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Business Dateline

Revised 12/19/05

Database name: BusDateline
Short database name:  BDLN
Available on: FirstSearch Test Server and Production Server

Why select this database?

  • Business Dateline focuses on regional information vital to businesses. It provides more than 500,000 online article texts and citations from 450+ sources, including regional publications, Business Wire press releases, and major newspapers.
  • This database is produced by ProQuest Information and Learning.

Subjects included

agriculture company profiles corporate strategies
corporate planning executive profiles financial services
health care high technology human resources
manufacturing marketing professional services
real estate regional business environments research and development
retailing service industries transportation

Coverage/update frequency

Covers 1985 to the present.
New records are added weekly.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for Business Dateline and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name MARC field(s)
Year 008
Standard SICI Code 024/a
Accession Number 035/a
Author 100/a
700/a
Title 245/a
Special Feature 300/b
Named People 600/a
Named Corporation 610/a
SIC Code 610/1
City 610/5
State 610/6
Country 610/7
Ticker Symbol 610/8
D-U-N-S Number 610/9
Descriptors 650/a
Classification Code 698/b
Classification Descriptor 698/c
Citation 773/g
Publication Code 773/p
Publication Title 773/t
Section 902/b
Publication City 903/a
Publication State 903/b
Publication Country 903/c
Dateline City 903/d
Dateline State 903/e
Dateline Country 903/f
Dateline Region 903/g
Article Correction 903/h
Volume 949/a
Issue 949/b
Date 949/e
First Page Number 949/f
Publication Date (yyyymmdd) 949/g
Word Count 949/h
Content Type 949/i
Julian Date 949/j
Display Type 949/x
Copyright 949/y
Online Availability 949/z
UMI Control Number 951/a
Database Code 951/d
Article Length 951/e
Correction Reference 952/b
Full Text 990/a

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

  1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
  2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
  3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Keyword (kw) Any 5110 2 Contents of:
ab index (520/a)
so= index (773/t)
su index
ti index
Keyword All (ka) Any 1016 2

Contents of:
ab index
so= index
su index
ti index
au index
pd index
yr index
Author (au, au=) Author-name 1003 1, 2 100/a
700/a
Descriptor (de, de=) OCLC Defined 5650 1, 2 650/a
Named Person (na=) Subject-name-personal 1009 1 600/a
Special Feature (sf) OCLC Defined 5010 2 300/b
Accession Number (no) Control number-local 12 2 035/a
Named Corporation (nc=) OCLC Defined 5610 1 610/a
Publication Date (pd) Date 30 2 949/e,g
Source (so) Title-host-item 1033 2 773/p,t
Source (so=) Title-host-item 1033 1 773/t
Subject (su, su=) Subject 21 1, 2 600/a
610/a
650/a
Title (ti, ti=) Title 4 1, 2 245/a
Year (yr)* Date-publication 31 5 008/<date>
Dateline (dl) OCLC Defined 5018 2 903/d,e,f,g
Class Descriptors (cd=) OCLC Defined 5699 1 698/b,c
D-U-N-S Number (dn) OCLC Defined 5002 2 610/9
Company Headquarters Location (hq) OCLC Defined 5019 2 610/5,6,7
Place of Publication (pl) Name-geographic-place-publication 59 2 903/a,b,c
Standard Industrial Code (si) OCLC Defined 5014 2 610/1
Ticker Symbol (ts) OCLC Defined 5012 2 610/8
Full Text (tx) Body of text 1010 2 990/a
Volume (vo) OCLC Defined 5013 2 949/a
Issue (is) OCLC Defined 5004 2 949/b
902/b

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search.   They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results:

Restrictor Type Input Use Attribute Structure Attribute
Year * All years
Single year
Range of years		 --
19xx, 20xx
19xx - 20xx		 31 5
Content Type All
Newspaper
Journal
Report		 --
news
journ
repor		 1034 1
Availability All
Online		 --
online		 5990 2

* Year is both an index and a restrictor.

Sorting

Search results in the Business Dateline database can be sorted by Author (1003), Title (4), Publication Date (30), and Source (1033).

General punctuation rules

(Exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):

Punctuation Rule Punctuation Rule
" Delete and collapse $ Delete and collapse
' (apostrophe) Delete and collapse % Delete and collapse
. Delete and collapse * Delete and collapse
, (comma) Delete and collapse + Delete and collapse
; Delete and collapse > Delete and collapse
: Delete and collapse < Delete and collapse
() Delete and collapse @ Delete and collapse
<> Delete and collapse ? Delete and collapse
{} Delete and collapse -- Delete and collapse
[] Delete and collapse / Substitute a space
= Delete and collapse - Retain and index
! Delete and collapse & Retain and index
# Delete and collapse

Searching tips

Subject searches: The Subject search (21) includes named people, named companies, and descriptors.

Using limiters:  Use the Year (31) and Content Type (1031) limits to narrow the focus of your search.  Use the Availability (5990) limit if you want to narrow your search to records that are only available online.

Copyright

© Copyright 2008 ProQuest Information and Learning: All Rights Reserved. Only fair use, as provided by the United States Copyright law, is permitted. ProQuest Information and Learning makes no warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness or timelines of the Publications or the records they contain, or any warranty, express or implies, including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not be liable for damages of any kind or lost profits or other claims related to them or their uses.