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709
Richmond Times-Dispatch

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, February 01, 2010

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 Richmond Times-Dispatch is a daily morning paper with approximately 242,000 Sunday and 141,000 daily circulation. The file also includes The Richmond News Leader from January 1989 through May 1992. The paper provides comprehensive city, regional, business, sports, and state government news. Special attention is given to the tobacco and agriculture industries, as well as numerous large companies, including: Bank of Virginia, Sovran Financial Corporation, James River Corporation, Reynolds Metals, ASH. Robins, Ethyl Corporation, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours, Philip Morris U.S.A., Best Products, CSX Corporation, and Dominion Resources. Full text is included for all staff-written stories, features, columns, editorials, and free-lance material. Excluded are advertising, almanacs, calendar listings, engagements/weddings, funeral notices, games, graphics, national and international wire stories, puzzles, some sports briefs, stock reports, and syndicated columns (except James Kilpatrick’s).



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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USE CURRENT

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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: January 1989 to the present
File Size: 709,742 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.)
PAPERSVA Virginia 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]

    09128036 
  /TI  NASA PLANS TO SEND PROBES TO SEARCH FOR WATER ON  MARS 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Richmond Times-Dispatch (RI) - Thursday May 8, 1997 
  AU=  By: The Associated Press 
  ED=  Edition: City 
  /SH, SH=    Section: Area/State 
  PG=    Page: B-4 
     
    Word Count: 506 
     
    MEMO: 
  /ME  (ldb) 
     
    TEXT: 
  DT=, /LP, /TX  HAMPTON  -  NASA  plans  to  send  two basketball-size probes to Mars in 
    January  1999  to search for underground water, possibly helping scientists 
    determine whether there ever was life on the Red Planet. 
     
       The Mars Microprobes will ride piggyback on a spacecraft that is part of 
    a  series of orbiters, rovers and robots that are being sent to Mars during 
    the next decade. 
     
  /TX     The  probes,  each  weighing  6.7  pounds,  are  the  smallest planetary 
    exploration  spacecraft ever made, said Robert Braun, an aerospace engineer 
    at NASA's Langley Research Center who helped design the probes. 
     
       At  a  cost  of  $26.4  million,  the  probes are a bargain by aerospace 
    standards. They are part of a continuing effort by the National Aeronautics 
    and Space Administration to launch faster, cheaper spacecraft. 
     
       The  probes will be the first spacecraft to look for water beneath Mars' 
    surface, Braun said yesterday. 
     
       ``Water  is the unifying theme for all the questions we have about life, 
    the  evolution of the planet, why did Mars evolve differently than Earth or 
    other  planets,''  Braun  said  in  an interview before he gave a speech on 
    planetary exploration to Langley employees. 
     
       The  debate  over whether life existed on Mars was reignited with NASA's 
    revelation  in  August  of  a  Martian  meteorite with supposed evidence of 
    ancient microscopic life. 
     
       The  first  two  spacecraft that were launched late last year as part of 
    the  Mars  campaign were built before that revelation, and there was no way 
    to divert those missions to new goals, Braun said. 
       So  the  next  missions  in 1999, which include the Microprobes, will be 
    more focused on finding water, a key to life, Braun said. 
     
       Scientists  know  that  Mars  was  covered  with  water 3.5 billion or 4 
    billion years ago, but its surface is dry today. 
     
       ``So  the question is, where did all the water go?'' Braun said. ``A lot 
    of  it  may  have baked off into space. A lot of it may have gone below the 
    surface.'' 
     
       Just  before  the  spacecraft  carrying  the Microprobes reaches Mars in 
    September  or  October  1999,  it  will  throw  off  the probes in a random 
    fashion. 
     
       The  probes, which are shaped like cones with spheres on top, will enter 
    the atmosphere in one piece, without parachutes. 
     
       Each  probe  will  carry  a  penetration device about 6 inches long. The 
    force  of  the  probe's  impact against the planet's surface will drive the 
    device into the surface. 
     
                               (. . .) _ 
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP  PHOTO 
       PHOTO 
                    Copyright (c) 1997, Richmond Newspapers Inc. 
     
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  SPACE; SCIENCE; 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S RED(W)PLANET
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S SPACE/DE
S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S LIFE(S)MARS/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S STATE/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S NASA(S)MARS/TI
/TX TX Text Word S MARS(10N)WATER/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=(PETER(1N)DELEVETT)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=HAMPTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=THURSDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=CITY
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=RI
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=MAY
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19970508
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=B-4
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1997
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=AREA?
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=VA
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: Richmond Times-Dispatch[709]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.09
Cost per minute:                   $0.70
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.51    $1.51
     3    $1.51    $1.51
     5    $1.92    $1.92
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $3.21    $3.21
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.46    $3.46
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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