514 Information Services and Data Processing Services
Industries in the Information Services and Data Processing Services subsector group establishments providing information, storing information, providing access to information, and processing information. The main components of the subsector are news syndicates, libraries, archives, on-line information service providers, and data processors.
5141 Information Services
This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing information, storing information, and/or providing access to information.
51411 News Syndicates
514110 News Syndicates
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in supplying information, such as news reports, articles, pictures, and features, to the news media.
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| NAICS | SIC | Corresponding Index Entries |
|---|---|---|
| 514110 | 7383 | Feature syndicates (i.e., advice columns, comic, news) |
| 514110 | 7383 | News picture gathering and distributing services |
| 514110 | 7383 | News reporting services |
| 514110 | 7383 | News service syndicates |
| 514110 | 7383 | News ticker services |
| 514110 | 7383 | Newspaper feature syndicates |
| 514110 | 7383 | Syndicates, news |
| 514110 | 7383 | Traffic reporting services |
| 514110 | 7383 | Wire photo services |
| 514110 | 7383 | Wire services, news |
514120 Libraries and Archives
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing library or archive services. These establishments are engaged in maintaining collections of documents (e.g., books, journals, newspapers, and music) and facilitating the use of such documents (recorded information regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as are required to meet the informational, research, educational, or recreational needs of their user. These establishments may also acquire, research, store, preserve, and generally make accessible to the public historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audiovisual material, and other archival material of historical interest. All or portions of these collections may be accessible electronically.
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| NAICS | SIC | Corresponding Index Entries |
|---|---|---|
| 514120 | 8231 | Archives |
| 514120 | 8231 | Bookmobiles |
| 514120 | 8231 | Centers for documentation (i.e., archives) |
| 514120 | 8231 | Circulating libraries |
| 514120 | 7829 | Film archives |
| 514120 | 8231 | Lending libraries |
| 514120 | 8231 | Libraries (except motion picture stock footage, motion picture commercial distribution) |
| 514120 | 7829 | Motion picture film libraries, archives |
| 514120 | 8231 | Music archives |
| 514120 | 8231 | Reference libraries |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing information services (except news syndicates, libraries, and archives). Included in this industry are Internet service providers, on-line information access services, and telephone-based (i.e., toll call) information services. On-line information services establishments are engaged in the provision of direct access to computer-held information published by others via telecommunications networks. These establishments often provide electronic mail services, bulletin boards, browsers, and search routines.
514191 On-Line Information Services
This U.S. industry comprises Internet access providers, Internet service providers, and similar establishments primarily engaged in providing direct access through telecommunications networks to computer-held information compiled or published by others.
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| NAICS | SIC | Corresponding Index Entries |
|---|---|---|
| 514191 | 7375 | Information access services, on-line |
| 514191 | 7375 | Internet access providers |
| 514191 | 7375 | Internet service providers (ISP) |
| 514191 | 7375 | ISP (internet service providers) |
| 514191 | 7375 | On-line access service providers |
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing information services (except news syndicates, libraries, archives, and on-line information access). Activities performed by establishments in this industry include telephone-based information recordings and information search services on a contract basis.
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| NAICS | SIC | Corresponding Index Entries |
|---|---|---|
| 514199 | 7389 | Clipping services, news |
| 514199 | 8999 | Information search services, on a contract or fee basis |
| 514199 | 7389 | Press clipping services |
| 514199 | 8999 | Search services, information, on a contract or fee basis |
| 514199 | 7389 | Stock photo agencies |
| 514199 | 8999 | Telephone-based recorded information services |
51421 Data Processing Services
514210 Data Processing Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing electronic data processing services. These establishments may provide complete processing and preparation of reports from data supplied by customers; specialized services, such as automated data entry services; or may make data processing resources available to clients on an hourly or timesharing basis.
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| NAICS | SIC | Corresponding Index Entries |
|---|---|---|
| 514210 | 7374 | Automated data processing services |
| 514210 | 7374 | Computer input preparation services |
| 514210 | 7374 | Computer service bureaus |
| 514210 | 7374 | Computer time leasing |
| 514210 | 7374 | Computer time rental |
| 514210 | 7374 | Computer time sharing services |
| 514210 | 7374 | Data entry services |
| 514210 | 7374 | Data processing computer services |
| 514210 | 7374 | Data processing services (except payroll services, financial transition processing services) |
| 514210 | 7379 | Disk and diskette conversion services |
| 514210 | 7379 | Disk and diskette recertification services |
| 514210 | 7374 | Electronic data processing services |
| 514210 | 7389 | Microfilm recording and imaging services |
| 514210 | 7374 | Optical scanning services |