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The Buffalo News

Last Loaded on Web: Wednesday, July 01, 2009

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 Buffalo News provides local, national, and international news coverage, with bureaus in Washington, DC; Albany; Toronto; and Ottawa. Large local companies include Marine Midland Bank, Varity Corporation, Tops Markets, Trico Products, and Computer Task Group.

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:	January 1990 to the present
File Size:	1,035,298 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]

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
PAPERSNY	New York Newspapers

Contact [top]

Each newspaper is provided by the individual newspaper publisher. Questions concerning file content should be directed to:

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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]

	`08813174`
/TI	`ROBOT CRAFT TAKES OFF FOR MARS TO START NASA SERIES`
JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=	`Buffalo News (BN) - Friday, November 8, 1996`
AU=	`By: MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press`
ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=	`Edition: CITY Section: NEWS Page: A12`
	`Word Count: 573`

	`TEXT:`
DL=, /LP, /TX	`CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. - NASA's Mars Global Surveyor sped toward the Red`
	`Planet today, the first spacecraft in a series of orbiters, rovers and`
	`robots that could answer the question: Was there ever life on Mars?`

	`A Delta rocket carrying the Global Surveyor lifted off on time at noon`
	`-- one day after high wind scuttled the first launch attempt -- and`
	`propelled the boxy, 10-foot spacecraft toward Mars at 24,000 mph.`

/TX	`"We're on our way!" NASA space science chief Wesley Huntress Jr. said.`
	`"These are the kind of days you kind of live for in space science and space`
	`exploration."`

	`The spacecraft will reach Mars in September after a journey of 10 months`
	`and 435 million miles.`

	`Once in the desired 235-mile-high orbit, in March 1998, the Global`
	`Surveyor will begin mapping the Martian atmosphere and virtually the entire`
	`surface of the planet. The survey will last 687 days, or a full Martian`
	`year.`

	`It will send images and other data back to Earth within 20 to 40`
	`minutes. The images will be posted on the Internet for public viewing`
	`within a day or two after that.`

	`One of the main objectives of the $230 million mission is to scout for`
	`landing spots for future missions, including one in which a spacecraft will`
	`bring Martian soil and rocks back to Earth sometime in the next decade.`

	`NASA plans to send a pair of unmanned spacecraft to Mars every 26 months`
	`through 2005. The second in this series of 10, the Mars Pathfinder, is due`
	`to lift off Dec. 2 and land on July 4, 1997.`

	`Neither of NASA's 1976 Viking landers found any conclusive sign of life`
	`on Mars, and Huntress expects it will take hard evidence -- like returned`
	`samples -- to "put the nail on that."`
	`If evidence of life is found, that could eventually lead to manned`
	`flights to Mars, Huntress said.`

	`The life-on-Mars debate was reignited in August with NASA's revelation`
	`of a Martian meteorite with supposed evidence of ancient microscopic life.`

	`"It seems to have come together for Mars this year," Huntress said.`
	`"We've had all this information about what they found in these Mars`
	`meteorites for the potential of early life on Mars and the British have`
	`just come up with another astounding announcement on another Mars rock."`

	`The Global Surveyor will have to travel more than halfway around the sun`
	`before catching up with Mars on Sept. 12, 1997.`

	`The probe will use an experimental method called aerobraking to ease`
	`down into a mapping orbit. Friction from the Martian atmosphere will slow`
	`the spacecraft, much like a hand sticking out the window of a moving car.`

	`(. . .)`

	`CAPTION:`
/CP, /TX	`Associated Press`
	`Delta II rocket rises on plume of smoke on way to Mars from Cape Canaveral,`
	`Fla. Thursday.`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES

None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S LIFE(S)MARS
/CP	CP	Caption³	Word	S DELTA(S)ROCKET/CP
/DE	DE	Descriptor¹	Word & Phrase	S MICROSOFT(1N)CORP?/DE S MICROSOFT CORP?/DE
/LP	LP	Lead Paragraph³	Word	S GLOBAL(W)SURVEYOR/LP
/ME	ME	Memo³	Word	S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH	SH	Section Heading²	Word	S NEWS/SH
/TI	TI	Headline	Word	S NASA(S)MARS/TI
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S UNMANNED(S)SPACECRAFT/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=(MARCIA(1N)DUNN)
DL=	DL	Dateline	Phrase	S DL=CAPE CANAVERAL?
DY=	DY	Publication Day¹	Phrase	S DY=FRIDAY
ED=	ED	Edition	Phrase	S ED=CITY
JC=	JC	Newspaper Code⁴	Phrase	S JC=BN
JN=	JN	Newspaper Name	Phrase	S JN=BUFFALO NEWS
MO=	MO	Publication Month¹	Phrase	S MO=NOVEMBER
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=19961108
PG=	PG	Page Number	Phrase	S PG=A12
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=NEWS
None	SO	Source Information⁷
ST=	ST	Newspaper State	Phrase	S ST=NY
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: The Buffalo News[733]
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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