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The Charlotte Observer

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, December 01, 2008

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 Charlotte Observer is a general circulation daily that provides local, regional, national, and international news coverage. Special emphasis is given to business, sports, and religion. The Observer provides in-depth analysis of the banking, construction, textile, and trucking industries in the Carolinas. Important companies headquartered there include Royal Insurance; Lance, Inc.; Cannon Mills; Springs Industries; and Reynolds Tobacco. The Business Monday section is a 24-page weekly feature focusing on business and economic development. Sports stories demonstrate the local interest in college basketball (Atlantic Coast Conference) and stock car racing. The file includes the full text of all stories, features, columns, editorials, and letters to the editor. Advertising, calendar listings, games and puzzles, horoscopes, crime reports, sports statistics, stock tables, TV listings, weather listings, graphics, engagements/weddings, and funeral notices are not included.



Tips [top]

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     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 the present
File Size: 887,048 records as of July 2008
Update Frequency: Daily


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
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSNC North Carolina Newspapers
PAPERSSE U.S. Southeast Region 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]

    08813087 
  /TI  NASA LAUNCHES FIRST OF 13 MISSIONS SEEKING EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON  MARS 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Charlotte Observer (CO) - Friday, November 8, 1996 
  AU=  By: ROBERT S. BOYD, Observer Washington Bureau 
  ED=  Edition: ONE\-3 
  /SH, SH=    Section: MAIN NEWS 
  PG=    Page: 7A 
     
    Word Count: 372 
     
    MEMO: 
  /ME  Photo appeared on p. 1A. 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  WASHINGTON 
     - NASA kicked off an intensive search for evidence of life on 
    other worlds Thursday by launching the first of 13 Earth-to-Mars spaceships 
    scheduled over the next 10 years. 
     
       After  a  one-day  delay because of high winds, the Mars Global Surveyor 
    blasted  off  from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 50 seconds after noon, 
    lugging six scientific instruments to explore the Martian environment. 
     
  /TX     ``It's  the  beginning  of  a long sequence of missions ultimately whose 
    goal  must  be  to  determine  whether or not life was ever on Mars or even 
    perhaps  exists now,'' said Wesley Huntress Jr., chief of space science for 
    the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
     
       The unmanned missions - 10 American, two Russian and one Japanese - were 
    planned  long  before  the  tantalizing discovery that at least two Martian 
    meteorites contain what may be relics of once-living organisms. 
     
       A  team  of  American scientists announced in August that they had found 
    what looked like fossilized bacteria in a 4.5 billion-year-old Martian rock 
    picked  up  in  Antarctica.  Just  last  week,  British  scientists who had 
    examined  a  second  meteorite  from Mars said they had found similar signs 
    that life may have existed 600,000 years ago. 
     
       The  fossil  reports  added  urgency  and  excitement to humanity's long 
    fascination with the Red Planet. 
     
       The  series of interplanetary voyages - spaced 26 months apart when Mars 
    is  in  the  best  position relative to Earth - is supposed to culminate in 
    2005  with  the  return  of  samples of Martian rocks and soil for detailed 
    study. 
     
       Scientists  say they need such materials to confirm the highly uncertain 
    evidence  of tiny, bacteria-like organisms found in Martian rocks that fell 
    to Earth many years ago. 
     
       ``We  won't  know for sure until we go to Mars and bring back samples,'' 
    said David McKay, a NASA scientist who is studying the Martian meteorites. 
     
       The  Surveyor is to reach Mars next September after a looping journey of 
    435 million miles that will take it half way around the sun. 
     
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP, /TX  PHOTO, MAP 
       MIKE  BROWN/Associated  Press  photo:  MISSION TO MARS: A Delta 2 rocket 
    carries  NASA's Mars Global Surveyor into orbit Thursday from Kennedy Space 
    Center  in  Florida.  The  spacecraft  will  test  the  surface for mineral 
    composites and map Mars' surface. 
     
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  SPACE; SCIENCE; 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S LIFE(2N)MARS
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S SPACE/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S KENNEDY(W)SPACE(W)CENTER/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S PHOTO/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S MAIN/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S LIFE(1N)MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S UNMANNED(W)MISSION?/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=(ROBERT(1N)BOYD)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=FRIDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=ONE?
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=CO
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961108
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=7A
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=MAIN NEWS
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=NC
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 Charlotte Observer[642]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.40    $1.40
     3    $1.40    $1.40
     5    $1.78    $1.78
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.97    $2.97
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.20    $3.20
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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