Database Name:	Newsletter Database
Acronym:	PTBN; NLDB; NEWSLETTER; PRN; NLS
Producer:	The Gale Group (acquired, in 1998, the Information Access Company, which was the original producer of this database)
Type of Information:	Full-text
Group(s):	BUSINESS & ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, INDUSTRIES, LEGISLATION, METALS/ALLOYS/COMPOUNDS, WASTE MANAGEMENT
Database Description:	Contains the complete text of newsletters published worlwide which track strategic and competitive developments affecting business and industry. Provides information on: company developments; ventures and activities; new products and applied technologies; market and industry trends and conditions; government policies; funding regulation and legislation; international trade opportunities; global eco-political activities, including events in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim.
Information Sources:	More than 600 newsletters, as , for example: "Advanced Ceramics Report" , "Advanced Composites Bulletin" , " Alliance Alert" , "Battery and EV Technology" , "Biomedical Materials" , "Electronics Material Update" , "Flame Retardancy News" , "High Performance Plastics" , "High Performance Textiles" , "High Tech Ceramics News" , "High Tech Separation News" , "Japanese Advanced Materials Technologies Affecting Chemical Industries" , "Japanese Advanced Technology Magnetic Materials" , "Japanese New Materials Advanced Alloys and Metals" , "Japanese New Materials: Advanced Plastics" , "Japanese New Materials: Electronic Materials" , "Japanese New Materials: High Performance Ceramics" , "Membrane and Separation Technology News" , "New Materials/Japan" , "NTIS Alert: Foreign Technology" , "Waste Treatment Technology News" .
Time Span:	1988 to date
Numer of Records:	More than 5.6 million
Language:	English
Updating Frequency:	Daily
Distributors:	DIALOG (online) Gale / Cengage (online, through the databank "Newsletter ASAP") LEXIS-NEXIS (online)