READERS' GUIDE ABSTRACTS [141]

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Readers' Guide Abstracts

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

File Description [top]

Readers Guide Abstracts contains comprehensive abstracting and indexing for all 240 of the periodicals indexed in Readers Guide to Periodical Literature. Popular general interest magazines published in the United States and Canada are included. Types of materials include feature articles, news stories, cover stories, product evaluations, performing arts reviews, book reviews, fiction, short stories, and poems.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 141

to locate citations on a wide variety of topics.

EXPAND JN=

to see a list of journals and magazines indexed in the database.

USE DT=

to retrieve different document types including:

feature article, reviews, biography, etc.

To see a list of searchable entries, enter EXPAND DT=.

Subject Coverage [top]

Readers' Guide Abstracts covers such general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science. Subjects include:

Aeronautics
African-Americans
Aging
Astronomy
Automobiles
Biography
Business
Children
Computers
Consumer Education
Current Events
Education
Environment
Fashion
Film
Fine Arts
Food
Foreign Affairs
Health
History
Hobbies
Home
Journalism
Leisure Activities
Medicine
Music
News
Nutrition
Photography
Politics
Religion
Science
Sports
Television

Print Counterparts [top]

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	Indexing coverage from January 1983 ; Abstracting coverage from September 1984
File Size:	1,828,516 records
Update Frequency:	Closed

Document Types Indexed [top]

Journal 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

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
ARTS	Arts and Humanities
CONSUMER	Consumer Information
EDUCAT	Education
GENERALN	General News Files
GENMAGS	General Interest Magazines
HISTORY	History
HUMANIT	Humanities
LEISURE	Leisure/Recreation/Travel
PEOPLE	People
PHILOS	Philosophy and Religion
POLISCI	Political Science
PRODINFO	Product Information
PRODUCTS	Industrial and Consumer
PUBAFF	Public Affairs
REVIEWS	Book Reviews

Contact [top]

Readers' Guide Abstracts is provided by The H.W. Wilson Company. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

The H.W. Wilson Company
950 University Avenue
Bronx, NY 10452

Telephone:	800-367-6770
E-Mail:	techmail@hwwilson.com

Terms and Conditions [top]

Readers' Guide Abstracts is copyrighted by The H.W. Wilson Company. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online. The H.W. Wilson Company, Inc. make no warranties, express or implied, including as to fitness for any particular purpose, and will not be liable for claims, demands, or damages arising out of its Databases or their use.

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 141:Readers Guide`
	`(c) 2006 The HW Wilson Co. All rts. reserv.`

AA=	`5419344 H.W. WILSON RECORD NUMBER: BRGA04155904`
/TI	`Temple Bar Comes Home`
AU=	`Lucas, John`
JN=,SO=,PD=,PY=	`History Today v. 54 no11 (November 2004) p. 5-6`
DT=,SN=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: Feature Article ISSN: 0018-2753`
LA=	`LANGUAGE: English`
CN=	`COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United Kingdom`
RT=,ST=	`RECORD TYPE: Abstract RECORD STATUS: New record`

/AB	`ABSTRACT: Christopher Wren's Temple Bar has come back to London after over`
	`120 years of exile in Hertfordshire. For 200 years until 1878, Temple Bar`
	`was situated where Fleet Street met the Strand and was originally`
	`constructed at the behest of Charles II and finished in 1672. By the`
	`1870s, however, horse traffic had increased in the Strand and Fleet`
	`Street, and the Bar formed a bottleneck and an obstacle to the rebuilding`
	`of the adjacent Law Courts. The Bar was demolished in 1878, but the stones`
	`were later bought by Sir Henry Meux who rebuilt it to impress guests at his`
	`house and estate at Theobalds, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. In 2001,`
	`however, a new site opportunity arose in the shape of Paternoster Square,`
	`beside St Paul's, and this presented a perfect site; the City Corporation`
	`recognised the opportunity offered by the new square to re-site the Bar and`
	`promised to pay the bill of around L 4 million.`

	`DESCRIPTORS:`
/DE	`Temple Bar Historic Site (London, England)`
/NM,NM=	`NAMED PERSONS: Wren, Christopher--Sir--1632-1723--English architect`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S HISTORIC(W)SITE?
/AB	AB	Abstract	Word	S FLEET(W)STREET/AB
/CO	CO	Company Name^1,2	Word	S SAMSUNG(W)ELECTRONICS?/CO
/DE	DE	Descriptor³	Word & Phrase	S TEMPLE(W)BAR/DE S TEMPLE BAR HISTORIC SITE?/DE
/GN	GN	Geographic Name^1,2	Word	S UNITED(W)STATES/GN
/NM	NM	Named Person^1,2	Word	S WREN(W)CHRISTOPHER/NM
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S TEMPLE(W)BAR/TI

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

²Also indexed /DE, /DF.

³Also /DF.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AA=	AA	H.W. Wilson Record Control Number	Phrase	S AA=BRGA04155904
AU=	AU	Author	Phrase	S AU=LUCAS, JOHN?
None	AZ	DIALOG Accession Number
BN=	BN	International Standard Book Number (ISBN)⁴	Phrase	S BN=0688086179
CN=	CN	Country of Publication	Phrase	S CN=UNITED STATES
CO=	CO	Company Name^1,2	Phrase	S CO=SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS?
DT=	DT	Document Type	Phrase	S DT=FEATURE ARTICLE
ED=	ED	Edition⁵	Phrase	S ED=LATE NEW YORK?
GN=	GN	Geographic Name^1,2	Phrase	S GN=UNITED STATES
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=HISTORY TODAY
LA=	LA	Language	Phrase	S LA=ENGLISH
NC=	NC	NAICS Code⁵	Phrase	S NC=211111
NM=	NM	Named Person^1,2	Phrase	S NM=WREN, CHRISTOPHER?
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=20041100
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=2004
RT=	RT	Record Type	Phrase	S RT=ABSTRACT
SF=	SF	Special Feature	Phrase	S SF=ILLUSTRATION
SN=	SN	International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)	Phrase	S SN=0018-2753
SO=	SO	Source Information	Word	S SO=HISTORY S SO=(V(W)54)
ST=	ST	Record Status	Word & Phrase	S ST=(NEW(W)RECORD) S ST=NEW RECORD
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999
None	UR	URL⁵

⁴Included in Book Review records only.

⁵Present from 2006 forward.

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
/ENG	English-Language Records	S S3/ENG
/NEW	Records New to the Database	S S7/NEW
/NONENG	Non-English-Language Records	S S6/NONENG
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S2/2005:2006

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AU, JN, PD, PY, TI	SORT S51/ALL/PY PRINT S5/5/1-24/AU

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

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


User-defined formats can be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables.	TYPE S3/TI,PY/1-5

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	--	Full Record except Abstract
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation
4	--	Bibliographic Citation and Abstract
5	--	Full Record
6	Free	Title and Publication Date
7	Long	Full Record except Indexing
8	Short	Title, Publication Date, and Indexing
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 00123456/5 DISPLAY 00654321/AU,TI PRINT 50301964/9

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Readers' Guide Abstracts[141]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $5.37
Cost per minute:                   $1.68
Rank Elements                      $0.00

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    $5.00    $5.00
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $5.00    $5.00
KWIC95    $0.35       NA
KWIC96    $0.35       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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