Introduction | Accessing | Navigate by Region or County | Navigate
by Service | Advanced Search | Search
Tips
Introduction
The Economist Intelligence Unit covers business, economic and political news,
information and analysis for countries worldwide. The library's subscription
to EIU.com includes sources for country information only. It includes information
from EIU publications such as Country Forecast, Country Commerce,
Country Finance,
Country Finance Alert, Country by Country, and Executive
Briefing.
Accessing
This database may be accessed from the Databases page of the Electronic Resources section of the NSU Alvin Sherman Library website.
For more on how to access databases visit http://www.nova.edu/library/dils/lessons/electroniclibrary/
The opening screen of EIU.com has three methods to access or search for information.
- At the top you can Navigate by region or country to view
all reports and news available for a particular area.
- OR scroll down to Navigate by service, to locate particular
types of reports or information.
- OR search for information using the Search box to do
a quick search, or link to the Advanced search for more
search options.
The sample searches below demonstrate each of the three types of searches.
EIU.com opening screen with three options for locating information.
Navigate by Region or Country
Choose a region or country by selecting from either of the drop-down menus
shown below. Or click on a region of the map, and then select a county. Following
is an example for China.
Choosing a region or country in Navigate by Region or Country section of
EIU.com.
After selecting a country, the Country home page will display links to the
latest Country Commerce and Country Finance reports
for that country, as well as links to recent analysis
from
ViewsWire.
Country home page for China listing available reports and recent analysis from
ViewsWire.
From the Country home page, you can link to full text for
a report in HTML or PDF format. To link to a specific section of a report,
click on the HTML
link and select a section. See further details on viewing and printing
reports in the Navigate by service section below.
Navigate by Service
The Navigate by Service section allows you to quickly locate a particular publication
or report. For example, here's how to find Country
Commerce reports.
- Scroll down to the Navigate by Service section of the
opening screen.
- Then,
under Country Commerce, select a country, for example
China, from the drop-down menu.
Selecting a country from Country Commerce section.
You can choose to view the entire report in HTML or PDF format by clicking
on the link in the right-hand column. Or, view only a particular section by
selecting from the table of contents on the left.
View the entire report or select a particular section.
From any HTML section of the report, you can
- move from section to section,
- return to the Table of contents,
- go to the full report,
- or go to the Archive
for other reports.
To print a section
- Click on Print
- A new window will open with the full text, but no navigation bars and menus
- Use your browser's Print icon to print.
Full text of section from a Country Commerce report.
Advanced Searching
To conduct an Advanced Search
- Click on Advanced Search in the left-hand menu
- Type your search terms in the the Search box
- To limit to a particular country, select a country from the drop-down
menu
- Click on Search button
In the example below, we are searching for any mention of the 2008 Olympics
in China perhaps to learn more about its impact on the Chinese economy and
business climate.
Conducting an Advanced Search in EIU.com.
You can perform more complex searches if you select to Sort your
results by
Date. Then you will also have the option to change
the type
of search
to an All words (equivalent to AND), Any words (equivalent
to OR), Phrase,
or Boolean search. You may also limit a search by Date
range,
as well as limit to a particular Country (as shown above)
and/or by
Publication. See Search Tips for more details.
Search Results
The Search results will display a list of documents which
contain the word(s) or phrase anywhere in the full text. Here are the
results
for
our
sample
search:
Search results.
Click on a title to view the full text. Your search terms will appear in
bold type making it easy to locate information related to this topic.
Full text of a report showing search term(s).
Search Tips
Boolean Searches
Use AND to narrow a search. AND looks for both terms in the same record.
leadership and vision; exports and oil
Use OR to broaden a search. OR looks for either term in the same record. Records
may contain one or the other or both terms.
oil or petroleum; leadership or management
Use AND NOT to eliminate records with a certain term.
Saturn and not car; exports and not oil
Use NEAR to narrow a search. NEAR looks for both terms in the
same record, but within ten words of each other. In the example below you would
likely find articles about oil exports, but would probably exclude articles
about exports in general
or oil exploration.
exports near oil
Wildcards
An asterisk (*)
can be used to truncate a search term.
For example, searching for export* finds articles containing "exports", "exporters", "exporting",
etc.
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