.00    $0.00
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KWIC95    $0.35       NA
KWIC96    $0.35       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

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       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

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     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00