summarizes the major points of a published article along with bibliographic information. One of the DIALOG databases, ABI/INFORM, abstracts significant articles in more than 1,000 current business and...

summarizes the major points of a published article along with bibliographic information. One of the DIALOG databases, ABI/INFORM, abstracts significant articles in more than 1,000 current business and management journals. Many computerized archives provide full-text downloads of published articles about companies and various research topics. Exhibit 2.3 on the next page illustrates the services provided by two popular vendors of information services that electronically index numerous databases. For a more extensive listing, see the Gale Directory of Databases. 9 Several types of databases from outside