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645
Contra Costa Papers

Last Loaded on Web: Tuesday, August 26, 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 Contra Costa Papers file includes four daily papers from June 1995 forward: Contra Costa Times, West County Times, Valley Times, and the San Ramon Valley Times. In addition, the following weekly papers are also included: Contra Costa Sun, Solano Times, Concord Transcript, Pleasant Hill Record, Martinez Record, and Walnut Creek Journal. (Antioch) Ledger-Dispatch, another daily paper covering Northern Contra Costa , will be added to the file later this year. These newspapers report on Contra Costa , a burgeoning suburban region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Coverage focuses on Southern Contra Costa areas, such as San Ramon, which are growing by up to 17% per year and are attracting new corporations as well as housing Silicon Valley employees; North Contra Costa , the home of several oil refineries and related industries; and Central Contra Costa , a residential area near San Francisco.



Tips [top]

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USE AU=

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     S AU=(JOAN(1N)JACKSON)

USE TI,LP,DE FIELDS

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     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: (CT) 1/96-present; (CCS)1/96-present; (CCT) 6/95-present; (MR)1/96-present; (PHR)1/96-present; (SRVT)6/95-present; (ST)1/96-present; (VT)6/95-present; (WCJ)1/96-present; (WCT)1/90-present
File Size: 520,911 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
PAPERSCA California Newspapers
PAPERSNU New Papers added since March 1997
PAPERSWE U.S. Western 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]

    08813090  (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) 
  /TI  CRAFT IS OFF TO MARS TO SCOUT FOR ANY LIFE 
  AU=  Robert S. Boyd 
  JN=, ED=, PG=  CONTRA COSTA TIMES, Final ED, P B01 
  PD=, PY=  Friday, November 8, 1996 
  JC=, LA=, RT=  JOURNAL CODE:  CCT  LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH   RECORD TYPE:  FULLTEXT 
  /SH, SH=  SECTION HEADING:  news 
    Word Count:  845 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  WASHINGTON - 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. 
     
     
              (. . .) 
     
       Scientists say all the ingredients for life, including water and oxygen, 
    exist on Mars, even though the planet's surface is barren. 
     
       They are eager to find out if water is hidden in thick layers of icy 
    rock, as it is in similar formations in the polar regions on Earth. 
     
       "We should not foreclose the idea that life still might exist in 
    sheltered places on Mars," said Huntress. 
     
       Second, to learn why the Martian climate, once warm and wet, is now dry 
    and cold. Understanding what sent Mars into a deep freeze could help 
    explain the risks facing Earth's climate. 
     
       Third, to study whether the geology and resources of Mars could support 
    future human exploration. Space enthusiasts hope a manned expedition could 
    be undertaken by 2020, but the Clinton administration has not committed 
    itself to such a costly venture. 
     
       "The first step is to first understand what it is that Mars has," 
    Huntress said. "Where is the water, and what are other resources that might 
    exist on this planet?" 
     
     
  /CP  CAPTIONS:  Knight-Ridder Newspapers; Photo, The Mars Global Surveyor, 
    riding atop a Delta rocket, blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center in 
    Florida on Thursday on the first of 13 missions over the next decade to 
    survey Mars for signs of life (AP); Graphic, Swarm of spacecraft going to 
    Mars (KRT; AP) 
        Copyright (c) 1996, Contra Costa Newspapers 
     
  SF=  SPECIAL FEATURES:  GRAPHIC; PHOTO 
  /CO, CO=  COMPANY NAMES (Dialog Generated):  Kennedy Space Center ; National 
      Aeronautics and Space Administration ; NASA ; Pathfinder 


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/CO
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S MICROSOFT(1N)CORP?/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S SCIENTIFIC(W)INSTRUMENT?/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S LIFE(S)MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S SPACE(W)CENTER/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=CCT
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=CONTRA COSTA TIMES
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961108
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=B01
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: Contra Costa Papers[645]
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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