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A valuable research tool for students, educators, and researchers who need answers from the history of business and industry, Business Periodicals Index Retrospective: 1913-1982, offers fast and versatile access to nearly 70 years of business scholarship.
From the history of telecommunications to the rise of the global automobile market, and the building of the international monetary system to the worldwide credit crunch, this is a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, marketing triumphs and failures, company profiles, iconic executives, and more. Bringing library patrons contemporaneous reaction to business trends and events, and forecasts from the best prognosticators and pundits of the time, this unique resource will serve students from a wide range of industries, as well as researchers in a wide range of disciplines.
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Business Periodicals Index Retrospective features
- Indexing of more than 1,000 periodicals—including scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines—with citations to more than 2,500,000 articles, including book reviews.
- The complete files of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), providing unique coverage of business during this period.
- Updated subject headings to make finding information on business developments easy.
- Reconciliation between original and updated subject headings for continuity of subject coverage across the decades; original subject headings are provided, for insight into the evolution of methods and technology.
- Standardization of personal and corporate names to ensure the easy retrieval of all records about an individual or company.
- WilsonLink SFX technology, providing seamless links to full text in your OpenURL compatible databases at no additional charge.
- Library holdings indicator, linked to your OPAC, letting patrons know if they will find cited issues on your shelves.
- Wilson quality indexing—by professionals with advanced degrees in business—ensures that patrons will be satisfied with their search results.
Combine with Wilson Business Full Text for almost a century of scholarly and general coverage of business and industrial matters and the fullest possible answers to your patrons’ queries.
Examples of reconciled headings
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Contemporary Heading |
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| Communication equipment industry |
Telecommunication equipment industry |
| Computer systems management |
Information systems/Management |
| Distilling industry |
Liquor industry |
| Educational broadcasting |
Public broadcasting |
| Electric apparatus and appliances,
Domestic |
Household appliances |
| Electrics tools, Portable |
Cordless power tools |
| Electronic data processing |
Information systems |
| Employment management |
Human resource management |
| Industrial management |
Management |
| Insurance, Social |
Social security |
| Laundries, Self service |
Laundromats |
| Laundry equipment, Domestic |
Washing machines |
| Motor truck freight service |
Trucking |
| Motor trucks, Industrial |
Forklift trucks |
| Moving picture machines |
Motion picture projectors |
| Munitions industry |
Defense industry |
| Natural gas exploration |
Oil and gas exploration |
| Non-wage payments |
Fringe benefits |
| Old age pensions |
Social security |
| Petroleum chemicals industry |
Petrochemical industry |
| Phonograph record industry |
Recording industry |
| Rapid transit |
Local transit |
| Service (in industry) |
Customer service |
| Television broadcasting/Conversation
programs |
Television programs/Talk shows |
Television broadcasting/
Physical culture
programs |
Television programs/
Physical fitness
programs |
| Television receiving apparatus |
Television receivers |
| Television, Community antenna |
Cable television |
| Trade unions |
Labor unions |
| Underdeveloped areas |
Developing countries |
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Wilson
Business
Full Text
This database presents comprehensive indexing, abstracts, and
the full text of articles, plus page images, from nearly 500
publications as far back as 1995, many of them
peer-reviewed.
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Wilson
Business
Abstracts®
This
database presents the same indexing and
abstracts for the same list of journals offered
in Wilson Business Full Text,
but without links to full text articles.
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Business Periodicals Index
This
database presents the same indexing offered
in Wilson Business Full Text,
but without the abstracts or the links to
full text articles.
"Remains
one of the best indexes of business
periodicals."
—American
Reference Books Annual
"The
first choice for a business index."
—Reference
Services Review
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