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739
The Fresno Bee

Last Loaded on Web: Tuesday, August 26, 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 Fresno Bee is a general circulation daily newspaper with a primary coverage area encompassing California’s San Joaquin Valley, from Merced on the north to Bakersfield on the south. In addition to full coverage of national, international, and state news, the Bee concentrates heavily on agribusiness. The San Joaquin Valley is the most productive agricultural region in the world and issues of crop production, pesticides, growers’ associations, weather damage, and irrigation are extensively reported.



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: January 1990 to the present
File Size: 661,968 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
PAPERSCA California Newspapers
PAPERSWE U.S. Western Region 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]

    08819071 
  /TI  SMALL  STEPS  TO  MARS;  WITH  INTEREST  IN THE RED PLANET AT A PEAK, A NEW 
    SERIES OF EXPLORATORY MISSIONS GETS UNDER WAY. 
  JN=, JC=, PD=, PY=  Fresno Bee (FB) - THURSDAY, November 14, 1996 
  ED=, /SH, SH=, PG=  Edition: HOME  Section: METRO  Page: B6 
    Word Count: 423 
     
    MEMO: 
  /ME  EDITORIALS 
     
    TEXT: 
  /LP, /TX  The  NASA  spacecraft  that  shouldered through earth's atmosphere and into 
    interplanetary  trajectory recently leaves on a quest to help answer one of 
    the most profound questions ever posed: Is there other life out there? 
       This  mission  follows a trail of new evidence that's rich with promise. 
    Two widely separated investigations on Earth have lately returned word that 
    organic  life  seems  to  have  existed  on  neighboring  Mars, and now the 
    explorations of the Mars Global Surveyor provide an opportune next step for 
    testing those preliminary conclusions. 
  /TX     Global  Surveyor  initiates a long-planned, intensive next phase of Mars 
    exploration  that  could  hardly have been better timed. Coming just months 
    after initial word of strong evidence that organic life once existed on the 
    planet, interest in details of the Martian world has never been higher. 
       Launch  of  the Global Surveyor inaugurates a planned 10-year program to 
    send about nine relatively small and inexpensive spacecraft on a variety of 
    missions to gather information from Mars. Unlike the effort anchored by the 
    ill-fated  Mars  Observer  --  a $980 million project that disappeared into 
    silence  three  days  before  it  was  to arrive on Mars in 1993 -- the new 
    program  relies  on  smaller,  less  expensive missions that should be more 
    adaptable  as  research needs and conditions change. They also insulate the 
    program  against  the  catastrophe  of  mega-failure  like  the Observer by 
    providing many chances for success. 
       Global  Surveyor  is  scheduled to arrive at Mars in about 10 months and 
    will take another five months positioning itself in low orbit there. From a 
    vantage  235  miles above the planet, it is to spend a full Martian year -- 
    637  Earth-days  -- surveying heat, radiation and other signal emissions in 
    hopes of uncovering pockets of carbonate minerals -- the most likely source 
    of past or present life. 
       British  scientists  the  other  day  added impetus to the explorations, 
    announcing  new  evidence  that  meteorites  from  Mars show traces left by 
    ancient  life.  The  three  researchers  examined  the fragment that led to 
    NASA's initial speculation about Martian life and another, much more recent 
    arrival.  Both  showed  evidence of organic matter indicative of life, they 
    said. 
       The  findings  of the Global Surveyor may do much to shape the course of 
    future  missions.  In  particular,  the  question of when to send a robotic 
    excavation  mission  that could sample and bring back Martian dirt hangs in 
    the  balance. Funding decisions will determine how vigorously mankind looks 
    for  life  on  Mars;  early success by the Global Surveyor would do much to 
    invigorate arguments in favor of the effort. 


BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH
SUFFIX		 DISPLAY
CODE		 FIELD NAME
 INDEXING
 SELECT EXAMPLES
None None All Basic Index Fields Word S ORGANIC(W)LIFE
/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 NASA(W)SPACECRAFT/LP
/ME ME Memo3 Word S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH SH Section Heading2 Word S METRO/SH
/TI TI Headline Word S RED(W)PLANET/TI
/TX TX Text Word S GLOBAL(W)SURVEYOR/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=(PETER(1N)DELEVETT)
DL= DL Dateline Phrase S DL=WASHINGTON
DY= DY Publication Day1 Phrase S DY=THURSDAY
ED= ED Edition Phrase S ED=HOME
JC= JC Newspaper Code4 Phrase S JC=FB
JN= JN Newspaper Name Phrase S JN=FRESNO BEE
MO= MO Publication Month1 Phrase S MO=NOVEMBER
PD= PD Publication Date Phrase S PD=19961114
PG= PG Page Number Phrase S PG=B6
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=METRO
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: The Fresno Bee[739]
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    $3.00    $3.00
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.00    $3.00
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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