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Database Description

Gale Group PROMT^® is a multiple-industry database that provides broad, international coverage of companies, products, markets, and applied technologies for all industries. PROMT is comprised of abstracts and full-text records from the world's important trade and business journals, local newspapers, regional business publications, national and international business newspapers, industry newsletters, research studies, investment analysts' reports, corporate news releases, and corporate annual reports. PROMT abstracts and full-text records cover the international events and activities of public and private companies throughout the world.

The database is divided into two files: 1) File 16 covers 1990 to the present, and 2) File 160 covers 1972 through 1989. BEGIN PROMT to search both files simultaneously.

Subject Coverage

As a multiple-industry database, Gale Group PROMT offers comprehensive coverage of more than 60 manufacturing and services industries, including:

• Advertising
• Aerospace and Aircraft
• Agriculture
• Apparel
• Automotive
• Biotechnology
• Chemicals
• Communications
• Computers
• Construction
• Defense Products and Systems
• Electronics
• Fabricated Metal Products
• Financial Services
• Food and Beverages
• Furniture
• Industrial Machinery
• Instrumentation
• Medical and Health Services
• Mining
• Petroleum and Energy Products
• Pharmaceuticals
• Plastics
• Printing and Publishing
• Pulp and Paper
• Rubber
• Software
• Textiles
• Tobacco
• Transportation
• Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Wood and others

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- redistribute, copy or electronically store (archive) all or a majority of records from a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases.

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Journal of the American Medical Association

Archives of Internal Medicine

American Medical News

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