Massive online business library boosted by over 65 percent; Dow Jones News/Retrieval now contains over 45 million documents

Business Wire, Oct 30, 1995

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1995--As part of its quest to continue to provide the world's most useful business library, Dow Jones Business Information Services has increased the content of the Dow Jones News/Retrieval Text Library by 67.5 percent. Additions include hundreds of leading trade publications from Information Access Company; influential government publications from the Federal Document Clearing House; and hundreds of international articles, through a relationships with the Financial Times for FT McCarthy.

"In addition to boosting our content, we have set very high goals for both the quality and quantity of our content," says Dorothea Coccoli Palsho, president of Dow Jones Business Information Services. "We are well aware that today's business people want to be able to research a subject quickly and efficiently, but at the same time, they want the quality of analysis that can only come from the world's top journalistic sources. Toward that end, we are the only business news library to offer the combination of The Wall Street Journal(R), The New York Times News Service and the Financial Times. Overall, we carry 42 of the top 50 U.S. newspapers. In addition to general business news, we now have a plethora of industry and trade publications for anyone who needs to keep up with--or simply understand--specific markets.

"Dow Jones continues to comb the publishing world for prime sources of business and financial information as it strengthens its interactive Text Library," Palsho continue. "More announcements are on the way."

Net Content: Trade Publication

Through an agreement with Information Access Company (IAC), Dow Jones News/Retrieval now offers access to the IAC Trade and Industry Index(TM), which consists of the most widely read publications in a number of industries. This new resource offers respected and wide-ranging publications such as the American Journal of Psychology, British Medical Journal, Brookings Review, Columbia Journal of World Business, Journal of Marketing Research, McKinsey Quarterly, National Review, Sloan Management Review, Tax Advisor and Whole Earth Review.

The Dow Jones News/Retrieval Text Library now also includes the IAC Industry Express(SM), a full-text collection of trade and industry periodicals, which makes computer, electronic and telecommunications news available at or near the time of their publication. This area of the News/Retrieval Text Library will grow as new publications from the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and health care industries are added. Current titles will include Biotech Patent News, Chemical Week, Computer Retail Week, FCC Report and Industry Week.

In addition, the News/Retrieval Text Library offers the complete PROMPT database from IAC, with more than 1,100 sources offering international coverage of companies, products, markets and applied technologies.

With the addition of these IAC trade titles, Dow Jones News/Retrieval is now the premier site for business coverage of the computer, energy, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

New Content: Government Resources

The Federal Document Clearing House (FDCH) provides complete coverage of developments in the federal government, including news conferences, congressional hearings, White House meetings, speeches and briefings. FDCH material is gathered from several sources, including Congressional testimony, Regulatory Intelligence Database, General Accounting Office reports, white papers, and Congressional and Washington transcripts.

"The new content from the Federal Document Clearing House givers our subscribers access to valuable federal testimony and analysis," says Gregory P. Gerdy, director of enterprise products. "Today's changing regulatory climate makes it necessary for business people to have access to such publications, so they can adjust to changes as they occur."

New Content: International Articles

FT McCarthy content consists of company, industry and market news culled from major European newspapers and business magazines by the FT Information staff. "Those doing business internationally--which includes almost everyone these days--appreciate the full-text international articles provided by this resource," said Mr. Gerdy. The FT McCarthy service is used extensively by bankers, analysts, and business development managers.

FT McCarthy sources include: The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The European, The Herald, Evening Standard, Irish Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, Lloyds List, The Scotsman, Yorkshire Post and Daily Mail. The full text of the Financial Times has been available on Dow Jones News/Retrieval since March 1995.

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones Business Information Services is the electronic publishing arm of Dow Jones & Company Inc. Business Information Services provides business and financial news and information products to corporations and consumers through a variety of electronic media: computer, telephone, facsimile and radio.

Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international editions, Barron's magazine and other periodicals, electronic business information services, including Dow Jones Telerate, a provider of real-time financial information to the international business community, Dow Jones News Service and other business newswires and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones produces business and television programming internationally and video news delivered to desktop computers. -0-