Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : January/February 2004

Removing Obituaries from a Search

A general limit of OBIT? in the text (TX) is not enough because many articles do not directly address obituaries but mention them in passing, especially multipart records. In addition, limiting OBIT? to the Title field only is not sufficient as other terms are often used in place of OBIT?.

To remove obituary-type records from Dialog NewsRoom, try the following two strategies:

• Use synonyms.
  

  ?s (OBIT? OR PASSING()NOTES OR 'IN'()PASSING OR
  'IN'()MEMORI?M)/TI
  
  ?s (TYPE OR COLUMN OR TEXT OR MEMO)(2N)OBIT?/TX
  
  ?s s1 or s2

• Find the section heading of OBIT? and use NOT to eliminate those results.
  

  ?s merck not sh=obit?

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