Searching for Wall Street Journal Articles in ABI Inform

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In this tutorial, you will learn

• How to access ABI Inform, a database of business journals including the Wall Street Journal.

• How to limit your search to articles from the Wall Street Journal.

• How to access the full text of the article and the links to print, email, link, and cite the article.

• Start on the Library’s home page• Note: To access the library’s databases you will need to log

in through your My NLU Portal.• Under “Find it,” click on Articles. • Then click on A-Z List of Databases

ABI Inform: Database of Business journals

• Click on the ABI Inform (ProQuest) link to access the database.

Limit your search to the Wall Street Journal

• This is the ABI Inform Search screen.• To limit your search to articles in the

Wall Street Journal, click on More Search Options.

• In the Publication Title field, type “Wall Street Journal”• Then type your search term in the search box near the

top of the screen. Then click Search.

Wall Street Journal Results

• Note that all of the results are articles from the Wall Street Journal.

• Results are automatically sorted by newest first.

• Clicking the article title will take you to the full text of the article.

• Note that you have options to print, email, copy link, and cite the article near the top of the screen.

QUESTIONS?

• Call a campus library at 1.800.443.5522• Chicago, x3376• Lisle, x4530• North Shore, x2288• Wheeling, x5503

• Email: libcirc@nl.edu