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(New Orleans) The Times-Picayune

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, October 02, 2008

Last Update To Bluesheet: September 1, 2005

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Subject Coverage Document Types Indexed Contact Additional Indexes Predefined Format Options
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Dialog File Data Special Features Sample Record Sort


File Description [top]

The Times-Picayune is a general circulation daily newspaper providing local, state, national, and international news coverage. The paper provides comprehensive coverage of economic, political, social, and environmental issues. The Times-Picayune reports on Louisiana’s agriculture, aerospace, chemicals, marine, music, nuclear, oil, seafood, shipping, and tourism industries. Major companies located in the region include: Avondale Industries, Borden Chemical, Freeport-McMoran, Louisiana Land and Exploration, and McDermott Industries. Full text is included for all news items, columns, feature stories, editorials, obituaries, and letters. Excluded are wire stories not in the National or Metro sections, advertising, calendar listings, sports agate, stock reports, TV-radio-movie listings, engagements, weddings, funeral notices, some syndicated columnists, and games and puzzles.



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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: January 1989 to the present
File Size: 1,298,309 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.)
PAPERSLA Louisiana Newspapers
PAPERSSE U.S. Southeast Region Newspapers


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Terms and Conditions [top]

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08811048 
  /TI   MARS   SURVEYOR  TAKING  OFF  PROBE  WILL MAP, PHOTOGRAPH RED PLANET WITH 
    PRECISION 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  New Orleans Times Picayune (NO) - Wednesday, November 6, 1996 
  AU=  By: SETH BORENSTEIN The Orlando Sentinel 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: THIRD  Section: NATIONAL  Page: A2 
    Word Count: 674 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. - The Martian invasion begins this week. 
     
       But don't scan the skies for aliens because Earth is doing the invading. 
    America,  Russia  and  Japan will aim at least 11 spaceships at Mars in the 
    next 10 years. 
     
       "The  armada  will be launched," said Arizona State University Professor 
    Ron  Greeley,  who  analyzed  NASA's  exploration  plans  for the federally 
    financed  independent National Research Council. "That's going to make Mars 
    a very exciting place and bring it right into the home for anyone who wants 
    it." 
  /TX     The  first  launch, today from Cape Canaveral, will send the Mars Global 
    Surveyor  to circle, map and photograph the planet. The probe's cameras are 
    so  strong  that  they  can  photograph objects as small as a car. Previous 
    orbiters could only photograph objects the size of a house. 
     
       The  Mars  Global  Surveyor is the first of three probes that scientists 
    will  try  to  launch  within  the next two months while Earth and Mars are 
    closest to each other. This alignment happens once every 26 months. 
     
       On  Nov.  16,  the Russians will try to launch Mars 96, a spaceship that 
    includes  an  orbiter,  two  surface  landers and two penetrators that will 
    tunnel  20  feet deep into the Martian surface. Scientists believe signs of 
    life  could  be hidden below the soil. America has two experiments on board 
    Mars 96. 
     
       Then  on  Dec.  2,  NASA  will  try  to launch Mars Pathfinder from Cape 
    Canaveral.  The  $196  million Pathfinder will put a weather station on the 
    Martian surface as well as a small mobile lab that can roam for hundreds of 
    yards. 
     
       In  1998  three  more  probes, including one from Japan, will be sent to 
    Mars.  Two  more  probes  will  be launched in 2001 and again in 2003, in a 
    collaborative  effort  between Russia and the United States. NASA will send 
    the  final  ship  in 2005 to collect Martian rocks and return them to Earth 
    for more comprehensive study. 
     
       And  the  future  may  see  even  more  unusual  explorations. Last week 
    scientists met in Maryland to consider flying a robotic balloon or airplane 
    through the Martian atmosphere just after the turn of the century. 
     
       All  of  this  was planned before August when scientists discovered what 
    could  be microfossils and signs of primitive life on a meteorite that came 
    from Mars millions of years ago. 
     
       "This  fall  we  open  a  major  new  era  of Mars exploration so we can 
    systematically pry loose the secrets of Mars, its origins and its history," 
    NASA Associate Administrator Wesley Huntress said. 
     
       Gerald  Walberg,  director  of the Mars Mission Research Center at North 
    Carolina  State  University, said "it's like a huge jigsaw that you have to 
    put together. This is going to supply us some pretty vital information." 
     
       But  pieces  of that puzzle could turn up missing. Strange things happen 
    to  Mars  probes.  Between  them,  the Americans and Russians have tried at 
    least  19 times to send robotic probes to Mars. Only six succeeded, none of 
    them from Russia. 
                            (...) 
     
                    Copyright (c) 1996, The Times-Picayune Pub. Corp. 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S MARTIAN(W)SURFACE
/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 NASA(W)EXPLORATION/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NATIONAL/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(W)SURVEYOR/TI
/TX TX Text Word S ORBITER?(S)PHOTOGRAPH?/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=(SETH(1N)BORENSTEIN)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=CAPE CANAVERAL?
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=WEDNESDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=THIRD
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=NO
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=NEW ORLEANS TIMES PICAYUNE
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961106
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A2
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=SOUTHEAST
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=NATIONAL
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=LA
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: (New Orleans) The Times-Picayune[706]
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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