Tablebase is international in scope, and covers more than 90 industries. It provides tabular data on such topics as market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends and demographics. Tables are drawn from more than 900 publications of trade associations, non-profit research groups, government agencies, international organizations, and selected investment research groups such as PainWebber and BearStearns. Tables are unambiguously titles, with additional indexing by country, company and industry names, 6-digit product codes, SIC codes, and concept and marketing terms. Every indexed table is provided in full text, and many have linked descriptive text.

For help in searching TableBase
go to theWWU Libraries Reference and Instruction Services desk in the Haggard Wing of Wilson Library or telephone 650-3094.

Accessing TableBase

TableBase is available from any computer in the library, from the general university and Parks Hall computing labs, and from faculty and staff offices. Faculty, staff and students who have active registered Western computer accounts may connect to TableBase from off campus. To connect off campus, click on Accessing web databases off campus.

Downloading Tables into Excel

TableBase does not offer a direct export to Excel feature. If you are in a lab or at home, highlight the data you want and copy it (using  "control-c") Open an Excel spreadsheet and paste the data. Format the data by choosing Data --> Text to Columns on the menu bar. Choose fixed width and adjust as needed. You can now perform spreadsheet functions on your data.  Unfortunately the public terminals in the library do not have excel.  You must use one of the labs in the library building.