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Pharmaceutical News Index (PNI®)

Last Loaded on Web: Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 23, 2008

Bluesheet Contents     PDF version

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


File Description [top]

Pharmaceutical News Index (PNI®) is the online source of current news about pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, medical devices, and related health fields. PNI cites and indexes all articles from the publications listed in the SOURCES section below on the following topics: drugs; corporation and industry sales, mergers, acquisitions, etc.; government legislation, regulations, and court action. It covers requests for proposals; research grant applications; industry speeches; press releases; and other news items.



Tips [top]

USE FILE 42

to search current news about pharmaceuticals and related health fields.

USE /DE

to search for a subject:

     SELECT CLINICAL LABORATORIES/DE

USE JN=

to search for a Journal Name:

     S JN=CLINICAL LAB LETTER

USE RANK

to find additional descriptors:

     SELECT COST(W)ANALYSIS
      RANK DE

USE /YEAR LIMIT

to limit a search to recent articles:

     SELECT S3/1999:2001


Subject Coverage [top]

  • FDA (Food and Drug Administration) recalls
  • Health legislation and policy making
  • Pharmaceuticals research
  • Over-the-counter and prescription markets
  • Drug and device approvals
  • Litigation and court decisions
  • Market analyses
  • Biotechnology updates
  • R&D in progress
  • Veterinary pharmeaceuticals
  • Livestock disease news
  • Personnel changes
  • Corporate financial information
  • NDA (New Drug Applications) approvals
  • Acquisitions and mergers
  • Government contracts
  • Joint ventures
  • Health and beauty aids
  • Advertising campaigns


Sources [top]

  • Animal Pharm World Animal Health News (UK) November 1984 (APH)
  • Applied Genetics News November 1984 (AGN)
  • Biomedical Business International November 1984 (BBI)
  • Biomedical Safety & Standards December 1987 (BIS)
  • Biomedical Technology Information Service December 1987 (BMT)
  • Clinica World Medical Device News (UK) December 1982 (CLN)
  • Clinical Lab Letter December 1987 (CLL)
  • Drug Research Reports: The Blue Sheet December 1975 (DRR)
  • FDC Reports: The Pink Sheet January 1974 (FDC)
  • FDC Reports: The Rose Sheet December 1984 (TFS)
  • Health Devices September 1984 (HED)
  • Medical Devices, Diagnostics, and Instrumentation Reports: The Gray Sheet December 1977 (MDD)
  • Pharma Japan (Japan) December 1982 (PHR)
  • PMA Newsletter Dec75-Nov77
  • Quality Control Reports: The Gold Sheet December 1977 (QCR)
  • Radiology & Imaging Letter December 1987 (RIL)
  • SCRIP World Pharmaceutical News (UK) December 1979 (SCR)
  • Technology Reimbursement Reports: The Beige Sheet February 1985 (TRR)
  • Washington Drug and Device Letter Dec75-Nov77
  • Weekly Pharmacy Reports: The Green Sheet December 1977 (WPR)


Print Counterparts [top]

  • Pharmaceutical News Index (ceased with Volume 9, November 12, 1984)


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: December 1974 to the present
File Size: 772,657 records as of August 2008
Update Frequency: Weekly


Database Content [top]

  • Bibliographic Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Newsletters


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


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
BIOBUS Biosciences and Biotechnology Industry
DRUGECON Pharmacoeconomics
PHARMIND Pharmaceutical Industry News
PHARMR Pharmacology + RINGDOC-Files
REGS Regulations


Contact [top]

Pharmaceutical News Index (PNI) is produced by ProQuest Information and Learning. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

ProQuest
789 E. Eisenhower Pkwy.
P. O. Box 1346
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346

Telephone: 734-761-4700 ext. 2513
800 Line: 800-889-3358
Fax: 734.997.4268
E-Mail: tsupport@proquest.com


Terms and Conditions [top]

Pharmaceutical News Index (PNI) is a registered trademark of ProQuest Information and Learning.

ABI/INFORM®, ONTAP® ABI/INFORM, Accounting & TaxTM Database, Banking Information SourceTM, Business Dateline®, Criminal Justice Periodical IndexTM, Dissertation Abstracts OnlineTM, Newspaper Abstracts DailyTM, Periodical Abstracts DailyTM, and Pharmaceutical News Index®. The databases listed above (the "Databases") contain copyrighted materials of ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors which retain sole ownership of these materials. Only fair use, as provided by the Copyright Act of 1976 is permitted. ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors make no warranties, express or implied, as to the Databases or the entries that constitute them, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or lost profits or other claims related to them or their use.

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 Database or a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases,
  • electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form material older than the most recent twelve-month period retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG ERA service archival feature,
  • delete or remove from any copyright notice or legend or the name of the Database from which data was retrieved,
  • republish, distrivute or make available in any manner whatsoever to third parties who are not part of the user's organization data retrieved archived 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, and
  • electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than ten (10) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG ERA service (non-archival storage).

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 42:Pharmaceutical News Index 
    (c) 2001 ProQuest Information and Learning. All rts. reserv. 
     
  AA=  00688431  59303277 
  /TI  Cost analysis software for labs uses advanced accounting principles 
  AU=  AUTHOR:  Loob , William 
  JN=, SO=  Clinical Lab Letter, v21, n15, p117-118, np2 
  MO=,PD=,PY=  September 1, 2000 
  CD=,DT=,JC=  CODEN:  CLNCD5  DOCUMENT TYPE:  Periodical; News  JOURNAL CODE:  CLS 
  LA=, RT=  LANGUAGE:  English  RECORD TYPE:  Citation 
    COPYRIGHT:  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Sep 1, 2000 
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  CostCrusher; TISMO; Switzerland; software; clinical 
      laboratories; diagnostics; Chi Laboratory Systems; distributors; audits; 
      information management; product introduction; cost analysis 
  SN=  ISSN:  0197-8454 
  SU=  PRINT MEDIA ID:  13021 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S PRIVATE(W)PATIENT?
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S COST(W)ANALYSIS/DE
S CLINICAL LABORATORIES/DE
/TI TI Title Word S ACCOUNTING(W)PRINCIPLE?/TI

1 Also /DF.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
AA= AA PNI Accession Number Phrase S AA=59303277
AU= AU Author Phrase S AU=LOOB, WILLIAM
None AZ DIALOG Accession Number
CD= CD CODEN2 Phrase S CD=CLNCD5
None CG Copyright
DT= DT Document Type Phrase S DT=PERIODICAL
JA= JA Journal Announcement3 Phrase S JA=V5N5
JC= JC Journal Code2 Phrase S JC=CLS
JN= JN Journal Name Phrase S JN=CLINICAL LAB LETTER
LA= LA Language Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
MO= MO Publication Month Phrase S MO=SEPTEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=20000901
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=2000
RT= RT Record Type Phrase S RT=CITATION
SN= SN International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Phrase S SN=0197-8454
SO= SO Source Information4,5 Word S SO=(CLINICAL(W)LAB(W)LETTER(W)V21)
SU= SU Print Media ID Phrase S SU=13021
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999

2 For records from 1979 forward.

3 Present in records from 1979-1985 only.

4 Search includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, and Pagination. Searching for a Volume Number requires selecting Volume Number together with "V", e.g., S SO=V12. Searching for an Issue Number requires selecting Issue Number together with "N", e.g., S SO=N101

5 Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, Number of Pages, and Publication Date.


LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/ DIALOG Accession Number S S3/78000001-80099999
/ENG English Language Records S S2/ENG
/NONENG Non-English Language Records S S1/NONENG
/YYYY Publication Year S S4/1999:2000


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
AA, AU, JN, PD, PY, TI SORT S3/ALL/PY/D
SORT S1/ALL/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 DE
RANK AU S3


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

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


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Full Record
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation
4 -- Full Record with Tagged Fields
5 -- Full Record
6 Short Title and Publication Date
7 Long Bibliographic Citation
8 Free Title, Indexing, and Publication Date
9 Full Full Record
K -- KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 88000950/5
DISPLAY 87019704/TI,SO
PRINT 87002487/4


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Pharmaceutical News Index (PNI®)[42]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $6.85
Cost per minute:                   $2.73
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                    $5.75
ALERT (Monthly)                   $17.25
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $17.25
ALERT (Weekly)                     $5.75
ALERT (Daily)                  *   $5.75
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *   $5.75
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $5.75
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.75    $2.75
     3    $2.75    $2.75
     4    $2.75    $2.75
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.75    $2.75
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $2.75    $2.75
KWIC95    $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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