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- Factiva This link opens in a new windowLimited to 5 concurrent users.
Provides worldwide full-text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data. - FitchConnect This link opens in a new windowFitchConnect integrates country risk, analysis of financial markets, and industry research, providing users with a variety of company and industry information including credit research, credit ratings, macroeconomic and financial fundamental data, Financial Implied Ratings, and a curated news service.
- ABI/Inform Complete This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowFull-text business publications and hundreds of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals covering all aspects of business. Coverage goes as far back as 1886. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, case studies, investment research reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analysis, books, videos, major reference works, book digests, and conference proceedings.
- Company Dossier (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new windowLexisNexis Company Dossier covers more than 35 million global companies, both public and private. Under Reference link, information comes from Hoover's, Disclosure, Datamonitor, Extel, Vickers, and SGA Executive Tracker.
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Boolean always use capitals:
AND - Ukraine AND ports
OR- port OR harbor
Truncation- Not needed with our search engine because it automatically returns all the words with the same root and spelling variants.
NEAR- Ukraine NEAR/5 ports
Note: Unfortunately, Proximity search NEAR cannot be used in the same search as Boolean operators AND, OR, and AND NOT.
Proximity
N/# leader* N/5 wom?n Leader(truncated) NEAR 5 words of women or woman
P/# general p/2 dunwoody General 2 words BEFORE dunwoody, so you would get General Dunwoody or General Ann Dunwoody
Proximity
N# leader* N5 wom?n Leader(truncated) NEAR 5 words of women or woman
W# general W2 dunwoody General 2 words BEFORE dunwoody, in the order which you entered then
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near# – leader* near3 wom?n Leader(truncated) NEAR 3 words of women or woman (in any order)
w/# - President w/3 Biden president within 3 words of Biden (President has to be before Biden)
Proximity
ADJ# leader* ADJ5 (female or women or woman) Leader(truncated) NEAR 5 words of female or women or woman
Proximity
w/# leader! w/5 wom?n Leader(truncated) within 5 words of women or woman
P/# general p/2 dunwoody General 2 words BEFORE dunwoody, so you would get General Dunwoody or General Ann Dunwoody
Recommended Reading
- Economist.com This link opens in a new windowArticles from the print and online editions of The Economist, the world's weekly newspaper. With searchable archives back to the mid-1990s. (Use the Economist Historical Archive for older issues.) Access excludes apps, audio edition, or specialized newsletters.
- New York Times This link opens in a new windowCoverage of the U.S. paper of record. Covers national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions and presidential press conference transcripts.
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowEastern edition; New York. The Wall Street Journal is the financial newspaper of record. It offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. Updated daily.
- New York Times (Historical) This link opens in a new windowComplete, full-text archive of the New York Times, from its first issue on September 18, 1851, through 2009. NOTE: The newspaper was titled the New York Daily Times from 1851 to 1857. In 1857, its name was changed to the New York Times.
