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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which supersedes the Pittsburgh Press, is a general circulation daily newspaper that serves readers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland. Topics covered include: business, medicine, science, technology, religion, transportation, and arts and entertainment. Important local companies and institutions include: USX Corporation, H.J. Heinz, ALCOA Westinghouse, Mellon Bank, PPG Industries, Carnegie-Mellon University, Penn State University, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers. Full text is included for all stories, features, columns, editorials, and letters to the editor. Not included are advertising, the almanac column, birth announcements, most syndicated columns, TV-radio-movie listings, real estate transactions, divorces, marriage licenses granted, sports agate, weather listings, indexes, town meetings, bridge column, the pet column, crossword puzzles, horoscopes, stock market agates, Weekender Best Bets, top 10 records and videos, Business Week, Business Database, the interest rate chart, and the Tri-State Portfolio.

Tips [top]

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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:	June 1990 to the present
File Size:	1,080,022 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]

ERA Available
Graduate Education Program
KWIC and HILIGHT Available
Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
CURRENT Feature Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

ACRONYM	CATEGORY NAME
PAPERS	Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSNE	U.S. Northeast Region Newspapers
PAPERSPA	Pennsylvania 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]

	`08810030`
/TI	`MISSIONS TO MARS NASA SPACE PROBES COULD UNLOCK RED PLANET'S SECRETS`
JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=	`Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PT) - Tuesday, November 5, 1996`
ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=	`Edition: SOONER Section: EDITORIAL Page: A-8`
	`Word Count: 312`

	`TEXT:`
/LP, /TX	`NASA's scheduled launch of the Mars Global Surveyor tomorrow will mark the`
	`beginning of a decade-long series of space probes that scientists hope will`
	`unlock some of the elusive secrets of the Red Planet.`

	`Unfortunately, most Americans have become indifferent to space`
	`exploration - an undertaking that fired the public's imagination and`
	`instilled a sense of national purpose in the 1960s. NASA's new Mars probes`
	`- the first since the 1970s - may help reawaken interest in the U.S. space`
	`program.`

/TX	`The orbiting Global Surveyor could shed new light on whether life forms`
	`could exist on Mars by analyzing heat and radiation on the planet's surface`
	`to detect the presence of carbonate minerals - the most likely source of`
	`any past or present life.`
	`The century-old debate over the existence of Martian life was stirred up`
	`in August when a team of NASA scientists announced that they had found`
	``quite reasonable evidence'' in a fragment of rock from Mars that
	`microscopic bacteria existed on the planet billions of years ago.`

	`Not surprisingly, many scientists greeted the news with skepticism. But`
	`last month scientists at two British universities reported that they had`
	`confirmed the U.S. team's findings. Moreover, they said that they had found`
	`traces of microbe-related substances in a much younger Mars rock. If so,`
	`that raises the possibility that primitive life forms may now exist on`
	`Mars.`

	`Next month, NASA will launch the Mars Pathfinder, a small rover designed`
	`to land on the planet and examine Martian rocks to analyze their chemical`
	`composition.`

	`NASA officials say that if the orbiters and rovers succeed, humans could`
	`follow in the second decade of the next century.`

	`Space projects no longer enjoy the priority they had in NASA's glory`
	`days, but the United States should not lose sight of the fact that it is in`
	`every nation's best interest to expand knowledge of the universe.`



	`Copyright 1996 PG Publishing Co.`

/DE	`DESCRIPTORS: EDITORIAL`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES

None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S SPACE(W)PROBE?
/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 EDITORIAL/SH
/TI	TI	Headline	Word	S MARS(S)MISSION?/TI
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S NASA(S)SCIENTIST?/TX

¹Not available in all PAPERS files.

²Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

³Also 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=WASHINGTON
DY=	DY	Publication Day¹	Phrase	S DY=TUESDAY
ED=	ED	Edition	Phrase	S ED=SOONER
JC=	JC	Newspaper Code⁴	Phrase	S JC=PT
JN=	JN	Newspaper Name	Phrase	S JN=PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
MO=	MO	Publication Month¹	Phrase	S MO=NOVEMBER
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=19961105
PG=	PG	Page Number	Phrase	S PG=A-8
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1996
RG=	RG	U.S. Region⁵	Phrase	S RG=NORTHEAST
SF=	SF	Special Feature^1,6	Phrase	S SF=PHOTO
SH=	SH	Section Heading²	Phrase	S SH=EDITORIAL
None	SO	Source Information⁷
ST=	ST	Newspaper State	Phrase	S ST=PA
UD=	None	Update	Phrase	S UD=9999
None	WD	Word Count

⁴Newspaper code is also shown following the newspaper name in the Source Information field.

⁵Regions are: NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, CENTRAL, and WEST. Region does not display in predefined formats.

⁶Special Feature may indicate the presence of PHOTO, GRAPH, DRAWING, CHART, TABLE, DIAGRAM, and/or MAP in the original article, not necessarily online.

⁷Includes 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: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette[718]
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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