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Dun's Million Dollar Database Dun & Bradstreet
 

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Brief Description: D&B Million Dollar Database contains U.S. companies with $1 million or more in sales, OR 20 or more employees, OR branches with 50 or more employees. Corporate linkages will be available beginning July 16th.

Access Restrictions: Students, Faculty, Staff may use
Alumni and Visitors may not use.

Citing Articles
Basic Steps
Advanced Search Tips
Viewing, Printing & Saving
Scope


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Citing Articles

MLA Style Examples:

Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. North American Million Dollar Database. 2002.
Babson College Horn Lib., Babson Park, MA. 9 Aug 2002. <http://www.dnbmdd.com>.

For additional MLA examples, see http://www.mla.org/.

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Basic Steps

Choose Search option TABS to fill in the appropriate criteria in order fulfill your research needs.  You have multiple options to choose from, such as company, industry, executive, and other (to select public or private companies, headquarters, branch).  After you have filled in the necessary information click on Submit.


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Advanced Search Tips

Search Syntax

Search Type

Format

Example

Truncation* (asterisk)manage*
Browse
Use browse keys in industry tab to find SIC or NAICS codes


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Viewing, Printing & Saving Options

When viewing company list:

  1. Sort as desired by name, employee total, sales, state, or primary SIC. Scroll to the bottom of the company list to view the SORT options.
  2. Tag records for printing or downloading unless a range of records is desired. Then click on OUTPUT icon.
  3. Make choices on report destination, format, and record range.

You can choose to print/download a range of records or any records that you have tagged. You can output only 500 records at a time

Click Output to Save Records.  Four types of PRINT/SAVE formats:

  1. Contact Format - Company Name/Address/Phone Number/Exec Names/Exec Titles
  2. Basic Format - Contact Format Plus Industry, Metropolitan Area, County
  3. Company Format - Basic Format Plus Company Size Information
  4. Full Report Format - All Available Information

Four options that will output a Comma Delimited File to your PC for import into Excel format:

  1. Name / Address with only the CEO
  2. Name / Address Data with all available Executives
  3. Name / Address Data with Executives tagged on the Company View
  4. Company Record (Minus Executive Bio-s and Secondary SIC-s)


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Scope

D&B Million Dollar Database contains U.S. companies with $1 million or more in sales, OR 20 or more employees, OR branches with 50 or more employees.  The database provides very brief information about companies such as directory information, annual sales, number of employees, executive names/titles/brief biographies, and industry classification.

Access Restrictions:Students, Faculty, Staff may use
Alumni and Visitors may not use.
Years of Coverage:Current, data updated daily.
Number of Simultaneous Users:5
Durable links: Not Available
Customer Support:

1-800-234-3867 or 1-800-526-0651 X6752
customerservice@dnb.com

Online User Documentation: Help icon within database

Not connecting?
Check out our troubleshooting tips.  Questions or continued problems, call the Library Information Desk at 781-239-4596 or submit a Problem Report.  Contact us if the system hangs while downloading, we may have exceeding our downloading limit and will need to contact our vendor.


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Updated July 11, 2007
By  Christine Drew

 

 

 

 

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