(Long Beach) Press-Telegram [486]

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(Long Beach) Press-Telegram

Last Loaded on Web: Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 1, 2005

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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]

The Press-Telegram covers 23 cities in Southern California, with regular sections, including, for example, Southern California Life, Food, Taste (for restaurants), Weekend, Business, and Real Estate. Southern California is a booming economy, and tourism and film making are major industries that garner attention in the newspaper, as does Catalina Island, a prime tourist attraction. Long Beach is also the home of important local employers, such as Boeing/McDonnell Douglas and Southern California Edison, whose activities are reported in the Press-Telegram. You can search File 486 for information on the area’s dynamic health care industry, which spans 36 hospitals and several health care organizations, including FHP, Veterans Administration, and Pacificare.

Tips [top]

USE PAPERS or PAPERSNU FILES

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USE AU=

to retrieve articles written by particular authors.

S AU=(JOAN(1N)JACKSON)

USE TI,LP,DE FIELDS

to narrow search to particular topics.

S TERMS/TI,LP,DE

Subject Coverage [top]

Arts & Entertainment
Business
Columns
Editorials
Features
Full Text News Stories
Leisure
Letters to the Editor
Sports
Wire Stories

Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered:	January 1992 to the present
File Size:	438,560 records as of January 2006
Update Frequency:	Daily

Database Content [top]

Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

Newspaper Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

US Only

Geographic Restrictions [top]

None

Special Features [top]

ERA Available
Graduate Education Program
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
CURRENT Feature Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
PAPERSCA	California Newspapers
PAPERSNU	New Papers added since March 1997
PAPERSWE	U.S. Western Region Newspapers

Contact [top]

Each newspaper is provided by the individual newspaper publisher. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

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Terms and Conditions [top]

For Dialog's Redistribution and Archive Policy, enter HELP ERA online. The following terms and conditions also apply.

Articles copyrighted by the individual newspapers. No part of any database may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the individual newspaper. Customers should familiarize themselves with the terms and conditions relating to the use of each database (see DIALOG Information Provider Terms & Conditions).

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

	`08813068 (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT)`
/TI	`SPACESHIP TO MARS LAUNCHED`
	`NASA: FIRST OF 13 MISSIONS OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS WILL SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF`
	`LIFE.`
AU=	`Robert S. Boyd; Knight-Ridder Newspapers`
JN=, ED=, PG=	`Press-Telegram, AM ED, P A7`
PD=, PY=	`Friday, November 8, 1996`
JC=, LA=, RT=	`JOURNAL CODE: LB LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RECORD TYPE: FULLTEXT`
/SH, SH=	`SECTION HEADING: MAIN NEWS`
	`Word Count: 400`

	`TEXT:`
DL=, /LP, /TX	`WASHINGTON - NASA kicked off an intensive search for evidence of life on`
	`other worlds Thursday by launching the first of 13 Earth-toMars spaceships`
	`scheduled over the next 10 years.`

	`After a one-day delay because of high winds, the Mars Global Surveyor`
	`blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 50 seconds after noon,`
	`lugging six scientific instruments to explore the Martian environment.`

/TX	`"It's the beginning of a long sequence of missions ultimately whose`
	`goal must be to determine whether or not life was ever on Mars or even`
	`perhaps exists now," said Wesley Huntress Jr., chief of space science for`
	`the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.`

	`The unmanned missions -- 10 American, two Russian and one Japanese --`
	`were planned long before the tantalizing discovery that at least two`
	`Martian meteorites contain what may be relics of once-living organisms.`

	`A team of American scientists announced in August that they had found`
	`what looked like fossilized bacteria in a 4.5 billion-year-old Martian rock`
	`picked up in Antarctica. Just last week, British scientists who had`
	`examined a second meteor from Mars said they had found similar signs that`
	`life may have existed 600,000 years ago.`

	`The fossil reports added excitement to humanity's long fascination with`
	`the Red Planet.`

	`The series of interplanetary voyages -- spaced 26 months apart when Mars`
	`is in the best position relative to Earth -- is supposed to culminate in`
	`2005 with the return of samples of Martian rocks and soil for detailed`
	`study.`
	`Scientists say they need such materials to confirm the highly uncertain`
	`evidence of tiny, bacteria-like organisms found in Martian rocks that fell`
	`to Earth many years ago.`

	`"We won't know for sure until we go to Mars and bring back samples,"`
	`said David McKay, a NASA scientist.`

	`The Surveyor is to reach Mars next September after a journey of 435`
	`million miles that will take it half way around the Sun.`

	`Once there, it will spend six months settling into orbit, and then two`
	`Earth years (one Martian year) mapping the planet's enormous mountains,`
	`deep valleys and dried up river beds.`

	`At an average height of 234 miles above the Martian surface, the`
	`spaceship's cameras can detect objects as small as 6 feet across. They`
	`might photograph the two Viking landers that NASA abandoned there 21 years`
	`ago.`
/CP	`CAPTIONS: A Delta II rocket carries NASA's Mars Global Surveyor into orbit`
	`Thursday. Mike Brown/ Associated Press`
	`Copyright (c) 1996, Long Beach Press-Telegram`
/CO, CO=	`COMPANY NAMES (Dialog Generated): Kennedy Space Center ; National`
	`Aeronautics and Space Administration ; NASA`
/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: SPACE SATELLITE ASTRONOMY`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES

None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S DELTA (2N) ROCKET
/CO	CO	Company Name (Dialog Generated)^1,2	Word	S KENNEDY(W)SPACE(W)CENTER/CO
/CP	CP	Caption³	Word	S GLOBAL(W)SURVEYOR/CP
/DE	DE	Descriptor¹	Word & Phrase	S MICROSOFT(1N)CORP?/DE S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP	LP	Lead Paragraph³	Word	S MARTIAN(2N)ENVIRONMENT/LP
/ME	ME	Memo³	Word	S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH	SH	Section Heading²	Word	S MAIN(W)NEWS/SH
/TI	TI	Headline	Word	S MARS(2N)SPACESHIP/TI
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S MARTIAN(10N)ROCK/TX

¹Not available in all PAPERS files.

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

³Also searchable using /TX.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH PREFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES
None	AN	DIALOG Accession Number
AU=	AU	Byline	Word	S AU=(ROBERT(1N)BOYD)
CO=	CO	Company Name (Dialog Generated)^1,2	Phrase	S CO=NASA?
DL=	DL	Dateline	Phrase	S DL=WASHINGTON
DY=	DY	Publication Day¹	Phrase	S DY=FRIDAY
ED=	ED	Edition	Phrase	S ED=MORNING FINAL
JC=	JC	Newspaper Code⁴	Phrase	S JC=LB
JN=	JN	Newspaper Name	Phrase	S JN=PRESS TELEGRAM?
MO=	MO	Publication Month¹	Phrase	S MO=NOVEMBER
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=19961108
PG=	PG	Page Number	Phrase	S PG=A7
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1996
RG=	RG	U.S. Region⁵	Phrase	S RG=WEST
SF=	SF	Special Feature^1,6	Phrase	S SF=PHOTO
SH=	SH	Section Heading²	Phrase	S SH=MAIN NEWS?
None	SO	Source Information⁷
ST=	ST	Newspaper State	Phrase	S ST=CA
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999
None	WD	Word Count

⁴Newspaper code is also shown following the newspaper name in the Source Information field.

⁵Regions are: NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, CENTRAL, and WEST. Region does not display in predefined formats.

⁶Special Feature may indicate the presence of PHOTO, GRAPH, DRAWING, CHART, TABLE, DIAGRAM, and/or MAP in the original article, not necessarily online.

⁷Includes Newspaper Name, Publication Date, Edition, Section Heading, and Page Number.

LIMIT [top]

SUFFIX	FIELD NAME	EXAMPLES
/LONG	Word Count of 1,000 words or more	S S8/LONG
/SHORT	Word Count of less than 1,000 words	S S9/SHORT
/YYYY	Publication Year	S S2/2002

SORT [top]

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

RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS	EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked.	RANK PY S3

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]


User-defined formats can 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	--	Full Record except Text
3	Medium	Bibliographic Citation and Word Count
4	--	Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count¹
5	--	Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count
6	Short	Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7	Long	Bibliographic Citation and Text
8	Free	Title, Indexing, 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
DIALOG Accession Number	TYPE 05805028/5 PRINT 00301964/9

Rates [top]

Rates For File: (Long Beach) Press-Telegram[486]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.40    $1.40
     3    $1.40    $1.40
     4    $1.78    $1.78
     5    $1.78    $1.78
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.97    $2.97
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.20    $3.20
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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