It covers the last three years of reporting and includes abstracts for some articles. An index to nearly 350 journals in business and economics. Types of journals include general business magazines, financial publications, practitioner journals for disciplines like accounting and personnel management. Indexing focuses on industries, companies, current business news, major economic events, public policy concerns, and management practice. The paper index comes in two sections, one arranged by product in SIC code order, the other by company name.
References are to articles in trade journals and other standard business journals.
Information is likely to include basic economic statistics as well as information about company mergers, sales, advertising and marketing. The electronic version found on-line in Dialog files 18 and 98 begins in 1972 and also covers worldwide company, product and industry information. This on-line file indexes and abstracts the contents of advertising and consumer journals and newsletters, and provides the full text for selected articles. It is an excellent source for information about new products as they are introduced to the market and for evaluations of existing products or services.