Regional Business News
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About the Database

Regional Business News
Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

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Searching Tips

There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link search terms together; and/or limit the search to a specific title.

Boolean Operators

Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words together. These operators will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly.

USING THE "AND" OPERATOR: If you have a search term that is too general, you can append several terms together using "AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation, full display or full text.

• For example, type sleep AND walking to find results that refer to both sleep and walking.

USING THE "OR" OPERATOR: In order to broaden a search, you can link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using "OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched simultaneously and independently of each other.

• As an example, search sleep AND walking OR waking to find results that reference the terms "sleep" and "walking", or the term "waking".

USING THE "NOT" OPERATOR: In order to narrow a search, you can link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as part of your search.

Grouping Terms Together Using Parentheses

Parentheses also may be used to control a search query. Without parentheses, a search is executed from left to right. Words that you enclose in parentheses are searched first. Why is this important? Parentheses allow you to control and define the way the search will be executed. The left phrase in parentheses is searched first; then based upon those results the second phrase in parentheses is searched.

Generalized Search: dog or cat and show or parade
Focused Search:(dog or cat) and (show or parade)

In the first example, the search will retrieve everything on dog or cat shows AS WELL AS everything on parades whether or not the articles refer to dogs or cats.

In the second example, we have used the parentheses to control our query to only find articles about shows or parades that reference dogs or cats.

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Searchable Fields

The default fields for unqualified searches consist of the following: all authors, all subjects, all keywords, all title info (including source title) and all abstracts.

The following list will help you locate detailed information referenced in this database as a field.

Searchable tag   Description                                Example
  
AB              Abstract or Author Supplied Abstract        AB Jupiter
                [Word Indexed]
                Performs a keyword search of the
                abstract summaries.
  
AN              Accession Number                            AN 11543097
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for an article's
                identification (accession) number.
  
AR              Author Phrase                               AR Abelson, Ben
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for an article's
                author, in the format of last name, first
                name, and middle initial if available.
  
AU              Author(s) last name followed by             AU Jefferson
                 his/her first name and a middle
                 initial if available
 
CS              Cover Story                                 CS Y
                [Word Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for the value
                "Y" indicating that the article is a
                cover story.
  
DE              Subjects Authority                          DE "Insurance Policies"
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for subject
                headings and author-supplied keywords
                describing an article.
  
DT              Date of Publication                         DT 20020301
                [Date Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for articles
                published on a specific date, in the
                format of CCYYMMDD.
  
FM              Images Available                            FM P
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for an article's
                type of full text. The searchable values
                are "T," "C," or "P."  "T" indicates HTML
                full text; "C" indicates images embedded
                in the full text; and "P" indicates a
                PDF document.
  
FT              Full Text Available                         FT Y
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for the value
                "Y" indicating that a record has full
                text available.
  
IL              Illustrations                               IL Y
                [Word Indexed]
                Performs a keyword search for articles
                containing illustrations. Values to be
                searched include "Y" indicating the
                article contains illustrations, and
                types of illustrations such as graphs,
                charts, diagrams, etc. 
  
IP              Issue                                       IP 3
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for a
                publication's issue number.
  
IS              International Standard Serial               IS 10482245
                 Number (ISSN)
  
JN              Journal Name                                JN Sarasota Magazine 
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs am exact search for the
                journal title in which an article
                was published.
  
MH              Subjects                                    MH Genomics
                [Word Indexed]
                Performs a keyword search of
                a document's geographic subject
                terms, keywords in an article, and
                generic subject headings.
  
PG              Number of Pages                             PG 19
                [Number Indexed]
                Performs an exact numeric search for
                an article's page length.
  
PT              Publication & Document Type                 PT Periodical
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for the type
                of publication or type of article.
  
PZ              Document Type                               PZ Abstract
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search of the document
                type. This tag is also used by the Document
                Type list button limiter.
  
SU              Searches the subject heading that           SU Wall Street
                 each article is given
 
SO              The source in which the given               SO Hawaii Business  
                 article was published
  
SP              Start Page                                  SP 61
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for an article's
                start page.
  
TI              Searches the title of the article           TI education
                 or a descriptive phrase if the
                 article is dated before Nov 87
  
UI              Unique Identifier                           UI 11844730
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for an article's
                identification (accession) number.
  
VI              Volume                                      VI 3
                [Phrase Indexed]
                Performs an exact search for a
                publication's volume number.
  

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Definition of Fields

The following table explains the contents of each field in a Regional Business News record's detailed display.

Field name          Description
 
Title               Title of the article
  
Alternate Title     Non-English title of the article.
  
Language            Language in which the article was published.
  
Author(s)           Author(s) name in last name, first name format.
  
Source              The source in which the article was published, its
                     volume number, the number of pages in the article,
                     and a description and number of illustrations found
                     in this article
  
Document Type       Displays document type information specific 
                     to the record
  
Subject             This specific article’s subject heading describing
                     the record's content
  
Geographic Terms    The specific article's geographic subject headings describing
                     the record's content
  
Abstract            A brief summary taken from the article itself
  
Country of          The country in which an article was originally published.
Publication
  
Committee Name      The government department or committee referenced in the document.
  
Region/Area         The region or area referenced in the document.
  
Guest               Guests referenced in the article
  
Full Text           The word count of the article's full text.
Word Count
  
ISBN                International Standard Book Number.
  
ISSN                International Standard Serial Number
  

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Publications Authority File

The Publication authority file is a list of the publications from the Regional Business News database. The Publication authority file is drawn from the publications listed in each record; therefore, all terms will provide links to pertinent records. You can browse this list alphabetically, or as Relevancy Ranked (keyword search).

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Copyright and Restrictions of Use

The Regional Business News database is made up of indexing, abstracts, and full text. The copyright of the abstracts and indexing is owned by EBSCO Publishing. This database is intended solely for the use of the individual patron of the licensing party.

Copyright of the full text is the property of the publisher of the original publication. Text may not be copied without express written permission except for the print or download capabilities of the retrieval software used to access it. This text is intended solely for the use of the individual user.

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