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File Description [top]

D&B WorldBase^® - U.S., File 517, produced by Dun & Bradstreet Information Services, provides information on over 61 million U.S. business locations, including private, public and government organizations. Records contain company name, contact information, last year organized, business description, four-digit U.S. SIC codes, Duns numbers, executive names and positions, and legal status. Records may also include family linkage information, annual sales, number of employees, parent company details, Profit, and Net Worth. The SF= index is particularly useful in locating records of interest. Refer to Subject Coverage below.

File 517 is similar to D&B Dun’s Market Identifiers^®, File 516, but with more than double the company coverage. File 517 does not provide links to premium pre-formatted reports, nor are comparative financials or growth percentages included.

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Subject Coverage [top]

The following values from the SF= field can be used to readily locate records of interest:

• SF='Marketable' applies to complete records with all required fields, while SF='Non Marketable' indicates records missing a telephone number and/or SIC Codes.
• SF='Active' applies to records for recently confirmed active companies, while SF='Inactive' indicates Out of business, no confirmed contact, or company asked to be removed from Marketable status.
• SF='Linked' records contain a linkage to their corporate family, while SF='Non Linked' applies to records without corporate family linkage information.

Dialog File Data [top]

Document Types Indexed [top]

• NA

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• DIALOG Alert Available
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) 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.

D&B - Dun's Market Identifiers^®, D&B - International Dun's Market Identifiers^TM, D&B - European Dun's Market Identifiers^TM, D&B - Canadian Dun's Market Identifiers^®, D&B - Dun's Electronic Business Directory, D&B - Global Corporate Linkages,D&B WorldBase^® - U.S.: Access to and use of these Dun & Bradstreet databases is subject to the following Terms of Agreement between You and the company, partnership or entity, if any, with which You are affiliated (hereinafter collectively referred to as "You" or "Your") and Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. ("D&B"). By accessing one of the D&B databases specified above, You agree that You have the authority to enter into the Terms of Agreement and that You have read the Terms of Agreement, understand them and agree to be bound by them. These databases and the information contained in them ("Information") may be used by End Users and Information Professionals as defined below. The terms in Part A apply to End Users, those in Part B apply to Information Professionals and those in Part C apply to ALL users.

A. Terms Which Apply to End Users

1. You are an "End User" if You are obtaining the Information (a) for Your own use if You are an individual or (b) for the use of someone within Your company or business if You are a business. You are NOT an end user if You fit into any of the following categories: a consultant accessing Information on behalf of a client, a librarian accessing Information on behalf of a patron not employed within the librarian's company or any other Information Professional accessing Information to provide to a client. (The above list is NOT meant to be all inclusive.) Many (but not all) non-End Users may still access Information subject to the special terms and conditions applicable to Information Professionals (see Part B).

2. All information ("Information") furnished by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. ("D&B") to Dialog and provided to You is licensed for Your exclusive use. You may not provide the Information in whole or in part to any third party. You agree that You will not use the Information as a factor in establishing an individual's eligibility for (a) credit or insurance to be used primarily for personal, family or household purposes, or (b) employment. You further agree that You will not use the information to engage in unfair or deceptive practices nor will You republish, relicense or resell the Information. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless D&B from any claim or cause of action against D&B and/or Dialog arising out of or relating to use of the Information by individuals or entities which have not been authorized by this agreement to have access to and/or use the Information. You may not use the Information if You are located in South America.

3. You may make up to two (2) copies of the Information and keep them for as long as You wish for Your own use. If You participate in the Dialog's Electronic Redistribution and Archive program, You may make and internally distribute or archive for internal use the number of copies permitted thereby. You must include the following notice on each copy: Copyright (YEAR) Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (Use the year provided by DIALOG.)

B. Terms Which Apply to Information Professionals

1. An "Information Professional" means a person, business or entity who is accessing Information on behalf of (a) another company, (b) another entity or (c) an individual not employed by the information professional. Information Professionals can include (but are not limited to) the following: information brokers, librarians and libraries, consultants, advertising agencies, public relations firms and research firms. For purposes of these Terms of Agreement, the following are not considered Information Professionals and may not access the Information at all: telemarketers, distributors of mailing lists, marketing agents, etc. (This list is not all-inclusive.) Licensees, agents, gateway service operators and other commercial redistributors are also not considered Information Professionals and therefore may not access the Information under these Terms of Agreement. Such entities should contact D&B's Online Services directly to discuss access arrangements. Information professional must register with D&B and sign the D&B IP Agreement PRIOR to accessing Information. If D&B determines that You are an information professional and You have signed the Dun & Bradstreet Information Professional Agreement ("D&B IP Agreement"), D&B agree to license the Information to You subject to the terms in the D&B IP Agreement and the terms in Part B and C thereof.

2. Each time You access Information You will be acting on behalf of a single customer who is an End User (see definition of End User in Part A). You may access up to 500 D&B records per search and make and provide one copy of such records to Your customer who has engaged You to conduct a specific search, provided that You place D&B's copyright notice on the material. (You may also keep one copy for back up purposes.) You may not provide the same information to another customer without replicating the search. Your customer may subsequently use the Information according to the provisions of Parts A and C hereof. Before You provide more than 500 records per search to a customer You agree that You will follow the procedures specified in the D&B IP Agreement. D&B reserves the right to terminate this agreement immediately if You misrepresent the usage of information to D&B.

3. You will not provide Information to any person, company or entity You know or have reason to believe will misrepresent, republish, resell or relicense the Information or will use the Information to engage in unfair or deceptive practices.

4. You may sort the Information, edit it, reformat it, record it electronically and combine it with other information so long as You are acting with respect to a specific order prepared for one End User. You may not otherwise merge the Information with non-D&B Information or alter the Information to create the whole or any portion of a mailing list, telemarketing list, other marketing or research aid or other data compilation sold or licensed by You to a third party.

5. When You make copies of the information, You must include the following notice: Copyright (YEAR) Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (Use the year provided by DIALOG.)

C. Terms Which Apply to Both End Users and Information Professionals

1. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE AMOUNT YOU PAY TO Dialog FOR THE INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM D&B WILL IN MOST INSTANCES REPRESENT A SMALL PORTION OF YOUR OVERALL COST OF THE PROJECT, TASK OR FUNCTION FOR WHICH THE INFORMATION WILL BE USED. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE TYPE OF INFORMATION TO BE PROVIDED BY D&B TO Dialog AND FURNISHED TO YOU WILL CONTAIN A DEGREE OF ERROR. FINALLY, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PRICES WHICH D&B CHARGES Dialog FOR INFORMATION ARE BASED, IN PART, UPON D&B'S EXPECTATION THAT THE RISK OF ANY LOSS OR INJURY WHICH MIGHT BE INCURRED BY YOU (AND/OR YOUR CUSTOMER IN THE CASE OF AN INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL) IN RELIANCE UPON THE INFORMATION WILL BE BORNE BY YOU (AND/OR YOUR CUSTOMER IN THE CASE OF AN INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL). FOR THESE REASONS, YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THAT ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED BY D&B TO Dialog AND FURNISHED TO YOU IS SUFFICIENTLY ACCURATE FOR YOUR PURPOSES. NEITHER D&B NOR Dialog MAKES ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ITS CORRECTNESS, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR WITH RESPECT TO THE MEDIA ON WHICH THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AND NEITHER D&B NOR Dialog SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR INJURY ARISING OUT OF OR CAUSED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY D&B'S OR Dialog NEGLIGENT ACTS OR OMISSIONS IN REPORTING, COMMUNICATING OR DELIVERING THE INFORMATION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO YOU.

2. YOU WILL AGREE THAT NEITHER D&B NOR Dialog WILL BE LIABLE FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

IF, NOTWITHSTANDING PARAGRAPHS 2 AND 3 ABOVE, LIABILITY CAN BE IMPOSED ON D&B AND/OR Dialog's THEN YOU AGREE THAT D&B'S AND Dialog AGGREGATE LIABILITY, IF ANY, FOR ANY AND ALL LOSSES OR INJURIES TO YOU (AND/OR YOUR CUSTOMER IN THE CASE OF AN INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL) ARISING OUT OF ANY ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF D&B AND/OR Dialog IN CONNECTION WITH ANYTHING TO BE DONE OR FURNISHED HEREUNDER, REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN VIOLATED, SHALL NEVER EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR THE SERVICES FURNISHED HEREUNDER DURING THE PREVIOUS TWELVE MONTH PERIOD OR $5,000, WHICHEVER IS GREATER, AND YOU COVENANT AND PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT SUE D&B AND/OR Dialog FOR AN AMOUNT GREATER THAN SUCH SUM AND THAT YOU WILL NOT SEEK PUNITIVE DAMAGES IN ANY SUIT AGAINST D&B AND/OR Dialog.

4. You acknowledge that the Information licensed by D&B hereunder, regardless of form or format, is proprietary to D&B and comprises: (a) works of original authorship, including compiled information containing D&B's selection, arrangement and coordination and expression of such information or pre-existing material it has created, gathered or assembled; (b) confidential and trade secret information; and (c) information that has been created, developed and maintained by D&B at great expense of time and money such that misappropriation of unauthorized use by others for commercial gain would unfairly and irreparably harm D&B. You agree that You will not commit or permit any act or omission by Your agents, employees or any third party which would impair D&B's proprietary and intellectual property rights in the Information.

5. You understand that You are the beneficiary of a contract between D&B and Dialog and that, under that contract, both D&B and Dialog have reserved certain rights which may result in the termination of Your right to receive Information from D&B. In addition, D&B may terminate this Agreement at any time if You breach any of its terms.

6. These Terms of Agreement are subject to change at any time by D&B and are in addition to those found in the Dialog Customer Agreement. If there is a conflict between these Terms of Agreement and the Dialog Customer Agreement, then these Terms of Agreement will apply. These Terms of Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New Jersey, without giving effect to its conflicts of laws provisions.
Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

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

² Includes primary and secondary U.S. SIC codes.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

³ Retrieves all companies in the Corporate Family.

⁴ Retrieves the branches of the Headquarters Company.

⁵ Retrieves the Subsidiaries of the parent. (In the case where the parent is the ultimate, also retrieves the parent company.)

⁶ EXPAND to see a complete list of entries.

⁷ Numeric entries are indexed as complete numbers, rounded down to the two left-most digits. Negative numbers are preceded by a minus sign. Use numeric operators (: , <, >, =, etc.) to search range of values, e.g., S SA>=10,000,000 to retrieve all records with base sales of ten million or higher. S SA>=10M returns the same result.

⁸ Not available for Rank

LIMIT [top]

SORT [top]

RANK [top]

MAP [top]

REPORT OPTIONS [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: D&B WorldBase® - U.S.[517]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $8.43
Cost per minute:                   $2.40
Report Elements                    $0.32
Rank Elements                      $0.35

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $5.50    $5.50
     3    $3.00    $3.00
     4    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $5.50    $5.50
     6    $1.00    $1.00
     8    $1.50    $1.50
     9    $5.50    $5.50
    10    $1.50    $1.50
    20    $1.50    $1.50
    30    $1.50    $1.50
    40    $1.50    $1.50
    66    $1.50    $1.50
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       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