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File Description [top]

Gale Group Trade & Industry Database^TM is a multi-industry database covering international company, industry, product, and market information, with strong coverage of areas such as management techniques, financial earnings, economic climate, product evaluations, and executive changes. Unique industry subfiles allow users to narrow or broaden their searches to one or more groups of industry specific publications. Gale Group Trade & Industry Database complements Gale Group PROMT^® (File 16) by providing in-depth coverage of over 65 major industries, including full-text coverage of management, economic, and other professional journals. Abstracts are available for some records and the complete text is fully searchable for many records from 1983 to the present.

Tips [top]

Subject Coverage [top]

Gale Group Trade & Industry Database provides strong international coverage of over 65 major industries, including automotive, defense, chemicals, electronics, advertising, and marketing, retailing, telecommunications, insurance, metals, and oils. In addition to covering information on companies, industries, products, and markets, Gale Group Trade & Industry Database features excellent coverage of:

• Management theory and practice
• Company stock performance
• Professional business activities
• Industry Overviews
• Reviews
• Economic and demographic information
• Financial exchange information
• Biographies
• Company securities transactions
• Product evaluations

Dialog File Data [top]

Related Search Aids [top]

Codes for use with Gale Group Databases, can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/galecodes/

Database Content [top]

• Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Journal Articles
• Newsletters
• Newspaper Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Special Features [top]

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

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply. These Databases (the "Databases") are copyrighted by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. The Gale Databases are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Neither Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, nor any of its data suppliers make any warranty whatsoever as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the Databases or the results to be obtained from using the information contained therein and neither Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, nor any of its data suppliers shall be responsible for any claims attributable to errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in the information contained in any Gale Databases. The entire risk as to the results and performance of any Gale Database is assumed by the user of that Database. Further, neither Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, nor any of its data suppliers make any representations or warranties either express or implied, with respect to any of the Databases, including, but not limited to, the quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of any Gale Database or any information contained therein. In no event shall Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, or any of its data suppliers be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use any Gale Database or for any loss or damage of any nature caused to any person as a result of the use of the Database. Material contained in any Database may not be sold. 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 single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases. - electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form for more than twelve (12) months records or data retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG archival feature. - delete or remove from a record or data the copyright credits or the name of the Database from which such record or data was retrieved. - republish, distribute or make available in any manner whatsoever to third parties who are not part of the user's organization records or data retrieved 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. - electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than fifteen (15) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG redistribution feature (non-archival storage use). - redistribute, copy or electronically store (REDIST, COPIES or ARCHIVE commands) materials retrieved from the Newsletter Database^TM, or from the following journals: Journal of the American Medical Association Archives of Internal Medicine American Medical News - redistribute, copy or electronically store (REDIST, COPIES or ARCHIVE commands) more than 500 copies of a record without permission from Dialog's and Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Notwithstanding the above restrictions, a bona fide information broker may make and provide one copy of search results obtained from the Databases to a single customer outside that information broker's organization provided that such information broker notifies such single customer that the information is copyrighted material which can be used for internal purposes only and cannot be copied, sold or republished. IF THERE IS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND Dialog's CUSTOMER SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS ON REDISTRIBUTION AND ARCHIVE USES, THE ABOVE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SHALL GOVERN. ANY OTHER USE OF THE DATABASES WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

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

² Ceased indexing in 1991.

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

⁴ Also searchable using /DE.

⁵ Also /DF.

⁶ Also searchable as /NA.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁷ Also searchable using AT=.

⁸ Present from 1/99 forward.

⁹ Also searchable using NA=.

¹⁰ Also searchable using AV=.

¹¹ Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.

¹² Special Feature will cease indexing as of 15 March 2002, but backfile data will remain online.

LIMIT [top]

SORT [top]

RANK [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Gale Group Trade & Industry Database™[148]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $6.85
Cost per minute:                   $1.97
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

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     4    $4.00    $4.00
     5    $4.00    $4.00
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $5.00    $5.00
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $5.00    $5.00
KWIC95    $0.40       NA
KWIC96    $0.40       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       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:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00