Dun & Bradstreet

Federal Procurement Data
Center

General Accounting Office
Documents Retrieval
System (GAODOCS)

General Services
Administration
Consolidated List

Dun & Bradstreet has several data bases regarding corporations that are available through Dialog, including a listing of 4.8 million businesses. Also available from Dun & Bradstreet are 280 microfiche, sorted either geographically or alphabetically, containing listings that show assumed names (doing business as) or true names (corporate/partnership style).

The Federal Procurement Data Center maintains a computerized compendium of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), many agencies' supplements to the FAR, and information relative to all active (and some completed) government contracts. It is accessible through Dialog.

The GAODOCS contains excerpts from GAO reports and is searchable by subject, GAO division/office, and report name or number.

The GSA Consolidated List is a computerized list of suspended and
debarred bidders.

Electronic Data Bases

House Member Information Network (MIN)

Justice Retrieval and
Inquiry System (JURIS)

LEXIS

METRONET System

The MIN is a group of on-line information-retrieval systems that include
the following: government statistics; the substance and present status of
bills and resolutions; floor amendments; floor proceedings; preaward
grants (pertaining to all federal assistance programs contained in the
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance); postaward grants; and avail-
able contracts and awarded contracts, listing every civilian contract of
$10,000 or more and every defense contract of $25,000 or more entered
into by the federal government over the previous 4 quarters. The MIN
also provides the full text of the Congressional Record since the 99th
Congress.

The JURIS is a full-text, computerized information system (similar to LEXIS) developed and operated by the Department of Justice to provide attorneys with rapid access to relevant legal documents. The JURIS is widely used in legal offices throughout the country and is available through the Library of Congress, American Law Division. The JURIS contains headnotes and full text for 145,000 federal decisions and headnotes for 350,000 state decisions from West's General Digests. It also contains the following:

METRONET System is an on-line system implemented by Metromail Corporation, Lombard, Illinois. METRONET provides on-line access to National Consumer and Change of Address data bases for the following purposes:

Electronic Data Bases

National Texts and Periodicals Data Base (NTP)

NEXIS

The NTP consists of selected articles from over 200 law reviews and bar journals.

On-Line Retrieval of
Bibliographic Information,
Time-Shared (ORBIT)

Scorpio

Securities Information
Center

NEXIS is a full-text data base consisting of general news and business/ financial information from more than 150 newspapers, magazines, wire services, etc. Magazine data dates from January 1975; newspaper data dates from January 1977.

The ORBIT is an on-line, interactive retrieval system designed and implemented by the SDC Search Service Division, Development Corporation, Santa Monica, California. The ORBIT user interacts directly with the retrieval program via a terminal and telecommunication line, i.e., the user is "on-line" with the ORBIT program at a remote terminal.

This research service contains several different data bases. They include abstracts of the following:

The Library of Congress Computerized Catalog contains all books written in English or pertaining to the English language published in the United States since 1978.

• The Bibliographic Citation File is a file of selected citations to journal
articles, from 1976 to the present, of interest to the Congress.
Congressional Status Files are files that can be searched by subject (e.g.,
acid rain) or by bill number to determine the status of a bill, such as its
resolution, ratification, and amendments, if any. This file can also be
searched by Committee, Subcommittee, or Member's name.

• The National Referral Center Master File is a data base consisting of
approximately 14,500 trade organizations and professional societies
(also lobbies). A popular use for this data base is searching for experts
in particular subject areas. Searches are by subject.

The SIC, located in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, is operated by Itel Corporation under contract with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All entities, such as banks and brokerage houses, that receive bad securities are required to report this information to the SIC. They are also required to run a check with the SIC if they receive $10,000 or more in securities. Information is recorded as of October 1977.

Electronic Data Bases

Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's has several data bases regarding corporations. These data bases are available through Dialog and include information on 36,000 corporations and 340,000 "key executives," with 74,000 profile biographies. Standard & Poor's can also provide substantial information on financial institutions, including a list of the corporate officers and directors, mailing address, total deposits, primary bank, and primary law firm.

WESTLAW

WESTLAW is similar to LEXIS and contains many of the same files.