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Citing Articles
APA Style Example: - FMR Corp. (Ward's Business Directory of U. S. Private and Public Companies,
- 50th ed.,2007). Retrieved August 13, 2007, from Gale Business Directory database: http://find.galegroup.com.
For additional APA examples, visit the APA site. | | MLA Style Examples: - FMR Corp. (Ward's Business Directory of U. S. Private and Public Companies,
- 50th ed., 2007). Gale Business Directory. Thomson Gale. Babson College Horn Lib., Babson Park, MA. 13 August 2007. <http://find.galegroup.com>.
For additional MLA examples, visit the MLA site. |  Basic Steps | Use the Basic Search to look up a specific company.
Or choose Advanced Search to search any combination of keyword, company (entity) name, location, industry (SIC or NAICS code), year founded, revenues, number of employees, officer's name, and more. - Sort results by Name, Employees or Financial Data. Publication Date is not relevant at this time.
- Mark desired items.
- Choose Marked Items. You can mark up to 50 items.
- On the blue bar at the top of the list click Download and then Download again.
- Save the HTML file, or Open to copy and paste into MS Word.
| Advanced Search Tips Click the Help icon to see more searching options, such as these below. | Search Syntax | | Search Type | Format | Example | Boolean Searching
| AND
OR
( ) to group synomyns or similar terms | entrepreneur* and team*
entrepren* or intrapren*
(entrepren* or intrapren*) and interviews | | Truncation | * (asterisk) | entrepreneur* (searches for entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, etc.) | | Proximity - Same order | wX | market w2 share | | Proximity - Any order | nX | market n2 share (would search for "share of the market") | | Greater Than or Since or After | gt
>
since
after | gt 100000
> 100000
since 2000
After 2000
| | Greater than or equal | ge | ge 100000 | | Less than, before | <
lt
before | < 100000
lt 100000
before 2000 | | Less than or equal | le | le 100000 | | Date range | To
- (hyphen) | 1 Jan 2000 to 31 Dec 2005
1 Jan 2000 - 31 Dec 2005 | Scope | Search, sort and download text records from Ward’s Business Directory of over 500,000 private and public companies. Company records often include 10-year revenues and employment. | | Access Restrictions: | Students, Faculty, Staff, Walk-in Alumni & Visitors may use | | List of Titles: | Click Title List on Menu Bar
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| Updated October 18, 2007
By Frances Nilsson | |
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