AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE [38]

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America: History and Life

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, May 01, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: March 30, 2006

Bluesheet Contents PDF version

File Description	Print Counterparts	Special Features	Sample Record	Sort
Subject Coverage	Dialog File Data	DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories	Basic Index	Rank
Sources	Document Types Indexed	Contact	Additional Indexes	Predefined Format Options
Tips	Geographic Coverage	Terms and Conditions	Limit	Rates

File Description [top]

America: History and Life (AHL) is a comprehensive file including abstracting and indexing of the full range of U.S. and Canadian history, area studies, and current affairs literature. The database corresponds to the print America: History and Life which is produced by ABC-CLIO.

AHL includes coverage of history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest, and history-related topics in the social sciences and humanities.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 38

to search literature on U.S. and Canadian history.

USE /DE

to search for a subject:

SELECT PRAIRIE PROVINCES/DE

USE HP=

to search for Historical Period:

S HP=1800H

USE RANK

to find additional descriptors:

SELECT HOMESTEADERS RANK DE

USE SORT

to sort articles:

SELECT DRY(W)FARM? SORT S1/ALL/TI

Subject Coverage [top]

American Studies
Bibliography
Cultural History
Economic History
Ethnic Studies
Family History
Folklore
History of Ideas
Historiography and Methodology
Indian-White Relations
International Relations
Libraries and Archives
Local History
Military History
Oral History
Prehistory
Politics and Government
Popular Culture
Religious History
Science, Technology, and Medicine
Teaching of History
Urban Affairs
Women's Studies

Sources [top]

AHL abstracts articles selected from approximately 2,100 international journals in the social sciences and humanities, including local, state, and special-interest journals. AHL also cites book, film, and video reviews from 142 scholarly journals, and dissertations from Dissertation Abstracts International.

Print Counterparts [top]

America: History and Life

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	1954 to 2005
File Size:	506,546 records as of April 2006
Update Frequency:	Closed

Document Types Indexed [top]

Audiovisual Media
Books and Monographs
Journal Articles
Theses and Dissertations

Geographic Coverage [top]

US Only

Geographic Restrictions [top]

None

Special Features [top]

ERA Available
Graduate Education Program
DIALOG Alert Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
CURRENT Feature Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
HISTORY	History
HUMANIT	Humanities
POLISCI	Political Science

Contact [top]

America: History and Life is produced by ABC-CLIO. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

ABC-CLIO
Judith Peres
Online Services Coordinator
P.O. Box 1911
Santa Barbara, CA 93116-1911

Telephone:	800/422-2546 ext. 166 805/968-1911 ext. 166
Fax:	805/685-9685

Terms and Conditions [top]

Database copyrighted by ABC-CLIO, Inc.

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`File 38:America:History & Life 1963-1997`
	`(c) 2002 ABC CLIO Inc.`

AN=, JA=	`950008 26-8`
/TI	`AMERICAN HOMESTEADERS AND THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES, 1899 AND 1909.`
AU=	`Percy, Michael B ; Woroby, Tamara`
JN=, PY=	`Explorations in Economic History 1987 24(1): 77-100.`
	`NOTE: Based on published census records and other public`
	`documents; 2 fig., 3 tables, 12 notes, ref., appendix.`
DT=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: ARTICLE`
/AB	`ABSTRACT: The out-migration of American homesteaders to the`
	`Canadian prairies is best explained by human-capital`
	`investments in wheat farming in 1899 and 1909 and by the`
	`techniques of dry farming in 1899. Canadian promotional`
	`expenditures also contributed to higher rates of out-migration.`
	`High tenancy rate and low agricultural wages in the United`
	`States were not important contributors to out-migration. (P. J.`
	`Coleman )`
/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: Prairie Provinces ; USA ; Homesteading and`
	`Homesteaders ; Agriculture ; 1894-1913 ; Migration`
HP=	`HISTORICAL PERIOD: 1890D 1900D 1910D 1800H 1900H`
HS=	`HISTORICAL PERIOD (Starting): 1894`
HE=	`HISTORICAL PERIOD (Ending): 1913`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S PRAIRIE(W)PROVINCE?
/AB	AB	Abstract	Word	S OUT(W)MIGRATION/AB
/DE	DE	Descriptor^1,2,3	Word & Phrase	S PRAIRIE(W)PROVINCES/DE S MIGRATION/DE
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S AMERICAN(W)HOMESTEAD?/TI

¹Also /DF.

²For records from 1974 to the present.

³Only descriptors without punctuation are phrase searchable. Descriptors with punctuation must be searched using proximity operators.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AN=	AN	AHL Accession Number	Phrase	S AN=26-8
None	AN	DIALOG Accession Number
AU=	AU	Author	Phrase	S AU=PERCY, MICHAEL?
None	BR	Book Review
CP=	CP	Country of Publication⁴	Word & Phrase	S CP=(GREAT(W)BRITAIN) S CP=HONG KONG
DT=	DT	Document Type	Phrase	S DT=ARTICLE
HE=	HE	Historical Period (Ending)²	Phrase	S HE=1913
HP=	HP	Historical Period⁵	Phrase	S HP=1890D
HS=	HS	Historical Period (Starting)²	Phrase	S HS=1894
JA=	JA	Journal Announcement	Phrase	S JA=26
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
LA=	LA	Language⁶	Phrase	S LA=GERMAN
None	NT	Note
PU=	PU	Publisher	Word	S PU=SMITHSONIAN
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1987
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999

⁴Since 1978, the country of publication is identified for non-U.S. publishers.

⁵For records from 1979 to the present.

⁶For records for documents in non-English languages indexed from 1980 to the present.

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
Sets and terms may be limited by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /AB, /DE, /DF, /TI (e.g., S S3/TI), as well as by Publication Year, e.g., S S2/1988.
/ABS	Abstract Present	S S2/ABS
/ENG	English-Language Records	S S3/ENG
/NOABS	No Abstract Present	S S1/NOABS
/NOENG	Non-English-language records	S S4/NOENG
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S5/1999:2002

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AU, JN, PY, TI	SORT S5/ALL//PY/D SORT S1/1-20/TI

RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS	EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. Other RANK codes include: DE	RANK AU S3 RANK DE

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables.	TYPE S3/AU,TI,HP/1-5 PRINT S1/AU,TI,AB/ALL

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	--	Full Record except Abstract
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation
4	--	Title and Abstract
5	--	Full Record
6	Short	Title and Publication Year
7	Long	Full Record except Indexing and Historical Periods
8	Free	Title, Indexing, Historical Periods, and Publication Year
9	Full	Full Record

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number	TYPE 950008/5 DISPLAY 950008/7 PRINT 950376/9

Rates [top]

Rates For File: America: History and Life[38]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $2.42
Cost per minute:                   $0.80
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $0.75    $0.75
     3    $0.75    $0.75
     4    $0.75    $0.75
     5    $0.75    $0.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $0.75    $0.75
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $0.75    $0.75
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       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

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