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Database Description: Business & Industry is a multi-industry business database with a strong global focus on company, product and industry information. B&I provides precise and relevant indexing for access to business facts, figures and trends.
Business & Industry draws its content from more than 1,700 authoritative business publications, including premier trade and business journals, leading industry newsletters, plus a broad collection of regional, national and international newspapers. B&I covers all manufacturing and service industries. List of journals indexed. Business & Industry includes over 75 percent full-text coverage; the remaining records include informative abstracts which highlight the key information and facts discussed in the text.
OhioLINK ended its subscription to this database; the database was last updated in July 2006. Continue to search Business & Industry for publications through mid-2006; be sure to search Business Source Complete for the most current information.
PRODUCED BY: Thomson
Gale.
DATES COVERED: 1994-2006.
UPDATES: OhioLINK no longer subscribes to updates for this
database.
Fields in This Database
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .TI. | ARTICLE TITLE | (sun country airlines).ti. |
| .JN. | JOURNAL TITLE | (minority markets).jn. |
| .PUB. | PUBLISHER | optoelectronics and pennwell.pub. |
ARTICLE TITLE (.TI.): Title of article as published; may be in non-English language.
JOURNAL TITLE (.JN.): Title of journal, newspaper, etc. in which the article was published.
PUBLISHER (.PUB.): Publisher of the source document.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .SU. | SUBJECTS | (apparel and test marketing).su. |
| .MT. | ADVERTISING/MARKETING TERM | credit card and (direct mail).mt. |
| .PS. | CHARACTER NAME | jobs.ps. |
| .SUBC. | COMPANY NAME | mergers and sears.subc. |
| .CT. | CONCEPT TERM | TIVO and (product introduction).ct. |
| .SUBG. | GEOGRAPHIC NAME | banking and philippines.subg. |
| .IT. | INDUSTRY NAME | agriculture.it. and 2004 |
| .PC. | PRODUCT CODE (SIC) | 472400.pc. |
| .PND. | PRODUCT NAME | (travel agencies).pnd. |
SUBJECTS (.SU.) encompasses all kinds of subjects: concept terms, industry names, advertising/marketing terms, product codes, product names, character names, company names, and geographic names. For more precise results, you may search by one of the specialized subject types listed below.
ADVERTISING/MARKETING TERM (.MT.): Advertising or marketing concept covered in the article, from the list of marketing terms defined by the database producer.
CHARACTER NAME (P.S.): Person named in the article.
COMPANY NAME (.SUBC.): Name of company or other organization referenced in the article.
CONCEPT TERM (.CT.): Concepts covered in the article, from the list of business concept terms defined by the database producer.
GEOGRAPHIC NAME (.SUBG.): Geographic area referenced in the article.
INDUSTRY NAME (.IT.): Industry referenced in the article, from the list of industry names defined by the database producer.
PRODUCT CODE (.PC.): Six-digit code indicating product, industry, or subject area discussed in the article. These codes are based on the U.S. Department of Commerce Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), with two extra digits added by the database producer.
PRODUCT NAME (.PND.): Description of product, industry, or subject area, corresponding to the Product Code.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .TN. | TRADE NAME | pentium.tn. |
| .UN. | ULTIMATE COMPANY NAME | nabisco.un. |
TRADE NAME (.TN.): Brand name referenced in the article.
ULTIMATE COMPANY NAME (.UN.): To retrieve citations about all of a company's subsidiaries, use UN to search the company name.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AB. | ABSTRACT | (satellites and internet).ab. |
ABSTRACT (.AB.): Omit stopwords when searching words from an abstract.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .YR. | YEAR | recycling and 2003.yr. |
| .VO. | VOLUME | (modern plastics).jn. and 80.vo. |
| .IP. | ISSUE NUMBER | (modern brewery).jn. and 54.vo. and 47.ip. |
| .DATE. | FORMATTED DATE | (womens wear daily).jn. and 20030731.date. |
| .SD. | FREE-TEXT DATE | (womens wear daily).jn. and (July 31 2003).sd. |
YEAR (.YR.): Year of publication of the article.
VOLUME (.VO.): Volume of the journal in which the article appeared.
ISSUE NUMBER (.IP.): Number of the issue in which the article appeared.
FORMATTED DATE (.DATE.): Issue publication date in the format YYYYMMDD (year, month, day). For example, April 4, 1999 is 19990405. Substitute 00 for any missing element (e.g., August 1998 is 19980800).
FREE-TEXT DATE (.SD.): Issue date as it appears on the publication.
| LABEL | NAME | EXAMPLES |
| .AN. | B&I ACCESSION NUMBER | 02429223.an. |
| .AT. | ARTICLE TYPE | paragon and (company overview).at. |
| .CP. | COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION | pharmaceuticals and japan.cp. |
| .IS. | ISSN | latin america and 0026-0533.is. |
| .JT. | JOURNAL TYPE | goodyear and regional.jt. |
| .LA. | LANGUAGE | euro and french.la. |
| .RT. | RECORD TYPE | networking software and fulltext.rt. |
| .SF. | SPECIAL FEATURES | dairy and consumption and table.sf. |
| .US. | LIMIT USA | grapes and 1.us. |
ACCESSION NUMBER (.AN.): Record control number assigned by database producer; unique to each record in the database. Searching by AN is a method for returning directly to a record that you have retrieved previously.
ARTICLE TYPE (.AT.): A phrase describing special article types:
Column
Company Overview
Cover Story
Directory List
Editorial
Executive Overview
Geographic Profile
Industry Overview
Interview
News Brief
Overview/Profile
Ranking
Survey
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION (.CP.): Place of publication, or target zone, of the journal.
ISSN (.IS.): The International Standard Serial Number of the journal.
JOURNAL TYPE (.JT.): A phrase describing the source publication:
Journal
Business Newspaper
Custom Wire
National Newspaper
Newsletter
Newspaper
Regional Newspaper
LANGUAGE (.LA.): Primary language used within the journal.
RECORD TYPE (.RT.): Type of text in the record:
Abstract
Fulltext
SPECIAL FEATURES (.SF.): Special content within the article, such as "table."
LIMIT USA (.US.): To limit a search to articles referring to the United States, include "1.us.".
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