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File Description [top]

The Gale Group F&S Index^TM covers both domestic and international company, product, and industry information. The database contains information on corporate acquisitions and mergers, new products, technological developments, and sociopolitical factors. Also included are analyses of companies by securities firms, forecasts of company sales and profits by company officers, and reports on factors influencing future sales and earnings (such as price changes, government antitrust actions, sales and licensing agreements, and joint venture agreements).

Over 2,500 newspapers, trade journals, government documents, bank letters, prospectuses, and reports from around the world are surveyed regularly for business-related articles. In addition, information from news releases is added to the file.

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Subject Coverage [top]

• Alliances and partnerships
• Contracts and orders
• Corporate acquisitions and mergers
• Facilities management
• Government regulation
• Legal issues and crime
• Marketing procedures
• Natural resources
• New products
• Product quality and development
• Sales, profits, and dividends
• Technological developments
• Sociopolitical elements
• Factors influencing future sales and earnings
• Factors affecting future product demand, end uses, and production
• Trends in business and finance, corporate management, and labor relations

Print Counterparts [top]

• Predicasts F&S Index United States
• Predicasts F&S Index Europe
• Predicasts F&S Index International

Dialog File Data [top]

Related Search Aids [top]

Codes for use with Gale Group Databases, can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/galecodes/

Database Content [top]

• Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Journal Articles
• Newspaper Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• DIALOG Alert Available
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
• CURRENT Feature Available
• Online Thesaurus (ownership thesaurus)

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

These Databases (the "Databases") are copyrighted by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. The Gale Databases are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Neither Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, nor any of its data suppliers make any warranty whatsoever as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the Databases or the results to be obtained from using the information contained therein and neither Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, nor any of its data suppliers shall be responsible for any claims attributable to errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in the information contained in any Gale Databases. The entire risk as to the results and performance of any Gale Database is assumed by the user of that Database. Further, neither Gale nor any of its data suppliers make any representations or warranties either express or implied, with respect to any of the Databases, including, but not limited to, the quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of any Gale Database or any information contained therein. In no event shall Gale or any of its data suppliers be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use any Gale Database or for any loss or damage of any nature caused to any person as a result of the use of the Database. Material contained in any Database may not be sold. Material contained in any Database may not be made available in any manner whatsoever to a third party or duplicated, redistributed or archived except solely for the customer's own internal use and according only to (1) the Terms & Conditions in Dialog's Standard Service Agreement and (2) the terms and conditions contained below.

A user may not:

- redistribute, copy or electronically store (archive) all or a majority of records from a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases.

- electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form for more than twelve (12) months records or data retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG archival feature.

- delete or remove from a record or data the copyright credits or the name of the Database from which such record or data was retrieved.

- republish, distribute or make available in any manner whatsoever to third parties who are not part of the user's organization records or data retrieved from the Databases.

- use any records or data to create a derivative work except for a compilation of electronically stored data for internal use only.

- electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than fifteen (15) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG redistribution feature (non-archival storage use).

- redistribute, copy or electronically store (REDIST, COPIES or ARCHIVE commands) materials retrieved from the Newsletter Database^TM, or from the following journals:

Journal of the American Medical Association

Archives of Internal Medicine

American Medical News

- redistribute, copy or electronically store (REDIST, COPIES or ARCHIVE commands) more than 500 copies of a record without permission from Dialog and Gale, a part of Cengage Learning.

Notwithstanding the above restrictions, a bona fide information broker may make and provide one copy of search results obtained from the Databases to a single customer outside that information broker's organization provided that such information broker notifies such single customer that the information is copyrighted material which can be used for internal purposes only and cannot be copied, sold or republished.

IF THERE IS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND Dialog's CUSTOMER SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ANY ADDITIONAL TERMS ON REDISTRIBUTION AND ARCHIVE USES, THE ABOVE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SHALL GOVERN. ANY OTHER USE OF THE DATABASES WITHOUT EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

² Also /DF.

³ Includes SIC description, NAICS description, and Event Name.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁴ Also searchable using CC= and CN=.

⁵ Codes are not cascaded; use truncation to search higher levels of codes, e.g., S EC=33?

⁶ Codes are cascaded and may be searched at any level from 2 to 7 digits, e.g., S PC=20.

⁷ EXPAND SF= for a list of entries. Special Feature will cease indexing as of 15 March 2002, but backfile data will remain online.

⁸ ISSN is only available in records from 1987 to the present.

⁹ Includes Journal Name, Publication Date, Page Number, and ISSN.

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SORT [top]

RANK [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Gale Group F&S Index™[18]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $5.58
Cost per minute:                   $1.95
Report Elements                    $0.00
LOB Reports                        $0.00
SHARE Reports                      $0.00
CROSSTAB Report Records            $0.00
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $15.75
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $28.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $21.00
ALERT (Weekly)                    $15.75
ALERT (Daily)                  *   $4.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $15.75
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $4.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.50    $1.50
     3    $1.50    $1.50
     4    $5.00    $5.00
     5    $5.00    $5.00
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $5.00    $5.00
     8    $0.17    $0.17
     9    $5.00    $5.00
KWIC95    $0.40       NA
KWIC96    $0.40       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:
      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00