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Aberdeen American News

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, December 01, 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 Aberdeen American News coverage includes the state's large tourist industry, as well as farming and associated industries for both beef and dairy. The paper features news about the Black Hills, an area particularly famous for its beauty and home to Black Hills Power and Light, providing power to South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Also covered are associated power transformer and components companies, as well as other prominent South Dakota companies, such as Gateway 2000 for electronics and Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing's (3M) pharmaceutical activities. The circulation over 16,000 daily and over 17,000 Sunday



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     S AU=(JOAN(1N)JACKSON)

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     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 1995 to the present
File Size: 208,635 records as of October 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]


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
PAPERSCE U.S. Central Region Newspapers
PAPERSNU New Papers added since March 1997


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).


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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    09180008  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI   MARS PROBE SET TO LAND ON FRIDAY 
  JN=, PG=  Aberdeen American News, P 6A 
  PD=, PY=  Sunday, June 29, 1997 
  JC=, LA=, RT=  JOURNAL CODE:  AN  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH   RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
  /SH, SH=  SECTION HEADING:  FRONT 
    Word Count:  400 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) - This Independence Day, it's the United States that 
    will play alien invader. 
     
       About the time Americans are watching holiday parades down Main Street, 
    NASA's Mars Pathfinder will gently parachute to the rocky surface of the 
    red planet to begin a search that one day could yield evidence of life. 
     
  /TX     If successful, Pathfinder would be the first earthly craft to touch Mars 
    since NASA's twin Viking landers set down in 1976, scooping up sand yet 
    finding no trace of living things. 
     
       If it fails, the $267.5 million Pathfinder mission would join four U.S. 
    and Russian Mars-bound flops in the last decade, including America's $1 
    billion Mars Observer that was lost in space in 1993. 
     
       "It looks like there is a gremlin out there, slapping everything that's 
    coming toward Mars," jokes Brian Muirhead, Pathfinder's deputy project 
    manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. 
     
       But given Pathfinder's excellent performance since it was launched last 
    December, Muirhead foresees "an outstanding chance of pulling this thing 
    off." 
     
       Pathfinder is headed for Ares Vallis a vast, ancient flood plain formed 
    by the equivalent of "taking all the water in the Great Lakes and flushing 
    it out to the Gulf of Mexico in a two-week period," said Pathfinder project 
    scientist Matthew Golombek. The area is about 525 miles southeast of where 
    Viking 1 landed. 
     
       After its airbag-cushioned touchdown, Pathfinder will release Sojourner, 
    a 22-pound, solar-powered rover about the size of a microwave oven - the 
    smallest planetary craft ever launched. 
     
       Named after black abolitionist Sojourner Truth, the six-wheel vehicle 
    will move herky-jerky across the martian plain for at least a week. It will 
    be the first time a rover has explored the surface of another planet. 
     
       Endowed with a hazard-avoidance system making it "as smart as a bug," 
    Sojourner will nose up to rocks and analyze their chemical composition, 
    says Donna Shirley, who led JPL's rover development team and now manages 
    its Mars exploration program. 
     
       While Sojourner cavorts and its cameras record, instruments aboard the 
    793-pound Pathfinder lander, which should operate for a month, will take 
    color pictures and compile a Mars weather report. 
     
       Pathfinder heralds a new era of U.S. space exploration. In its wake, 
    NASA will dispatch fleets of small, unmanned spaceships to scout places 
    which better instruments - and intrepid astronauts - might visit later. 
     
       The fourth planet from the sun, Mars is considered the most Earthlike. 
        Copyright (c) 1997, Aberdeen American News 
     
  /CO, CO=  COMPANY NAMES (Dialog Generated):  Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; Mars 
      Observer ; Pathfinder 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S ALIEN(10N) INVADER
/CO CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Word S JET(W)PROPULSION/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 MARS(W)PATHFINDER/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S FRONT/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(W)PROBE/TI
/TX TX Text Word S VIKING(W)LANDER/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=(PETER(1N)DELEVETT)
CO= CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Phrase S CO=AMERICA ONLINE?
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=PASADENA?
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=SUNDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=MORNING FINAL
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=AN
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=ABERDEEN AMERICAN?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=JUNE
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19970629
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=6A
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1997
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=FRONT
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=SD
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: Aberdeen American News[576]
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    $3.02    $3.02
     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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