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Mining NewsRoom for Aerospace & Defense Stories |
Every story in the Dialog NewsRoom database is
indexed for product/industry (Dialog PN= / DataStar
.PN.). Key product/industry name codes are:
 aeronautics and space technology
aerospace
military equipment
military electronics
security
security systems and electronics
weapon systems
airborne forces
seaborne forces
ground forces
Additional indexing is available for geographic
location (Dialog /GN or GN= / DataStar .CN.), language (Dialog LA= / DataStar .LG.), company (Dialog /CO or CO= / DataStar .CO.) and event
name (Dialog /DE or EN= / DataStar .SC.). Combining Event Name with a Product/Industry
Name can yield highly relevant stories, for example:
Dialog:
pn=weapon systems and en=forecasts
DataStar:
weapon-systems.pn. and forecasts.sc.
Note
that Event Name and Product/Industry Name are included
in the Descriptor Field index.
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Searching Geographic Areas in WNC |
To
search geographic areas, such as states, countries,
continents and political entities, use GN= or /GN, for example, SELECT arab?(w)peninsula/gn or EXPAND
using the prefix GN= and a portion of the country
name to retrieve all variations:
?e gn=afghan
E3 2 GN=AFGHAN
E4 3 GN=AFGHANIS
E5 1 GN=AFGHANIST
E6 5 GN=AFGHANISTA
E7 47803 GN=AFGHANISTAN
?s e3:e7
To see Region names, EXPAND RG= (e.g., E RG=CENTRAL EURASIA)
E4 30132 RG=AFRICA
E5 49935 RG=AMERICAS
E6 10 RG=ANTARCTI
E7 91277 RG=ASIA
E8 349922 RG=CENTRAL
EURASIA
E9 280795 RG=CHINA
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Aerospace Workforce Incentives Preserve Industry’s
Most Valuable Resources |
An
important issue for the U.S. aerospace industry
as a whole is manpower. Currently, there is
a shortage of younger professionals skilled
in technical fields and in the number of employees
in the aerospace manufacturing sector. Average
ages of the aerospace workforce are also increasing. Click
here to read an article about this issue facing
the industry from the AIA Web site.
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Dear
Colleague
 Welcome to the first issue of Dialog
Aerospace/Defense News. We are very pleased to offer this new resource
designed especially for information professionals
and knowledge workers in the aerospace and defense
industries. In addition to bringing you product and
content news, search tips and other information specific
to the Dialog and DataStar products, we will offer
other items of interest from industry experts and
colleagues. Please take special note of the "call
for contributors" section. Our goal is to make
this newsletter relevant and valuable for you, so
please send us your ideas and feedback. We look forward
to hearing from you.
Ron
Rodrigues, Senior Content Specialist
Engineering Market
 Dialog NewsRoom—A Key Resource for Aerospace & Defense
Information
Dialog
NewsRoom (Files 989-996/NEWS,NE00-NE05) is a collection of more than 11,000 publications
from around the world, most in fulltext or English-language
abstracts, and covering virtually every discipline.
Extensive coverage of military affairs, geopolitics,
arms and armament, and defense technology is available.
Examples of titles include Asia-Pacific
Defense Reporter, Aviation Week & Space Technology,
Flight International, Intravia, Periscope Daily Defense
News Capsules, Russian Defense Industry Digest and WPS
Defense and Security. Even noted scholarly journals
such as Journal of Aircraft, Naval War College
Review, RUSI Journal (Royal United Services
Institute for Defence and Security Studies) are part
of NewsRoom. For an overview of publications included
in Dialog NewsRoom, consult the online Sourcebook. Check
the box next to Aerospace and Defense to
see an alphabetical list of publications for this
topic area.
 81
new titles just added to Dialog NewsRoom,
including Congressional Quarterly's CQ
Bill Analysis, CQ Committee Coverage, CQ
Homeland Security; and
PBI Media's Terror Response Technology Report.
 CSA Databases on Dialog Expand High Tech and Engineering
Collections
Dialog
has expanded its High Technology and Engineering collections
with CSA databases. Engineering content from CSA includes
specialty files, such as Mechanical & Transportation
Engineering Abstracts (File 14) and Engineered
Materials Abstracts (File 293). Solid
State and Superconductivity Abstracts (File 68) focuses on basic and applied
research in aeronautics, astronautics and space sciences,
as well as supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences,
physics, communications and electronics. Because
solid state and superconductivity technology has
a profound impact on virtually every industry, it
is included in the High Tech category. These files
are available on a transactional basis and by subscription.
Three other CSA databases — CSA
Aerospace and High Technology Database (File 108), METADEX® (File 32) and CSA Technology
Research Database (File
23) , a comprehensive mega-file comprising engineering,
high technology and materials research — are
available by subscription only.
Custom
CSA report templates, Dialog eLinks and links to
related research materials are available for CSA
files through DialogLink 5. Searchers can use the
custom templates to quickly process their research
into a desired format, such as Microsoft® Word,
for distribution to customers, managers and others
in their organization. For more information on
CSA files available through Dialog, visit our Web
site at www.dialog.com/csaenews.
 Dialog Defense Newsletters Database
Dialog Defense Newsletters database
(File 264) is a collection of fulltext newsletters
from primary publishers in the field of defense.
The database contains specialized industry newsletters
that provide concise information on companies, products,
markets, and technologies. Also covered are rulings,
regulations, and other legislative activities that
affect the defense industry. Take a look at some
of these newsletters: World Aerospace Weekly,
Air Safety Week, Aircraft Value News, Airline Financial
News, Defense Daily, and Defense Daily
International.
 Have you tried...World News Connection® (WNC)?
Do
you need to find information from local sources about
a country that is in political turmoil before sending
your people there? Can you find out the local impact
of a natural disaster, such as the Tsunami that hit
Asia in December 2004? These are only some of the issues
covered by World News Connection (File
985), an exclusive Dialog offering of international
translated and English-language news. WNC provides
you with the power to identify unique perspectives
on happenings in a specific country or region by covering
significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical
and environmental issues and events around the world.
This hot source of news from the Foreign Broadcast
Information Service (FBIS) also brings information
from non-restricted, non-treaty countries such as Afghanistan,
Bhutan, Ethiopia, Nepal, Somalia, Cuba, Iraq and North
Korea, to name a few. To search World News Connection,
BEGIN 985.
 Aerospace
Industry Association's (AIA) Top Ten Issues for 2005
In
monitoring the aerospace industry in the United States,
the Aerospace Industry Association has selected the
following issues as important to consider in 2005.
Visit the AIA
website to read more:
- Advocate
U.S. Government Policies that Foster a Robust
U.S. Civil Aviation Industry
- Reduce
U.S. Legislative and Regulatory Trade Impediments
to U.S. Companies Competing in the Global Aerospace
Marketplace
- Ensure
Defense Modernization is Consistent with National
Security Needs
- Implement
a National Plan to Revitalize the U.S. Aerospace
and National Security Workforce
- Promote
and Support U.S. Homeland Defense and Aviation
Security
- Ensure
that International Institutions and National
Governments Adopt Policies that Do Not Disadvantage
U.S. Firms
- Ensure
the Competitiveness of the Aerospace Supply
Chain to Meet Industrial Base Challenges
- Promote
Sustained National Support for a Next-Generation,
Human-rated Space Vehicle and Robotic Space
Exploration Program
- Implement
Planned Comprehensive Aviation System Capability
Enhancements
- Implement
Balanced Defense Industrial Base Policies
—Used
with permission from Aerospace Industry Association,
Issue 2005 at www.aia-aerospace.org/
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