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Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies

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Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies celebrates its 50th Edition by going online as the first directory on the new Gale Directory Library.
Ward's Edition 50 includes details on approximately 112,000 private and public companies in the United States, offering basic contact information and data about each firm, including the industries in which it operates, names of top executives, number of employees, the type of company it is, its financial performance and more. The new digital version of Ward's includes additional information, such as alternative mailing addresses, an expanded list of executives, and historical financial information.
In addition, by putting Ward's on the Gale Directory Library platform, this data is "unlocked" from paper. Users can search by almost any field of information included in the directory - such as industry, state, zip code, area code, and type of company, as well as by sales ranges. Just as users can search by the fields that are specific to Ward's, they can sort by them too - by name, date, number of employees, and financial performance.
A data export feature being added to the Gale Directory Library in August 2007 lets users export data from Ward's for importing into programs like Microsoft Word (for mailing lists) or Excel (for research and analysis).
Since the Gale Directory Library supports access to backfiles, an investment in Ward's 50th Edition provides current data today and historical data tomorrow. It stays in your directory collection for future use as an historical archive.
Of course, like other directory products in the Gale Directory Library, Ward's is accessible 24/7 to all your users, whether on-site or off, and is cross-searchable with other digital directory products you buy on the GDL platform.

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Gale has long been known for publishing authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more. These directories are now available digitally in the Gale Directory Library. This platform takes these detailed references off the shelf and makes them available at the click of a mouse 24/7 to all your users, whether they're at the library or at home.
With Gale Directory Library, users can experience state-of-the-art functionality to perform a range of data searching, sorting and exporting. Users can access data from a single directory, or cross-search multiple directories. And libraries can buy only those directories that they need -- for generating mailing lists, conducting research, and analyzing trends across categories and over time.
Since libraries are buying digital directory editions rather than subscribing to a data feed, older editions remain in a collection. Thus users can look up historical information as well as cross-search multiple editions to analyze trends over time. In fact, backfile content is available for certain directories so users can perform these searches right away. These innovative features, unlike anything seen previously with our directory products, make Gale Directory Library the essential tool for research and marketing alike.
Classic, award-winning titles like Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, Encyclopedia of Associations and Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media become not only much more accessible, but also more powerful, with expanded data sets (when applicable) and search, sort and export features.

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These extensive ranked lists sets Ward's apart from the other major business directories, proving a useful tool for identifying leading companies in most industries and states.--ARBA, August 2008

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