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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last Loaded on Web: Wednesday, May 01, 2013

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 St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a general circulation newspaper providing coverage of local, national, and international news. File coverage begins with January, 1988 and ends with January 31, 2012. Current updates to this news source continue to be available in Dialog NewsRoom. Coverage includes state and local new with special emphasis on the following industries: financial services, beverage, agriculture, chemical, aerospace and defense, and automotive. Companies located in the St. Louis area include: McDonnell-Douglas, General Dynamics, Anheuser Busch, Emerson Electric, Interco, Kellwood, Monsanto, and Ralston Purina. Extensive coverage is given to Big Eight and Big Ten Conference sports.



Tips [top]

USE PAPERS or PAPERSNU FILES

to find the complete text of local, national, and international news articles from more than 100 U.S. newspapers.

USE PAPERSUS IN DIALINDEX

to scan the entire collection of U.S. fulltext newspaper databases.

     B 411
      SF PAPERSUS

USE CURRENT

to limit your search to the most recent 1 to 2 years of data.

     B PAPERSCA CURRENT      S TURNOVER OR SALES

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 1988 to January 31, 2012
File Size: 1,510,230 records as of January 31, 2012
Update Frequency: Closed


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Newspaper Articles


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • US Only


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSCE U.S. Central Region Newspapers
PAPERSMJ U.S. Major Newspapers
PAPERSMO Missouri Newspapers


Contact [top]

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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).


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08813017 
  /TI   MARS MISSION NASA LAUNCHES GLOBAL SURVEYOR 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  St. Louis Post Dispatch (SL) - Friday, November 8, 1996 
  AU=  By: AP 
        William Flannery Of The Post-Dispatch Staff Contributed Information To 
        This Article. 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: FIVE STAR LIFT  Section: NEWS  Page: 19A 
    Word Count: 286 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  CAPE  CANAVERAL,  FLA.  -  NASA's  Mars Global Surveyor sped toward the red 
    planet  on  Thursday,  the first spacecraft in a series of orbiters, rovers 
    and robots that could answer the question of whether there was ever life on 
    Mars. 
     
       A Delta rocket carrying the Global Surveyor lifted off on time at noon - 
    one  day  after  high  wind  scuttled  the  first  launching  attempt - and 
    propelled the boxy, 10-foot spacecraft toward Mars at 24,000 mph. 
     
       The  spacecraft  will  reach  Mars  after a journey of 10 months and 435 
    million miles. 
       Once  in  the desired 235-mile-high orbit above Mars - sometime in March 
    1998  -  the  Global Surveyor will begin mapping the Martian atmosphere and 
    virtually  the entire surface of the planet. The survey will last 687 days, 
    or a full Martian year. 
     
       The Global Surveyor will send images and other information back to Earth 
    within  20  to  40  minutes.  The images will be posted on the Internet for 
    public viewing within a day or two after that. 
     
       One  of  the main objectives of the $230 million mission is to scout for 
    landing spots for future missions, including one in which a spacecraft will 
    bring Martian soil and rocks back to Earth sometime in the next decade. 
     
       NASA plans to send a pair of unmanned spacecraft to Mars every 26 months 
    through  2005. The second in this series of 10, the Mars Pathfinder, is due 
    to lift off Dec. 2 and land on July 4, 1997. 
     
       The  launching  rocket  for  the  Mars  Global  Surveyor was a McDonnell 
    Douglas  Corp.  Delta  II.  The  Delta  has  been used in more than 70 NASA 
    scientific satellite launchings since the 1960s. A second Delta II carrying 
    another Mars Global Surveyor is slated for launching Dec. 2. 
                    Copyright (c) 1996 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
     
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  LAUNCH SPACE EXPLORATION RED PLANET; SCHEDULE; PROGRAM WORLD 
                  WIDE WEB PUBLIC AVAILABILITY 
     


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S COMPAQ (10N) HEWLETT
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S MICROSOFT(1N)CORP?/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S LIFE(2N)MARS/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S GLOBAL(5N)SURVEYOR/TI
/TX TX Text Word S DELTA(W)ROCKET/TX

1 Not available in all PAPERS files.

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

3 Also 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=(WILLIAM(1N)FLANNERY)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=CAPE CANAVERAL?
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=FRIDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=FIVE STAR?
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=SL
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961108
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=19A
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=WEST
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=NEWS
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=MO
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=9999
None WD Word Count

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

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

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

7 Includes 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 FROM 630
PRINT 00301964/9 FROM 634


Rates [top]

Rates For File: St. Louis Post-Dispatch[494]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $4.75    $4.75
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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