(Memphis) The Commercial Appeal [740]

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(Memphis) The Commercial Appeal

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 Commercial Appeal is the only general circulation daily and Sunday newspaper for the Memphis metropolitan area, and it is the major newspaper serving the mid-south region of west Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and eastern Arkansas. Emphasis is given to medicine, tourism, sports, and business. Cotton is the major business in Memphis and the cotton industry is given extensive coverage. Companies headquartered in the area include Federal Express, Cleo, Promus Companies, Schering-Plough, and International Paper.

Tips [top]

USE PAPERS or PAPERSNU FILES

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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:	July 1990 to the present
File Size:	834,608 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.)
PAPERSSE	U.S. Southeast Region Newspapers

Contact [top]

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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]

	`08808007`
/TI	`LIFE ON MARS? U.S. TO SNOOP AROUND`
JN=, JC=	`Commercial Appeal (Memphis) (CA) - SUNDAY, November 3, 1996`
AU=	`By: Mark Carreau Houston Chronicle`
ED=, /SH, PG=	`Edition: Final Section: News Page: A8`
	`Word Count: 658`

	`TEXT:`
/LP, /TX	`The United States begins a $1 billion, decade-long program this month to`
	`broaden the search for life on Mars, launching the first in a series of`
	`probes to Earth's neighboring planet.`

	`If successful, the first three missions, blasting off before the end of`
	`the year, will place spacecraft on the Red Planet and in orbit for the`
	`first time since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's highly`
	`successful Viking missions of the late 1970s.`

/TX	`The initial snooping will include reams of close-up snapshots, a`
	`sharp-eyed, creeping robot and earnest poking at the Martian soil.`

	`The opening salvo includes NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, to launch`
	`Wednesday, and the Mars Pathfinder mission, launching Dec. 2. Sandwiched`
	`between those is launch of Mars 96, a Russian-led international mission`
	`equipped with two U.S. instruments.`

	`''The most exciting thing about Mars is the prospect that life may have`
	`started there,'' said Michael Carr of the U.S. Geological Survey, an expert`
	`on the planet. ''The reason for optimism about life starting on Mars is`
	`really two things: evidence of abundant water on the planet and climate`
	`change.''`

	`Water is vital for life as human beings know it and, not`
	`inconsequentially, a natural resource that could be broken down to produce`
	`breathing air and rocket propellants for human explorers.`

	`Larger than the moon but smaller than Earth, Mars would be the first`
	`stop on a journey into the solar system's outer reaches. Past U.S. robotic`
	`missions reveal a desert-like world with a thin, cold atmosphere of carbon`
	`dioxide, a rocky, reddish surface, towering inactive volcanoes and an ugly`
	`gash that dwarfs Earth's Grand Canyon.`

	`Ice caps come and go from the polar regions as the seasons change.`
	`Embossed on the landscape of Mars's northern hemisphere are tracings of`
	`ancient shorelines and long river valleys, suggesting that water in the`
	`form of lakes or oceans and flowing streams once was plentiful.`

	`''So where is the water now?'' Carr pondered. ''The fact is, we don't`
	`know.''`

	`Experts believe that its disappearance accompanied a puzzling climate`
	`change.`

	`Surface geology appears as if it underwent a period of intense erosion`
	`followed by a long quiescent period. It is possible, Carr believes, Mars`
	`retains water, either frozen on the surface but camouflaged by rock and`
	`dust or still liquid but channeled into subterranean lakes by long-ago`
	`meteor hits.`

	`''Our scientists will act as lawyers to prosecute the questions: What`
	`did Mars know about water? When did it know it? And what did Mars do with`
	`it?'' said NASA's Wes Huntress, chief of the agency's space science`
	`division. He believes that the answers can be coaxed from the Red Planet`
	`with the 10 missions envisioned by NASA, Russia and Japan over the next`
	`decade.`
	`(. . .)`

	`Copyright (c) 1996 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN`

BASIC INDEX [top]

SEARCH SUFFIX	DISPLAY CODE	FIELD NAME	INDEXING	SELECT EXAMPLES

None	None	All Basic Index Fields	Word	S SOLAR(W)SYSTEM?
/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(S)LAUNCH?/LP
/ME	ME	Memo³	Word	S WIRETAP/ ME
/SH	SH	Section Heading²	Word	S NEWS/SH
/TI	TI	Headline	Word	S LIFE(5N)MARS/TI
/TX	TX	Text	Word	S CLIMATE(S)WATER/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=(MARK(1N)CARREAU)
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=CA
JN=	JN	Newspaper Name	Phrase	S JN=COMMERCIAL APPEAL?
MO=	MO	Publication Month¹	Phrase	S MO=NOVEMBER
PD=	PD	Publication Date	Phrase	S PD=19961103
PG=	PG	Page Number	Phrase	S PG=A8
PY=	PY	Publication Year	Phrase	S PY=1996
RG=	RG	U.S. Region⁵	Phrase	S RG=CENTRAL
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=TN
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: (Memphis) The Commercial Appeal[740]
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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