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Business Week

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File Description [top]

Business Week contains the complete text of articles from the domestic and international English-language editions of the highly acclaimed McGraw-Hill weekly business news magazine, Business Week. Articles focus on companies, the economy, government regulation, industries, labor and management issues, technology, and international markets.

Access to records in Business Week is enhanced by DIALOG to provide indexing for companies that are a major focus of articles. A computer-created company name index (/CO, CO=) has been generated to assist users in isolating articles about specific companies.



Tips [top]

USE FILE 623

to search the complete text of Business Week from 1985 to the present.

USE /CO OR CO=

to find articles about companies.

USE /TI

to search for terms appearing in article titles.



Subject Coverage [top]

Business Week provides in-depth coverage of many aspects of the global business world, including:

  • News Analysis and Commentary
  • International Business
  • Economic Analysis
  • Legal Affairs
  • Finance
  • Information Processing
  • People
  • Corporations
  • Science and Technology
  • Marketing
  • Entertainment
  • Sports Business



Sources [top]

The database includes complete-text articles from the domestic and international English-language editions of Business Week magazine.



Print Counterparts [top]

  • Business Week


Dialog File Data [top]

Dates Covered: 1985 to the present
File Size: 105,665 records as of March 2006
Update Frequency: Weekly (Approximately 100 records per update)


Database Content [top]

  • Complete Text Records


Document Types Indexed [top]

  • Journal Articles


Geographic Coverage [top]

  • International


Geographic Restrictions [top]

  • None


Special Features [top]

  • Graduate Education Program
  • KWIC and HILIGHT Available
  • DIALOG Alert Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available
  • CURRENT Feature Available


DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM CATEGORY NAME
EURBUSNE European Regional Business News
EXECNEWS Executive News
FINBUS Banking and Financial Services
GENMAGS General Interest Magazines
INTLNEWS Global News English-Language Sources
MANAGE Management
NEWSCO Company News
REGIONAL United States Regional Business
RETAILBU Retail Industry News


Contact [top]

Business Week is provided by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

The McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Online
Andrea Broadbent
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North Building-1
Hightstown, NJ 08520

Telephone: 609-426-5523
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Terms and Conditions [top]

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    DIALOG(R)File 623:Business Week 
    (c) 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rts. reserv. 
     
  AA=  0000783994  IE74CE840281D11D98D5EFCBD823753DF 
  /TI  What's  Next  for  PeopleSoft?;  The  last  antitrust  obstacle to Oracle's 
        takeover  bid has been cleared. Now, one way or another, investors want 
        this soap opera to end 
  BY=  Jim Kerstetter 
  JN=  BusinessWeek Online 
  PD=,PY=  Wednesday, October 27, 2004 
  JC=, LA=, RT=  JOURNAL CODE:  BWON  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH  RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
  DT=, /SH, SH=  DOCUMENT TYPE:  Online  SECTION HEADING:  Technology 
  WD=  WORD COUNT:  517 
     
    TEXT: _Those  acquisitive  executives  at Oracle (ORCL) are getting pretty good at 
    jumping  legal  hurdles.  On  Oct. 26, the European Commission announced it 
    won't  block  Oracle's  proposed  hostile  takeover of rival software maker 
    PeopleSoft  (PSFT).  It  was the last antitrust barrier to the $7.7 billion 
    deal.  In  September,  a  federal  judge  rejected the U.S. Justice Dept.'s 
    attempt to block Oracle on antitrust grounds. 
    Nonetheless,  the  EC  decision  doesn't  mean the takeover is a done deal. 
    PeopleSoft   said   in  a  statement  that  its  board  will  consider  the 
    commission's  decision,  but  noted  that it has unanimously rejected every 
    offer  Oracle  has  made  since it first went after the Pleasanton (Calif.) 
    company  15  months  ago.  Oracle's  latest  cash  bid  is  $21  per share. 
    PeopleSoft stood at $20.09 as of Oct. 26's close. 
    PUNDIT  FATIGUE.  As  long  as PeopleSoft's board won't budge, Oracle still 
    faces  two  more legal hurdles. A Delaware judge is expected to rule within 
    the   next   few   weeks   concerning  whether  PeopleSoft  must  repeal  a 
    customer-rebate  program  that could cost Oracle an additional $2.4 billion 
    if it gets stuck with this bill in the takeover. 
    PeopleSoft has also sued Oracle for $2 billion, accusing the Silicon Valley 
    database-software  giant  of  intentionally  interfering  with PeopleSoft's 
    business. That trial is expected to start in January in Oakland. 
    The  endless  legal  wrangling  is  enough  to tire even the most ardent of 
    software-industry  pundits.  "At this point, I'm weary of the whole thing," 
    says  Jim Shephard, vice-president at Boston-based AMR Research. "I frankly 
    would like it to be resolved one way or another." 
    NOT  A  SOFT  TARGET.  It will. But for Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to get his 
    way,  he may have to raise his price. And cash-rich Oracle can afford to go 
    up to the high-$20s per share, Neil Herman, a Lehman Brothers analyst, said 
    in an Oct. 26 research report. 
    That is, if Ellison really wants to. A debate has always raged over whether 
    Ellison  wants  to  acquire  PeopleSoft as a way to dismantle a rival or to 
    complement  his empire. The controversy was renewed when PeopleSoft on Oct. 
    1  fired  its  chief  executive,  Craig Conway, and reinstated founder Dave 
    Duffield to run the company. 
    For days after the ouster, investors tried to figure out whether Duffield's 
    return  meant  PeopleSoft was ready to begin negotiating with Oracle or was 
    still battling Oracle's takeover. But in the end, it appeared that Oracle's 
    overtures  continue  to be rejected (see BW Online, 10/6/04, "No White Flag 
    Flying at People Soft"). 
    "TOUGHER  COMPETITOR."  While  testifying  in  the  Delaware trial, Ellison 
                      (. . .) 
     
      Copyright (c) 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., All rights reserved. 
     
  /CO, CO=  COMPANY NAMES:  LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC; LEHMAN BROTHERS INC 
  /PN, PN=  INDUSTRY NAMES:  INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; DATABASE SOFTWARE; DATABASES; 
      ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS 
      ; MONOPOLIES 
  /DE, EN=  EVENT NAMES:  MAJOR CORPORATIONS; MERGERS AND  ACQUISITIONS ; CORPORATE 
      GROUPS AND OWNERSHIP; MONOPOLIES; REGULATION 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX
DISPLAY
CODE
FIELD NAME
INDEXING
SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S HOSTILE(W)TAKEOVER
/CO CO Company Name1 Word S LEHMAN(W)BROTHERS?/CO
/CP CP Caption Word S TRANSITION(W)PLAN?/CP
/DE DE Event Name2 Word S MAJOR(W)CORPORATION?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph2 Word S ANTITRUST(W)BARRIER?/LP
/PN PN Industry Name2 Word S INFORMATION(W)MANAGEMENT?/PN
/SH SH Section Heading1 Word S TECHNOLOGY/SH
/TI TI Title Word S PEOPLESOFT(S)TAKEOVER/TI
/TX TX Text Word S CASH(W)BID?/TX

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

2 Beginning May 2004.


ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

SEARCH
PREFIX
DISPLAY
CODE
FIELD NAME
INDEXING
SELECT EXAMPLES
AA= AA Load Accession Number Phrase S AA=IE74CE840281D11?
None AN DIALOG Accession Number
AU= AU Author/Byline Word S AU=(JIM(1N)KERSTETTER)
None BI Author Biography
CO= CO Company Name1 Phrase S CO=LEHMAN BROTHER?
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DT=LOS ANGELES
DT= DT Document Type2 Phrase S DT=ONLINE
DY= DY Day of Publication2 Phrase S DY=WEDNESDAY
EN= EN Event Name2 Phrase S EN=CORPORATE GROUPS?
JC= JC Journal Code Phrase S JC=BWON
JN= JN Journal Name Phrase S JN=BUSINESS WEEK
LA= LA Language2 Phrase S LA=ENGLISH
MO= MO Month of Publication2 Phrase S MO=OCTOBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=20041027
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=3
PN= PN Industry Name2 Phrase S PN=DATABASE SOFTWARE
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=2004
RT= RT Record Type2 Phrase S RT=FULLTEXT
SF= SF Special Feature Phrase S SF=PHOTOGRAPH
SH= SH Section Heading Phrase S SH=TECHNOLOGY
SN= SN International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Phrase S SN=0007-7135
None SO Source Information3
UD= None Update Phrase S UD=200110W1
WD= WD Word Count Phrase S WD=>500

3 Display includes Journal Name, Volume, Issue, Pagination, and Publication Date.


LIMIT [top]

Sets and terms may be restricted by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /CO, /CP, /SH, /TI, /TX (e.g., SELECT S S5/TI).
SUFFIX FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
/ENG Language S S3/ENG
/LONG Records having Text >1,000 Words S S2/LONG
/SHORT Records having Text < 1,000 Words S S2/SHORT
/YYYY Publication Year S S2/2001


SORT [top]

SORTABLE FIELDS EXAMPLES
AA, JN, PD, PN, PY, TI SORT S13/ALL/JN/PY
PRINT S5/1-24/PD,D


RANK [top]

RANK FIELDS EXAMPLES
All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. RANK CO S3


USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

Output may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. TYPE S3/TI,SO/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 and Word Count
5 -- Full Record except Text
6 Short Title, Publication Date, and Word Count
7 Long Full Record except Indexing
8 Free Title, Publication Date, Word Count, 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


DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

FIELD NAME EXAMPLES
DIALOG Accession Number TYPE 0047949/5
DISPLAY 0044781/AU,TX
PRINT 0052031/8


Rates [top]

Rates For File: Business Week[623]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $5.83
Cost per minute:                   $1.42
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                   $12.57
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $22.47
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $17.12
ALERT (Weekly)                    $12.57
ALERT (Daily)                  *  $12.57
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $12.57
ALERT (Intraday)               *  $12.57
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints       20

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     9    $3.80    $3.80
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
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