Description: A premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains content from thousands of journals that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide.

The database is known for the high quality of its indexing and abstracting, which have set information industry standards. For each article, the abstract may be as long as 150 words, and about 20 elements are indexed, including not only bibliographic information but also subjects companies, people, and geographic areas.

Skilled indexers apply descriptors from both a controlled vocabulary of more than 8,000 natural language subject terms and a numeric classification system that categorizes articles by business topics. The indexing gives researchers precise searching and relevant hits. The abstracts make it easy to determine which articles will meet the information seeker's needs.

Overall, ABI/INFORM contains information on more than 60,000 companies as well as executive profiles, reports on market conditions, and in-depth case studies of global business trends. More than 350 of the database's sources are English-language titles published outside the U.S.