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USA Today

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, April 01, 2013

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]

USA TODAY is the electronic version of USA Today. Distributed in all 50 states and in 80 countries, USA Today keeps its finger on the pulse of the nation. There are USA Today bureaus in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and San Jose. Subjects covered include government, the economy, national issues and events, elections, human interest stories, consumer affairs, and sports. Considerable space is devoted to business, finance, investment news, the stock market, advertising, various industries, and entertainment.



Tips [top]

USE PAPERS or PAPERSNU FILES

to find the complete text of local, national, and international news articles from more than 100 U.S. newspapers.

USE PAPERSUS IN DIALINDEX

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     B 411
      SF PAPERSUS

USE CURRENT

to limit your search to the most recent 1 to 2 years of data.

     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 1989 to the present
File Size: 625,059 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
GENERALN General News Files
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSMJ U.S. Major Newspapers
TODAYSNE Today's News


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]

    08581844 
  /TI  Surveyor sets off for Mars 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  USA TODAY (US) - FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY November 08, 1996 
  AU=  By: Paul Hoversten 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: FINAL  Section: NEWS  Page: 03A 
    Word Count: 805 
     
    MEMO: 
  /ME  NOTES:  THE  NATION;  'These are the days you live for in space science and 
    space  exploration,'  NASA  scientists  say  as the first of 10 missions is 
    launched. 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX   NASA's  unmanned  Mars Global Surveyor sped into space Thursday, the first 
    in a series of missions that renews U.S. exploration of the Red Planet. 
     
     ``These   are   the   days  you  live  for  in  space  science  and  space 
    exploration,''  says  Wesley  Huntress, NASA space science chief. ``It's an 
    exciting and very emotional experience.'' 
     
  /TX   Delayed  a  day  by  bad  weather  over  Florida,  the $150 million Global 
    Surveyor  lifted  off flawlessly atop a $55 million Delta II rocket at noon 
    to begin a 10-month trip to Mars. 
     
     Shortly  after  liftoff, it suffered a minor glitch when a solar panel did 
    not  swing  open  fully.  Space  agency officials expect it to do so once a 
    hinge warms. 
     
     The  launch  marks  the  beginning  of  a new U.S. approach: Exploring the 
    planet  with  smaller, cheaper spacecraft designed to outperform their more 
    complex predecessors that were prone to fail. 
     
                 (. . .) 
     
    Thermal  emission  spectrometer: Analyzes heat from surface, composition of 
    minerals in sand dunes and distribution of rocks and dust. 
     The cruise to Mars 
     
    It takes about 10 months to reach Mars on a trajectory that sends the probe 
    more than halfway around the sun. Average cruise speed: 66,000 mph. 
     
    Nearing  Mars  in  September, the spacecraft begins aerobraking to slow its 
    speed  enough  to  be captured by Martian gravity. Aerobraking, dipping the 
    spacecraft  into the Martian atmosphere to let friction slow it down, takes 
    about four months. 
     
    Two  months  after  Surveyor  reaches a circular orbit, the mapping mission 
    starts, lasting until January 2000. 
     
    Aerobraking begins Sept. 12, 1997, 34,008 miles from Mars 
     
    Mapping begins March 16, 1998, 234 miles above Mars' surface 
     
     
     
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP  GRAPHIC, B/W, Marcia Staimer, USA TODAY, Source: NASA (Diagram) 
     PHOTO, B/W, Mike Brown, AP 
                    Copyright 1996 Gannett Co., Inc. 
     
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; NASA;  PLANET;  SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S SPACE(W)AGENCY
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S MARS(W)GLOBAL?/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S MARS(W)GLOBAL(W)SURVEYOR/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S SURVEYOR(S)MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S EXPLORATION(S)MARS/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=(PAUL(1N)HOVERSTEN)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=SUNDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=FINAL
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=US
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=USA TODAY
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961108
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=03A
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=NORTHEAST
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=NY
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: USA Today[703]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $4.75    $4.75
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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