CANADIAN BUSINESS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS [262]

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Canadian Business and Current Affairs Fulltext

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Last Update To Bluesheet: March 1, 2005

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

File Description [top]

Canadian Business and Current Affairs Fulltext (CBCA Fulltext) provides indexing to more than 200,000 articles per year appearing in over 500 Canadian popular magazines and business periodicals, as well as eight daily newspapers. CBCA Fulltext provides coverage of a wide range of company, product, and industry information. The file contains abstracts for about 20,000 business articles per year from 1991 through 1994 and provides the full text for articles from over 100 of the periodicals and news sources covered in the bibliographic database, starting from 1993 to the present. Over 20,000 full-text articles are included each year.

The early database consisted of 3 subfiles: 1) Canadian Business Index (1982-1992); 2) Canadian News Index (1982-1992); and 3) Canadian Magazine Index (1985-1992). Records currently in the file are from the Canadian Index (1993 to date).

Tips [top]

LIMIT TO FULLTEXT ARTICLES

by using /FULLTEXT

S MOLSON(1W)BREWERIES/CO S S1/FULLTEXT

USE CO= or /CO

to search for company news

S CANADA(W)DEPOSIT(W)INSURANCE/CO S CO=GENERAL MOTORS?

USE JN=

to search for a journal name

S JN=CALVARY HERALD

USE RANK

to locate descriptors

S LOGGING AND ENVIRONMENT; RANK DE

Subject Coverage [top]

BUSINESS

Acquisitions and Mergers
Bankruptcies
Business Forecasts and Trends
Business Personalities
Company Activities
Government Activities
Industry News
Technological Trends

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Book Reviews
Crime
Education
Environment Issues
Performing Arts, Literature
Personalities
Politics
Regional, National, and International News
Sports, Travel, Leisure, and Entertainment

Print Counterparts [top]

Canadian Business Index
Canadian News Index
Canadian Magazine Index
Bibliography of Works on Canadian Foreign Relations
Canadian Index

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	1982 to the present
File Size:	4,677,002 records as of January 2006
Update Frequency:	Semi-Monthly (approximately 18,000 records per month)

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
Compact Disc Format Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
CANADANE	Canadian News
NEWSFILE	News, Archival

Contact [top]

Canadian Business and Current Affairs Fulltext is provided by Micromedia Limited. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

Micromedia Limited
20 Victoria Street
Toronto, M5C 2N8
Ontario, Canada

Telephone:	416-387-2689
800 Line:	800-387-2689
Telex:	065-24668 416-362-6161 (Fax)

Terms and Conditions [top]

Database copyrighted by Micromedia Limited. Data may not be be duplicated in hard copy or machine-readable form without written authorization from the database supplier.

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 262:Canadian Bus. & Current Affairs Fulltext`
	`(c) 1995 Micromedia Ltd. All rts. reserv.`

	`03216518 THIS IS THE FULLTEXT `
/TI	`Truckers, start your engines! Canamex North American Transportation`
	`Corridor: trucking regulations eliminated from Alberta south`
	`through California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana and Idaho to`
	`Mexico`
JN=, PD=, PY=	`Western Report v.21(28) June 27, 1994 9(22) pg 9`
RT=	`RECORD TYPE: FULLTEXT`
WD=	`WORD COUNT: 2,056`

/TX, /LP	`The governments of Alberta and Mexico and the American states`
	`of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana, and Idaho formally`
	`agreed earlier this month to eliminate all variations in trucking`
	`regulations between their jurisdictions. The agreement is part`
	`of an attempt by these governments to create a trucking corridor`
	`that will enable their manufacturers to take full advantage of`
	`the North American Free Trade Agreement. The common standards`
	`along the proposed route, called the Canamex North American`
	`Transportation Corridor, will reduce costs and speed up north -`
	`south traffic.`

/TX	`The corridor, from Edmonton to Mexico City, passes into the`
	`United States at Coutts, Alta., and then follows Interstate 15`
	`through Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona before branching off`
	`in two directions -- California and Mexico -- just outside Las`
	`Vegas, Nev. Already about 300 trucks pass from Alberta to`
	`Montana along this route every day or about 110,000 trucks a`
	`year. Alberta Economic Development, which just completed a`
	`thorough study of the corridor, estimates it handles about $ 4`
	`billion worth of goods.`

	`Under current regulations, truckers are burdened with eight`
	`different length and weight rules along Interstate 15. Both`
	`Alberta and the U.S., for instance, allow 53 - foot`
	`semi - trailers although Mexico prohibits trailers longer than`
	`48 feet. Mexico also prohibits so - called "rocky mountain`
	`doubles," which are a combination of one 48 - foot trailer and a`
	`27 - foot trailer, allowed in both the U.S. and Alberta.`
	`Likewise, Alberta has a weight limit of 88,000 lbs. on all`
	`truck loads in the province, while most states have a limit`
	`of 99,000 lbs., and Mexico a limit of 97,000.`
	`.`
	`.`
	`.`

SF=	`SPECIAL FEATURES: Graphic`
/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: Trucking industry - International aspects; Trucking`
	`industry - Laws and regulations; Interprovincial trade`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S TRUCK?(W)REGULAT?
/AB	AB	Abstract¹	Word	S TRUCKING(W)REGULATIONS/AB
/CO	CO	Company Name²	Word	S ALBERTA(W)SUGAR/CO
/DE	DE	Descriptor³	Word & Phrase	S TRUCKING(W)INDUSTRY/DE S INTERPROVINCIAL TRADE/DE
/LP	LP	Lead Paragraph	Word	S TRUCKING(W)CORRIDOR/LP
/NA	NM	Named Person²	Word	S WRIGHT(1N)JERRY/NA
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S CANAMEX/TI
/TN	TN	Trade Name^2,4	Word	S SUDBURY(W)STAR/TN
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S WEIGHT(S)RULE?/TX

¹Abstracts included from January 1991 through December 1994.

²Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

³Also /DF.

⁴Not present after 6/2004.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AU=	AU	Author	Phrase	S AU=TAFLER, SID
AV=	AV	Availability⁴	Word	S AV=(ONTARIO(W)SECURITIES)
None	AZ	DIALOG Accession Number
BN=	BN	International Standard Book Number (ISBN)	Phrase	S BN=0-00-215433-1
CO=	CO	Company Name²	Phrase	S CO=ALBERTA SUGAR?
CS=	CS	Corporate Source⁴	Word	S CS=(HOUSE(S)COMMONS)
DT=	DT	Document Type⁵	Word	S DT=JOURNAL?
JN=	JN	Journal/Newspaper Name	Phrase	S JN=WESTERN REPORT
LA=	LA	Language⁵	Phrase	S LA=ENGLISH
NA=	NM	Named Person²	Phrase	S NA=WRIGHT, JERRY
NO=	NO	Company Number	Phrase	S NO=CA011083
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=19940627
PU=	PU	Publisher⁴	Word	S PU=(ACADIA(W)UNIVERSITY)
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1994
RT=	RT	Record Type	Phrase	S RT=FULLTEXT
SE=	SE	Series⁴	Word	S SE=(CAHIERS(1W)CETAI)
SF=	SF	Special Feature⁴	Word & Phrase	S SF=GRAPHIC S SF=COMPANY PROFILE
None	SO	Source Information⁶
TN=	TN	Trade Name^2,4	Phrase	S TN=SUDBURY STAR
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999
WD=	WD	Word Count	Numeric	S WD<1000

⁵Beginning in May 2004.

⁶Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
Sets and terms may be limited by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /AB, /CO, /DE, /DF, /LP, /NA, /NT, /TI, /TN, /TX (e.g., S S5/DE), as well as by the following features:
/ABS	Citations with Abstracts¹	S S1/ABS
/FULLTEXT	Fulltext records only	S S3/FULLTEXT
/NOABS	Citations without Abstracts¹	S S3/NOABS
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S2/1987

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AU, JN, PD, PY, TI	SORT S13/ALL/AU/PD PRINT S5/5/1-24/PD

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

MAP [top]

MAP FIELDS	EXAMPLES
NO	MAP NO TEMP S5

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


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

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	--	Bibliographic Citation, Word Count, and Indexing
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4	--	Bibliographic Citation and Abstract/Lead Paragraph
5	Long	Full Record except Text (includes Lead Paragraph)
6	Free	Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7	--	Bibliographic Citation and Abstract/Lead Paragraph
8	Short	Title, Publication Date, Word Count, 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 02467598/9 DISPLAY 02463372/AU,TI PRINT 02446586/2

Rates [top]

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       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

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