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File Description [top]

The Gale Group National Newspaper Index^TM provides front-to-back indexing of the Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Sources also include PR Newswire, Japan Economic Newswire, Reuters Financial Report, The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine. All articles, news reports, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, product evaluations, biographical pieces, poetry, recipes, columns, cartoons and illustrations, and reviews are included. The only items not included are weather charts, stock market tables, crossword puzzles, and horoscopes. In addition, the Gale Group National Newspaper Index indexes national and international news stories written by the staff writers of the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. Other types of articles from these two papers are indexed selectively.

The Gale Group National Newspaper Index, particularly useful for answering general news and business questions, provides a valuable adjunct in such areas as market research, public relations, government relations, journalism, food and nutrition, and the social sciences.

Subject Coverage [top]

• Current Affairs, National and International
• Business and Economics
• Education, Cultural Events
• Health, Medicine
• Consumer Product Evaluation
• Society and the Individual
• Environmental Issues
• House and Home Activities
• Performing Arts, Literature
• Regional News
• Science, Technology, Agriculture
• Travel, Sports, Leisure

Sources [top]

Gale Group National Newspaper Index provides cover-to-cover indexing of America's most important national newspapers: the Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Database Content [top]

• Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Book Reviews
• Newspaper Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

• US Only

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]

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 Group 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 Group Databases. The entire risk as to the results and performance of any Gale Group Database is assumed by the user of that Database. Further, neither Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 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 Group Database or any information contained therein. In no event shall Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 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 Group 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.

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.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

³ Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.

⁴ Special Feature will cease indexing as of 15 March 2002, but backfile data will remain online.

SORT [top]

RANK [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Gale Group National Newspaper Index™[111]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $4.75
Cost per minute:                   $1.75
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $31.00
ALERT (Monthly)                   $31.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $23.00
ALERT (Weekly)                    $17.25
ALERT (Daily)                  *   $5.25
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $17.25
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $5.25
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     4    $2.50    $2.50
     5    $2.50    $2.50
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.50    $2.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $2.50    $2.50
KWIC95    $0.17       NA
KWIC96    $0.17       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