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Info Latino America

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Last Update To Bluesheet: January 12, 2006

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File Description	Dialog File Data	Special Features	Sample Record	Sort
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]

Info Latino America, provides citations and abstracts of materials relating to contemporary economic, political, and social issues in Latin America. The database provides coverage of a wide range of topics assessing the current situation in Latin America. Info Latino America offers the opportunity to access worldwide sources of information on Latin America, including sources in languages not normally given a wide distribution. Where possible, the Info Latino America staff monitors two daily newspapers and one news journal for each Latin American country.

Sources for the Info Latino America database include major newspapers and news journals of Latin America and the U.S., as well as over 1,500 weekly, monthly, and quarterly publications focusing on political science, economics, international law, business, and any subjects related to major policy issues in Latin America, from public health to international relations.

Tips [top]

USE FILE 466

to to track issues in Latin America.

EXPAND JN=

to get a list of journals indexed in the file.

USE /TI

to search for articles by title.

USE THE /ABS LIMIT

to restrict retrieval to records that have abstracts.

Subject Coverage [top]

Agriculture
Banking
Commerce
Crime
Defense
Demography
Development
Drug Trafficking
Ecology
Economics
Environment
Education
Elections
Finance
Foreign Investments
Foreign Trade
Government
Health
Human Rights
Informatics
Intelligence Activities
International Relations
Marketing
Politics
Privatization
Refugees
Science and Technology
Sociology
Terrorism
Transnational Corporations

Print Counterparts [top]

None

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	January 1988 to Dec 1995 (journal articles); July 1988 to Dec 1995 (newspaper and news magazine articles)
File Size:	93,448 records as of February 1998
Update Frequency:	Closed

Database Content [top]

Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

Journal Articles
Newspaper Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

None

Special Features [top]

ERA Available
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
DIALOG Alert Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
CURRENT Feature Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
BUSECON	Business Economics
NEWSFILE	News, Archival
PUBAFF	Public Affairs

Contact [top]

Info Latino America is produced by the North-South Center of the University of Miami. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

North-South Center, University of Miami
Deborah R. Farrell
P.O. Box 248014
Coral Gables, FL 33124-3211

Telephone:	305-284-4414
800 Line:	800-752-9567
Fax:	305-284-5089

Terms and Conditions [top]

Database copyrighted by the Institute of InterAmerican Studies, University of Miami.

Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`00053288 DIALOG File 466: INFOSOUTH`
/TI	`Aranceles volverian a bajar en 1992`
	`(Tariffs Would Decrease in 1992)`
JN=, PD=, PY=	`Estrategia, vol. 13, no. 860, pp. 4-5, 1991 Oct 14`
CP=	`CITY & COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Santiago Chile`
DT=	`DOCUMENT TYPE: Newspaper Article`
LA=	`LANGUAGE: SPANISH`

/AB	`ABSTRACT: During the October 13-15, 1991, annual joint Inter-`
	`national Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank conference,`
	`analysts predicted that Chile would reduce its tariffs and`
	`register growth rates of more than the 2.22% projected for`
	`Latin America in 1992. The Chilean Central Bank`
	`forecasts that private investment will increase by 10%, private`
	`consumption will rise 2.8%, and government consumption will`
	`expand 3.2%. Both imports and exports are expected to increase`
	`in 1992. A table and graphs are included.`

/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: Economic Conditions; Chile; Economic Growth;`
	`Economic Projections; Economic Forecasts; Economic Statistics;`
	`Economic Analysis`
/ID	`IDENTIFIERS: Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI); International`
	`Monetary Fund (IMF); Banco Mundial; World Bank; Banco Central de`
	`Chile; Chilean Central Bank`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S INTERNATIONAL(W)MONETARY(W)FUND
/AB	AB	Abstract	Word	S PRIVATE(W)INVESTMENT/AB
/DE	DE	Descriptor¹	Word & Phrase	S ECONOMIC(W)GROWTH/DE S ECONOMIC FORECASTS/DE
/ID	ID	Identifier²	Word & Phrase	S WORLD(W)BANK/ID S BANCO MUNDIAL/ID
/NT	NT	Note	Word	S WEEKLY(W)EDITION/NT
/TI	TI	Title (includes translated title)	Word	S (TARIFF? OR ARANCELE?)/TI

¹Also /DF.

²Also /IF.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	AA	Author Affiliation
None	AN	DIALOG Accession Number
AU=	AU	Author	Phrase	S AU=BACKEL, JORGE?
CP=	CP	City and Country of Publication³	Word	S CP=(SANTIAGO AND CHILE)
CS=	CS	Corporate Source	Word & Phrase	S CS=NATIONAL S CS=LATIN COUNCIL?
DT=	DT	Document Type	Word & Phrase	S DT=ARTICLE S DT=NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
JN=	JN	Journal Name	Phrase	S JN=ESTRATEGIA
LA=	LA	Language	Phrase	S LA=SPANISH
PD=	PD	Date of Publication	Phrase	S PD=911014
PU=	PU	Publisher	Word	S PU=(UNITED(W)NATIONS)
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1991
None	SO	Source Information⁴
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999

³May also include state.

⁴Source 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, /DE, /DF, /ID, /IF, /NT, /TI (e.g., S S5/DE), as well as by the following features:
/	DIALOG Accession Number	S S5/00043214-99999999
/ABS	Abstract Present	S S2/ABS
/ENG	English Language	S S3/ENG
/NOABS	No Abstract Present	S S4/NOABS
/NONENG	Non-English Language	S S1/NONENG
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S7/1991

SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS	EXAMPLES
AU, JN, PD, PY, TI	SORT S13/ALL/PY/TI 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, ID	RANK AU S3

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables.	TYPE S3/TI,JN/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	--	Full Record with Tagged Fields
5	--	Full Record
6	Short	Title
7	Long	Bibliographic Citation and Abstract
8	Free	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
DIALOG Accession Number	TYPE 00042436/5 DISPLAY 00043971/AU,TI PRINT 00053288/5

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Info Latino America[466]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.41    $1.41
     3    $1.41    $1.41
     5    $1.79    $1.79
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $3.04    $3.04
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.85    $3.85
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       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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