I’ve never used Gale’s Newsearch database (file 211 on Dialog) all that much, but delved into it this morning to compare with some Factiva searches I’d done. I was surprised to see older articles in there. Has the scope of this database changed? I checked and the documentation says it’s supposed to have the latest 45 days of records from 9 Gale databases. So why are there 47,906 records from 2003, 1,195,030 from 2004, 1,413373 from 2005, and 77,958 from 2006? That’s a pretty loose definition of 45 days, isn’t it?