EDUCATION ABSTRACTS [437]

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Education Abstracts

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Last Update To Bluesheet: February 9, 2006

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File Description	Database Content	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
Dialog File Data	Special Features	Sample Record	Sort

File Description [top]

Education Abstracts is a bibliographic database that cites every article of at least one column in length in more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books related to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. The database offers well-written, detailed abstracts describing the content and scope of the source periodical articles. Abstracts, available in approximately 67% of records since abstracting began in 1994, range from 50 to 150 words each.

Education Abstracts helps users keep up with the latest concepts,trends, opinions, theories, and methodologies in the field of education.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 437

to locate articles on a wide range of topics in the field of education and keep abreast of new concepts, trends and methodologies.

USE RANK

to rank AU to locate experts in specific disciplines:

S BILINGUAL EDUCATION RANK AU

USE ST=NEW or /NEW

to limit a search only to records new to the database:

S ST=NEW or S S2/NEW

USE /ABS

to limit a search only to records with abstracts.

S S3/ABS

Subject Coverage [top]

Subjects covered include:

Adult Education
Athletics
Audiovisual Education
Comparative Education
Competency-based Education
Computers in Education
Continuing Education
Educational Technology
Elementary Education
Government Funding
Higher Education
Literacy Standards
Multicultural/Ethnic Education
Parent-Teacher Relations
Prayer in Public Schools
Preschol Education
School Administration
Secondary Eduction
Special Education
Student Counseling
Teacher Education
Teacher Evaluation
Teaching Methods
Vocational Education

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	Indexing coverage from June 1983 forward; abstracts from Spring 1994 forward
File Size:	Approximately 403,000 records as of July 1997
Update Frequency:	Monthly

Database Content [top]

Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

Books and Monographs
Journal Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

Other

Special Features [top]

ERA Available
Graduate Education Program
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
DIALOG Alert Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
EDUCAT	Education
INFOSCI	Library and Information Services

Contact [top]

Education 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:	718-588-8400
800 Line:	800-367-6770
Fax:	800-590-1617
E-Mail:	techmail@hwwilson.com

Terms and Conditions [top]

Education Abstracts is copyrighted by The H.W. Wilson Company. For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive policy, enter HELP ERA online. For Terms and Conditions, enter HELP TERMS 437 online

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`DIALOG(R)File 437:Education Abstracts`
	`(c) 1997 HW Wilson co. All rts. reserv.`

AA=	`0015016H.W. WILSON RECORD NUMBER: BEDI96014670`
/TI	`Gene trouble at Villa La Pietra; bequest by H. Acton`
	`to New York University is the object of legal battle`
AU=	`Bompard, Paul`
SO=, JN=	`The Times Higher Education Supplement (Times`
	`Higher Educ Suppl) no1227`
PD=, PY=	`(May 10 '96) p. 8`
DT=, SN=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: Feature Article ISSN: 0049-3929`
LA=	`LANGUAGE: English`
ST=	`RECORD STATUS: New record`
/AB	`ABSTRACT: Sir Harold Acton's (1904-1994) bequest of`
	`the magnificent Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy, to`
	`New York University is now the center of a complex legal`
	`battle between the university, Acton's estate,and a`
	`woman claiming to be Acton's illegitimate sister and`
	`heir. A final verdict on her claim is yet to be`
	`reached by the Supreme Court in Italy. Although lawyers`
	`for the university believe the woman's claim would be`
	`baseless even if she could prove her case, Italian law`
	`is known to favor blood relationships in inheritance`
	`disputes.`

/CO, CO=, /DE	`COMPANY NAMES: New York University`
/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: Colleges and universities--Gifts,`
	`legacies, etc; New York`
/GN, GN=, /DE	`University; Florence (Italy)--Historic houses,`
	`sites, etc /NM, NM=, /DE _NAMED PERSONS: Acton, Harold--Sir--1904-1994`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S LEGAL(W)BATTLE
/AB	AB	Abstract	Word	S FINAL(W)VERDICT/AB
/CO	CO	Company Name^2,3	Word	S NEW(W)YORK(W)UNIVERSITY/CO
/DE	DE	Descriptor²	Word & Phrase	S HISTORIC(W)HOUSES/DE S "COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES"/DE
/GN	GN	Geographic Name^2,3	Word	S FLORENCE(W)ITALY/GN
/NM	NM	Named Person^2,3	Word	S ACTON(W)HAROLD/NM
/TI	TI	Title	Word	S VILLA(W)LA(W)PIETRA/TI

¹Also /DF.

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

³Also searchable as /DE, /DF.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
AA=	AA	H. W. Wilson Record Control Number	Phrase	S AA=BEDI96014670
AU=	AU	Author	Phrase	S AU=BOMPARD, PAUL
None	AZ	DIALOG Accession Number
BN=	BN	International Standard Book Number	Phrase	S SN=0002-144X
CO=	CO	Company Name^2,3
CS=	CS	Corporate Source	Word & Phrase	S CS=(GIFTED(W)EDUCATION) S CS=CENTER FOR GIFTED EDUCATION
DT=	DT	Document Type⁴
GN=	GN	Geographic Name^2,3	Phrase	S GN=FLORENCE (ITALY)
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
LA=	LA	Language	Phrase	S LA=ENGLISH
NM=	NM	Named Person^2,3	Phrase	S NM=ACTON, HAROLD
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PA=19960510
PU=	PU	Publisher	Phrase	S PU=AEGINA PRESS
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1996
SN=	SN	International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)	Phrase	S SN=0049-3929
SO=	SO	Source Information	Word	S SO=(TIMES(W)HIGHER(W)EDUCATION)
ST=	ST	Status of Record	Word & Phrase	S ST=CORRECTED S ST=NEW RECORD
UD=	UD	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999

⁴Document type includes: Autobiography; Bibliography; Biography; Book Excerpt; Case Note; Feature Article; Interview; Law Reports and Digests; Motion Picture Review; Obituary; Product Evaluation; Reviews; Speech; Symposium; and Videotape Review.

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
Sets and terms may be limited by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /CO /DE (e.g., SELECT S3/CO).
/ABS	Abstract Present	S S2/ABS
/ENG	English-Language Records	S S3/ENG
/NEW	Records New to the Database	S S4/NEW
/NONENG	Non-English Language Records	S S2/NONENG

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AU, JN, PD, PY, TI	SORT S5/ALL/PY,D

RANK [top]

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

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


Display codes listed in the Search Options tables can be used to customize output.	TYPE S4/AB,AU,TI/1-5 PRINT S5/AU,SO,TI/ALL

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

NO.	DIALOGWEB FORMAT	RECORD CONTENT
1	--	DIALOG Accession Number
2	Short	Bibliographic Citation and Indexing
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation
4	--	Full Record with Tagged Fields
5	Long	Full Record
6	Free	Title
7	--	Bibliographic Citation
8	--	Title 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
If the accession number of a specific record is known, it can be used to display the record directly.	TYPE 00123456/9 PRINT 00654321/9

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Education Abstracts[437]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $3.09
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $12.57
ALERT (Monthly)                   $12.57
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $12.57
ALERT (Weekly)                 *  $12.57
ALERT (Daily)                  *  $12.57
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $12.57
ALERT (Intraday)               *  $12.57
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.28    $1.28
     3    $1.28    $1.28
     4    $1.28    $1.28
     5    $1.28    $1.28
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $1.28    $1.28
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $1.28    $1.28
KWIC95    $0.27       NA
KWIC96    $0.27       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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