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Bangor Daily News

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, October 02, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 1, 2005

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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 Bangor Daily News, is one of Maine's leading news sources. Covering the northern two-thirds of Maine, the paper delivers the inside story on local politics and community issues. The paper includes many special sections, such as "Engineers Week" (February 1997), "Maine Health" (March 1997), "Auto Leasing" (July 1997), and many others. The Bangor Daily News file brings you extra details in its profiles of companies. Key industries covered are commercial fishing, forest products, paper manufacturing, potatoes, shipbuilding, wild blueberries, and wood products. Companies that you may wish to search include Bass Shoe, Central Maine Power, Champion International, Digital, Fleet Bank, Fraser- Parker Company, Hannaford Brothers, Hinckley Boatyard, International Paper Company, Irving Oil, J.R. Simplot, L.L. Bean, Maine Wild Blueberry Company, Pratt & Whitney, Saco Defense Systems, and Sebago Shoe. The newspaper also brings you news of the area's four colleges and several research centers, including Acid Rain Research, Commercial Fisheries Research, Electrical Engineering Research, and Forest Resources Research, as well as of three military installations: Brunswick Naval Air Station, Cutler Naval Communications Center, and Winter Harbor Naval Air Station.



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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: December 1995 to the present
File Size: 360,935 records as of July 2008
Update Frequency: Daily Approximately 60 to 130 records per update


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
PAPERSME Maine Newspapers
PAPERSNE U.S. Northeast Region Newspapers
PAPERSNU New Papers added since March 1997


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Terms and Conditions [top]

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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]

    292259  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI   Mars Pathfinder set for planetary mission 
    Clair Wood 
  JN=, ED=  Bangor Daily News, ALL ED 
  PD=, PY=  Friday, December 13, 1996 
  DT=, JC=, LA=  DOCUMENT TYPE:  COLUMN  JOURNAL CODE:  BN  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH 
  RT=  RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
    Word Count:  769 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  Mars has captured the public's imagination ever since Percival 
    Lowell looked through his telescope in the early 1900s and claimed 
    to see canals and cities on the red planet.  The Martian craze 
    reached its peak in 1938 when Orson Welles broadcast his "War of 
    the Worlds" radio program that threw many areas of the country into 
    a panic.  The Viking lander of 1976 dispelled the mystery 
    surrounding Mars to some extent by showing that it is a barren 
    planet with no signs of life.  But recent subsequent events have 
    renewed interest in Earth's mysterious nearest neighbor. 
         For years various magazines and newspapers have published a 
    picture taken by the Viking probe of a rock formation that 
    resembles the face of a statue half-buried in the sand.  Those who 
    love conspiracies talked of a government coverup of a Viking 
    discovery of a dead civilization on Mars.  Conspiracy theories got 
    new life by the unexplained disappearance of a U.S. Mars probe in 
    July 1993 and undoubtedly will be helped by the loss of the Russian 
    Mars 96 probe this past November.  There are other reasons for 
    interest in Mars, however, than the search for lost civilizations. 
     
  /TX  In August, a report was issued that a meteorite known to have 
    originated on Mars appeared to bear signs of primative life.  This 
    is contrary to the Viking experiments of two decades ago that found 
    no evidence of life just beneath the Martian surface.  Last week the 
    second of a new series of Mars probes was launched in order to 
    answer, among other questions, the possibility of life on Mars. 
     
         The Mars Pathfinder, scheduled to land on Mars on Independence 
    Day of next year, is part of NASA 's new effort to conduct space 
    research as cheaply as possible.  The total cost of building, 
    launching, and monitoring the spacecraft will be less than $200 
    million, mere change when compared to previous multi-billion dollar 
    projects.  This means that designers must find innovative ways of 
    accomplishing their goals at very little cost.  The method by which 
    the Pathfinder will land on the Martian surface is a case in point. 
    Parachutes will first slow its descent toward the surface but then 
    airbags will inflate around the spacecraft making it resemble a 
    giant beachball.  The builders expect it will bounce as high as a 
    10-story building upon initial impact and then bounce several more 
    times before coming to rest on the surface. 
     
         Then a small remote-controlled rover, named Sojourner, will 
    venture out on the Martian surface to analyze the soil and 
    atmosphere.  The rover, about the size of an overnight case, weighs 
    only 24 pounds but carries several analytical instruments.  Besides 
    sending back color images of Mars, it will study the composition of 
    rocks, take temperature and pressure readings, measure atmospheric 
    water levels, and record wind direction and magnetic fields.  The 
    rover will survive the planet's extremes of temperature for only 
    about a month but other experiments on the Pathfinder itself are 
    expected to send back data for a year. 
        Will Pathfinder settle the question of whether or not life 
    ever existed on Mars?  Probably not.  Scientists must be able to 
    examine rocks at first hand in order to determine whether they 
    contain evidence of early life forms. 
     
             (. . .) 
    Clair Wood is a science instructor at Eastern Maine Technical 
    College and the NEWS science columnist. 
        Copyright (c) 1996 Bangor Daily News. All rights reserved. 
  /CO, CO=  COMPANY NAMES (Dialog Generated):  Eastern Maine Technical ; Mars Observer 
      ; Pathfinder 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S PLANETARY(10N) MISSION
/CO CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Word S EASTERN(W)MAINE/CO
/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 RED(2N)PLANET/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S BUSINESS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(5N)PATHFINDER/TI
/TX TX Text Word S SPACE(W)RESEARCH/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=(CLAIR(1N)WOOD)
CO= CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Phrase S CO=AMERICA ONLINE?
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=BN
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=BANGOR DAILY NEWS
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=DECEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961213
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=1C
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=BUSINESS
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=ME
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
PRINT 00301964/9


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Bangor Daily News[532]
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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