Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : July/August 2001

Delphes European Business Reloaded on Dialog

Delphes European Business (File 481) has been reloaded and is again current on Dialog. The database contains bibliographic citations and informative abstracts (in French) on virtually every aspect of European business. Produced by the French Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Delphes offers in-depth coverage of French and European business activities: products and markets, company profiles, company management, economic and financial environment. About 700 trade journals, newspapers and business magazines, mainly French (regional as well as national), are regularly scanned for inclusion in the database.

The reloaded file contains data from 1995 and is reloaded with the thesaurus 2000. The French version may be obtained free of charge from the database producer in a PDF format. Also included in the reload is the possibility of performing hierarchical searches on geographic keywords (already available on subject keywords), the addition of new geographic fields for identifying imports/exports between countries (OG= for Country of Origin and DS= for Destination Country), and the ability to display the alphabetical list of keywords in French or English.

The ISBN information (BN=) and Commercial Exchange (CE=) indexes have been removed from the file, as well as the Spanish terms in the indexes and Spanish language display.

Descriptors and country information are in both French and English. A source list and a quick reference sheet for searching the database are available from the producer. While the title information is in the original language, English language descriptors and countries will display in Format 9. For a French-only display, use Format 39.

Monthly and weekly (default frequency) Alerts are available for the information found in Delphes. DialUnits are priced at $3.60, and the full record is $2.15. The reloaded file is also available on DataStar as DELP. For more information on DELP, see the datasheet.

For more information about File 481, please refer to the Bluesheet in the Dialog Library (http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/) and in Dialog Bluesheets™ (File 415).

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