1. ABI/INFORM Collection
World Edition
January, 2019

2. Session Objectives At the end of the session, you will be able to
Assess the value of the ABI Inform’s Collection contents
Differentiate between Search and Proximity Search to find content in a particular industry
Construct a search using classification codes for more relevant results
Learn to use Publication Search to find results within a specific title
These are specific objectives for this session about ABI Trade & Industry

3. What is ABI/INFORM Collection?
Dateline
Global
Trade & Industry
ABI/INFORM Collection includes all content found in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry.  The content in these 3 separate databases is cross searchable on ABI/INFORM Collection.

4. Why search ABI/INFORM Collection?
Scholarly Journals and Dissertations
Key Market Research Reports
Major Magazines, Newspapers, and Trade Journals
Blog, podcasts & Websites
Dissertations & Theses
Magazines
Newspapers
Reports
Scholarly Journals
Trade Journals
Wire Feeds
Other sources
1) ABI/INFORM Collection includes a very large number of full-text scholarly journals and dissertations to support the academic research in the discipline. Key ongoing full-text journals include titles like Journal of Business Ethics, American Economic Review, MIT Sloan Mangement Review.
2) It also covers key market research reports, such as those published by Economist Intelligence Unit, Dun & Bradstreet and Business Monitor International. Major business magazines and trade journals like Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC and Reed Business Information Limited are also included
3) ABI/INFORM Collection also contatins prominent periodicals like Wall Street Joruanl, The Economist and Financial Times, which can be used beyond the field of research, but in various learning situations.
4) Indexed information by industry filters and topics allows specialized search for the contents of a specific industry

5. Searching ABI/INFORM Collection
3 examples to illustrate the focus explained at the beginning

6. Objective: Assess the value of the ABI Inform’s Collection contents
Firstly, let’s do a simple search. Suppose you are interested in how marketing is done in insurance industry. Simply enter the keywords into the search box.
Tips:
Use quotation marks (“”) to search for exact phrases.
Two word queries such as advertising campaigns are searched as an implicit AND
Suppose you’re a student in marketing. And you’d like to know how marketing is evolving in the insurance industry because you’re thinking of working in the industry. How can we find the contents in ABI/INFORM Collection?
Type marketing “insurance industry” into the search box.
« Search Tips » helps you to create your search. Use quotes for exact phrase search.

7. Objective: Assess the value of the ABI Inform’s Collection contents
Narrow down the search results with the filters on your left.
Use the Source type filter to display a particular type of contents.
In this exercise, we look at Dissertations & Theses and Reports.

8. Objective: Assess the value of the ABI Inform’s Collection contents.
This is a sample of dissertation content.
Some dissertations have references data
Save as PDF
Discover the Related Items

9. Objective: Assess the value of the ABI Inform’s Collection contents.
This is a sample of Reports. User the Document type filter to narrow down the results further to industry Reports.
These report have some specialized analyses and data created by (non-academic) industry experts.

10. Objective: Differentiate between Search and Proximity Search to find content in a particular industry.
Tips:
Use NEAR + / + # of Words to conduct a proximity search.
With the operator NEAR, you can find documents that contain the both keywords within the proximity of a certain number of words. Type marketing NEAR/5 “insurance industry” into the search box. The search result this time is much lower than the previous one, which was a simple AND search.
« Search Tips » helps you to create your search. Use NEAR + / + # of Words or PRE for proximity search.

11. Objective: Construct a search using classification codes for more relevant results
Open Advanced Search to use Classification code
Click Look up Classification codes to find the industry of your interest, or other business-related search categories

12. Objective: Construct a search using classification codes for more relevant results
You can find the industry filter either by search with the industry keyword or using the trees below
Search with aircraft
Select Aircraft Manufacturing from the result and click Add to search

13. Use local language according with the local publication
Objective: Learn to use Publication Search to find results within a specific title
Open the Publications tab and find the report
Let us look for Journal of Financial Services Marketing as an example
Please note the drop down next to search box alllows you to change the seach fields available other than in title
You can limit publication date

14. Use local language according with the local publication
Objective: Learn to use Publication Search to find results within a specific title
Enter keywords into the search box under Search within this publication.
You can enter the publication code of the title into the Advanced Search interface by clicking Advanced Search.
You can browse specific issues of the title from the trees below.
You can limit publication date

15. Support

16. Resources to Learn More
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17. Demonstration

18. Q & A Information goes here.