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Understanding Dialog ERA^SM Pricing with the Dialog Alert Service

Dialog ERA (Electronic Redistribution and Archiving) is a Dialog system feature that allows customers to purchase the right to redistribute search results within their organization, or to retain search results in a local database. REDIST N and ARCHIVE N (where N is the number of copies to be redistributed or the number of users with access to the local database) can be used with the TYPE, PRINT, or REPORT commands; example: PRINT S1/9/ALL REDIST 15 ADDR ACSMITH. COPIES N is used only with the PRINT command. The tables below show the charges for the use of these commands in all participating databases.

REDIST and COPIES

ARCHIVE

An example will illustrate how to apply these multipliers to calculate the cost of using Dialog ERA commands in your Dialog Alert profile. In File 543 (SEC Online™ - 10Q Reports), a weekly Alert profile costs $2.00 and includes up to 20 free records. The user includes the following PRINT command in the Alert profile:

    PRINT S1/7/1-20 REDIST 25 ADDR ACJONES

The price for a Format 7 record in this database is $1.50. If the Alert in a given week generates six new records, the cost of the Alert that week will be:

In general, you can calculate these costs by doing the following:

1. Multiply the number of records actually received with the Alert update by the cost of the format requested, and then multiple that number by the multiplier for the number of copies you wish to COPY, REDIST, or ARCHIVE.



2. Add the result to the cost of the Alert profile.



3. Calculate the Print Credit by multiplying the number of records actually received by the cost of the format requested.



4. Subtract the Print Credit from the result in step 2 to determine the final cost of the Alert update.

Note: Dialog Alert profiles in most databases include 20 free records. For those databases that do not, there is no Print Credit to be included in the calculation.