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Database Summary
Wall Street Journal Online
The Wall Street Journal primarily covers US and International business, industry and financial
news as well as law, media & marketing, politics and the latest managerial trends.
Details
Content focuses on corporate news, politics and economics; Also available is indepth and
comprehensive coverage for:
• Markets: This covers recent headline news reports and articles on hedge funds, capital
markets, commodities, technology stocks, American, Asian & European Markets and market
movers.
• News by Industry: Via this link search for industry news reports.
• Media & Marketing: This area of the online journal covers news reports and articles on
media, marketing & strategy and entertainment.
Strengths
• Scoops and updated news all day, every day.
• Tracking of key industries
• Via the link to: ‘Today’s Newspaper’ refined and specific searches can be run for news reports
or articles on individual executives, businesses or for regional news reports.
Weakness
• Coverage is restricted to the last 90 days; no access to archive material beyond this period.
• Very much focused on the United States.
Alternatives
• Dialog Newsroom: For full text articles and news reports from over 11,000 global
newspapers, trade journals and magazines.
• Business Source Complete: Provides more indepth company and industry profiles and USA
regional business news.
• Factiva: Also offers good coverage of regional and international news.
Printing/Downloading
• Printing allowed within reasonable limits.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/pdf/wallstreetguide.pdf Olu Onasanya