ABIINFORM

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ABI/INFORM
an unmatched resource for business research
today The Gold Standard
ABI/INFORM Update 1H2008 an unmatched resource
for business research today The Gold Standard
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Agenda

• ABI/INFORM
• Overview - the business research gold standard
• ProQuest Indexing - better indexing means
  better results
• Research - world class content, excellence in
  journal quality
• Non-Periodicals - valuable cutting-edge
  business content
• Search Features - results that find you

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Overview
ABI/INFORM is about business research
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Overview
ABI/INFORM is an excellent general business
/management resource giving access to not only
scholarly journals, but also trade and
professional publications too. Of all the
e-journal packages we subscribe to I find
ProQuest the most intuitive and user-friendly,
and it is excellent in matching keywords to
relevant documents. Databases like ABI/INFORM
are now indispensible and powerful online tools,
giving users instant access to thousands of
publications. I would certainly recommend
ABI/INFORM as an essential resource as part of a
portfolio of resources, as it provides access to
many of the core titles within the field
ABI/INFORM is the first online resource Bradford
subscribed to, and it is well established at the
school and is a popular and essential
resource. Reshma Khan, Management Librarian,
School of Management, University of Bradford
My main area of interest is Operations Research.
The archive of material on ABI/INFORM is
fantastic, and I can find older articles on there
that I cant find anywhere else. Being able to
work on material from the past and present
concurrently saves me a great deal of
time. Searching is beautifully easy on this
database, and especially important for me is that
it has the most important journals in the area of
Operations Research and Management
Science. ABI/INFORM is certainly one of the
databases I would recommend and will continue to
use myself. Dolores Romero-Morales, University
Reader, Said Business School, Oxford
Customers agree

• ABI/INFORM sets the standard for
• Superior content
• Quality results
• Ease-of-use

ABI/INFORM has a reputation for quality
indexing, with over 35 searchable fields allowing
a high relevance ranking for every search. The
ProQuest interface is very easy to use and
intuitive. Any searcher can easily navigate the
database to produce meaningful results. A
tutorial, search guides, and help screens are
very well designed and informative. Summing up
highly recommended. All levels. L. Hickey, Sam
Houston State University
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Overview
ABI/INFORM serves the worlds top business
schools and universities
Financial Times MBA 2008 The top 100 full-time
global MBA programs

• 1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
• 3. Columbia Business School
• 4. Stanford University
• 5. Harvard Business School
• 7. MIT (Sloan)
• 8. IE Business School
• 9. University of Chicago
• CEIBS
• New York University (Stern)
• IMD
• Dartmouth College (Tuck)
• HEC Paris
• University of Oxford (Said)
• Indian School of Business

I consider ABI/INFORM the major business
periodical database in our library. Peggy
Shaw Director of Business Information
Resources Jones Graduate School of
Management Rice University
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Overview
ABI/INFORM is global and growing
Cologne
Mannheim University
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Agenda

• ABI/INFORM
• Overview - the business research gold standard
• ProQuest Indexing - better indexing means
  better results
• Research - world class content, excellence in
  journal quality
• Non-Periodicals - valuable cutting-edge
  business content
• Tools - reference linking, training, customer
  support
• Search Features - results that find you

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ProQuest Search Results
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ProQuest Indexing
New Controlled Vocabulary Terms for 2007-08
Behind the counter drugs
Web mashups
Opportunity Tax Act 2007-US
Sustainability management
Stock photography
Bootstrap finance
Complexity theory
Competent authority
Digital radio
Food prices
Ethical consumerism
Acidity
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Angel investors
Nonviolence
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Concept mapping
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Collaboration
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Economic substance doctrine
Neoliberalism
Carbon offsets
Sustainability reporting
Ethical consumerism
Small Business Work
100-200 terms added yearly ensure a
high-standard of indexing quality
Off highway vehicles
String theory
Auction rate securities
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Banking Finance Content spotlight

• ABI/INFORM editors recommended search topics
• Bailouts
• Bank Failures
• Banking Industry
• Credit ratings
• Credit risk
• Dow Jones averages
• Foreclosure
• Housing prices
• Recessions
• Regulation of financial institutions
• New term Credit default swaps

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Agenda

• ABI/INFORM
• Overview - the business research gold standard
• ProQuest Indexing - better indexing means
  better results
• Research - world class content, excellence in
  journal quality
• Non-Periodicals - valuable cutting-edge
  business content
• Search Features - results that find you

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World Class Content
ABI/INFORM delivers premier business research
results
Combining the leading business sources in Print
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World Class Content
ABI/INFORM delivers premier business research
results
With the foremost sources of online business news
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Unique Periodicals
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Harzing Rankings
58 of ABI/INFORM Global journals are
scholarly/peer-reviewed
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International content
Journal content is extracted from 38 countries
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Coming soon a few examples
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Growing Title Lists
ABI/INFORM content is continuously increasing
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New Content
121 Titles Added in 12 months

• Emerald 19 titles
• Cambridge University Press 30 (11 just added)
• Centaur 13 titles
• Dreamcatchers 11 titles, with Conference
  Proceedings
• ABA 4 titles added
• Via Media 2 titles
• Brookings 4 titles
• SSRN Working Papers added continuously
• New Rx 19 titles
• And more...

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Agenda

• ABI/INFORM
• Overview - the business research gold standard
• ProQuest Indexing - better indexing means
  better results
• Research - world class content, excellence in
  journal quality
• Non-Periodicals - valuable cutting-edge
  business content
• Search Features - results that find you

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Non-Periodical Content
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SSRN Working Papers
Social Sciences Research Network Tomorrows
Research Today

• Over 15,000 Working Papers
• Growing by 8,000 to 12,000 Annually
• Cutting edge research and thought
• Worldwide university participation

ProQuest is the only library vendor offering SSRN
Working Papers
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Dissertations
Full-Text Dissertations and Case Studies
Over 21,000 and growing

• The central source for doctoral dissertations and
  masters theses
• From over 1,000 colleges and universities
  worldwide from 1962 forward
• Click the "Dissertations" Tab on the ProQuest
  results page for easy access to this content
• Almost 2,000 full-text dissertations were added
  in 2007 and 1500 so far for 2008

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EIU ViewsWire Reports

• ProQuest is the preferred provider of EIU
  ViewsWire
• Nearly 195,000 reports - 12,000 as recent as
  2008 with business intelligence on 195 countries
• Analytical briefings
• Country Alerts - briefings on world-wide key
  market developments
• Country Views - assessments and forecasts of
  changing market conditions and the implications
  for business
• Country Background - facts and figures on the
  local market and regulatory environment

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EIU Viewswire Reports

• Global Analysis of
• Business regulations
• Corporate strategies
• Economic developments
• Financial markets
• Foreign investments
• Industrial trends
• Labor conditions
• Political changes
• Trade policies
• And more!

Data Population, GDP, Exchange Rate, Historical
Averages
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Business Cases

• Business Cases
• ABI/INFORM contains a growing collection of over
  400 full-text business cases found in
• International Journal of Case Research
• Idea Group (IGI) Collection (300)
• HEC Montreal Collection
• Over 5,500 AI business cases from leading
  collections
• Harvard Business Review
• Ivey
• Thunderbird
• Idea Group
• Darden
• Case Research Journal - NEW (North American Case
  Research Association)

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Market Research Reports

• ProQuest is indexing market research reports and
  articles, and continues to add more!
• 22,000 market research documents!
• Including SWOT Analyses, Company profiles and
  Industry overviews
• Just-Auto
• Just-Style
• Just-Drinks
• Just-Food
• More to come
• Marketing Research Reports are a top content area
  supporting all disciplines of business research
• These can replace otherwise expensive reports
  that cannot be previewed and need to be purchased
  on a case-by-case basis

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Annual reports

• Annual Reports
• More than 7,000 annual reports available from
  over 800 leading North American
  companies
• Cover a wide range of industries
• Available in ABI/Inform Complete only

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Reference Linking

• Reference Linking - Scholar Universe
• 125,000 Author Profiles provide key information
  about authors such as affiliation, research
  topics and contact information
• Look for the cap icon next to an author's name in
  ABI/INFORM in order to access an Author Profile
  page
• Profiles contain hard-to-find, vital information
  about the author
• Email Address, Titles, Web-sites, Research
  Interests
• Links to more articles found in ProQuest by the
  author
• Ability to search through community links to find
  related institutions and authors

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Author Profiles
Author Profiles in Scholar Universe Discipline-sp
ecific contact information keeps researchers
connected to scholars in their field
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Agenda

• ABI/INFORM
• Overview - the business research gold standard
• ProQuest Indexing - better indexing means
  better results
• Research - world class content, excellence in
  journal quality
• Non-Periodicals - valuable cutting-edge
  business content
• Search Features - results that find you

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ProQuest Interface

• ProQuest Smart Search
• Award-winning feature
• Email Alerting Service
• My Research
• ProQuest Search Widget
• Reference Linking demo available online
• Automatically formatted bibliographies
• RSS Feeds

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RSS Feeds

• Users can link to create RSS feeds for
• Any search string
• Any publication
• No need to create an account to set up

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RSS Feeds
All the information the user needs gets displayed
in a pop-up window
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Email Alerts
A pop up window appears Email Alerts can then be
set on a schedule, with a customized email
message.
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Summary
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Thank You. Any Questions?