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File Description [top]

Gale Group Newswire ASAP^TM provides the fully searchable text and comprehensive indexing of wire stories from many renowned worldwide news sources. The file offers both current and retrospective information on companies, industries, products, people, trends, and economies. Wire services currently covered are: Business Wire (11/94+), Newsbytes News Service (7/89+), and PR Newswire (1/83+). Historical coverage is available for: Agencia EFE (2/91-9/91), Comtex (2/91-7/91), Deutsche Press-Agentur (3/91-10/91), Federal News Service (5/91-10/91), Japan Economic Newswire (1987-1991), Kyodo News Service (2/91-7/92), Market Consensus Surveys (2/91-8/91), TASS (2/91-10/91), Tokyo Financial Wire (1/91-2/92), United Press International (2/91-10/91), and Xinhua News Agency (2/91-10/91).

Gale Group Newswire ASAP is an important resource for researchers who conduct competitive intelligence and mergers and acquisitions research, monitor worldwide industry and technology, or track global economic and political conditions. The complete text and indexing of wire stories are usually available for searching within 36 hours of transmission. All words within the text are searchable, facilitating searches for quotes, figures, or any mention of a company name or personal name found in the text. Controlled vocabulary (including Predicasts Product Codes) can be used to limit searches to substantive stories about specific companies, industries, products, people, or events.

Subject Coverage [top]

• Analysts Reports
• Business News
• Commodities and Currency
• Earnings Reports
• Economic Forecasts
• Financials
• Government Statistics
• Industries
• Insider Trading
• Legislation
• Market Share
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• New Product Announcements
• News Releases
• Personnel Changes
• Political News
• Securities
• Speeches
• Stock and Money Markets
• Trends and Technologies
• 8K Reports

Dialog File Data [top]

Database Content [top]

• Complete Text Records

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Newswires

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

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

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A user may not:

- redistribute, copy or electronically store (archive) all or a majority of records from a single issue of a publication retrieved from the Databases.

- electronically store (archive) in machine-readable form for more than twelve (12) months records or data retrieved from the Databases under the DIALOG archival feature.

- delete or remove from a record or data the copyright credits or the name of the Database from which such record or data was retrieved.

- republish, distribute or make available in any manner whatsoever to third parties who are not part of the user's organization records or data retrieved from the Databases.

- use any records or data to create a derivative work except for a compilation of electronically stored data for internal use only.

- electronically store in machine-readable form for longer than fifteen (15) days records or data retrieved for internal redistribution under the DIALOG redistribution feature (non-archival storage use).

- redistribute, copy or electronically store (REDIST, COPIES or ARCHIVE commands) materials retrieved from the Newsletter Database^TM.

Notwithstanding the above restrictions, a bona fide information broker may make and provide one copy of search results obtained from the Databases to a single customer outside that information broker's organization provided that such information broker notifies such single customer that the information is copyrighted material which can be used for internal purposes only and cannot be copied, sold or republished.

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

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

² Ceased indexing in 1991.

³ Also /DF.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁴ Also searchable as AT=.

⁵ Includes Journal Name, Page/Story Number, and Publication Date.

⁶ Special Feature will cease indexing as of 15 March 2002, but backfile data will remain online.

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USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Gale Group Newswire ASAP™[649]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $6.89
Cost per minute:                   $0.88
Rank Elements                      $0.00
ALERT (default)                    $4.50
ALERT (Monthly)                *  $28.00
ALERT (Biweekly/twice a month) *  $21.00
ALERT (Weekly)                 *  $15.75
ALERT (Daily)                      $4.50
ALERT (Calendar weekly)        *  $15.75
ALERT (Intraday)                   $4.50
* = custom scheduled Alerts only
ALERT Number of included prints        0

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.50    $1.50
     3    $1.50    $1.50
     4    $3.50    $3.50
     5    $3.50    $3.50
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $5.00    $5.00
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $5.00    $5.00
KWIC95    $0.31       NA
KWIC96    $0.31       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