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The Featured File for the Month is The Economist, a comprehensive business source that comes in many flavors on Dialog and Proquest. This overview will give you a peek into these various databases on legacy Dialog, ProQuest Dialog and ProQuest. Most important is what The Economist contains and how it can help you in your research. You will also see typical records illustrating samples of the content and where you can find them across the ProQuest family of brands.
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The Economist database is produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), along with a number of other complementary databases that we'll talk about a bit later. It contains complete text with global content from more than 200 countries. It is updated weekly.
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The Economist comes in all flavors. Gale Group PROMT in ProQuest Dialog offers The Economist US. On legacy Dialog you can search File 622, The Economist database. ABI/INFORM (File 15 on legacy Dialog) also contains this source. ProQuest offers The Economist in Professional ABI/INFORM Complete, as well as its standalone subfiles, including ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline and Trade and Industry.
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The Economist database provides many of the articles that senior management from all types of businesses need to succeed in today's quickly changing marketplace into a single searchable database. It covers world politics, business, finance, science and technology, culture, economics and the arts.
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This source contains complete text articles with sections each week including The world this week, Leaders, Business this week, Finance and economics, Science and technology with a quarterly newsletter.
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The Economist covers more than 200 countries.
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Searching The Economist ensures you get a fully-rounded view of the prospects for a country as a business and investment destination. It is the quickest and most cost-effective way for you to have access to a broad range of economic, political and business information for a country. In addition, you can find regulations in different countries, how to organize investments in different countries, discover market opportunities and much more.
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Here are some records from The Economist. The short format on the left is from a record in Gale Group PROMT in ProQuest Dialog. It gives the title and indexing details including the publication title. If we click the full text link we will see the entire article. On the right are several titles from File 622, the Economist, in legacy Dialog. We'll click the link to see the full text.
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This is the full text of the record. It gives the title, publication name and publication date, and the full text. At the end of the full text are indexing details. Note that subject terms provide possible search terms for additional searches. Notice above the list of results you can print, save, email a record or save it to My Research, your personal workspace in ProQuest Dialog.
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Try some of the other EIU databases on legacy Dialog. They include Country analysis with reports contains background on operating in more than 200 countries; Country Risk and Forecasts, with insightful analysis of economic creditworthiness of over 100 countries, Market Research reports focusing on European and Asian markets and ViewsWire with daily news and analysis on developments in over 200 countries.
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This completes our overview of The Economist. We know you will find this comprehensive database helpful in all business searches you conduct. Make it a priority to use when you need authoritative information.
Be sure to visit www.dialog.com/proquestdialog, where you will find additional training and support and valuable information on getting the most out of ProQuest Dialog.
