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From the Experts... Political News from Dialog NewsRoom

Political events especially those in the Middle East are affecting countries all around the world. News sources from specific countries provide different viewpoints of events and their effects on governments. For example, Dialog NewsRoom (File 990) contains over 7,500 publications focusing on regional, national, and international news. A search to find out about Australia's potential military involvement in the Middle East will produce varied results depending on whether you use the prefix GN= to find information about the country or the prefix RG= which provides information from Australian sources. Review the following search.

?B 990

File 990:NewsRoom Current  2003/Mar 10
       (c) 2003 The Dialog Corp.

      Set  Items  Description
      ---  -----  -----------

Records about Australia using GN= (S1).

?S GN=AUSTRALIA
      S1  157826  GN=AUSTRALIA

?S EN=GOVERNMENT
      S2   752223  EN=GOVERNMENT

?S EN=POLITICAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
      S3   84219  EN=POLITICAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS

?S PN=MILITARY
      S4   68769  PN=MILITARY

Records about governments and military involvement in any country (S5).

?S (S2 or S3) and S4
      S5   44854  (S2 or S3) and S4

?S S1 AND S5
           160813  S1
            44854  S5
     S6      1645  S1 AND S5

Fulltext records about Australia and military involvement but not necessarily from Australian sources (S7).

?S S6/FULLTEXT
      S7     1641  S6/FULLTEXT

Information from Australian sources using RG= (S8).

?S RG=AUSTRALIA
      S8  391388  RG=AUSTRALIA

?S S8 AND S5
          391388  S8
           44854  S5
      S9    2606  S8 AND S5

Fulltext information about Australian military involvement from Australian sources (S10).

?S S9/FULLTEXT
     S10    2591  S9/FULLTEXT

Articles not from journals in the region (using NOT with the prefix RG=). This retrieves articles reported internationally rather than locally (S11).

?S S7 NOT S10
            1641  S7
            2591  S10
      S11    432  S7 NOT S10

Josie Shaw
Knowledge Center, Asia Pacific

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