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ABI/INFORM®
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Key Facts
Format: Abstract and index, Full Text, Full Image, Text+Graphics
Media: Electronic/Online
Coverage: 1923-present
Total Sources Covered: Varies
MARC Records: YES | Counter COMPLIANT: YES | ATHENS enabled: YES
Open URL enabled: YES | z39.50 enabled: YES

The Authority in Business Research Databases

Launched more than 40 years ago, ABI/INFORM remains the gold standard when it comes to business research databases. Its massive content set—which includes important full-text journals and much sought-after titles from the business press as well as key trade publications, dissertations, conference proceedings, and market reports—will help today's researchers resolve tomorrow's problems.

Combining the foremost business journals and the leading sources of online business news with exclusive, international and scholarly content, ABI/INFORM delivers a remarkable variety of content results to meet the needs of researchers at all levels:

  • Top Journals and Periodicals—MIT Sloan Management Review, American Economic Review, Accounting Review, Management Decision, Journal of International Business Studies, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Management and Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, and more
  • Major Publishers—Cambridge University Press, Emerald Group Publishing, Springer Science & Business Media, Palgrave Macmillan, American Economic Association, and more
  • Business periodicals normally behind paywalls—The Economist, Wall Street Journal*, Financial Times, and more
  • Market, industry, and economic data and reports—reports from Business Monitor International, Economist Intelligence Unit, ISI Emerging Markets, First Research, Oxford Economic Forecasting, Oxford Analytica, and more
  • Working Papers—over 100,000 working papers from SSRN, OECD, federal reserve banks, and more
  • Country Reports—over 190,000 reports from EIU ViewsWire, Oxford Analytica Country Profiles, and more
  • Dissertations—over 30,000 full-text doctoral dissertations from over 1,000 colleges and universities, with new dissertations added quarterly
  • Business Cases—thousands of business case documents from Ivey, Thunderbird, Darden, and more

Several editions of ABI/INFORM are available on our, award-winning platform, allowing cross searching with other ProQuest business resources as well as creation of RSS feeds, content alerts, Smart Search, article Linking, and much more.

ABI/INFORM Complete—This is the version with everything: more than 6,500 publications, almost 4,000 of which are available in ongoing full text. It includes all content found in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Research, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Archive.

ABI/INFORM Global—This version contains the core scholarly content, including: approximately 3,500 journals and tens of thousands of dissertations, conference proceedings, and working papers.

ABI/INFORM Dateline—This version contains regional news titles such as McClatchy business news, Expansion, and Cinco Dias.

ABI/INFORM Research—This is the smallest of the ABI/INFORM offerings and offers a mix of full-text and A&I publications.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry

 

 

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