Machine readable tapes of the bimonthly Harvard Business Review will soon be available for leasing to users who wish to load them into their in-house information systems. In addition, negotiations are under way to provide access to the database through one of the remote database services such as Dialog Information Services Inc. or Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS).
The database may be searched in free text mode but access is also available through eight controlled vocabulary indexes covering: 800 management terms; 45 corporate roles or functions; 300 geographic and country tens; 4,000 company names; 1,500 names of organizations which have been the subject of one or more articles; 45 basic industry categories; and 600 product, service, and brand names. Graphic data is indexed using a vocabulary of 300 basic terms. The database also contains abstracts of between 150 and 250 words for each article and includes all bibliographic citations.
The database covers the 1,774 articles published in the Review between 1971 and 1981 and will be updated within ten days of the publication of each issue. Fees for leasing the database for in-house use have not yet been set.
[Contact: Business Research Corporation, 1660 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02135]
