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633
The Philadelphia Inquirer

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, April 01, 2013

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]

The Philadelphia Inquirer, is a general circulation newspaper providing local, national, and international news coverage. The Philadelphia Inquirer offers extensive reporting on Philadelphia and the nine-county Pennsylvania-New Jersey metropolitan area. Particular emphasis is given to Philadelphia as a service center contributing to insurance, banking, education, legal services, and hospital and health care; as a shipping and transportation hub; and as a cultural center. Coverage includes all news items, columns, feature stories, editorials, letters to the editor, and wire stories.

File 633 stopped updating March 31, 2011. Select content from The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper is updated in File 608, McClatchy-Tribune Information Service.



Tips [top]

USE PAPERS or PAPERSNU FILES

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USE CURRENT

to limit your search to the most recent 1 to 2 years of data.

     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 1, 1983 to March 31, 2011
File Size: 941,565 records as of March 2011
Update Frequency: Closed Does not update


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
GENERALN General News Files
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSMJ U.S. Major Newspapers
PAPERSNE U.S. Northeast Region Newspapers
PAPERSPA Pennsylvania 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).


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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08812205 
  /TI  WIND STOPS LAUNCH TO MARS 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Philadelphia Inquirer (PI) - Thursday, November 7, 1996 
  AU=  By: ASSOCIATED PRESS 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: SF  Section: NATIONAL  Page: A04 
    Word Count: 224 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  CAPE  CANAVERAL  -  High  wind forced postponement of yesterday's scheduled 
    launch  of  the  Mars Global Surveyor, the first of 10 spacecraft that NASA 
    plans to send to the Red Planet over the next decade. 
     
       Launch  officials  said they would try again at midday today to send the 
    Global Surveyor on its 435 million-mile, 10-month journey. 
     
  /TX     Thick rain clouds at midday yesterday scuttled the first launch attempt. 
    The sky cleared just in time for a second attempt, but the wind accelerated 
    with just one minute remaining in the countdown. 
     
       ``Hold! Hold! Hold!'' launch engineer Dave Smith urged his colleagues. 
       NASA  has  until  Nov.  25  to  launch  the Global Surveyor on the Delta 
    rocket. 
     
       Otherwise  it will have to wait two years until the planets are again in 
    proper alignment. 
     
       The  probe  consists  mostly  of  leftover parts from the Mars Observer, 
    which  fell  silent just three days before it was supposed to arrive at the 
    Red Planet in August 1993. 
     
       The  Global  Surveyor should reach Mars next September and begin mapping 
    the planet six months later from a 235-mile-high orbit. 
     
       Six  science  instruments  will study the Martian surface and atmosphere 
    for 687 days, or a full Martian year. 
     
       It does not carry any instruments that could directly detect evidence of 
    life  but  may  scout  out sites for a future mission to recover samples of 
    rock. 
     
                    Copyright Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. 1996 
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  US SPACE MARS 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S RED(W)PLANET
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S US(1N)SPACE?/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S MARS(W)GLOBAL(W)SURVEYOR/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NATIONAL/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S LAUNCH(5N)MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S SCHEDULED(W)LAUNCH/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)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=FRIDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=SF
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=PI
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961107
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A04
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=NATIONAL
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=PA
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: The Philadelphia Inquirer[633]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $4.75    $4.75
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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