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General Business File lists citations and summaries of most articles
and the entire text of some articles in business, management, and
economic periodicals. It also provides access to broker research
reports. Types of periodicals included are:
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business and management
journals
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trade and industry
periodicals
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local area business
journals
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international economics
journals
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directory listings from
Ward's Business Directory and Graham & Whiteside World Company
Series
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PR Newswire
releases
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The Wall Street
Journal
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The New York Times
(business/finance section)
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The Asian Wall Street
Journal Weekly (business/finance section)
General Business File
covers items published from 1980 to the present. The Wall
Street Journal and The New York Times are indexed for the
current year only; The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly for the
current six months only.
You may access General
Business File from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.
How to Search General
Business File
To search for a subject:
Click in the search
box, type in a word or phrase describing your subject. You can limit
your search in various ways by using the boxes located below the
search box. Click the Search button.
To display results:
When your search succeeds, a list of
relevant subjects or
citations appears. To view the records associated with your subject, click
View
(some subjects may also have a Narrow by subdivision or See also
related subjects button). The matching records appear in
the citation format - title, author(s) and where the article is
published. Many of them will have abstracts or full text (i.e. the whole
article). You can see the abstract or the full text of a record by
clicking the link to Abstract
or Text. To return to the list of
citations, click Citations in the left column.
Library holdings:
A Library holdings link means that
Woodward Library owns some volumes of that publication (not necessarily
the volume that includes the article). To see which volumes Woodward
Library owns, click
Library holdings. Most of the items
listed in the databases that are owned by Woodward Library are located
on Level 1.
To Mark Items and Print:
Mark items that you want by clicking the
Mark box to the left of the citation. When ready to print the marked
items click View mark list in the left column. Click Print or
E-mail in the left column, then choose Reformat under Browser
Print. Once the list has been reformatted choose Print from the
gray print box that pops up.
To Mark Items and Download:
Mark the items you want
by clicking the Mark box to the left of the citation. When
ready to download the marked items click View mark list in
the left column. Click Print or E-mail in the left column,
then choose Reformat under Browser Print. Then insert a 3
1/2" disk in the computer's A: drive. Choose Save As from the
File menu, change the Save In: to 3 1/2" floppy (A:) and
change the Save as type: to text (*.txt). Type a name for
your file in File Name. Click Save.
To E-mail:
Mark the items you want
by clicking the Mark box to the left of the citation. When
ready to e-mail the marked items click View mark list in the
left column. Click Print or E-mail in the left column, and
type your full e-mail address in the E-mail Delivery box at the
bottom of the screen. Click Submit Request.
To perform another search or to go back:
To return to the search
screen, click Search in the left column. To return to the
list of citations, click Citations in the left column.
Advanced Search:
Advanced Search allows
you to restrict your search to one or more fields. To access, click
Advanced Search in the left column. Your previous search results
will carry over into Advanced Search. You may use them to construct
a new search without re-keying.
Example: You have
already done a search on acid rain. Access Advanced Search
and your search will display as
R1 su "acid rain"
You can type R1 in the
search box and combine it with other words or phrases to refine your
search: R1 AND New York. Then click the Search button.
To exit:
Click the Home button on the
browser.
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