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File Description [top]

Business Dateline^®, produced by ProQuest Information and Learning, provides the full text of major news and feature stories from 550 regional business publications from throughout the United States and Canada. The regional perspectives reported in the business press make Business Dateline an excellent source of in-depth business information with a local point of view. Virtually every aspect of regional business activities and trends is covered in the file, with particular emphasis on economic conditions in selected cities, states, or regions, as well as mergers, acquisitions, company executives, new products, and competitive intelligence.

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Subject Coverage [top]

Corporate Profiles:

• Market strategy
• Small business
• Start-ups
• Financial management
• Acquisitions & mergers
• Planning
• Corporate histories

Real Estate Markets:

• Absorption rates
• Local occupancy levels
• Office vacancies
• Square footage available
• Market Strategy

Profiles of Corporate Officers:

• Chief executive officers
• Boards of directors
• Entrepreneurs

Regional Economic Conditions:

• Local interest rates
• Demographic information
• Local economic impacts
• Relocation forecasting
• Business incubators

Finance and Financial Management:

• Stock prices
• Public offerings
• Industry Regulation

New Product Development:

• Research & development
• Product design
• Product introductions
• Research expenditures

Major industry coverage includes:

• Real Estate
• Telecommunications
• Hotels & Restaurants
• Electronics
• Publishing
• Retailing
• Transportation

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Related Search Aids [top]

Classification Codes and Classification Concepts used in BUSINESS DATELINE, DIALOG File 635, can be viewed at: http://support.dialog.com/searchaids/dialog/f15_f635_ccodes.shtml

Database Content [top]

• Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Journal Articles
• Newspaper Articles

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• DIALOG Alert Available
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
• CURRENT Feature Available

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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 Plus Text^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. Bell & Howell 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,
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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).

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BASIC INDEX [top]

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

² Also /DF.

³ Present from 1/2000 forward.

⁴ For records from 1985 through 12/1999, Named Person is searched using /NA or NA=.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁵ Use truncation when searching Classification Codes, e.g., S CC=3400?

⁶ Source includes: journal name, city and state of publication, volume, issue, section, page, and publication date.

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Rates [top]

Rates For File: Business Dateline®[635]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $5.58
Cost per minute:                   $1.42
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                    $2.30
ALERT (Monthly)                   $18.24
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $10.70
ALERT (Weekly)                     $6.85
ALERT (Daily)                      $2.30
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *   $6.85
ALERT (Intraday)               *   $2.30
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.77    $1.77
     3    $1.77    $1.77
     4    $3.80    $3.80
     5    $1.77    $1.77
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $3.80    $3.80
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.80    $3.80
KWIC95    $0.28       NA
KWIC96    $0.28       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