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Roanoke Times

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, October 02, 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]

From Roanoke, in the heart of Virginia, The Roanoke Times offers extensive coverage of state and regional news, including news from the Virginia congressional house and senate. Because of its proximity to Washington, D.C., the paper also covers the U.S. federal government.

The Roanoke Times reports on the 17 educational institutions in Roanoke and surrounding counties, including Virginia Tech, Washington & Lee University, and the Virginia Military Institute. The paper also includes news of local employers, such as the City of Roanoke, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Medical Facilities of America, BellSouth Communications Systems, and Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation.



Tips [top]

USE PAPERS or PAPERSNU FILES

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USE CURRENT

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     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 1992 to the present
File Size: 513,616 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]


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
PAPERSNU New Papers added since March 1997
PAPERSSE U.S. Southeast Region Newspapers
PAPERSVA Virginia 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]

    08691018  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI  SURVEYING  MARS 
    REACHING OUT AS ONE EARTH 
  JN=, ED=, PG=  Roanoke Times, METRO ED, P A-6 
  PD=, PY=  Tuesday, July 9, 1996 
  JC=, LA=, RT=  JOURNAL CODE:  RO  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH   RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
  /SH, SH=  SECTION HEADING:  EDITORIAL 
    Word Count:  357 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  WHAT THIS invasion of Mars lacks in Hollywood excitement, it promises to 
    more than make up for in scientific achievement. 
     
       Three spacecraft will be launched this fall to study the Red Planet, two 
    to orbit Mars and one to land on the surface with a robot research station 
    and rover vehicle for exploration. Two are U.S. craft; the third - Mars 
    '96, an orbiting spacecraft carrying two more surface stations and two soil 
    penetrators - will be Russian. 
     
  /TX     The lesson: Despite America's Cold War race to "win space," putting men 
    on the moon was just a beginning. The only viable way to continue the 
    extraordinarily expensive exploration of space is to unite fellow 
    Earthlings in joint ventures. 
     
       In this summer's "Independence Day," like so many movies of the 
    outer-space genre, hostile alien invaders force the nations of Earth to 
    come together in their humanity to fight a common threat. In real life, 
    other enemies - high cost; public apathy; a host of conflicting, mainly 
    laudable but completely Earthbound spending priorities - have been the 
    mundane but effective catalysts for international cooperation. To go 
    forward, planetary exploration will have to be an international effort. 
     
       Russia is not the only partner with the United States in the Mars 
    program. The American orbiter, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, will carry a 
    French-supplied radio to relay data from the surface. Experts from 20 
    countries are working on the Russian Mars '96 craft. 
     
       These spacecraft are to be followed, scientists hope, by unmanned 
    launches every two years as part of NASA's Surveyor program. A Japanese 
    orbiter is scheduled to go up in August 1998, to study Martian 
    upper-atmospheric physics. 
     
       Scientists hope finally to learn what the planet is made of, to map its 
    surface through the changing seasons of the Martian year, and to penetrate 
    the inhospitable topsoil in search of traces of organic matter or water 
    that would indicate life once existed on the planet. 
     
       Or indicate life exists even now, perhaps deep underground. Most 
    scientists hold little expectation of that. But the thrill of science is 
    discovering what was unknown. Already, humankind is discovering the 
    advantage of interplanetary exploration via international cooperation. 
        Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S SCIENTIFIC(W)ACHIEVEMENT
/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 RESEARCH(W)STATION/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S EDITORIAL/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(2N)SURVEY?/TI
/TX TX Text Word S PLANETARY(W)EXPLORATION/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=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=TUESDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=METRO?
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=RO
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=ROANOKE TIMES?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=JULY
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19960709
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A-6
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=EDITORIAL
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=VA
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: Roanoke Times[577]
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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