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Database Description

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.

Subject Coverage

• 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

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