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A comprehensive, global news source that covers the leading
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the world, including emerging markets.
NewsRoom is comprised of abstracts and full text records from 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.
The database is enhanced with rich indexing that enables highly
specific retrieval of relevant articles.
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- reviews of competitors activities and products
- how the world's business community is reacting to the recent
economic crisis in Argentina
Sources:
With more than 11,000 sources, continually updated news services and
other newswires, NewsRoom maximises your online research
effectiveness.
AN - Accession number & update
182K0914 20080701.
TI - Title
Keep ecology at the forefront.
SO - Source
Canberra Times, (AGAL), 02 July 2008, ISSN: 0157-6925.
TI - Text
Almost everyone seems to agree: governments now face a choice
between saving the planet and saving the economy. As
recession looms, the political pressure to abandon green
policies intensifies. A report published by Ernst & Young
suggests the European Union's puny carbon target will raise
energy bills by 20 per cent over the next 12 years. Last week,
advisers to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted his
renewable energy plans were ''on the margins'' of what people
will tolerate.
But these fears are based on a false assumption: that there is
a cheap alternative to a green economy. New Scientist has
reported a survey of oil industry experts, which found most of
them believe global oil supplies will peak by 2010. If they are
right, the game is up. A report published by the United States
department of energy in 2005 argued that unless the world began
a crash program of replacements 10 or 20 years before oil peaks,
crisis ''unlike any yet faced by modern industrial society''
was unavoidable. If the world is sliding into recession, it's
partly because governments believed they could choose between
economy and ecology. The price of oil is so high and it hurts
so much because there has been no serious effort to reduce
our dependency. On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri suggested an impending
recession could force us to confront the flaws in the global
economy. Sadly it seems to have had the opposite effect: a
recent Ipsos Mori poll suggests that people are losing
interest in climate change. Opportunities for energy populism
abound. Two things are obvious. We need a global system, and
the current one, the Kyoto Protocol, is bust. It sets no cap on
global carbon pollution, its targets bear no relation to current
science and are unenforceable anyway, it contains loopholes and
get-out clauses wide enough to sail an oil tanker through.
Until recently I supported an alternative system called
contraction and convergence. Every country, this system proposes,
should end up with the same quota of carbon dioxide per person.
The richest countries must...
CO - Company names
EUROPEAN-UNION; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-BAHRAIN; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-SA;
ERNST-AND-YOUNG-HONG-KONG; ERNST-ET-YOUNG-BELGIUM; ERNST-AND-
YOUNG-HONDURAS-S-DE-RL; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-KENYA; ERNST-YOUNG-
COLOMBIA; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-CHINA; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-JORDAN;
ERNST-YOUNG-ARGENTINA; WHINNEY-MURRAY-AND-CO; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-
BARBADOS; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-MALTA; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-SYRIA; ERNST-
AND-YOUNG-BERMUDA; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-EUROPE-BV; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-
LLP; ERNST-ET-YOUNG-IVORY-COAST; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-SL; ERNST-
AND-YOUNG-UGANDA; ERNST-AND-YOUNG-ZIMBABWE; ERNST-AND-YOUNG;
ERNST-AND-YOUNG-LEBANON.
KW - Keywords
ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTION; UTILITIES; EARTH-SCIENCES; MATERIALS-
AND-MINERALS; ELECTRIC-POWER; FUEL-AND-POWER; SCIENCE;
ENGINEERING; ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC-FORECAST; FOREIGN-
TRADE; ECONOMIC-STATISTICS.
CN - Countries & regions
EUROPE; UNITED-KINGDOM; WESTERN-EUROPE.
SC - Subject categories
ENVIRONMENT; GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL-AND-PUBLIC-AFFAIRS;
ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; FOREIGN-TRADE-AND-PAYMENTS; ECONOMIC-
STATISTICS; FORECASTS.
JC - Journal categories
General-News.
PT - Publication type
Newspaper.
LG - Language
English.
DT - Publication date
20080702.
IP - Information provider
Global Reporter (GR27) (Australia).
LE - Length
Word count: 876.
Label/description Example
AN Accession number 1_: 182K0914.AN.
& update - see Limit options -
TI Title 2_: ECOLOGY WITH
FOREFRONT.TI.
SO Source* 3_: CANBERRA-TIMES.SO.
SO= Source name 4_: SO=CANBERRA-TIMES
..ROOT SO= for a list of source publications
AU Author(s) 5_: SMITH.AU.
TX Text (LD T1) 6_: GREEN ADJ POLICIES.TX.
Available in full text 7_: FULLTEXT=YES
Available only as an abstract 8_: ABSTRACT=YES
LD Lead paragraph 9_: RENEWABLE ADJ ENERGY.LD.
- see also Notes below -
T1 Main text 10_: GLOBAL ADJ OIL ADJ
SUPPLIES.T1.
- see also Notes below -
SE Section 11_: SPORTS.SE.
(not available for all documents)
DE Descriptors* (CO KW CN SC JC) 12_: ERNST-AND-YOUNG.DE.
or 13_: ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT.DE.
or 14_: WESTERN-EUROPE.DE.
or 15_: POLITICAL WITH PUBLIC
ADJ AFFAIRS.DE.
or 16_: GENERAL-NEWS.DE.
CO Company name* - as per DE -
KW Keywords* - as per DE -
CN Country & region* - as per DE -
SC Subject categories* - as per DE -
JC Journal category* - as per DE -
PT Publication type
PT= Publication type 17_: PT=TRADE-JOURNAL
..ROOT PT= for a list of publication types
LG Language
LG= Language 18_: LG=ENGLISH
..ROOT LG= for a list of languages of publication
DT Publication date
DATE= Publication date YYYYMMDD 19_: DATE=20080702
MONTH= Publication month YYYYMM 20_: MONTH=200807
- see also Limit options -
YR Publication year (search only)
YEAR= Publication year YYYY 21_: YEAR=2008
- see also Limit options -
IP Information provider 22_: GLOBAL ADJ
REPORTER.IP.
ED Entry date - see Limit options -
LE Length (new January 2008)
- TX para 1000 words or more 23_: LENGTH=LONG
- TX para 999 words or less 24_: LENGTH=SHORT
(*) The ROOT command is especially useful in these fields
to establish, for example, how a company name or SIC code
appears in the database.
1_: FAST ADJ FOOD
DATE Publication date 2_: ..L 1 DATE>20080726
MONTH Publication month 3_: ..L 1 MONTH EQ 200712
YEAR Publication year 4_: ..L 1 YEAR LT 2008
UDATE Update date 5_: ..L 1 UDATE GT
20080601
UMONTH Update month 6_: ..L 1 UMONTH WL
200710,200712.
By field
SHORT AN TI SO AU DT
MEDIUM AN TI SO AU TX (LD T1) SE DT
LONG AN TI SO AU TX (LD T1) SE CO KW CN SC JC DT
ALL AN TI SO AU TX (LD T1) SE CO KW CN SC JC PT LG DT IP ED
KWIC Context of search terms from TX field
FREE AN TI SO SE CO KW CN SC JC PT LG DT IP ED
_: ..P 1 MED 1-10.
NewsRoom File Splits
Due to the amount of data in NewsRoom, the file is split twice every
year:
- 1 January: a new 'annual' file is opened (e.g. NE08) it will hold
all data loaded in 2008. At the same time, the main file (NEWS)
will continue to hold all the data from 2007 plus all data for
2008.
- 1 April: the data from 2007 is dropped from the main NEWS file (it
will continue to be available in NE07). At this point, NEWS and
the latest annual file (in this case NE08) contain the same data.
The cycle will repeat itself the following January.
Therefore, the size of the archive of the main file varies over its
life-time from three months in early April to fifteen months in late
March.
Length
Two new quick codes were introduced in January 2008 to help users to
explicitly include/exclude short or long documents. These are:
- LENGTH=LONG - TX para 1000 words or more
- LENGTH=SHORT - TX para 999 words or less
Company Name and Descriptor Indexing:
From 1 March 2004, new production software will affect the
application of Infosort and Company name indexing terms to new
documents added to the NewsRoom File. The affected fields are KW -
Keywords, CN - Countries & Regions, SC - Subject categories, and CO
- Company name. This enhancement will be more apparent with regard
to Company Names; if you have Alerts or Saved Searches which make
use of Company Name indexing, you should check if changes have been
made to the names of the companies you are researching, and update
your search strategy accordingly.
Default Width:
Documents in NEWS are set to 83 characters in width. This cannot be
changed using the ..SET WIDTH NN feature as this would adversely
effect the formatting of the text - particularly tabular data.
LD - Lead Paragraph/T1 - Main Text:
Documents added to the database after 1 January 2003 are loaded with
the TX field subdivided into LD (Lead paragraph) and T1 (Main text).
This will allow greater precision in retrieval because you will now
be able to qualify your search to the first part of the text of the
document - which is likely to improve relevance.
Note that this feature is available only in data loaded in 2003
forwards. It si not available in the archive files NE00, NE01 and
NE02.
DE - Desciptor Terms (searching non-English language sources):
English-language sources in NewsRoom are indexed with 'Infosort'
terms. These will appear in the fields CO (Comapny name), KW
(Keyword), CN (Country and region), SC (Subject category), and JC
(Journal category).
Non-English language sources are NOT indexed using Infosort, but may
include terms in these same fields if the original information
provider supplied them. Note that these are NOT Infosort terms.
There may be examples where the same term appears, but this is a
coincidence. When specifically searching non-English language
sources, you must use free-text searching in that language and not
rely on the descriptor fields.
..RANK and ..MAP are available in the SO (journal codes only), CO,
KW, CN, SC, JC and PT fields.
Guides:
For a complete guide to NewsRoom, search as BASE-NEWS in the BASE
database.
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