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San Francisco Examiner

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 San Francisco Examiner is a general circulation newspaper providing local, national, and international news, with comprehensive coverage of the San Francisco Bay area. Local issues include the wine industry, the California environment, Pacific-Rim trade, and the electronics and biotechnology industries. Local companies include Chevron, BankAmerica, Pacific Telesis, Transamerica, Southern Pacific, and Charles Schwab Corp.



Tips [top]

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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: June 1990 to Nov 2000
File Size: 342,478 records as of November 2000
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
PAPERS Newspapers Full-Text (U.S.)
PAPERSCA California Newspapers
PAPERSWE U.S. Western Region Newspapers


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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]

    08809007 
  /TI  NASA'S  COUNTDOWN TO  MARS DECADE WEDNESDAY'S SCHEDULED LAUNCH BEGINS MOST 
    INTENSE PROBE OF ANOTHER PLANET SINCE '60S 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  San Francisco Examiner (EX) - Monday, November 4, 1996 
  AU=  By: Keay Davidson EXAMINER SCIENCE WRITER 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: SECOND  Section: NEWS  Page: A2 
    Word Count: 755 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  The  interplanetary version of D-day is about to begin: On Wednesday, Earth 
    launches the first of a decade-long series of advances on the planet Mars. 
     
       The  Mars Global Surveyor spaceship sits snug atop its Delta rocket on a 
    NASA launch pad in Florida, ready for launch at 9:11 a.m. PST Wednesday. 
     
  /TX     The   space   robot's   goal:  to  orbit  Mars  and  snap  thousands  of 
    high-resolution  photos  of  the  crater-scarred,  dust-devil-swept  world. 
    Beneath   the   reddish  deserts  may  thrive  the  solar  system's  oldest 
    inhabitants: a multibillion-year-old race of Martian microbes, wriggling in 
    underground "hot tubs" - volcano-heated ground water. 
       "We're  nearing  the  final  countdown,"  said  NASA representative Doug 
    Isbell. "We're still pretty confident we'll launch the 6th." 
     
       Between  Nov.  16  and  Dec. 2, six more Mars probes will be launched by 
    Russia, the United States and the European Space Agency. 
     
       That's  just  the  beginning  of  what  one  might call the Mars Decade: 
    Between  1998  and  2005,  at least nine more U.S. and foreign missions are 
    planned, including one to be launched by Japan in 1998 or 1999. 
     
       The  2005  mission,  NASA's  Mars  Surveyor '05, may gather Martian rock 
    samples, and return them to Earth. 
     
       Waves of probes are to be launched every 26 months, to take advantage of 
    Earth's periodic "close encounters" with Mars. 
     
       All  in all, the decade-long Mars assault is the most intense scientific 
    "attack" on another world since the 1960s. Back then, the United States and 
    Russia  repeatedly  pelted  the  moon  with  space probes, including NASA's 
    manned Apollo ships. 
     
       After  Wednesday's  Delta  launch, the Mars Global Surveyor should enter 
    Mars orbit in summer 1997. 
     
       The  Delta  rocket  is  one  of history's most reliable launch vehicles. 
    "We've had 102 successes out of 104 launches since 1977," said Rich Murphy, 
    launch site director for Delta rockets, in a phone interview. 
     
       The Delta is built by McDonnell-Douglas of Huntington Beach. 
     
       The next U.S. flight is the U.S.-launched Mars Pathfinder, scheduled for 
    launch  Dec.  2. While the Mars Global Surveyor will simply orbit Mars, the 
    Pathfinder  will  land  there  on  July 4, 1997, and unleash a six-wheeled, 
    solar-powered  robot. The robot can roll around and see what's happenin' on 
    the fourth planet from the sun. 
     
       Mars  is  a  world where an unprotected human would quickly fry and die. 
    The atmospheric pressure is less than 1 percent that on Earth's surface, so 
    suffocation would be certain. And intense solar ultraviolet radiation bakes 
    the planet. 
     
     
                            (...) 
     
    CAPTION: 
  SF=, /CP  CHART 
     ASSOCIATED PRESS / NASA 
     THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS 
     
                    Copyright 1996 San Francisco Examiner Inc. 
  /DE  DESCRIPTORS:  ASTRONOMY; PLANETS; SPACE FLIGHTS; MARS  GLOBAL SURVEYOR 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S PLANET(S)PROBE
/CP CP Caption3 Word S PHOTOS/CP
/DE DE Descriptor1 Word
& Phrase		 S SPACE/DE
S MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR/DE
/LP LP Lead Paragraph3 Word S DELTA(W)ROCKET/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S NEWS/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S NASA(S)LAUNCH/TI
/TX TX Text Word S ROCK(W)SAMPLE?/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=(KEAY(1N)DAVIDSON)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=MONDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=SECOND
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=EX
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER?
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961104
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=A2
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=CA
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: San Francisco Examiner[732]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $1.04
Cost per minute:                   $0.63
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $1.41    $1.41
     3    $1.41    $1.41
     5    $1.79    $1.79
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $2.98    $2.98
     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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