Lesson 5-1: Finding Information on Products
Objectives
- Conduct searches using product names
- Understand different types of codes
- Conduct searches using product codes
Introduction
A common business research request is to gather information on specific products. Product information can be found in a variety of sources — financial reports, market reports, news articles, new product announcements, technical specifications, and more.
Many of Dialog's databases have product name fields that enable the search to be focused on a specific product name. Some databases use product and/or industry codes, a hierarchical coding scheme that enables the searcher to quickly access information on either very specific or broad industry categories. We will look carefully at coding systems in the second half of this lesson.
Bev has just sent along several requests that Chris can use to exemplify product searching.
Here's the first of Bev's inquiries.
Chris,
I heard that Eli Lilly is working hard to promote its antidepressant products before patents expire on them. Can you find out what kind of sales they have? If possible, it would be great to have detailed statistics to review.
Thanks,
Bev
We will follow the steps that Chris takes to fulfill Bev's request.
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