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Last Updated: December 16, 2022

Business Insights: Global - Basics

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Business Insights: Global

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enables researchers to quickly and easily

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search for companies, industries, and more,

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and provides detailed company,

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country, and industry profiles,

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including swap reports, market share reports,

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and financial reports, company histories

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and industry essays, case studies, scholarly journals,

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and business news for deep research coverage

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of global economies.

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On the Business Insights homepage,

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and in the banner of all other pages,

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you'll find a search box.

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Use this search box to perform basic searches.

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Simply enter a company name or ticker symbol,

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a country name, an industry description,

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a SIC or NAICS code, a product or brand name,

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or a topic.

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Next, select the type of search you want to perform

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from the pull-down menu.

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Check the checkbox to limit your search

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to full-text documents, and then click Search.

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Let's try another search.

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To perform more complex search queries,

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use Advanced Search.

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Your search term and any limiters you may have used

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are displayed at the top of the page.

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Click the X next to the search limiter

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to undo that piece of the search.

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Use the pull-down menu to sort your results

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by publication date, by article title,

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by publication title, or by relevance.

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Use the search box to further search

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within your current results.

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Use the links along the left of the page

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to narrow your results.

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For example, if you're only interested in company histories,

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select Company Histories from the Content Type list,

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or limit your results to full-text documents,

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to peer-reviewed documents, by publication date,

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by subject, or to content from a specific publication.

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The number of items found for each is displayed.

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Click the star icon to save a document

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and return to it later.

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Select the Saved Items tab from the menu bar

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to view a document you've saved.

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From your Saved Items list, you can print,

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email, or generate a bookmark for the document

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that you can save, cut and paste into another document,

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or email to yourself or someone else.

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First, check the checkbox next to the document name,

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and then select an operation.

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Select the Search History tab from the menu bar

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to view a list of searches you've conducted.

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Click the hyperlinked search expression

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to re-execute a search from the list.

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Click the Revise link to modify a search.

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From here, you can revise the search as needed.

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Select the Case Studies tab from the menu bar

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to access case studies from the Gale CaseBase collection.

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From here, browse the alphabetical list,

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or use the search box to look for specific case studies.

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Use the pull-down menu to sort results by

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publication date, article title, or publication title.

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Use the links along the left of the page

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to limit your results to full-text documents,

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to peer-reviewed documents, by publication date,

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by subject, or to content from a specific publication.

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The number of items found for each is displayed.

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Select the Glossary tab from the menu bar

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to use the business glossary

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to look up unfamiliar business terms.

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From here, browse the alphabetical list,

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or enter a term in the search box

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to look up a specific term.
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