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Brief Description: Full text business accounting and economies journals, business dissertations, plus WSJ, Financial Times, and Massachusetts Newspapers.

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Leonard, D. (2007, February 19). Rockin along in the shadow of iTunes. Fortune,
     155 (3), 30-31. Retrieved July 15, 2007, from http://proquest.umi.com.

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Leonard, Devin. "Rockin along in the shadow of iTunes." Fortune 155.3 19 Feb
     2007: 30. ProQuest. ProQuest Information and Learning. Babson College Horn
     Lib., Babson Park, MA. 15 Jul 2007 <http://proquest.umi.com/>.

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Simply type in your keywords and search. To narrow your search, choose Subject from the drop down search options.

Click HELP, in the upper right, provides tips on searching, truncation, punctuation, a thesaurus, advanced techniques and more.

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** Use specific classification codes to narrow down your search by article type (case study, statistical, etc) or by a particular industry group or even by a particular management function. Click the Search Guide and then Classification Codes to browse the list.  NOTE: These codes are unique to ABI Inform; they are not SIC or NAICS industry codes, and will not bring up articles from ProQuest Research, Accounting & Tax or Wall Street Journal.

Mark the items you wish to print and click the PRINT/EMAIL/SAVE options at the top or bottom of the result list. You have many options, including to print/save/email the full text. The abstracts and full text articles can be printed, saved to disk, or emailed to you.

If you would like to have the page images in Adobe Acrobat PDF format as well, they will be emailed to you separately. You may want to view the full image articles individually and print or save them as you go along, instead of marking them.

Faxing
Some articles cannot be viewed online but an option for faxing may appear.

1. Change the fax number to your desired number. The default fax number is in the library.
2. Indicate your name and box number in the message box, so the fax can be routed to you.

Faxed articles may also be available at the Business Periodicals Global workstation in the library.

ABI/INFORM Global indexes and abstracts articles from nearly 1800 business journals. The global coverage and trade journals and subject indexing make it a key tool for business-related topics from company and industry studies to human resources, accounting, finance, operations and marketing issues. Coverage:

ABI/Inform Trade and Industry includes over 100 local business news publications.

Accounting & Tax Database indexes and abstracts 300 key global publications in accounting, auditing, and financial management. Also included are citations to relevant articles from over 800 newspapers, business journals, dissertations, and news magazines. Based, in part, on the Accountants' Index, used with the permission of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Coverage is 1990+.

ProQuest Newspapers provides full text articles for the editions of the Wall Street Journal (included in default ProQuest search):

Historical Newspapers (must be searched separately - choose Databases Selected...)
Full article & page images are searchable back to the first issue. Includes digital reproductions providing access to pages from every available issue.

Updated April 2, 2008
By Frances Nilsson