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ProQuest ABI/INFORM For Business Information

Quick Reference Guide One of the world's first electronic databases, ABI/INFORM has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide.

Getting Started

Advanced Search

To work with the ABI/INFORM database, you may need to select it. If you do not see ABI/INFORM Archive Complete or ABI/INFORM Global after Databases Selected at the top of your page, follow these steps to select it: 1 From the main page of ProQuest, click Databases Selected.

You see the Databases page. 2 Check the box before ABI/INFORM. 3 Click Continue to begin searching

Basic Search

Advanced Search gives expert searchers access to reference tables for running highly focused searches. 1 Click Advanced Search. 2 Specify preferences for your search.

The Basic Search page lets you quickly and easily construct a search. You can enter terms on this page, or go to the Advanced search pages to create more powerful searches.

3 Use the various options to focus your search. Click the More Search

Options link to view other fields that let you focus your search. 4 Click Search.

1 Click Basic Search. 2 Enter search terms in the search field. 3 Use the various options to focus your search. Click the More

Search Options link to view other fields to focus your search. 4 Click Search.

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Boolean Operators ·Entering multiple terms can focus your search. You can use Boolean Operators to explain how those terms interact ("dog, and not cat", "Hillary appearing within two words of Clinton"). ProQuest supports:

Operators Rules and Examples

ProQuest® Smart Search Suggested Publications Next to the Suggested Topics you will see Suggested Publications. You can select a publication relevant to the terms you entered in the search field. When you click on a Publication name, you will be taken to the Publication Search page, where you can select an issue or search within the publication. Click Next and Prev to view more publications. Article links

AND

AND searches for the terms in the same paragraph (250 words). • environment AND cancer • Congress AND Iraq

The title of each article in your Search Results list is a link to the article. Click the title to read the article online. The article will appear in the best available format. ProQuest observes the following order to determine bestavailable format: Text+Graphics, Full Text, Page Image, Citation/Abstract.

AND NOT

AND NOT finds articles containing the term before AND NOT, but not the terms after AND NOT • Surfing AND NOT internet • Skiing AND NOT cross-country

Format icons

NOT W/#

Search words must be separated by at least # words to match. • computer NOT W/2 careers

OR

Either the search words before or after OR can appear in the article. • Gold OR Silver

PRE/#

The first search word must precede the second by # words to match. • U.S. PRE/20 Economic Policy

W/#

Searches for terms within the specified number of words from each other. • airport W/20 security • export W/50 Japan*

Next to each article in your list, you'll find icons representing the various formats available for reading the article using ProQuest. To read an article online in a specific format, click the icon corresponding to the format you want.

Article Display

Search Results

When you click on an article title, you see the Article Display page. On this page you can read the article you selected. Email Article Once you enter your search terms and click Search, you see the Search Results page. On this page you can browse through the articles that match your search, or click on a title to view an article. ProQuest® Smart Search Suggested Topics At the top of the Search Results page you will see Suggested Topics. These are alternate topics related to the search terms you have entered. Suggested Topics appear in order by relevance (best suggestions and matches first) and often contain pairs of index terms to help focus results. Click Next and Prev to view more terms. When you click on one of these topics, a new search is performed and you will see the Narrow your results by: options. Here, you can select to view Topics, Dates, or Publications. You can select from these options to narrow your search by adding these choices to your search using AND. As you add terms to narrow your search, you will notice a "bread crumb trail" below the ProQuest® Smart Search, showing each of the terms you added. Each term is a link, which you can use to step back in your search. If you add a term, and find it takes your search down the wrong path, you can easily backtrack by clicking on earlier terms.

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Click Email to email your article. Complete the email form, specifying the citation style, the format to use when sending the article (brief citation, citation and abstract, or full text), whether to send HTML or plain text , email address, a subject, and any comments. Then click Send Email. A note appears confirming that your email has been sent. Print Article To print an article, click Print. The article will open in a printer-friendly format, and the print dialog box will launch. Make sure you have your printer selected, and click Print in the print dialog box. Mark Article To save the article to your Marked List, check the Mark article box. Later you can access this article from your Marked List. Find Similar Articles Using More Like This If your article contains index terms or keywords, you can click the Show options for finding similar articles link in the orange More Like This section. Select one or more of these terms, then click Search to run a new search using those terms.

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Marked List

My Research Summary

Marked List lets you save articles and searches to use later. To view your Marked List, click Marked List.

The My Research Summary tab lets you save hypertext links to marked articles, recent searches and visited publications that you want to review later or share with friends and colleagues who have access to ProQuest.

Printing Your Bibliography To print a bibliography for the articles in your Marked List, delete any unwanted articles, then click the Print your Bibliography link. Select how you want your bibliography to print, and click Print. The bibliography will open in a printer-friendly format, and the print dialog box will launch. Make sure you have your printer selected, and click Print in the print dialog box. Saving or Exporting Your Bibliography To export an electronic version of your list for use in a bibliography, delete any unwanted articles. Then click the Export citations into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks or Reference Manager link. Click on the format you want to export.

Edit the Contents of My Research Summary You can change the information displayed and saved from My Research Summary by adding comments or explanations, and removing articles, searches, or groups. 1 Click the Edit the information below link.

You see the Edit Search Summary page. 2 Make any changes to your comments, labels, or the articles, searches,

and publications to include. 3 Click Update to save your changes.

Downloading My Research Summary

Emailing Articles or your Bibliography

1 Click the Download your research summary as a web page / HTML

To email articles from your list in a single batch including a bibliography, begin by deleting any unwanted articles from your marked list. Then click the Email marked articles link. Complete the email form, specifying the citation style, the format to use when sending the article (brief citation, citation and abstract, or full text), whether to send HTML or plain text , email address, a subject, and any comments. Then click Send Email. A note appears confirming that your email has been sent.

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Remove Articles To remove specific articles: Uncheck the box next to each article to remove from your Marked List, then click the Delete unmarked items link to refresh the page. To remove all articles on your list: Click the Clear all on page link to uncheck the boxes next to all articles. Then click the Delete unmarked items link to refresh the page. When you uncheck the box next to an article, it will be removed from your marked list if you click on any link or leave the page.

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file link. You will see a version of the My Research Summary page containing only the information below the navigation features of the ProQuest page, and your browser's Save As window. Enter a file name for your page. Make sure the format is set to Web Page (.htm or .html). Navigate to the location you want to save the page. Click Save.

Email My Research Summary 1 Click the Email your search summary as a web page / HTML file. link. You see the Email My Research Summary page. 2 Complete the email form, including your name, an email address, subject, and message. 3 Click Send Email. You will see a message confirming that your email has been sent.

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Topic Guide Search for a Topic with Look up Topics A-Z Follow these steps to locate a term with the Topic Guide using Look up Topics A-Z: 1 Enter a term and select Look up Topics A-Z, then click Find Term. 2 You see the nearest match (alphabetically) to your search terms. Do one

The ProQuest Topic Guide lets you find articles by searching an index, or by exploring a hierarchical subject directory. Indexed topics may include subjects, companies, people, and locations. · People lists famous or important people you're likely to want to include in your search. Names do not represent authors of articles contained in the ProQuest collections.

of the following: Scroll through the list to locate the term you want. Select a filtering tab (People, Locations, Companies, Subjects). Navigate to a different page using the Jump to, Next and Previous links. 3 Once you have narrowed the search, you will see additional filtering options. You can: • Scroll through the list to locate the term you want. • Select a filtering tab (People, Locations, Companies, Subjects, Dates, Publications). • Navigate to a different page using the Jump to, Next and Previous links. • Change the order the topics are sorted (Number of Results, Alphabetical Order). 4 Once you have found a term, click View Articles to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms. Browse the Subject Directory The Topic Tree makes finding articles easy. Just click the topics that interest you, exploring the list. When you've found what you're looking for, click View article. Follow these steps to run a search using Topic Tree:

· Locations lists geographical names, such as the names of cities, nations, landmarks, or regions.

1 Make sure you're on the Topic Guide page. Click Topic Guide on the

· Companies lists corporations, businesses, organizations, and other groups, such as performers.

2 Click browse the subject directory to view the topic tree.

· Subjects lists keywords. Subjects in our subject directory are based on terms found in the ProQuest thesaurus, which contains a set of specialized terms used to categorize information in ProQuest. You can quickly find topics by browsing the indexed topics, searching for a topic, or searching for a topic using ProQuest’s suggested topics. Search for a Topic with Suggest Topics Follow these steps to locate a term with the Topic Guide using Suggest Topics: 1 Enter a term and select Suggest Topics, then click Find Term. 2 ProQuest will suggest topics similar to the term you have entered.

For example, if you enter Math, ProQuest will suggest Mathematics education and Mathematics education AND Teaching. Scroll through the list to locate the term you want. 3 Once you have found a term, click View Articles to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms. Once you have narrowed the search, you will see additional filtering options. You can: • Scroll through the list to locate the term you want. • Select a filtering tab (People, Locations, Companies, Subjects, Dates, Publications). • Navigate to a different page using the Next and Previous links. • Change the order the topics are sorted (Number of Results, Alphabetical Order). • Jump to a specific letter or term alphabetically by entering a letter or term in the Jump to box and clicking Go. 4 Once you have found a term, click View Articles to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms.

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main menu. 3 Click the word that most closely resembles the subject you're interested

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in. A list of subtopics related to the subject you chose appears. Click the subtopic that matches the information you want most closely. A list of words further refining the subtopic appears. From that list, choose the word that most closely suggests the kind of information you're looking for. When you've reached the end of the list, and the topic you're searching can't be refined any further, View Articles appears next to each word in your list of final subject terms. Click View Articles next to the subject term that best represents the concept you're trying to find. ProQuest searches, and presents you with a list of articles matching that subject term.

Use Narrow Narrow lets you narrow your search by adding related terms. 1 Select a term you want to use for your search. 2 Click Narrow to narrow the search using related terms. 3 From the narrowed list, find a term you want to use and click View

Articles. For example, if you are looking for information about air bags in General Motors vehicles you would search for the subject Air Bags. Then, click Narrow to view only related index terms. In the narrowed list, you will see General Motors Corp. Click View Articles and ProQuest will display articles matching the focused search subject(air bags) AND company(general motors corp).

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Publication Search

Additional Support ProQuest ABI/INFORM provides you with several ways to get support. Help Click Help on any page to view the ProQuest Help system. Search Assistance: Search assistance is available Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Call 800-889-3358 for search assistance in the United States and Canada. Outside the United States and Canada, contact your local representative. Technical Support Technical support is available from 5:00 a.m. - 12:00 midnight ET, Monday through Friday, and 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 midnight ET, Saturday and Sunday. Voice

800-889-3358 (U.S. and Canada) +1-734-761-4700 ext. 2513 (outside U.S. and Canada)

Publication Search makes it easy to find the latest issue or a specific back issue of a favorite magazine, journal, or newspaper. 1 Click Publication Search.

Fax:

+1-734-662-4554

Email:

[email protected]

2 Type all or part of a title in the search field and click Search, click a

letter to view titles beginning with that letter, or click Show All Publications to view all titles. A list of titles appears. 3 Click the title of the publication you want to browse. A list of available issues appears. Below the title you see coverage dates and any embargo periods. 4 Click the issue you're interested in to review a complete list of articles available. Browsing EIU ViewsWire Reports ABI/INFORM users can browse through the complete set of EIU ViewsWire reports through the Publication Search page. Follow these steps: 1 Click Publication Search. 2 Enter EIU ViewsWire into the search field and click Search. 3 In the list of titles, click EIU ViewsWire.

By default, you will be browsing by Channel. You can also browse by Country, by Date, or view All A-Z. "Channels" and "Categories" are an EIU-specific way to organize their content. Here is an example of this structure, to help you understand: •

Politics [channel] o Background [category] o News analysis [category] o Outlook [category] o Political structure [category]

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