Business Periodicals Index Retrospective

Illustration from:
Art Museum Image Gallery

This is 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 searchable indexing of the most important scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines, 1913 through 1982.

From the history of telecommunications, to the rise of the global automobile market; from the building of the international monetary system, to the death of the international gold standard, this is a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, marketing triumphs and failures, company profiles, iconic executives, and much more. Including contemporaneous reaction to business trends and events, and forecasts from the best prognosticators of the time, this unique tool will serve students of a wide range of industries, as well as researchers in a wide range of disciplines.

Indexing of more than 1,000 periodicals, with citations to over 2.5 million articles, including book reviews.
Contains the complete files of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957) providing unique coverage of business through 1957.
Updated subject headings make finding information on business developments easy.
Original subject headings are provided, for insight into the evolution of methods and technology.
Personal and corporate names used as subject headings are standardized, to ensure retrieval of all records about an individual or a company.
WilsonLink SFX-powered technology links to full text in your OpenURL compatible databases.
Library holdings indicator, linked to your OPAC, lets users know if they will find cited issues on your shelves.
Wilson quality indexing—by professionals with advanced degrees in business—guarantees satisfaction.

Covers these subjects and more
Accounting • Acquisitions & Mergers • Advertising • Banking • Building & Construction • Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Computers • Cosmetics Industry • Economics • Electronics • Entertainment Industry • Finance • Financial Services • Government Regulations • Health Care • High Technology • Hospitality & Tourism • Human Resources • Industrial Relations • Insurance • International Business • Investments • Management • Marketing • Mass Media • Occupational Health & Safety • Oil & Gas • Paper & Pulp Industries • Public Utilities • Publishing • Purchasing • Real Estate • Retail Trade • Small Business • Taxation • Technology • Transportation

Updated Plus Original Subject Headings—All Searchable

Historical Heading

Contemporary Heading

Aeronautics

Aviation

Atomic power

Nuclear energy

Business consolidation

Corporate acquisitions and mergers

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

Magnetic recorders and recording

Tape recorders

Women as purchasers

Women as consumers

And many more . . .

Also Available

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.

Updated daily on WilsonWeb.

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.

Updated daily on WilsonWeb.

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.