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Reference Databases
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Nexis Uni (LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
- What’s included? News, law, and business information service. Includes news from national and international newspapers; wire services and articles from hundreds of periodicals; and a number of other reference sources. All sources are full-text. Updated daily.
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AtoZdatabases This link opens in a new window
- What's included? Directory information for residences and businesses across the US. Allows searching by name but also by addresses, zip codes, and more. Results can be emailed and downloaded in a variety of standard formats.
- What else should I know? Provided by AskRI.org. Available to Rhode Island residents only.
- What's included? Directory information for residences and businesses across the US. Allows searching by name but also by addresses, zip codes, and more. Results can be emailed and downloaded in a variety of standard formats.
On the Internet
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ThomasNet.comContains information on industrial equipment including machinery, piping, structural materials, and consumables (including chemicals). Contains links to manufactures and suppliers, although it is usually necessary to contact the individual companies for pricing information. Additional resources include company profiles and 400+ white papers.
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OpenCorporatesOpenCorporates exists to make information about companies and the corporate world more accessible, more discoverable, and more usable, and thus give citizens, community groups, journalists, other companies, and society as a whole the ability to understand, monitor and regulate them. It aims to have a URL for every company in the world and to import government data relating to companies.
In Print
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Regional industrial buying guide. Eastern New EnglandCall Number: URI Serials Stacks HC107 A11 R432005. Lists industrial distributors, manufacturers and service companies by over 6,000 product and service categories. Provides company name, address, phone, and Web address, if available. See also ThomasNet, an Internet Resource listed below.