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Spokane Spokesman-Review

Last Loaded on Web: Tuesday, August 26, 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 Spokesman-Review brings you more news from Washington state, which is becoming increasingly a technology hub. Of the top 50 technology companies in Washington, the following, monitored by the newspaper, are located the Spokane area: Advanced Hardware Architectures of Pullman; DataPro Solutions, Inc.; Itron, Inc.; and Teknon Corp. of Spokane; and Ideal Semiconductor, Inc. and Telect, Inc. of Liberty Lake.

The paper covers activities of other prominent local companies, such as Egghead Software and Boeing. (Remember to use CO= to search company names using DIALOG-generated company names.) You can also read about the activities of local industries, including silver and gold mining, saw mills, and a vibrant recreational ski industry.



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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: July 1994 to the present
File Size: 296,386 records as of July 2008
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
  • CURRENT Feature Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
PAPERSNU New Papers added since March 1997
PAPERSWA Washington State Newspapers
PAPERSWE U.S. Western Region Newspapers


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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]

    08270009  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI   MARS ON A BUDGET 
    SCIENTISTS TOUR EASTERN WASHINGTON TO GET A FEEL FOR THE RED PLANET 
  AU=  Tom Sowa Staff writer 
  JN=, ED=, PG=  Spokesman-Review, SPOKANE ED, P A1 
  PD=, PY=  Wednesday, September 27, 1995 
  JC=, LA=, RT=  JOURNAL CODE:  SR  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH   RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
  /SH, SH=  SECTION HEADING:  MAIN NEWS 
    Word Count:  961 
     
    MEMO: 
  /ME  This sidebar appeared with the story: BRINGING MARS HOME Members of the 
    channeled scabland-Mars Pathfinder tour come to Spokane today to conduct a 
    series of workshops and a public open house. About 30 scientists and 
    engineers involved in the project to send an unmanned probe to Mars in 1997 
    will hold workshops Thursday and Friday to discuss recent findings about 
    the landing site and review some of the systems to be used. They'll meet at 
    Cavanaugh's River Inn. For more information, call 326-5577. On Thursday 
    from 7 to 9 p.m., many in the group will gather at Chase Middle School for 
    a Mars Open House to give teachers, students and others a chance to learn 
    more about the project. They'll showcase various systems to be used on the 
    mission. Using the Internet, the group also will show people on-line images 
    of Mars collected from the 1976 Viking missions. More than previous 
    planetary flights, the Mars Pathfinder mission will coordinate space 
    activities closely with classroom efforts around the world. 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  Bouncing over dusty roads in Eastern Washington this week, a busload of 30 
    engineers and space scientists pressed their noses to the windows. 
     
     Watching passing boulders in the channeled scablands near the Columbia 
    River, many in the group pictured the same scene painted rusty red, 40 
    million miles away on the surface of Mars. 
     
  /TX   Twenty-two months from now, they will use what they're learning this week 
    to land and guide the Mars Pathfinder, a $200-million unmanned craft 
    designed to explore the Red Planet. 
     
        "If we want to know what it will look like on Mars, the only place on 
    Earth that comes close to what that will be is in Eastern Washington," said 
    Vic Baker, a University of Arizona geologist on the tour. 
     
       Costing the federal government and other agencies more than $25,000, the 
     
                             (...) 
     
       "It has geologists from all over the world, plus some of the foremost 
    experts on Mars, all gathered in one place." 
     
       Golombek contends the ultimate goal of Pathfinder is to know more about 
    our own planet: 
     
       "It's more than just going to Mars because it's there. We're about to 
    gain information about a world we know very little about." 
     
       If life once existed there, Pathfinder might find the evidence. 
     
       "And if not, we'd like to know why not," he said. 
     
       "This is almost a theological question, and that is: Are we alone? Or is 
    life on Earth a cosmic accident?" 
  /CP, /TX, SF=  CAPTIONS:  2 Color Photos  ;  1. Otherwordly landscape. Howard Eisen, left, 
    and Tom Rivellini try to repair a rover similar to the one that will be 
    sent to explore Mars in 1997. Photo by Molly O'Hara/The Spokesman-Review 2. 
    Scientists invade Monster Rock near the Ephrata Fan. 
        Copyright (c) 1995, The Spokesman-Review 
     
  SF=  SPECIAL FEATURES:  PHOTO 
  /CO, CO=  COMPANY NAMES (Dialog Generated):  Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; Pathfinder 
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  RESEARCH 
     


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S MARS(W)PATHFINDER
/CO CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Word S APPLE/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 UNMANNED(W)PROBE/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S VIKING(W)MISSION?/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S MAIN(W)NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S RED(W)PLANET/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=(TOM(1N)SOWA)
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=WEDNESDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=SPOKANE?
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=SR
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=SEPTEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19950927
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A1
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1995
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=MAIN NEWS
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=WA
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: Spokane Spokesman-Review[560]
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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