New Business Database: Business&Industry on DIALOG and DataStar.

This article reports that Responsive Database Services Inc. (RDS), a new database publishing company in Beachwood, Ohio, has announced the premiere of its first database, titled "Business&Industry." Business&Industry, reportedly, will be available next month on Knight-Ridder Information Inc.'s DIALOG and DataStar services. RDS was founded in 1994 by Dick Harris, former president of Predicasts, who has assembled a team of experienced information professionals from all segments of the information industry. RDS's mission, reportedly, is to be responsive to user needs in the design, content, and delivery of its products and services. Business&Industry is a multi-industry, multinational database with powerful indexing based on user-friendly controlled vocabulary and coding, with an emphasis on facts and figures and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, markets, and products. Business&Industry covers over 600 titles from the U.S. and abroad, with emphasis on the most important trade and business news publications.