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The Seattle Times

Last Loaded on Web: Tuesday, July 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 Seattle Times, the leading newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, with a daily circulation of 230,000 and 500,000 on Sunday, provides award-winning coverage of national, international, Northwest, and Pacific-Rim news. The paper is a source for in-depth business coverage and focuses on such local issues as the aerospace industry, biotechnology, retail, and marine transportation. Major companies in the Seattle area include Boeing, Microsoft, and Nordstrom. Full text is included for all stories, features, columns and editorials, letters to the editor and most syndicated columns. Advertisements, calendar listings of coming events, TV-radio-movie listings, sports agate and statistics, stock and financial tables, weather tables, graphics, and some syndicated columns are excluded.



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

to scan the entire collection of U.S. fulltext newspaper databases.

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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: 921,074 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.)
PAPERSWA Washington State Newspapers
PAPERSWE U.S. Western Region Newspapers


Contact [top]

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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]

    08812066 
  /TI  MISSION  TO  MARS IS ON ITS WAY FIRST IN ARMADA OF SPACECRAFT SENT FLEETING 
    FROM EARTH 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Seattle Times (SE) - Thursday November 7, 1996 
  AU=  By: MARCIA DUNN AP 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: FINAL  Section: NEWS  Page: A3 
    Word Count: 404 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  CAPE  CANAVERAL,  FLA.  -  CAPE  CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Mars Global Surveyor 
    rocketed  away  today  on  a  435-million-mile, 10-month journey to the Red 
    Planet,  the  first  step  in  a decade of exploration by NASA to determine 
    whether there was ever life on Mars. 
     
        The  Delta  II  rocket carrying the spacecraft blasted off precisely on 
    time,  one day after strong wind scuttled the first launch attempt. 
     
  /TX      Less  than  an  hour later, the rocket's last stage fired and propelled 
    Global Surveyor toward Mars at a speed of 24,000 mph. 
     
         The Global Surveyor should reach Mars in September 1997 and, after six 
    months  of easing into a mapping orbit, will begin scrutinizing the Martian 
    surface and atmosphere. 
     
        "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., NASA chief of space science. 
     
        Global  Surveyor  is the first of 10 U.S. spacecraft to be sent to Mars 
    over the next decade. 
     
         It  is  the  long-awaited  successor  to  NASA's last Mars probe, Mars 
    Observer,  which  three years ago never reached its destination for reasons 
    still unknown. 
     
        NASA  expects  to launch a pair of relatively inexpensive spacecraft to 
    Mars  every  26  months through 2005, including a robotic mission to return 
    Martian  soil  and  rocks  to  Earth  that  should settle the is-there-life 
    debate. 
     
        Global  Surveyor,  made  mostly from leftover parts from Mars Observer, 
    will  scout  for  future  landing spots as it scans the Martian surface and 
    atmosphere  from a 235-mile-high orbit. Its mapping mission should begin in 
    March 1998 and last 687 days, or a full Martian year. 
     
        Total  mission  cost:  $230  million,  one-fourth that of the much more 
    elaborate Mars Observer. 
     
        Mars  Pathfinder  is  expected  to launch on Dec. 2 and land on the Red 
    Planet  on  July  4, 1997, two months ahead of Global Surveyor's arrival in 
    orbit. 
     
        Mars  was  a  scientific  hot spot long before NASA announced in August 
    that  a  meteorite  from  the  Red  Planet  contained  supposed evidence of 
    primitive life. That discovery and a similar one by British scientists just 
    last week have intensified interest in all things Martian. 
     
        As for sending humans, that will have to wait until at least the second 
    decade  of  the  next century, Huntress said. Money will be the determining 
    factor, as well as whether Martian soil and atmosphere contain resources to 
    support astronauts. 
     
                    Copyright 1996 The Seattle Times 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S MARS(S)SURVEYOR
/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 RED(W)PLANET/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(S)MISSION/TI
/TX TX Text Word S MARTIAN(W)SOIL/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=(MARCIA(1N)DUNN)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=CAPE CANAVERAL?
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=THURSDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=FINAL
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=SE
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=SEATTLE TIMES
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961107
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A3
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=WA
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: The Seattle Times[707]
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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