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San Francisco Chronicle

Last Loaded on Web: Wednesday, May 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 San Francisco Chronicle is the largest circulation newspaper in Northern California, and the second largest metropolitan newspaper west of the Mississippi. File coverage is January 1988 to January 30, 2012. Current updates to this news source continue to be available in Dialog NewsRoom. The San Francisco Bay Area is a major center for corporate headquarters, government agencies, and Pacific-Rim trade. Companies located in the San Francisco area include Bank of America, Charles Schwab Corp., Chevron, Clorox, Bechtel Group, Levi Strauss, Pacific Gas & Electric, Transamerica, and Wells Fargo Bank. Major universities located in the San Francisco area include Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco. The Chronicle also provides extensive coverage of local finance, education, recreation, arts and entertainment, sports, health care and community issues, as well as national and international news. The Chronicle provides comprehensive coverage of the computer, semiconductor, biotechnology, robotics, and other high-technology industries in the San Francisco Bay area, including Silicon Valley.



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 1988 to January 30, 2012
File Size: 808,927 records as of January 30, 2012
Update Frequency: Closed


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.)
PAPERSCA California Newspapers
PAPERSMJ U.S. Major Newspapers
PAPERSWE U.S. Western Region Newspapers
TODAYSNE Today's News


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Terms and Conditions [top]

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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]

    08834021 
  /TI  A NEW WAVE OF MARS EXPLORATION 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - FRIDAY, November 29, 1996 
  AU=  By: David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: FINAL  Section: News  Page: A1 
    Word Count: 2,393 
     
  /ME  MEMO: 
    SPECIAL REPORT: MARTIAN CHRONICLES, RELATED STORY, RELATED STORY ATTACHED 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  A  bold  new  era  of Mars exploration -- sparked by evidence that life may 
    have  flourished  there  eons  ago  --  is opening with a fleet of advanced 
    American spacecraft bound for the legendary Red Planet. 
     
        Two  robot  ships  from  the  U.S.  have  been  loaded  with  the  most 
    sophisticated  instruments  ever  devised  -- and the first, launched three 
    weeks  ago,  is  already  speeding through interplanetary space 3.8 million 
    miles  from  Earth. The next is set for launch Monday, and as many as eight 
    more will follow over the coming decade. 
  /TX      If all goes well, the first of the new endeavors will map the planet in 
    greater  detail than ever before during its three-year orbital mission. And 
    the  next  is  designed to land a remarkable miniature vehicle to prowl the 
    Martian surface under radio control from Earth-bound scientists and analyze 
    the chemistry of its rock-studded terrain. 
     
        More flights will follow -- and as a climax to the decade, an ambitious 
    landing  mission  will  carry its own returning spacecraft, which will grab 
    samples of the rocky Martian surface and fly them back to Earth. 
     
        Planners  at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration hope all 
    those missions will then pave the way for the most ambitious project of all 
    --  one  far  more difficult than the historic Apollo moon landings: NASA's 
    road  map includes the first human expedition to Mars, which could be ready 
    for launch as early as 2012. 
     
        ``There  are  three  primary goals for this wave of exploration,'' said 
    Wesley  J.  Huntress  Jr.,  NASA's  chief  of  space  science,  at a recent 
    conference of Mars scientists at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View: 
    ``First,  the  search  for  life,  past  or  present.  Second, a search for 
    evidence  of  liquid water. And third, a search for resources that could be 
    used to support a sustained human presence. The common thread is water.'' 
        Missions  to  land  on Mars, to return Martian samples and even to send 
    human expeditions there have been the goal of space scientists for decades, 
    and  they  have  been  meticulously  planned  and  designed since the first 
    American  spacecraft  orbited  the  planet  and photographed its surface in 
    1964. 
     
        Only  20  years  ago,  two  American  Viking  spacecraft made the first 
    historic landings on Mars, but their analytic instruments detected no trace 
    of  life  in the tiny soil samples the ships scooped up from inches beneath 
    the planet's red sands. 
     
                   (...) 
      For  more  information,  contact the Planetary Society at (818) 793-1675. 
    For  online  information,  look  for  the web site from the Center for Mars 
    Exploration     at     the     NASA     Ames     Research     Center     at 
    http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/ 
     
      and     one     from     the     Jet     Propulsion     Laboratory     at 
    http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mars/ 
     
    CHRONICLE GRAPHIC 
     
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP, /TX  GRAPHIC 
     
     
                    Copyright 1996 The San Francisco Chronicle 
     
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  MARS; SPACE; ASTRONOMY; RESEARCH; PROFILE; VEHICLES; PLANETS; 
                  TECHNOLOGY; NASA; U.S. NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE 
                  ADMINISTRATION; GLOBAL SURVEYOR; PATHFINDER 


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 GRAPHIC/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S SPACE/DE
S GLOBAL SURVEYOR?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S MARS(2N)EXPLOR?/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S MARTIAN(W)CHRONICLES/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(5N)EXPLOR?/TI
/TX TX Text Word S INTERPLANETARY(W)SPACE/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=(DAVID(1N)PERLMAN)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=FRIDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=FINAL
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=SF
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961129
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A1
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=NEWS
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=CA
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: San Francisco Chronicle[640]
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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