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A comprehensive news source, Dialog Global Reporter (File 20) includes leading newspapers, business magazines and newswires from all regions of the world, as well as covering emerging markets. In the following overview, we will focus on Dialog Global Reporter (File 20), the free file of the month for June. You will see what this database contains and how it is vital for your research in business and many other subjects.
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Dialog Global Reporter (File 20), created by Dialog and the Financial Times Information, provides access to comprehensive, global news in more than 63 million records from 1997 to the present. This English-language database is updated multiple times during the day. File 20 includes full-text articles from the majority of the English-language sources. English-language abstracts are provided for non-English language sources. Alerts can be set up to coincide with the file updating, or you can choose your own frequency and timing for Alerts.
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File 20 covers a wide variety of topics from A to Z including: the European Community, Food and Beverages, Aerospace and Defense, Health Care Services, Agriculture, Investments, Automotive, Marketing, Banking and Finance, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals and Politics, to name a few.
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A look at some of the sources covered gives you a flavor for global coverage of the database: Aberdeen Press & Journal, Access Czech Republic Business Bulletin, Accountancy Age, Advertiser East African, Eastern Economist Daily, the Economic Times, the Economist, The Herald from the United Kingdom, Financial Express, Financial Post, Saigon Times Daly, San Jose Mercury News, Taiwan Economic News, Wall Street Journal (US edition), Western Daily Press, BBC Monitoring International Reports, BusinessWire, and Chemical Business NewsBase. Just EXPAND using JN= to find an alphabetical listing of sources from A to Z.
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With Dialog Global Reporter you can investigate economic climates and emerging markets, so important in our global economy. Use File 20 to track competitors, identify industry developments, monitor new products and uncover other news that may affect your business.
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Some titles show the diversity of content in the database.
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Let's take a look at a record in Global Reporter. Each record includes the title, source and date of publication. You can look up the source by journal name. Using the Journal code JC= plus the code, you can search for other articles in this source. The language, record type, in this example fulltext, and the word count are noted. The complete text of the article follows.
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The full text is continued here. Indexing at the end of the record provides company names, country names and codes and regions. In addition Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes naming the line of business in the article, NAICS (North American codes and descriptions) and descriptors provide further indexing to expand your search
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With its continuous updating throughout the day and its comprehensive coverage, Dialog Global Reporter (File 20) is an excellent source for the latest business information and news.
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This completes our overview of Dialog Global Reporter. Thank you for your interest in this premier news database and put it on your list to try for free in June.
