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The Encyclopedia of Associations is a comprehensive source of detailed information on over 151,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide. It corresponds to the printed Encyclopedia of Associations family of publications as follows: National Organizations of the U.S., which covers American associations of national scope; International Organizations, which covers multi-national, bi-national, and non-U.S. national associations; and Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U.S., which covers U.S. associations with interstate, state, intrastate, city, or local scope or membership. The Encyclopedia of Associations database provides addresses and descriptions of professional societies, trade associations, labor unions, cultural and religious organizations, fan clubs, and other groups of all types.

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Each entry in the Encyclopedia of Associations is assigned one of the following section heading codes (use the number in parentheses when searching SH=):

• Trade, Business and Commercial (01)
• Environmental and Agricultural (02)
• Legal, Governmental, Public Administration, and Military (03)
• Engineering, Technological, and Natural and Social Sciences (04)
• Educational (05)
• Cultural(06)
• Social Welfare (07)
• Health and Medical (08)
• Public Affairs (09)
• Fraternal, Nationality, and Ethnic (10)
• Religious (11)
• Veterans', Hereditary and Patriotic (12)
• Hobby and Avocational (13)
• Athletic and Sports (14)
• Labor Unions, Associations, and Federations (15)
• Chambers of Commerce and Trade and Tourism (16)*
• Greek and Non-Greek Letter Societies, Associations, and Federations (17)*
• Fan Clubs (18)*

In addition to the above section headings, each Regional, State, and Local Organizations entry is assigned one of the following US regional destinations:

• Great Lakes States (1)
• Northeastern States (2)
• Middle Atlantic States (3)
• South Central and Great Plains States (4)
• Western States (5)

*National Organizations of the U.S. only

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• Encyclopedia of Associations

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• Directories

Document Types Indexed [top]

• NA

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available

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¹ Not available in all Regional, State, and Local records.

² Also /DF.

³ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

⁴ Use numeric operators (:,<,>=,etc.) to search a range of values, e.g., S NS>=50 to locate all organizations having 50 or more staff members.

⁵ Searchable in National Organizations only.

⁶ Entries for SO are: International Organizations, National Organizations of the U.S., Regional, State and Local Organizations of the U.S.

⁷ Single digit SH codes are geographic areas. Double-digit SH values are section heading codes describing the organization. The text of SH is searchable using /SH. Geographic SH codes, present for the USA, are: SH=1 (Great Lakes States), SH=2 (Northeastern States), SH=3 (Southern and Middle Atlantic States ), SH=4 (South Central and Great Plains States), SH=5 (Western States).

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⁸ ST is present only for records from Australia, Canada and the USA.

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