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ABI/INFORM^®
ONTAP^® ABI/INFORM^® (File 215)

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Last Update To Bluesheet: March 31, 2011

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File Description	Dialog File Data	Geographic Coverage	Terms and Conditions	Limit	Rates
Subject Coverage	Related Search Aids	Special Features	Sample Record	Sort
Tips	Database Content	DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories	Basic Index	Rank
Print Counterparts	Document Types Indexed	Contact	Additional Indexes	Predefined Format Options

File Description [top]

ABI/INFORM^® includes details on virtually every aspect of global business, including company histories, competitive intelligence, and new product development. ABI/INFORM contains bibliographic citations and 25-150 word summaries of articles appearing in professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines published worldwide. The full text of articles is included for hundreds of journals. There is no print equivalent to the database.

ABI/INFORM^® indexes and abstracts significant articles from more that 800 business and management periodicals. Full text is included for many of the articles added from January 1991 forward. Twenty-five percent of the journals are published outside the United States. Fifty percent of the journals, ABI/INFORM's core titles, are indexed and abstracted virtually cover-to-cover. Over 2,700 worldwide publications have been used as sources since the file was created in 1971.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 15

to find complete-text articles focusing on business-management, company histories, and industry trends.

USE CN=

to restrict your search to a specific industry sector or business topic. EXPAND CN= for a complete list of Classification Names.

USE CC=

to retrieve articles of relevance for a particular classification code. CC=3300 is the classification code for risk management.

USE LIMIT

to restrict articles to full text

SELECT S1/FULLTEXT

Subject Coverage [top]

Accounting
Banking
Computers
Economics
Engineering Management
Communications
Finance
Health Care
Human Resources
Insurance
International Trends
Law
Management/Management Science
Marketing
Public Administration
Real Estate
Taxation
Telecommunications
Transportation

Print Counterparts [top]

None

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	1971 - present (File 15) Selected records from 1987 to 1991 (File 215)
File Size:	6,364,810 records as of March 2011 (File 15) 23,284 records (File 215)
Update Frequency:	Daily (about 700 records per update) (File 15) Closed (File 215)

Related Search Aids [top]

Classification Codes and Classification Concepts Used in ABI/INFORM, DIALOG File 15, can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/f15_f635_ccodes.shtml

Database Content [top]

Bibliographic Records
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
Abstracts Available for all records

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
ADVERTBU	Advertising and Media Industry News
BUSECON	Business Economics
ELECTRON	Computers, Electronics, and Telecommunications Business
ENGBUS	Engineering and Construction Industry
FINBUS	Banking and Financial Services
HEALTHBU	Healthcare Industry News
LABOR	Labor
MANAGE	Management
MANEWS	Mergers and Acquisitions News
MANUFBUS	Manufacturing Industry News
MERGEACQ	Mergers and Acquisitions
MKTRES	Market Research Information
MULTIIND	General Industry Information
NEWSCO	Company News
RETAILBU	Retail Industry News
TAXACCT	Tax and Accounting
TELEBUS	Telecommunications Business

Contact [top]

ABI/INFORM is produced by ProQuest Information and Learning. Direct questions concerning file content to:

ProQuest
789 E. Eisenhower Pkwy.
P. O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346

Telephone:	734-761-4700 ext. 2513
800 Line:	800-889-3358
Fax:	734.997.4268
E-Mail:	tsupport@proquest.com

Terms and Conditions [top]

ABI/INFORM is a registered trademark of ProQuest Company. ONTAP is a registered service mark of Dialog, LLC.

ABI/INFORM^®, ONTAP^® ABI/INFORM, Accounting & Tax^TM Database, Banking Information Source^TM, Business Dateline^®, Criminal Justice Periodical Index^TM, Dissertation Abstracts Online^TM, Newspaper Abstracts Daily^TM, Periodical Abstracts Plus Text^TM, Pharmaceutical News Index^®, and ProQuest Newsstand^TM. The databases listed above (the "Databases") contain copyrighted materials of ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors which retain sole ownership of these materials. Only fair use, as provided by the Copyright Act of 1976 is permitted. ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors make no warranties, express or implied, as to the Databases or the entries that constitute them, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or lost profits or other claims related to them or their use.

Material contained in any Database may not be made available in any manner whatsoever to a third party or duplicated, redistributed or archived except solely for the customer's own internal use and according only to (1) the Terms & Conditions in Dialog's Standard Service Agreement and (2) the terms and conditions contained below.

A user may not:

redistribute, copy or electronically store (archive) all or a majority of records from a Database or a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases,
electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form material older than the most recent twelve-month period retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG ERA service archival feature,
delete or remove from any copyright notice or legend or the name of the Database from which data was retrieved,
republish, distribute or make available in any manner whatsoever to third parties who are not part of the user's organization data retrieved archived from the Databases,
use any records or data to create a derivative work except for a compilation of electronically stored data for internal use only, and
electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than ten (10) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG ERA service (non-archival storage).

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 15:ABI/Inform(R)`
	`(c) 2003 ProQuest Info&Learning. All rts. reserv.`

AA=	`02571357 333811591`
/TI	`IBM pushes new ThinkPad G series`
AU=	`Moltzen, Edward F`
JN=,PD=,JC=	`CRN n1044 PP: 43 May 5, 2003 JRNL CODE: CRN`
DT=,LA=,RT=	`DOC TYPE: Periodical; News LANGUAGE: English RECORD TYPE: Fulltext`
	`LENGTH: 1 Pages`
WD=	`WORD COUNT: 309`

/AB	`ABSTRACT: Believing that chip giant Intel's recent launch of the Centrino`
	`mobile platform will not be enough of an incentive to entice some small`
	`and midsize businesses away from desktops and toward notebooks, IBM has`
	`begun shipping an aggressively priced nonCentrino portable series. With`
	`the new ThinkPad G, IBM is hoping these businesses will focus more on the`
	`notebook's entry-level cost - $949 - and less on the fact that it weighs`
	`more than other sleeker, more expensive models.`

/TX	`TEXT: Believing that chip giant Intel's recent launch of the Centrino`
	`mobile platform won't be enough of an incentive to entice some small`
	`and midsize businesses away from desktops and toward notebooks, IBM has`
	`begun shipping an aggressively priced nonCentrino portable series.`

	`With the new ThinkPad G, IBM is hoping these businesses will focus more`
	`on the notebook's entry-level cost - $949 - and less on the fact that it`
	`weighs more than other sleeker, more expensive models.`

	`"The trend over the last number of years is that about 4 [percent] to 6`
	`percent of desktop users migrate ... [to notebooks] each year," said`
	`Grant Shenk, IBM's worldwide product manager for the ThinkPad G series.`

	`"The bulk of the market [migrates to] the faster, thinner, lighter`
	`[notebooks with] better battery life," Shenk said. "But many users simply`
	`don't need that - or they're not ready or have different needs."`

	`Kyle Yost, general manager of En-Net Services, a Frederick, Md.-based`
	`solution provider that focuses on the government market, said lower-cost`
	`ThinkPads could strike a chord with those in charge of purchasing at`
	`customer accounts.`

	`"The name recognition of IBM would spur people on," Yost said. "Because`
	`it's traditionally not the lowest-cost alternative out there, if they saw`
	`a product with IBM's name on it that was reasonably priced, that would`
	`certainly help migration."`

	`But Yost added one caveat: "Many people are already using desktops with`
	`very highspeed processors, big hard drives and lots of RAM," he said,`
	`noting that customers probably won't want to sacrifice performance for`
	`price or mobility.`

	`THIS IS THE FULL-TEXT. Copyright CMP Media LLC May 5, 2003`

	`COMPANY NAMES:`
/CO,CO=,DN=,NC=,TS=	`IBM Corp (DUNS:00-136-8083 TICKER:IBM NAICS:334111; 334119; 334611;`
	`511210; 334413)`
/GN, GN=	`GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: United States; US`
/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: Portable computers ; Product introduction`
CC=,CN=	`CLASSIFICATION CODES: 9190 (CN=United States); 7500 (CN=Product`
	`planning & development); 9000 (CN=Short Article); 5230 (CN=Computer`
	`hardware)`
	`PRINT MEDIA ID: 11643`
/TN, TN=	`TRADE NAMES: IBM ThinkPad`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S THINKPAD(W)G?
/AB	AB	Abstract	Word	S (PORTABLE AND COST)/AB
/CO	CO	Company Name¹	Word	S IBM?/CO
/DE	DE	Descriptor²	Word & Phrase	S PORTABLE(W)COMPUTERS/DE S PORTABLE COMPUTERS/DE
/GN	GN	Geographic Name¹	Word	S US/GN
/NM	NM	Named Person¹	Word	S JOSEPH(1N)PULITZER/NM
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S (IBM AND THINKPAD(W)G)/TI
/TN	TN	Trade Name¹	Word	S IBM(W)THINKPAD/TN
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S BATTERY(W)LIFE/TX

¹Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

²Also /DF.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AA=	AA	IP Accession Number	Phrase	S AA=333811591
AU=	AU	Author	Phrase	S AU=MOLTZEN, EDWARD F?
None	AZ	DIALOG Accession Number
CC=	CC	Classification Code³	Phrase	S CC=5230
CD=	CD	CODEN	Phrase	S CD=CMPGBW
CN=	CN	Classification Name	Phrase	S CN=COMPUTER HARDWARE
CO=	CO	Company Name¹	Phrase	S CO=IBM?
DN=	DN	D-U-N-S Number	Phrase	S DN=00-136-8083
DT=	DT	Document Type⁴	Phrase	S DT=PERIODICAL
GN=	GN	Geographic Name¹	Phrase	S GN=US
JC=	JC	Journal Code	Phrase	S JC=CRN
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=CRN
LA=	LA	Language	Phrase	S LA=ENGLISH
NC=	NC	NAICS Code⁵	Phrase	S NC=334111
NM=	NM	Named Person¹	Phrase	S NM=SCHULZ, CHARLES
None	NP	Number of Pages
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=20030505
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=2003
RT=	RT	Record Type	Phrase	S RT=FULLTEXT
SC=	SC	Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code⁵	Phrase	S SC=2341
SF=	SF	Special Feature	Phrase	S SF=PHOTOGRAPH
SN=	SN	International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)	Phrase	S SN=0010-4841
None	SO	Source Information⁶
TN=	TN	Trade Name¹	Phrase	S TN=THINKPAD?
TS=	TS	Ticker Symbol	Phrase	S TS=IBM
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999
WD=	WD	Word Count	Numeric	S WD>=250

³Use truncation when searching Classification Codes, e.g., S CC=3400?

⁴EXPAND DT= to see a list of document types.

⁵Present from 1/2000 forward.

⁶Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
/ENG	English-Language Articles	S S3/ENG
/FULLTEXT	Complete Text Record	S S2/FULLTEXT
/NOTEXT	Does Not Search Text Field	S S2/NOTEXT
/USA	Articles Focus on U.S.	S S3/USA
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S2/2003

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AA, AU, CC, CO, JC, JN, PD, PY, TI, WD	SORT S13/ALL/JN PRINT S5/5/1-24/AU

RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS	EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. Other RANK codes include: DE	RANK DE

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


Display codes listed in the Search Options tables can be used to customize output.	TYPE S4/TI,CO/ALL

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	--	Full Record except Abstract and Text
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation
4	--	Bibliographic Citation and Abstract
5	Long	Full Record except Text
6	Short	Title and Publication Date
7	--	Title, Abstract, Text, and Source
8	Free	Title, Publication Date, Word Count, and Indexing
9	Full	Full Record
K	--	KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number	TYPE 584828/5 DISPLAY 584828/CO,DE PRINT 584828/5

Rates [top]

Rates For File: ABI/INFORM^®[15]
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