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(Cleveland) The Plain Dealer

Last Loaded on Web: Monday, April 01, 2013

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 Plain Dealer focuses on regional and state issues for Cleveland, Ohio. File coverage is from August 1991 to January 30, 2012. Current updates to this news source continue to be available in Dialog NewsRoom. Included are coverage of area industries, businesses, hospitals, education, culture, and politics. Industries supporting the area include tool and die, automotive, and service. Extensive coverage is also available on the 27 Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Cleveland.



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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     B 411
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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: August 1991 to January 30, 2012
File Size: 270,630 records as of January 30, 2012
Update Frequency: Closed


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
GENERALN General News Files
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSCE U.S. Central Region Newspapers
PAPERSMJ U.S. Major Newspapers
PAPERSOH Ohio 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).


Dialog Standard Terms & Conditions apply.


SAMPLE RECORD [top]

    08808165 
  /TI  BLAZING THE TRAIL TO MARS SOIL OF RED PLANET OBJECT OF PATHFINDER 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Plain Dealer  (Cleveland) (PD) - Sunday, November 3, 1996 
  AU=  By: ULYSSES TORASSA PLAIN DEALER REPORTER 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: FINAL / ALL  Section: ARTS & LIVING  Page: 1J 
    Word Count: 1,372 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  Next  July  4,  a  spacecraft  shaped  like a flattened Hershey's kiss will 
    hurtle  into the Martian atmosphere and sprout two dozen airbags, making it 
    look like a raspberry on steroids. 
     
       Slowed  by a parachute, NASA's Mars Pathfinder will bounce several times 
    on  the  red  rocks and dust before coming to a rest. Then the airbags will 
    gently deflate and retract, leaving a pyramid-shaped metal box that unfolds 
    like  flower petals to reveal its cargo: a microwave oven-sized robot known 
    as Sojourner. 
     
  /TX      Journeying  forth  onto the ancient flood plain near Mars' equator, the 
    solar-powered robot go-cart will stick out its virtual tongue and taste the 
    rocks  and  soil.  Data from each lick will be radioed back to Earth, where 
    dozens of scientists will pore over their meanings. 
     
       The  chemical  analysis  and photos from a camera mounted on the landing 
    craft  will  give them new insights into this as-yet-unexplored area of the 
    Red  Planet.  The tests aren't sophisticated enough to tell us whether life 
    once  flourished  there. But the landing location, at the mouth of what was 
    once a giant river, is a likely place for it to turn up if it ever did. 
     
       That's partly because Pathfinder, which is scheduled to leave Earth Dec. 
    2.,  and  its  kin  the orbiting Global Surveyor, which launches Wednesday, 
    were  designed  long  before this summer's startling report that scientists 
    may have found evidence that bacterialike organisms once exited on Mars. 
     
       Still,  what  Pathfinder and the other probes will tell us over the next 
    several  years  will  help scientists plan more complex missions that could 
    return  samples  of  the  planet  to be analyzed for signs of ancient life. 
    Eventually,  NASA officials hope, the missions will lead to the day we land 
    a human on the frigid planet, and maybe even stay a while. 
     
       "After  a  hiatus  of 20 years, America is returning to Mars," said NASA 
    Administrator  Daniel  Goldin. "I can't think of any more exciting missions 
    we've had in the past decade." 
       New push for discovery 
     
       Pathfinder and the Global Surveyor are the first missions of NASA's "new 
    era"  of  Mars  exploration,  a  10-year  effort  to pry loose the planet's 
    secrets.  The  space agency plans to launch an orbiter like Global Surveyor 
    and a lander like Pathfinder every 26 months through the year 2005. 
     
       The  missions  will focus on three main areas: searching for evidence of 
    past  life  on Mars; understanding the Martian climate and what it can tell 
    us  about  the  past  and  future of Earth's climate; and understanding the 
    geology  and  resources that could be used to support future human missions 
    to the planet. 
                        (...) 
     
       Just knowing that their handiwork will end up on Mars puts a mist in the 
    eyes of the scientists working on the project. 
       "We won't go; I doubt any of us will make that journey. But a part of us 
    will  be able to touch that world. It's something to show your children and 
    grandchildren   and   say,   `We've  touched  that  place,'  Kolecki  said. 
    "Vicariously, we will all be touching Mars." 
     
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP, /TX   PHOTOS  BY:  NO  CREDIT  PHOTO 1 This artist's conception shows Pathfinder 
    landing on Mars. PHOTO 2 Engineers at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky 
    test airbags which will cushion Pathfinder's landing. 
     
                    Copyright (c) 1996, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S MARTIAN(S)ATMOSPHERE
/CO CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Word S APPLE/CO
/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 MARS(W)PATHFINDER/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S ARTS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S RED(W)PLANET/TI
/TX TX Text Word S ROBOT(S)SOJOURNER/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=(ULYSSES(1N)TORASSA)
CO= CO Company Name (Dialog Generated)1,2 Phrase S CO=AMERICA ONLINE?
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=SUNDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=FINAL?
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=PD
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=PLAIN DEALER?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961103
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=1J
PY= PY Publication Year Phrase S PY=1996
RG= RG U.S. Region5 Phrase S RG=CENTRAL
SF= SF Special Feature1,6 Phrase S SF=PHOTO
SH= SH Section Heading2 Phrase S SH=ARTS?
None SO Source Information7
ST= ST Newspaper State Phrase S ST=OH
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: (Cleveland) The Plain Dealer[725]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.38
Cost per minute:                   $0.97
CROSSTAB Report Records            $0.00
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $2.00    $2.00
     3    $2.00    $2.00
     4    $2.75    $2.75
     5    $2.75    $2.75
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $4.50    $4.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $4.75    $4.75
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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