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Dialog NewsRoom is a comprehensive, global news source covering the leading newspapers, business magazines, and newswires from all regions of the world, including emerging markets. These files provide a wealth of information. You will learn more about these databases in the overview that follows. The databases are free files of the month on Dialog for October.
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Dialog NewsRoom, produced by Dialog, contains abstracts and full-text records in a number of files according to date from File 990, the most current coverage back to 2000-2003 in File 998 according to the year of coverage. File 990 and File 991 are updated multiple times per day.
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NewsRoom content includes the world's important trade, business, and scholastic journals, local newspapers, regional business publications, national and international business newspapers, industry newsletters, broadcast transcripts, and corporate news releases.
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Dialog NewsRoom covers a wide variety of topics from A to Z including Aerospace and Defense, Biotech, the European Community, Food and Beverages, Health Care Services, Marketing, Petroleum, Politics and Transportation to name a few.
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Geographic coverage is worldwide, including: Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; East, Southeast, and south Asia, North, Central and South America, and Australia.
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The database contains a wide variety of sources compiling over 12,000 different publications. Dialog NewsRoom provides in-depth coverage of each industry as reported in the specialist press for that industry. Some popular titles include Advertising Age and Packaging News. Sources range from the full text of leading newspapers such as the New York Times to local coverage in the San Jose Mercury News. Each article loaded on Dialog NewsRoom is automatically archived, so the archive itself is continuously growing. The archive is fully searchable allowing for retrospective analysis of news events.
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You can use Dialog NewsRoom to find breaking news, to stay current on continuing stories, to find the latest company and industry information around the world, investigate new markets and opportunities and keep an eye on competitors.
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The Dialog NewsRoom database contains worldwide coverage. Take a look at some sample titles.
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The following example illustrates the one type of information you can find in Dialog NewsRoom (File 990). The first part of the record contains the title, author, source and date of publication and document type. Note too there is a journal code you can use to search specific sources in NewsRoom. The text will either be an abstract or full text. With fulltext you'll see the word count.
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The record continues with Dialog indexing: company names, industry names, journal region and subject.
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As you can see, the NewsRoom databases provide comprehensive worldwide news coverage of multiple industries and subjects. Dialog NewsRoom, Files 990-998 are Dialog's free Files of the Month in October and you can search them for free up to $100 (either DialUnits or Connect time). Output and Alerts charges are not included. Read the story on these Free Files in the October Chronolog and try them out in October for free! Make sure you are signed up for the Chronolog to see all the news at Dialog including other free files each month. If you have any questions, you can also contact the Knowledge Center by phone or email at
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This completes our overview of Dialog NewsRoom on Dialog. Thank you for your interest in this premier business and news database and put it on your list to try for free in October.