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File Description [top]

Gale Group Company Intelligence^®, a combined directory and company news file published by The Gale Group, contains current address, financial, and marketing information on more than 140,000 private and public U.S. companies and 30,000 international companies. Over 130,000 of the U.S. companies are listed in the eight-volume set of the 1998 Ward's Business Directory. The international company directory records are derived from print directories published by Graham & Whiteside Limited of London. The database contains headquarter, single-location, and division information for both U.S. and international companies.

The database also contains up to 10 of the most recent news references on each company found in over 5,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers indexed by The Gale Group. Indication of full-text availability and the location of additional citations are listed in each record.

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Subject Coverage [top]

Companies included in Gale Group Company Intelligence are not subject to any minimum revenue criteria. The database covers all types of commercial and industrial companies, more than 90% of which are privately held. Emerging companies reported for the first time in the news are posted in the database as "flash" records within as little as 24 hours. The full company record follows soon after. News stories are obtained from other Gale databases on DIALOG.

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Related Search Aids [top]

Advertising Concept, Event, Geographic, and Product Codes for use with Gale Group Databases, can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/galecodes/

Database Content [top]

• Directories
• Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Journal Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• DIALOG Alert Available
• REPORT Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

These Databases (the "Databases") are copyrighted by The Gale Group. The Gale Databases are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Neither Gale nor any of its data suppliers make any warranty whatsoever as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the Databases or the results to be obtained from using the information contained therein and neither Gale nor any of its data suppliers shall be responsible for any claims attributable to errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in the information contained in any Gale Databases. The entire risk as to the results and performance of any Gale Database is assumed by the user of that Database. Further, neither Gale nor any of its data suppliers make any representations or warranties either express or implied, with respect to any of the Databases, including, but not limited to, the quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of any Gale Database or any information contained therein. In no event shall Gale or any of its data suppliers be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use any Gale Database or for any loss or damage of any nature caused to any person as a result of the use of the Database. Material contained in any Database may not be sold. Material contained in any Database may not be made available in any manner whatsoever to a third party or duplicated, redistributed or archived except solely for the customer's own internal use and according only to (1) the Terms & Conditions in Dialog's Standard Service Agreement and (2) the terms and conditions contained below.

A user may not:

- redistribute, copy or electronically store (archive) all or a majority of records from a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases.

- electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form for more than twelve (12) months records or data retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG archival feature.

- delete or remove from a record or data the copyright credits or the name of the Database from which such record or data was retrieved.

- republish, distribute or make available in any manner whatsoever to third parties who are not part of the user's organization records or data retrieved from the Databases.

- use any records or data to create a derivative work except for a compilation of electronically stored data for internal use only.

- electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than fifteen (15) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG redistribution feature (non-archival storage use).

- redistribute, copy or electronically store (REDIST, COPIES or ARCHIVE commands) more than 500 copies of a record without permission from Dialog and Gale.

Notwithstanding the above restrictions, a bona fide information broker may make and provide one copy of search results obtained from the Databases to a single customer outside that information broker's organization provided that such information broker notifies such single customer that the information is copyrighted material which can be used for internal purposes only and cannot be copied, sold or republished.

IF THERE IS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND Dialog's CUSTOMER SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS ON REDISTRIBUTION AND ARCHIVE USES, THE ABOVE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SHALL GOVERN. ANY OTHER USE OF THE DATABASES WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

Sample U.S. Record

Sample Non-U.S. Record

BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

² Entries include: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER; CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER; HEAD OF MARKETING, SALES; HEAD OF MIS, SYSTEMS; and PERSONNEL DIRECTOR.

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SORT [top]

RANK [top]

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REPORT OPTIONS [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Gale Group Company Intelligence®[479]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $5.58
Cost per minute:                   $1.42
Report Elements                    $0.10
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $12.57
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $22.47
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $17.12
ALERT (Weekly)                    $12.57
ALERT (Daily)                  *   $3.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $12.57
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $3.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints       20

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $4.39    $4.39
     3    $2.41    $2.41
     5    $4.87    $4.87
     6    $0.28    $0.28
     7    $5.78    $5.78
     8    $0.64    $0.64
     9    $9.80    $9.80
    10    $0.40    $0.40
KWIC95    $0.28       NA
KWIC96    $0.28       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00