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[[Image:ThomasRegister.png|frame|1905 ''Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers'']]
The '''''Thomas Register of American Manufacturers''''', now '''ThomasNet''',<ref name=DIRnet.NYT>{{cite newspaper
The '''''Thomas Register of American Manufacturers''''', now '''ThomasNet''', is an online platform for supplier discovery and product sourcing in the US and Canada. It was once known as the "big green books" and "Thomas Registry", and was a multi-volume [[Yellow Pages|directory]] of [[Industry|industrial]] product information covering 650,000 [[distributors]], [[manufacturers]] and service companies within 67,000-plus [[industry|industrial]] categories that is now published on ThomasNet.▼
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==History==
The books were first published in 1898 by Harvey Mark Thomas as ''Hardware and Kindred Trades. ''In their heyday, '''''Thomas Register of American Manufacturers ''''' was a 34-volume, 3 section buying guide offering sourcing information on industrial products and services, along with comprehensive specifications and detailed product information from thousands of manufacturers. The Thomas Regional Directory Company began as a division of Thomas Publishing in 1976. Thomas Regional Regional Industrial Buying Guides provided information in print and on CD-ROM, on local OEMs, distributors, MRO services and other custom manufacturing services in 19 regional editions covering much of the United States. Thomas Register and Thomas Regional were available online from the mid 1990s. The company stopped publishing its print products in 2006.
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==Thomas Publishing Company, LLC==
Thomas Publishing Company, LLC of [[New York City]] has been [[privately held]] since its inception. It used independent representatives to sell advertising space around its listings in print products like the Thomas Register and the Thomas Industrial Regional Directories, and these representatives continue to sell Internet related products to manufacturers, distributors, and other companies.
==ThomasNet==
ThomasNet is an information and technology company based in New York City. In April 2006 the [[New York Public Library]] named ThomasNet.com as one of its [http://www.nypl.org/branch/books/index2.cfm?ListID=300 25 Best of Reference] sources for the [[reference librarian]], and is currently listed in their [http://www.nypl.org/weblinks/1382 Best of the Web] list for Industry Information.
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Starting in 2010, ThomasNet began reaching out to its database of manufacturers to get a better understanding of where the community was, where their shortcomings were, and where they saw the landscape going in the future. This yearly survey is called the Industry Market Barometer.
==References==
== External links ==▼
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* {{Official website}}
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000520052 ''Thomas register of American manufacturers''] at the [[HathiTrust]]
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