The world's leading business and management journals database

Online access to over 4,975 business and management journals from around the world

ABI/INFORM® is the original aggregated business journals database and has been described as 'one of the longest-lived and most prominent online products that has shaped the information professionals world' by Online Magazine.

ABI/INFORM® provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive product information, and a wide variety of other business topics. Users get informative indexing and substantive abstracts to articles from leading business and management publications including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics and thousands more. ABI/INFORM provides fast, easy access to information on almost 200,000 companies, with coverage from at least 1992 forward and with backfile coverage to 1923.

Many business leaders recognise ABI/INFORM as the most comprehensive, well-written and informative abstracting database for information from business periodicals. Our editorial staff accurately identifies the main points of each article and describes it in ways that capture both the tone and the content using a controlled vocabulary of 30,000 natural language subject descriptors. ABI/INFORM is an indispensable reference resource in information centres around the world and has been for more than three decades.

Four editions of ABI/INFORM to match different research needs and budgets:

ABI/INFORM Complete is our premier business journals package and offers access to over 4,975 journals with over 3,840 of those available in full text.

ABI/INFORM Global covers more than 3,040 current sources, including full-text coverage of over 2,060 titles. Available on the Web only.

ABI/INFORM Research covers more than 1,810 current sources in the business and management arena including full-text coverage of more than 1,200 titles. Available on the Web only.

ABI/INFORM Select covers over 510 sources with coverage beginning in 1990, with nearly 400 full-text titles. Available on the Web only.

The gold standard for business information never stops growing

ABI/INFORM focuses on delivering high quality, scholarly titles and provides access to content from some of the most well-respected publishers of business journal material, such as:

• MIT Sloan Management Review
  
• Rand Journal of Economics
  
• European Management Review
  
• Springer-Verlag
  
  

In addition to our scholarly content, we have added non-periodical content to support study and research of business disciplines. Non-periodical content now available through ABI/INFORM includes:

• EIU ViewsWires
  
• ProQuest Business Dissertations
  
• Author Profiles from Scholar Universe
  
• Business Cases