AS&BPR is a great one-stop bibliographic resource for the history of business and industry. AS&BPR identifies more than 4.5 million articles from more than 2,000 periodicals for most of the 20th century, 1913-1983.

AS&BPR combines the contents of three H.W. Wilson periodical indexes within one handy search interface:

• Industrial Arts Index, the unified business and sci-tech index covering topics such as the aviation industry and the start of commercial air travel, the development of urban mass transit, the Great Depression, and the Atomic Age, 1913-1958.
• Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective, covering a wide range of subjects from acoustics and aeronautics to transportation and waste management, 1959-1983.
• Business Periodicals Index Retrospective, covering topics such as acquisitions & mergers, communications, tourism, mass media, publishing, and other business topics, 1959-1982.

For more information:
Lauris Olson, Social Sciences Bibliographer
Marcella Barnhart, Assistant Director, Lippincott Library
Nick Okrent, Van Pelt Library Research & Instructional Services