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: Cengage Gale's Powerful Search Features
Using Cengage Gale's Powerful Search Features to Zero in on Key Facts
Cengage Gale's rich indexing and enhanced titles enable searchers to easily zero in on key facts and information. The search tips below will illustrate these features using two of Gale's popular databases on Dialog:
- Business & Industry™ (B&I™) (File 9) contains fulltext and abstracts featuring facts,
figures, and key events related to public and private companies,
industries, markets, and products for all manufacturing and
service industries at an international level.
- TableBase™ (File 93) contains numerical tabular information (and the originating textual article when available) dealing with companies, products, industries, brands, markets, demographics, and countries from around the world. Every table is enhanced with an informative table title and indexing for easy retrieval. Indexing is drawn from File 9.
You can use Cengage Gale databases to quickly and efficiently search for facts (like market shares, market sizes, sales, forecasts, or R&D expenditures) or events (like mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, product introductions, marketing campaigns, or corporate strategies).
Cengage Gale's unique indexing features, like DOCUMENT TYPES, are powerful analytical tools. For example, DT=RANKING quickly retrieves records that include ranked lists of all kinds. Rankings can include lists (e.g., Top 10, Top 100) of companies, products, or brands based on sales, revenue market share, or other measures. Or DT=INDUSTRY OVERVIEW retrieves records that have multiple statistics and tables.
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Examples Using Business & Industry™ (File 9)
Do you need fast access to an industry overview of the Internet?
?begin 9
File 9:Business & Industry(R) Jul/1994-2001/Aug 07
Set Items Description
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?select dt=industry overview and internet and py=2001
17710 DT=INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
209433 INTERNET
174458 PY=2001
S1 495 DT=INDUSTRY OVERVIEW AND INTERNET
AND PY=2001
?limit1/usa
S2 300 1/USA
?t 2/5/1 <--Format 5 = Full Record except Long Text
2/5/1
DIALOG(R)File 9:Business & Industry(R)
03200881 (USE FORMAT 7 OR 9 FOR FULLTEXT)
Online Insurance Distribution Develops
into Three Models <--Notice the value of the enhanced
 title in parantheses below
compared to this actual title
(In insurance distribution, three Web models will
be most effective for upper end of small office/home
office market)
Small Business Banker, v 2, n 8, p 11
August 2001
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal; Industry Overview (United States)
LANGUAGE: English RECORD TYPE: Fulltext
WORD COUNT: 441
TEXT:
SBB
The insurance industry, slower than brokerages
and banks to adopt the web, is responding to the
Internet with three distribution models for small
businesses, a new report concludes. The models the
following groups: traditional agencies with online
sites, fall into nationwide carriers with online
sites, and a hybrid model combining aspects of
both.
.
.
.
INDUSTRY NAMES: Insurance
PRODUCT NAMES: Insurance carriers (630000);
Insurance agents, brokers, and services (640000)
CONCEPT TERMS: All company; All market information;
E-Commerce; Market size; Trends
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: North America (NOAX); United
States (USA) |
Do you need to find top R&D spenders in the chemical industry?
?SELECT CT=R&D EXPENDITURES AND DT=RANKING AND
CHEMICAL/DE
11731 CT=R&D EXPENDITURES
30128 DT=RANKING
100606 CHEMICAL/DE
S1 48 CT=R&D EXPENDITURES AND DT=RANKING
AND CHEMICAL/DE
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes, plus DE,
can be ranked. DE includes Concept Terms, Marketing Terms, and
Industry Names
?LIMIT1/USA
S2 37 1/USA
?TYPE 2/2/1-2 <--Format 2 = Bibliographic Citation, Enhanced
Title, Word Count, and Indexing
2/2/1
DIALOG(R)File 9:Business & Industry(R)
03054739 (USE FORMAT 7 OR 9 FOR FULLTEXT)
Amid Economic Slowdown R&D Growth Continues: Part 1
of 2 (In 2001, total research and development (R&D)
spending by US industry, government and academic
organizations will total just over $277.5 bil, up
almost 5.1% from 2000; the top R&D spender
in 2001 will be Ford Motor, spending $7.421 bi on R&D)
R&D Magazine, v 43, n 1, p S3+
January 2001
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal; Ranking; Survey ISSN: 0746-9179
(United States)
LANGUAGE: English RECORD TYPE: Fulltext
WORD COUNT: 2255
SPECIAL FEATURES: Table
INDUSTRY NAMES: Aerospace & defense; Automotive;
Business Chemical; Computer; Electronic
components; Pharmaceutical; services; Semiconductors;
Software; Telecom equipment; Telecommunications;
Textiles
PRODUCT NAMES: Textile mill products (220000);
Chemicals and allied products (280000);
Pharmaceutical preparations (283400); Cleaning
preparations and toiletries (284000); Computers
(357100); Communications equipment (366000); Data
communications equipment (366150); Semiconductors
and related devices (367400);Passenger cars
(371100); Aircraft engines and engine parts
(372400); Prepackaged software (737200);
Colleges (except junior) and Research,
development, and testing services (873000);
Administration of universities (822144);
educational programs (941000); Administration
of public health programs (943000); Air and
water resource and solid waste management
(951100); Regulation and administration of
transportation programs (962000); Regulation
and administration of communications, electric,
gas and other utilities (963000); Regulation
of agricultural marketing and commodities
(964000); Regulation, licensing, and inspection
of miscellaneous commercial sectors (965000);
Space research and technology (966000);
National security (971000); Government
(981400); Conglomerates and companies with
unknown product codes (990000)
CONCEPT TERMS: All government; All market
information; All product and service
information; Government budget; R&D
expenditures; Trends
MARKETING TERMS: All research; Public opinion
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: North America (NOAX); United
States (USA) |
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Example Using TableBase (File 93)
Do you need to find the top players in the global drug market?
?SELECT GLOBAL/TI AND PHARMACEUTICAL/DE AND
(RANKING/DE OR FORCASTS/DE)
9151 GLOBAL/TI
4523 PHARMACEUTICAL/DE
26819 RANKING/DE
0 FORCASTS/DE
S1 734 GLOBAL/TI AND PHARMACEUTICAL/DE
AND (RANKING/DE OR FORCASTS/DE)
?TYPE 1/6/1-2 <--Format 6 = Table Title, Source, and
Publication Date. This is a free format
offering valuable information.
1/6/1
01064206 SUPPLIER NUMBER: 02974634
Global top 76 publicly-held drug delivery companies
ranked by number of employees in 2000, with percent
change from 1999
PUB. DATE: June 2001 <--Note that the word "global" is
always used in the table title.
1/6/2
01064205 SUPPLIER NUMBER: 02974633
Global top 76 publicly-held drug delivery companies
ranked byresearch and development expenditures in
dollars for 2000, with percent change from 1999
PUB. DATE: June 2001
?TYPE 1/5/1
1/5/1
DIALOG(R)File 93:TableBase(R) Sep
(c) 2001 Resp. DB Svcs. All rts. reserv.
01064206 SUPPLIER NUMBER: 02974634
Global top 76 publicly-held drug delivery companies
ranked by number of employees in 2000, with percent
change from 1999
PUBLIC DRUG-DELIVERY COMPANIES BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
% Change
Employees from
Rank Company in 2000 1999
1 Elan 4,000 51.2%
2 Alza 2,442 24.9
3 Biovail 1,200 70.7
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ORIGINATING ARTICLE:
Big pharma delivers: Part 3 of 3
(Drug delivery companies ranked by research and
development expenditures and by number of
employees in 2000)
JOURNAL: Med Ad News, v 20, n 6, p 68
PUB. DATE: June 2001
DOCUMENT TYPE: Journal; Ranking ISSN: 0745-0907
(United States)
LANGUAGE: English RECORD TYPE: Fulltext
WORD COUNT: 746
PUBLISHER: Engel Publishing Partners
RELATED RECORDS: 02974633
COMPANY NAMES: ALKERMES INC; ALZA CORP; ANDRX
CORP; ARADIGM CORP; BESPAK PLC; BIOGLAN PHARMA
PLC; BIOVAIL CORP INTERNATIONAL; ELAN CORP PLC;
EURAND (WARBURG (EM) PINCUS & CO INC);
GUILFORD PHARMACEUTICALS INC; INHALE THERAPEUTIC
SYSTEMS; KOS PHARMACEUTICALS INC; KV
PHARMACEUTICAL CO; MERIDIAN MEDICAL;
TECHNOLOGIES INC; SKYEPHARMA PLC
INDUSTRY NAMES: Pharmaceutical
PRODUCT NAMES: Drug delivery systems (283402)
CONCEPT TERMS: Ranking; All company; Labor
relations
DATA TYPE: Business
GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: World (WOR) |
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