The Encyclopedia of Associations (EA) is a comprehensive directory of more than 20,000 associations, societies, and other non-profit membership organizations in the United States of America.
Originally titled the Encyclopedia of American Associations, EA was created by Frederick Gale Ruffner, Jr. in 1954 while he was working as a market researcher in Detroit, Michigan.
More than 140 scholarly articles have made use of EA."An Annotated Bibliography of Articles Using the Encyclopedia of Associations" - Retrieved October 3, 2014.
Past extracts from EA have included "Organized Obsessions"- Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 92219621 and the "Gale Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Associations".- Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 95649648
A detailed history of EA is available in an article in Distinguished Classics of Reference Publishing.- Tobin, Carol M. "The Book that Built Gale Research: The Encyclopedia of Associations." Distinguished Classics of Reference Publishing- Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 91033629
See also Gale Research Frederick Gale Ruffner, Jr.
References
External links Gale website