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719
(Albany) The Times Union

Last Loaded on Web: Thursday, October 02, 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 Times-Union is Albany’s daily morning paper, with a circulation of approximately 109,000. The paper provides international, national, and local news coverage. Albany, the capital of New York State, is the center of political, legal, and other statewide news. Large local companies include General Electric in Schenectady, Norstar, Citibank, and Key Bank. Local leisure sites include Adirondack State Park, the Berkshire and Catskill resorts, and the nearby Saratoga Performing Arts Center. The Knickerbocker News is also included in the file for the years 1986 through 1988. The full text is included for all stories, features, columns, editorials, letters to the editor, and selected obituaries. Advertising, calendar listings, almanacs, games and puzzles, TV-radio-movie listings, and funeral notices are excluded.



Tips [top]

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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: March 1986 to the present
File Size: 1,042,222 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.)
PAPERSNE U.S. Northeast Region Newspapers
PAPERSNY New York Newspapers


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).


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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08810014 
  /TI  A DECADE OF  MARS EXPLORATION IS READY TO BLAST OFF IN EARNEST 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  TIMES UNION (AL) - Tuesday, November 5, 1996 
  AU=  By: DAVID L. CHANDLER Boston Globe 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: THREE STAR  Section: MAIN  Page: A3 
    Word Count: 428 
     
    TEXT: 
  DL=, /LP, /TX  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At 11 minutes past noon Wednesday, a Delta 2 rocket 
    is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, the first of a whole battery 
    of  exploratory  missions  to  the  bitterly cold, bone-dry -- and possibly 
    life-bearing -- planet Mars. 
     
       Ten  days later, a Russian spacecraft bound for the red planet will lift 
    off  from  Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Two weeks after that, another 
    American  rocket  will take off, launching a craft designed to land on Mars 
    and send out a small robotic vehicle to prowl the nearby landscape. 
     
  /TX     After  a  hiatus  of  more  than  two  decades,  the  exploration of our 
    neighboring planet is about to resume in earnest: Over 10 years, the United 
    States,  Russia  and  Japan combined hope to dispatch no fewer than a dozen 
    spacecraft  to  scour  the  Martian  terrain  and  probe  beneath its ruddy 
    surface. 
     
       ``There  are  three  primary  goals for this wave of exploration,'' said 
    Wesley  Huntress,  head  of  space science for the National Aeronautics and 
    Space  Administration.  ``First,  the  search  for  life,  past or present. 
    Second,  a  search  for  evidence  of liquid water. And third, a search for 
    resources  that  could  be  used to support a sustained human presence. The 
    common thread is water.'' 
     
       The  first rocket will carry the Mars Global Surveyor, a probe that will 
    swing  into  Martian  orbit  next  August  and begin mapping the surface in 
    unprecedented detail, a job that will take two years. 
     
       The  Mars  Pathfinder,  programmed for a more direct route, will set out 
    next  month.  It  is scheduled to make a landing July 4, protected from the 
    force  of impact by 24 huge airbags. After coming to a rest, the four-sided 
    craft  will  unfold  like  the  petals  of a flower, exposing solar panels, 
    cameras and other instruments. 
       After  checking out its surroundings, it will dispatch a robotic vehicle 
    to  explore  the  landing  site area, near the outflow of an ancient river. 
    That  location,  scientists  hope, will yield rocks carried downstream from 
    several  areas,  providing  one-stop  shopping  for  a  variety  of Martian 
    geology. 
     
       Russia's  first  probe, Mars 96, is to be launched on Nov. 16 and should 
    reach  the  planet  next September. Once it goes into orbit around Mars, it 
    will  separate  into five parts: An orbiter to map the surface, two landers 
    to  study  the  surface  conditions  in two locations, and two penetrators, 
    dart-shaped  projectiles  that  will  probe conditions a few feet below the 
    surface. 
     
       These  probes  could  help  erase  bad  memories  of  the  Mars Observer 
    spacecraft,  which  disappeared in space on Aug. 21, 1993, just days before 
    reaching Mars. 
     
                    Copyright (c) 1996, The Times Union, Inc. 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S DELTA(S)ROCKET
/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 CAPE(W)CANAVERAL/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S MAIN/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S MARS(S)EXPLORATION/TI
/TX TX Text Word S ROBOT?(S)VEHICLE?/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=(DAVID(1N)CHANDLER)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=CAPE CANAVERAL?
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=TUESDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=THREE STAR
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=AL
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=TIMES UNION
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961105
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A3
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=MAIN
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: (Albany) The Times Union[719]
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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