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Gale Group GlobalbaseTM provides worldwide coverage of companies, products, and industries with a primary focus on Europe. The major strength of the database is its broad coverage of industry and business publications produced in Europe.
Gale Group Globalbase covers over 600 sources published in more than 20 countries, primarily in Europe, including more than 60 European daily newspapers, over 200 weeklies, and more than 300 monthly industry journals. While Gale Group Globalbase sources are published in more than ten languages, all abstracts are written in English.
USE FILE 583to trace business activities in Europe. EXPAND JN=for a list of journals indexed in the file. USE /INFOMATto restrict retrieval to records that appear only in Gale Group Globalbase and not in other Gale Group databases. |
The Gale Group Globalbase database contains information on the following topics:
Company news: financial results, reorganisations, acquisitions, and mergers
Gale Group Globalbase covers a broad spectrum of manufacturing and service industries and provides strong coverage of key European growth industries, including:
| Dates Covered: | January 1986 to 12-13-2002 |
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| File Size: | 2.6 million records as of December 2002. |
| Update Frequency: | Closed |
| ACRONYM | CATEGORY NAME |
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| ADVERTBU | Advertising and Media Industry News |
| AEROBUS | Aerospace and Defense Industry |
| AGRIBUS | Food and Agriculture Industry |
| ASIANEWS | Asia/Pacific News |
| BIOBUS | Biosciences and Biotechnology Industry |
| BUSECON | Business Economics |
| CANADANE | Canadian News |
| CHEMBUS | Chemical Industry News |
| DEFBUS | Defense and Aerospace Industry |
| ELECTRON | Computers, Electronics, and Telecommunications Business |
| ENERGYBU | Energy Industry News |
| EURBUSNE | European Regional Business News |
| EUROPENE | European News Sources |
| FINBUS | Banking and Financial Services |
| FRANCENE | News of France |
| HEALTHBU | Healthcare Industry News |
| INTLNEWS | Global News English-Language Sources |
| LATINNEW | Latin American News |
| MANEWS | Mergers and Acquisitions News |
| MANUFBUS | Manufacturing Industry News |
| MATBUS | Materials Industry News |
| MERGEACQ | Mergers and Acquisitions |
| MIDEASTN | Middle Eastern/African News |
| MKTRES | Market Research Information |
| MULTIIND | General Industry Information |
| NEWSCO | Company News |
| NEWSFILE | News, Archival |
| PHARMIND | Pharmaceutical Industry News |
| PRODINFO | Product Information |
| PRODUCTS | Industrial and Consumer |
| RETAILBU | Retail Industry News |
| TRADELIT | Trade Literature |
| TRANSBUS | Transportation Industry News |
| UKNEWS | United Kingdom News |
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Gale Group Globalbase is produced by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Questions concerning Electronic Search Assistance should be directed to Electronic Search Assistance 27500 Drake Road Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535 USA
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| DIALOG(R)File 583:Gale Group Globalbase(TM) | |
| (c) 1999 The Gale Group. All rts. reserv. | |
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| /TI | Matsushita plans launch of clearer plasma TV |
| JAPAN : PLASMA TV BY MATSUSHITA | |
| JN=, JC=, PD=, PY= | The Japan Times (XAO) 01 Jul 1997 P.12 |
| LA= | Language: ENGLISH |
| /AB | Aiming at the Japanese institutional market, a Y 1.5 mn 42-inch colour |
| plasma TV with a height-to-width ratio of 9:16 (switchable to 3:4 ratio) | |
| will be offered by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co in October 1997. The | |
| plasma TV offers 2.3 times brighter screen than those plasma TVs on the | |
| market. Matsushita will spend Y 80 bn by 2005 to boost its output | |
| facilities for plasma TVs while aiming the plasma TV market to be worth Y | |
| 200 bn in 2000. | |
| /CO, CO= | COMPANY: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL |
| /DE, PN=, PC= | PRODUCT: Television Equipment (3651TV); |
| /DE, EN=, EC= | EVENT: Product Design & Development (33); |
| /DE, CN=, CC= | COUNTRY: Japan (9JPN); |
| SEARCH SUFFIX |
DISPLAY CODE |
FIELD NAME |
INDEXING |
SELECT EXAMPLES |
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| None | None | All Basic Index Fields | Word | S PLASMA(W)TV |
| /AB | AB | Abstract | Word | S GSM(W)NETWORK/AB |
| /CO | CO | Company Name1,2 | Word | S TELE(W)MOBIL/CO |
| /DE | DE | Descriptor3 | Word & Phrase |
S CELLULAR(W)RADIO/DE S CELLULAR RADIO/DE |
| /TI | TI | Title | Word | S KAMP(W)MOT/TI |
| /TN | TN | Trade Name1 | Word | S DIET(W)PEPSI/TN |
1 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.
2 Includes Country Name, Event Name, and Product Name.
| SEARCH PREFIX |
DISPLAY CODE |
FIELD NAME |
INDEXING |
SELECT EXAMPLES |
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| None | AN | DIALOG Accession Number | ||
| CC= | CC | Country Code | Phrase | S CC=5NOR |
| CN= | CN | Country Name4 | Phrase | S CN=NORWAY |
| CO= | CO | Company Name1 | Phrase | S CO=TELE MOBIL |
| EC= | EC | Event Code | Phrase | S EC=36 |
| EN= | EN | Event Name4 | Phrase | S EN=NEW SERVICES |
| JC= | JC | Journal Code | Phrase | S JC=DN |
| JN= | JN | Journal Name | Phrase | S JN=DAGENS NAERINGLSL |
| LA= | LA | Language | Phrase | S LA=NORWEGIAN |
| PC= | PC | Product Code | Phrase | S PC=4811 |
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Phrase | S PD=911129 |
| PN= | PN | Product Name4 | Phrase | S PN=CELLULAR RADIO |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Phrase | S PY=1991 |
| SF= | None | Special Feature | Phrase | S SF=TABLE |
| SN= | SN | International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) | Phrase | S SN=0772-0809 |
| None | SO | Source Information5 | ||
| TN= | TN | Trade Name1 | Phrase | S TN=DIET PEPSI |
| UD= | None | Update | Phrase | S UD=9999 |
4 Also searchable in the Basic Index with /DE.
5 Includes Journal Name, Journal Code, Publication Date, and Pagination
| SUFFIX | FIELD NAME | EXAMPLES |
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| /INFOMAT | Record Appears Only in File 583 | S S3/INFOMAT |
| /YYYY | Publication Year | S S2/1992 |
| SORTABLE FIELDS | EXAMPLES |
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| CC, CN, CO, EC, EN, JC, JN, PC, PD, PN, PY, TI | SORT S3/ALL/PD PRINT S2/5/1-47/PD,D |
| RANK FIELDS | EXAMPLES |
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| All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. Other RANK codes include: DE | RANK DE |
| User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. | TYPE S3/TI,SO,AB/1-5 |
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DIALOGWEB FORMAT |
RECORD CONTENT |
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| 1 | -- | DIALOG Accession Number |
| 2 | -- | Full Record except Abstract |
| 3 | Medium | Bibliographic Citation |
| 4 | -- | Full Record except Indexing |
| 5 | -- | Full Record |
| 6 | Short | Title and Publication Date |
| 7 | Long | Full Record except Indexing |
| 8 | Free | Title, Publication Date, and Indexing |
| 9 | Full | Full Record |
| K | -- | KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats |
| FIELD NAME | EXAMPLES | ||
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| DIALOG Accession Number | TYPE 0032456/3 DISPLAY 0189032/TI,SO PRINT 0028765/5 |
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Cost per DialUnit: $4.25
Cost per minute: $1.95
Rank Elements $0.00
Format Types Prints
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REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:
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ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:
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