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Key Company & Industry News Sources on Dialog

File	Scope	Content	Search Tips
Business Dateline® (File 635)	1985+ U.S. & Canada Fulltext	Business Dateline provides the full text of major news and feature stories from 550 regional business publications.	Search on Company Name (/CO, CO=) or Ticker Symbol (TS= ). Products are indexed by NAICS Codes (NC= ).
Business Wire 3/1999+ (File 610) Backfile 1986-2/1999 (File 810)	1986+ U.S. & Canada Fulltext	Carries full-text corporate news releases for approximately 12,000 U.S. companies representing primarily the high-tech, Fortune 1000, and NASDAQ sectors. News releases issued by universities, research institutes, and other organizations are also carried.	Search on Company Name (/CO, CO=). Retrieve company profiles with Event Name (EN=COMPANY PROFILES).
Business & Industry™ (File 9)	1994+ International Fulltext & Abstracts	Contains information with facts, figures, and key events dealing with public and private companies, industries, and markets worldwide from over 600 trade & business publications. Records are enhanced with rich indexing that enables highly specific retrieval of relevant articles.	Over 50 industries (IN=). Use CT= for Concept Codes. Search on CT=COMPANY FORECASTS for company analyses and projections. Use CT=INDUSTRY FORECASTS for overview articles. Use DT=RANKING to provide lists.
Cengage/Gale Newsletter Database™ (File 636)	1988+ International Fulltext	Contains the full text of specialized industry newsletters that provide concise information on companies, products, markets, and technologies; trade and geopolitical regions of the world; and government funding, rulings, and regulation and other legislative activities that impact the industries and regions covered.	Company name index generated by Dialog (/CO, CO=). Search industry names using /IN, IN=. Contains Industry codes field IC=. (TELECOMMUNICATIONS/IN; IN=TELECOMMUNICATIONS; IC=TELC?).
Cengage/Gale PROMT® 1990+ (File 16) Cengage/Gale PROMT Backfile 1972-1989 (File 160)	1972+ International Fulltext & Abstracts	A multiple-industry database that provides broad, international coverage of companies, products, markets, and applied technologies for all industries. Abstracts and full-text records come from the world's important trade and business journals, local newspapers, regional business publications, national and international business newspapers, industry newsletters, research studies, investment analysts' reports, corporate news releases, and corporate annual reports.	Use Event Code 600 (EC=600) for market information; EC=65? for sales data; EC=660 for plant & equipment sales; EC=336 for new products; EC=604 for market share data. Focus by industry name (IN=). Limit /USA for U.S. stories only; GN= for specific countries. Products are indexed by SIC Codes (SC=) and NAICS Codes (NC=), as well as unique product codes (PC=). Separate index for trade names/brand names (/TN, TN=) in File 16.
Cengage/Gale Trade and Industry Database™ (File 148)	1981+ International Fulltext & Abstracts	A multi-industry database covering international company, industry, product and market information, with strong coverage of such areas as management techniques, financial earnings, economic climate, product evaluations, and executive changes.	Search on Document Type COMPANY OVERVIEW (DT=COMPANY OVERVIEW) for feature stories on a company. DT=INDUSTRY OVERVIEW for survey articles. Use Event Code 600 (EC=600) for market data; EC=65? for sales data; EC=660 for plant & equipment sales; EC=336 for new products; EC=604 for market share data. Focus by industry name (IN=). GN= for specific countries. Products are indexed by SIC Codes (SC=) and NAICS Codes (NC=), as well as unique product codes (PC=). Separate index for trade names/brand names (/TN, TN=).
Dialog Global Reporter (File 20)	1997+ International Fulltext & Abstracts	A comprehensive, global news source, Dialog Global Reporter contains the leading newspapers, business magazines, and newswires from all regions of the world, including emerging markets. Dialog Global Reporter is an English-language database that includes fulltext articles from the majority of the English-language sources. English-language abstracts are provided for non-English-language sources.	Use MARKET(w)DATA/DE for market data; SALES/DF for sales data; FORECAST?/DE for industry overview and predictions. Focus by product/industry name (PN= ). Products are indexed by SIC Codes (SC= ) and NAICS Codes (NC= ).
Dialog NewsRoom (File 990)	Current 4 months International comprehensive	Contains more than 12,000 separate periodical sources, approximately 80% in full text from over 160 countries. Sources include trade journals, scholarly publications, consumer press, newspapers, newsletters, newswires and broadcast transcripts. The online searchable NewsRoom Sourcebook contains a complete list of titles.	Use File 989 for current week’s news stories. Search descriptors for events (/DE) (JOINT VENTURE/DE). Focus by industry or product name (/PN, PN=) (OIL()INDUSTRY/PN). EXPAND JN= for specific publications (E JN=MIAMI HERALD) .
McClatchy-Tribune Information Service (File 608)	1989+ International Fulltext	Provides same-day, full-text business and related news from McClatchy-Tribune Information Service Publications, Tribune Company newspapers, and affiliated papers. Articles from contributing newspapers and magazines are available the morning of publication.	EXPAND JN= for specific publications.
PR Newswire 5/1999+ (File 613) Backfile 5/1987-4/1999 (File 813)	1987+ U.S. Fulltext	Contains complete text of news releases prepared by U.S. companies, public relations agencies, trade associations, city, state, federal, and municipal government agencies.	Search on Company Name (/CO, CO=) Retrieve company profiles with Event Name (EN=COMPANY PROFILES).

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