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New Scientist

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, April 01, 2013

Last Update To Bluesheet: June 23, 2010

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Subject Coverage Database Content DIALINDEX/OneSearch Categories Basic Index Rank
Tips Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Predefined Format Options
Print Counterparts Geographic Coverage Terms and Conditions Limit Rates


File Description [top]

New Scientist, is the global authority on science and technology news. Written by the largest international network of award-winning science journalists, New Scientist provides an exiciting, enlightening read while explaining the social, economic, and environmental consequences of the latest research.


Each week New Scientist breaks the world's science news, provides hard-hitting opinion pieces, focusing on a wide range of issues such as cloning, quantum physics, marijuana, the digital revolution, GM foods, global warming, the universe and time. The articles are concise, highly factual and explain all you need to know about the biggest scientific issues of today in an accessible and eminently readable style, and because of this New Scientist is a must read for anyone interested in the scientific and technological advances of tomorrow.


New Scientist magazine and its website NewScientist.com have won over 40 awards including the British Society of Magazine Editors Award of the year 1997, the PPA Chairman of Judges' Award for Consistent Excellence in 1997, the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award in 1997 and the American Society for Microbiology Communications Award in 1998.


The database contains the complete text of every article published in New Scientist with the exception of the advertisments and the appointments sections.



Tips [top]

USE FILE 369

to locate articles about the latest science and technology news; to track the development of new technologies; to follow the latest in medical research.

USE /TI

to search words appearing in the Title field.

     S MARS(W)PROBE/TI

USE SH=, /SH

to find an article published in a desired section.

     S THIS(W)WEEK/SH
      S SH=IN BRIEF

USE AU=

to search articles written by particular authors.

     S AU=JUDGE, MICHAEL?

USE /TX

to search for terms appearing in text section.

USE THE S operator

to ensure the terms appear in the same paragraph.

     S METAL(W)FOAM?(S)ALUMINUM/TX

USE FORMAT 9

for the complete text of all articles.

     T S1/9/1


Subject Coverage [top]

New Scientist covers every aspect of science and technology, including the following topics:

  • Agriculture
  • Astronomy
  • Biotechnology
  • Computers and the Digital Revolution
  • Ecology
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Evolution
  • General Scientific News
  • Medical Research
  • Medicine
  • Oceans
  • Space Exploration
  • Telecommunications
  • Technology


Print Counterparts [top]

New Scientist


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: 1994 to May 2010
File Size: 59,188 records
Update Frequency: Closed (Approximately 70 records per update)


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Journal Articles


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • International


Special Features [top]


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
ASTRON Astronomy
BIOCHEM Biochemistry
BIOSCI Biosciences
BIOTECH Biotechnology
CHEMLIT Chemical Literature
ENERGY Energy
ENERGYA Energy Files + Ei EnCompass files
ENERGYP Energy Files + TULSA
ENVIRON Environment
MATERIAL Materials
MEDICINE Medicine
PHYSICS Physics
SCITECH Science and Technology


Contact [top]

New Scientist is provided by Reed Business Information Ltd. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

Reed Business Information Ltd
Contact: Angela Bourton
151 Wardour Street
London, W1F 8WE
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 0207-331-2735
E-Mail: Enquiries@newscientist.com


Terms and Conditions [top]

New Scientist is copyrighted by the Reed Business Information Ltd. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online.


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 369:NEW SCIENTIST 
    (c) 2000 Reed Business Information Ltd. All rts. reserv. 
     
  AA=  00000046 16522274.600  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI, /XF  Caught napping 
  AU=, CS=  CLAYTON, JULIE; Bristol ; Julie Clayton is a freelance writer and BBC 
    website producer based in Bristol 
  JN=, SO=  New Scientist, vol. 165, no. 2227, 42 
  PD=, PY=  February 26, 2000 
  SN=  ISSN:  0262-4079 
  LA=, RT=, DT=  LANGUAGE:  English  RECORD TYPE:  Fulltext  DOC. TYPE: Journal 
  /SH, SH=, /XF  SECTION HEADING:  Features 
  WD=  WORD COUNT:      2309 
     
  /AB,/LP,/TX,/XF,/XT  TEXT:    Depression, Parkinson's and obsessive compulsive disorder may have 
    a common cause. They could all be triggered when a tiny part of the brain 
    dozes off, as Julie Clayton explains 
          MIEKO had no quality of life any more, says her surgeon Ali Rezai 
    from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. For 15 years, she'd coped with 
    Parkinson's disease, but then her medication began to fail her, and she 
    found herself alternating between the uncontrollable wild movements created 
    by her drugs and being locked motionless. 
     
  /TX      For Antonia it was a different story. She had endured agonising pain 
    around her face for seven years since an operation to relieve the pressure 
    of a blood vessel against a nerve. Drugs did nothing. Last month, both 
    found instant relief when Rezai implanted a small electronic pacemaker-like 
    device deep inside their brains. 
          Such devices appear to work by interrupting the excessive neuronal 
    firing that causes chronic pain or by smoothing out the strange rhythmical 
    brain activity that causes rigidity and tremors, much as a heart pacemaker 
    flattens the unusual beat rhythms of a fibrillating heart. They aren't a 
    new way of dealing with pain or Parkinson's disease--stimulating the spine 
    to interrupt pain signals was first used in the 1960s. But, if a 
    controversial new theory is correct, surgeons like Rezai may soon be 
    getting ready to fit these "pacemakers" in a whole new group of patients 
    with psychiatric conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and 
    depression, or desperately distracting sensations such as ringing in the 
    ears (tinnitus) or schizophrenic hallucinations. 
          According to Rodolfo Llinas, a neuroscientist at the New York Medical 
    Center, and Daniel Jeanmonod, a neurosurgeon at the University Hospital in 
    Zurich, these conditions are united by a common feature. The researchers 
    believe that they are all characterised by strange, slow rhythms of neural 
    activity originating in a walnut-sized brain region called the thalamus. 
          This activity, they say, looks just as though one tiny part of the 
    brain has fallen asleep. The resulting disruption in the flow of signals to 
    the rest of the brain would produce the abnormal patterns of activity that 
    could account for bizarre perceptions and neurological symptoms as 
    wide-ranging as tinnitus and depression. 
          Until recently, the thalamus was considered to be no more than a 
    simple relay station sitting at the top of the brainstem, controlling the 
    flow of information from our senses to the brain's outer cortex. But 
    interest in the region has grown since neuroscientists discovered that when 
    we're awake, it is working overtime, passing on and modifying fast "gamma" 
    rhythms of activity to the cortex that seem to equate to conscious 
    perception  (XREF AA="16422104.60 (New Scientist, 30 October 1999, p 28). 
     
    (. . .) 
     
     
  /CR, /XF  References and Notes: 
       Further reading: Thalamocortical   dysrhythmia  by Rodolfo R. Llinas 
    and others,  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 97, p15 
    222 (1999)   For more about thalamocortical circuits see 
    http://info.med.yale.edu/neurobio/mccormick/mccormick1.html 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S CLEVELAND(W)CLINIC
/AB AB Abstract1 Word S OBSESSIVE(1W)DISORDER/AB
/CR CR Cited Reference2 Word S THALAMOCORTICAL(W)DYSRHYTHMIA/CR
/LP LP Lead Paragraph Word S PARKINSON?(1W)DISEASE/LP
/SH SH Section Heading3 Word S FEATURES/SH
/TI TI Title Word S CAUGHT(W)NAPPING/TI
/TX TX Text Word S BRAIN(W)ACTIVITY/TX
/XF None All Basic Index Fields Except Full Text Word S COMMON(W)CAUSE?/XF
/XT XT Extract1 Word S QUALITY(1W)LIFE/XT

1 Abstract and Extract are both searched using /AB or /XT.

2 Use the S operator (S) between terms that are within the same reference.

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


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
AA= AA New Scientist Accession Number Phrase S AA=16522274.600
AU= AU Author Phrase S AU=BRENNER, MICHAEL?
None AZ DIALOG Accession Number
CS= CS Corporate Source Word
& Phrase		 S CS=(FREELANCE(W)WRITER)
S CS=JULIE CLAYTON?
DT= DT Document Type Phrase S DT=JOURNAL
JN= JN Journal Name Phrase S JN=NEW SCIENTIST
LA= LA Language Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=20000226
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=2000
RT= RT Record Type Phrase S RT=FULLTEXT
SH= SH Section Heading3 Phrase S SH=FEATURES
SN= SN International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Phrase S SN=0262-4079
S SN=02624079
SO= SO Source Information4 Word S SO=(NEW(W)SCIENTIST)
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
WD= WD Word Count Numeric S WD>=500

4 Search includes Journal Name words, dates, volume, issue, and page numbers. Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.


LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/ENG English-Language Records S S1/ENG
/FULLTEXT Full Text S S2/FULLTEXT
/LONG Word Count of 1,000 words or more S S6/LONG
/NONENG Non-English Language Records S S3/NONENG
/SHORT Word Count of less than 1,000 words S S5/SHORT
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/1999:2000


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
AU, PD, PY, TI SORT S1/ALL/TI/D
SORT S2/ALL/PY/D


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK AU
RANK SH S4


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

Display codes listed in the Search Options tables can be used to customize output. TYPE S4/TI, AU, SH/1-5
PRINT S2/AU,TX/ALL


PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.
 DIALOGWEB
FORMAT		 RECORD CONTENT
1 -- DIALOG Accession Number
2 -- Bibliographic Citation and Indexing
3 Medium Bibliographic Citation
4 -- Full Record with Tagged Fields
5 Long Full Record Except Text
6 Short Title, Publication Date and Word Count
7 -- Full Record except Indexing
8 Free Title, Indexing, Publication Date and Word Count
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
If the accession number of a specific record is known, it cn be used to display the record directly. TYPE 00085603/9
DISPLAY 00056398/3,TX
PRINT 00095905/9


Rates [top]

Rates For File: New Scientist[369]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $4.46
Cost per minute:                   $1.83
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
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     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     4    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $2.00    $2.00
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.00    $2.00
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $5.00    $5.00
KWIC95    $0.17       NA
KWIC96    $0.18       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
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     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
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