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St. Paul Pioneer Press

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, May 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 Saint Paul Pioneer Press is a general circulation newspaper published in the state capital of Minnesota. With a newsroom staff of more than 210, the newspaper’s historic strength is in government and political reporting. Important companies located in the Twin Cities area include 3M, Cargill, Control Data Corporation, Dayton-Hudson, General Mills, Honeywell, and Pillsbury. File coverage begins with April, 1988.



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: April 1988 to the present
File Size: 651,802 records as of January 2006
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
PAPERSMN Minnesota Newspapers


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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]

    13410027 
  /TI  INTERNATIONAL  EXPLORATION BLASTS OFF FOR  MARS SEARCH FOR WATER, SIGNS OF 
    LIFE IS JOINT MISSION'S GOAL 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  St. Paul Pioneer Press (ST) - Tuesday, November 5, 1996 
  AU=  By: David L. Chandler, Boston Globe 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: Metro Final  Section: Main  Page: 1A 
    Word Count: 931 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  At  11 minutes past noon Wednesday, if all goes well, a Delta 2 rocket will 
    blast  off  from  Cape  Canaveral,  the  first  of a battery of exploratory 
    missions  to  the  bitterly  cold,  bone-dry  - and possibly life-bearing - 
    planet Mars . 
     
       Ten  days later, a Russian spacecraft bound for the red planet will lift 
    off  from  Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Two weeks after that, another 
    U.S.  rocket  will  take off, launching a craft designed to land on Mars , 
    then send out a small robotic vehicle to prowl the nearby landscape. 
    After a hiatus of more than two decades, the exploration of our neighboring 
    planet  is  about  to  resume in earnest: Over 10 years, the United States, 
    Russia and Japan together hope to dispatch no fewer than a dozen spacecraft 
    to scour the Martian terrain and probe beneath its ruddy surface. 
     
  /TX     ``There  are  three  primary  goals for this wave of exploration,'' said 
    Wesley  Huntress,  head  of  space science for the National Aeronautics and 
    Space  Administration.  ``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.'' 
     
        The  first  rocket  will carry the Mars  Global Surveyor, a probe that 
    will  swing into Martian orbit next August and begin mapping the surface in 
    unprecedented detail, a job that will take two years. 
     
        The Mars  Pathfinder, programmed for a more direct route, will set out 
    next month. It is scheduled to make a bouncy landing July 4, protected from 
    the  force  of  impact  by  24  huge  air bags. After coming to a rest, the 
    four-sided  craft  will  unfold like the petals of a flower, exposing solar 
    panels, cameras and other instruments. 
       After  checking out its surroundings, it will dispatch a robotic vehicle 
    about the size of a carry-on suitcase to explore the landing site area near 
    the outflow of an ancient river. That location, scientists hope, will yield 
    rocks  carried  downstream  from several areas, providing one-stop shopping 
    for a variety of Martian geology. 
     
        Russia's  first  probe, Mars  96, is to be launched Nov. 16 and should 
    reach  the planet next September. Once it goes into orbit around Mars , it 
    will  separate  into five parts: An orbiter to map the surface, two landers 
     
                      (. . .) 
       To learn more, try these Web sites: 
     
     Mars : 
     
       http://www.jpl.nasa.gov:80 mars / 
     
       http://quest.arc.nasa.gov mars / 
     
       http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mars96/mars96hp.html 
     
       http://www.reston.com/astro mars /catalog.html 
     
    Other planets: 
     
       http://www.empire.net/whatmoug/Extrasp;ar/extrasolar-visions.html 
     
       http://cannon.sfsu.edu/williams/planetsearch/planetsearch.html 
                    Copyright (c) 1996, St. Paul Pioneer Press 
     
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  RESEARCH; SPACE 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S MARTIAN(W)TERRAIN
/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 CAPE(W)CANAVERAL/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S MAIN/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(S)LIFE/TI
/TX TX Text Word S MARS(W)PATHFINDER/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)CHANDLER)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=TUESDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=METRO FINAL
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=ST
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961105
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=1A
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=CENTRAL
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=BUSINESS
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=MN
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: St. Paul Pioneer Press[701]
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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