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Materials Business File
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Access
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Access Materials Business File
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Coverage
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Approximately 1985-current. The oldest record in the database has a publication date of 1962; about 50% of its records have publication dates of 1994 or later.
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Subject
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Materials Business File focuses on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries, new technologies, new materials and other industry developments reported in the press.
Major areas of coverage include:
* Recycling
* Health and Safety issues
* Economics
* Alloy and Material Developments
* Company information
* New material developments
* Energy Usage
* Fuel, Energy Usage, Raw Materials, Recycling
* Plant Developments and Descriptions
* Engineering, Control and Testing, Machinery
* Environmental Issues, Waste Treatment, Health and Safety
* Product and Process Developments Applications, Competitive Materials, Substitution
* Management, Training, Regulations, Marketing
* Economics, Statistics, Resources and Reserves
* World Industry News
* Company Information
* General Issues
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Geographic coverage
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International
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Includes
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Citations for this database are pulled from 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government reports, conference proceedings, and books. The database has about 187,000 records as of September 2004.
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Non-electronic version
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Materials Business File is the database equivalent of the bulletins Steels Alert, Polymers/Ceramics/Composites Alert and Nonferrous Metals Alert.
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Authentication
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IP authentication using EZpropxy
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User guide
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Help available on system
The tutorials cover quick, advanced and command search. They employ audio as well as screen displays.
Results are displayed as one set but there is the option to display by format using tabs at the top of the display. This allows easy access to references from peer reviewed journals, patents, book chapters etc.
QuickBib allows users to easily generate a bibliography of selected database records in some of the most popular bibliographic styles.
Help with displaying pdf documents
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Number of users allowed
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not limited
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Publisher
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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
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Notes
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Updated twice a month.
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Revised:
10-Jul-2007 14:39
:: Content by: Electronic Services Librarian |
