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Wilson Business Abstracts (WilsonBusiness)

Leading English-language business periodicals

Why select this database?

  • Provides complete and accurate indexing and abstracting of leading business magazines.
  • Offers 50-to-150-word abstracts written by subject experts for each article and gives citations (but not abstracts) for book reviews.
  • Include links to many full-text articles.
Database details
Subjects
accounting oil and gas
banking personnel
communications retail trade
economics small business
finance taxation
government regulations specific businesses
insurance specific industries
investments specific trades
marketing
Sources 871

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Number of records Over 1,900,000
Dates covered 1986 to present
Abstracts since 1990
Updated Weekly
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Copyright

Wilson Business Abstracts, Copyright the H.W. Wilson Company, indexing January, 1986, abstracts June, 1990. All rights reserved.

Except as otherwise provided by contract, the following are prohibited: copying the Database in machine-readable form, making multiple printouts and other uses of the Database inconsistent with the United States Copyright Law. The H.W. Wilson Company makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the database, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not be liable for consequential or incidental damages or lost profits or other claims related to the database or its use.

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Keyword kw: coffee and tea house+
[keyword searches the Abstract, Source Phrase, Subject, and Title indexes]
Abstract ab: coffee and starbucks
Accession number no: bwba97046349
Article type phrase at= book excerpt
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browse index for available article types]
Author au: o'hara
ohara
Author phrase au= walton sam
[last name first]
Corporate author phrase co= congress for librarians
Descriptor de: tea+ coffee+
Descriptor phrase de= coffee bars
Geographic coverage phrase gc= london england
Issue is: 3
Named company phrase nc= maxwell house coffee company
Named person phrase na= powell colin
[last name first]
Place of publication pl: singapore
Publication date pd: 98-jan
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Publisher pb: smithsonian
Record type phrase rt= book review
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Reviewed journal phrase rj= peer-reviewed journal
[not common in records prior to 1999]
SIC code si: 0119
Source so: beverage
Source phrase so= beverage world
Standard number sn: 0098-2318
Subject su: coffee and tea house+
Subject phrase su= coffee bars
Title ti: internet w3 froth
Title phrase ti= internet froth
Volume vo: 4
Year yr: 1993