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File Description [top]

Newspaper Abstracts is the online newspaper indexing and abstracting service of ProQuest Information and Learning. The file provides comprehensive indexing of more than 20 major regional, national, and international newspapers. Brief article abstracts are also included for the majority of the newspapers. Material indexed includes: all international, national, regional, state, and local news; business, financial, and economic articles; editorials; commentaries; letters to the editor from prominent people; obituaries of prominent people; arts, entertainment, and leisure articles; sports (in all but The New York Times); and special series and supplements.

The newspapers included in Newspaper Abstracts are: American Bankers; Atlanta Constitution; selected articles from the Atlanta Journal; Boston Globe; Chicago Tribune; Christian Science Monitor; Denver Post; Detroit News; Guardian and Guardian Weekly (London); Houston Post; Los Angeles Times; New Orleans Times-Picayune; The New York Times; Pravda (English-language edition); St. Louis Post-Dispatch; San Francisco Chronicle; USA Today; The Wall Street Journal (indexed by Dow Jones); Washington Times; and the Black Newspaper Collection.

This is a closed file and is no longer updated. See Newspaper Abstracts Daily, File 483, for current information.

Subject Coverage [top]

• Agricultural and Environmental News
• Arts, including Movie and Book Reviews
• Business and Economics, including Mergers and Acquisitions, Company Profiles, Regional Trends
• Cultural Events
• Health and Medicine
• Regional and Metropolitan News
• Science and Technology
• Social Trends
• Travel and Leisure
• U.S. and International Current Affairs

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Database Content [top]

• Bibliographic Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Newspaper Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
• CURRENT Feature Available
• DIALORDER Supplier (ORDER UMIACH)

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

ABI/INFORM^®, ONTAP^® ABI/INFORM, Accounting & Tax^TM Database, Banking Information Source^TM, Business Dateline^®, Criminal Justice Periodical Index^TM, Dissertation Abstracts Online^TM, Newspaper Abstracts Daily^TM, Periodical Abstracts PlusText^TM, Pharmaceutical News Index^®, and ProQuest Newsstand^TM. The databases listed above (the "Databases") contain copyrighted materials of ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors which retain sole ownership of these materials. Only fair use, as provided by the Copyright Act of 1976 is permitted. ProQuest Information and Learning and its licensors make no warranties, express or implied, as to the Databases or the entries that constitute them, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or lost profits or other claims related to them or their use.

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• redistribute, copy or electronically store (archive) all or a majority of records from a Database or a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases,
• electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form material older than the most recent twelve-month period retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG ERA service archival feature,
• delete or remove from any copyright notice or legend or the name of the Database from which data was retrieved,
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• electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than ten (10) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG ERA service (non-archival storage).

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

² Also /DF.

³ No titles prior to July 1, 1987. Abstract will appear in title position within parentheses.

⁴ Atlanta Constitution/Journal, Manchester Guardian, and Pravda may also include annotated titles.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁵ Also searchable using /CO.

⁶ Also searchable using /NA.

⁷ Includes Newspaper Name, Section, Pagination, Column, and Publication Date.

LIMIT [top]

SORT [top]

RANK [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

⁸ Same as Format 5 for records prior to July 1987.

⁹ Abstract not available for records prior to July 1987.

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Newspaper Abstracts[603]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $3.74
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.30    $1.30
     3    $1.30    $1.30
     4    $2.49    $2.49
     5    $2.49    $2.49
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.49    $2.49
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $2.49    $2.49
KWIC95    $0.11       NA
KWIC96    $0.12       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