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643
Grand Forks Herald

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, October 02, 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 Grand Forks Herald, a Knight-Ridder paper, is not available on any other online service. The newspaper covers general news for North Dakota and Minnesota from December 1994, including news from 90 local communities. See Marilyn Hagerty’s local column for commentary on community issues and other observations. When local government is in session, its activities are reported from Bismarck. Reflecting the dominance of agriculture in the local economy, the paper publishes a special agriculture section on Mondays and a weekly edition of "Agweek." Related food industries, such as wheat, sugar, potatoes, and french fry manufacturing, are covered, as are the local activities of Simplot, a leader in the food manufacturing field. Other local companies include snowmobile manufacturers Articat and Polaris Industries. Marvin Windows (Warroad, MN and Grafton, ND) is another major local employer.



Tips [top]

USE PAPERS or PAPERSNU FILES

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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: December1994 to the present
File Size: 227,542 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.)
PAPERSCE U.S. Central Region Newspapers
PAPERSND North Dakota 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).


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08813092  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI  TOWARD THE RED PLANET NASA LAUNCHES FIRST OF 13 EARTH-TO- MARS SPACESHIPS 
     IN SEARCH FOR LIFE 
  AU=  Robert S. Boyd, Knight-Ridder Newspapers 
  JN=, ED=, PG=  Grand Forks Herald, FINAL ED, P A01 
  PD=, PY=  Friday, November 8, 1996 
  JC=, LA=, RT=  JOURNAL CODE:  GF  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH   RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
  /SH, SH=  SECTION HEADING:  MAIN 
    Word Count:  611 
     
    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 meteor 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. 
     
       Series of voyages 
     
       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, bacterialike 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. 
     
       Once there, it will spend six months settling into orbit, and then two 
    Earth years (one Martian year) mapping the planet's enormous mountains, 
    deep valleys and dried-up river beds. 
     
       At an average height of 234 miles above the Martian surface, the 
    spaceship's cameras can detect objects as small as 6 feet across. They 
    might photograph the two Viking landers that NASA abandoned there 21 years 
    ago. 
     
       The Surveyor won't be alone when it gets to its destination. Two more 
    missions are ready to go in quick succession. 
                            (...) 
     
        Copyright (c) 1996, Grand Forks Herald 
     
  SF=  SPECIAL FEATURES:  GRAPHIC; PHOTO 
  /CO, CO=  COMPANY NAMES (Dialog Generated):  Kennedy Space Center ; National 
      Aeronautics and Space Administration ; NASA 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S RED(W)PLANET
/CO CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Word S KENNEDY(W)SPACE(W)CENTER/CO
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTO/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S MICROSOFT(1N)CORP?/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S EARTH(1W)MARS/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S MAIN/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S NASA(5N)LAUNCH?/TI
/TX TX Text Word S MARTIAN(W)METEORITES/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)
CO= CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Phrase S CO=NASA
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=GF
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=GRAND FORKS HERALD
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961108
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A01
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
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=MT
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: Grand Forks Herald[643]
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
     4    $1.78    $1.78
     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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