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Support : eNewsletters : Chronolog Archives
Celebrate 100 years of SLA with Dialog and ProQuest
Tweet with us at SLA 2009 "Tweets" (a.k.a. Twitter postings) will be provided by IT Division members and conference attendees participating in the events at SLA. See what questions, comments and additional insights program attendees have in real time while they are attending conference sessions. It's a different way to keep abreast, stay current and remain engaged — perfect for any information professional and a first for the SLA conference! And, it's a new way to stay connected virtually if you can't attend the conference. Will you be tweeting at the conference? Use the #slait hashtag for everything IT Division and the #sla2009 hashtag for everything conference-wide. The Dialog/ProQuest in-booth Twitter screen also will show the backchannels for the @sla2009 and @proquest profiles. Dialog and ProQuest-sponsored SLA conference events
Drop by the Dialog-ProQuest booth (#620). We look forward to seeing you!
News, Web and Video — all in one with Dialog NewsRoom Plus! Dialog NewsRoom Plus, an intuitive, Web-based product designed for everyone in the enterprise who requires a comprehensive, authoritative source for current or archival news, launched last month. This Dialog product offers global news publications, 35 million hours of video and 20 billion Web documents. Use Easy Search or Advanced Search, save your searches, set up Alerts, and retrieve your results in the format that best fits your needs. Our unlimited usage model ensures all licensed users can search as much and as often as needed for one fixed, competitive price. Two versions of Dialog NewsRoom Plus are available to meet different content needs:
A reviewer for VIP Report who previewed the beta version of the NewsRoom Plus interface had this to say: "The Dialog NewsRoom Plus beta interface is neat, clear and simple to use, a possible real benefit and attraction to the target audience of novice to intermediate users. The NewsRoom Plus Easy Search interface appears to be a real end-user ‘news search' solution from this substantial information provider." (VIP Report, Big Three Survey, Nov 2008) Review an Overview of NewsRoom Plus and check out the Quick Guide that illustrates features of this new Dialog tool. For more about Dialog NewsRoom Plus, contact your account manager or call the Knowledge Center.
Dialog & ProQuest: What a year it's been! In July 2008 Dialog joined the ProQuest family. At that time all of us at Dialog were excited about the new opportunities. As we approach our one-year anniversary together, we look back over the past year to accomplishments, new directions and expectations for the future. New initiatives
New and enhanced content Training to fit all users' needs To assist you in selecting content for your searches, new Database Content Overviews for each Free File of the Month highlight strengths of each database. Focus on Content guides describe databases in different subject areas like Engineering, Aerospace and more. And, quick comparison sheets compare and contrast databases like Derwent World Patents Index® and INPADOC/Family and Legal Status for patents. Training Updates, Dialog's quarterly training e-newsletter, describes new courses, materials and documentation. If you have not subscribed, now's the time. Dialog's commitment to your success "In these tough times, it's comforting-heck! Exhilarating — to see a major traditional vendor stepping up operations, expanding market outreach, keeping past promises, and even making new ones. ProQuest has announced that it will start expanding its corporate marketing outreach through its Dialog subsidiary, specifically emphasizing six products. But the announcement wasn't specific on whether this new effort would simply use Dialog's sales force to move new clients to ProQuest services or whether the data itself would move to Dialog and its existing corporate customer base. When posed this question, ProQuest executives promptly replied, "Both." In a development which many searchers, especially freelance searchers, will appreciate, the new outreach will also in time ensure pay-as-you-go pricing for all ProQuest products, not just the usual subscription pricing designed for ProQuest's traditional academic market." With our tradition of excellence in customer service, a dedicated sales team, a knowledgeable training group and now, as the corporate channel at ProQuest, this year is just the beginning; watch for more innovation from Dialog, enriched by ProQuest, in the coming year. The importance of understanding China The heart of the global economy has moved East, and China is leading the way. Some statistics will show you why.
China continues to develop its technological infrastructure. As national and international companies worldwide invest in research and development and manufacturing facilities in China and as its economy grows, it is important for business and industry globally to keep abreast of everything related to China. It is the world's third-largest economy. Dialog brings together a myriad of authoritative sources whether you are looking for China as a center of innovation, a leader in trademarks and patents, an important trading partner or a manufacturer of products from cement to automobiles. Here's just a sampling of the resources related to China on Dialog. Business and industry news One of Dialog's "hidden gems" (although we try to spread the word as much as we can) is the full-text content in World News Connection® (File 985). Titles, such as Xinhua, Taipei Times Online, Bangkok Post Online and China—OSC Summary, to name a few, offer translated and English-language news and information produced by local media sources in China about significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical and environmental issues and events. File 985 contains thousands of records on China tagged with region (RG=) and geographic name (GN=), including over 30,000 records from 2009. Intellectual property The new TRADEMARKSCAN® — China (File 651) contains applications and registrations filed with the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China from 1950 forward and includes more than four million trademarks as of September 2008. With Dialog's OneSearch ASIATMKS OneSearch® category, you can search Asian countries together. Business intelligence and market research In addition, Freedonia Market Research/Freedonia Industry and Business Research Studies (File 763) contains the fulltext of studies and reports, including comprehensive analyses of industries and products in a variety of industrial sectors in China. You can obtain long-term economic trends for products from batteries to countertops to cement. These examples just scratch the surface of the broad and deep authoritative resources on Dialog that keep you connected to what's happening in business, intellectual property, market research and country information in the world's most highly-populated country—China.
Free Files of the Month: Inspec and Derwent World Patents Index First View Inspec (File 2), a leading source of scientific and technical literature for scientists in many disciplines including engineering, physics, computer science and astronomy, is one of the free files for June. The database contains over 10 million records and has an archive dating back to 1898. The file was reloaded in May 2009 and includes a number of enhancements. Check the Bluesheet for details about changes to the file. Also free for June is Derwent World Patents Index First View (File 331). File 331 provides complementary information to Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) (File 351) and is designed to be searched in conjunction with DWPI for a comprehensive view of all published patents. New Basic patent records remain in File 331 until the editorial process is completed and all value-added data has been created by the DWPI editors. The new record is then added to File 351 and the corresponding record is removed from File 331. DWPI First View is ideal for setting up Alerts to help you monitor patent activity. Review the Overviews of Inspec and Derwent World Patents Index First View to learn more about these databases. During the month of June, you can explore these two files up to $100 each (either DialUnits or connect time) for free. Output and Alerts charges are not included. Take advantage of this opportunity to try out File 2 and File 331 today.
D&B databases available for site licenses The following D&B files are now available via flat-fee access for the first time ever on Dialog!
Contact your account manager or the Knowledge Center for more information. D&B reports, such as BIR and Comprehensive, via links or the Gateway (File 598) are not included. Other restrictions apply.
Broaden your intellectual property search into non-patent files By Ian Pearce, Training & Applications Consultant, Europe You are likely familiar with the well-known patent databases on Dialog, such as Derwent World Patents Index, INPADOC/Family and Legal Status and the full-text patent files. But did you know that a number of additional databases on Dialog and DataStar also contain intellectual property information? In fact, intellectual property information can be found in four other categories of databases:
To make those categories useful to you, it's helpful to know the type of information they offer to the patent searcher, as well as the best strategy for searching them. 1. Company and Industry News For company and industry news Dialog NewsRoom (File 990) and ABI/INFORM® (File 15) are good starting places. Dialog NewsRoom is a comprehensive, global news source of 12,000 sources from around the world. Covering leading national and local newspapers, business and scholastic journals, industry newsletters, corporate news releases, magazines and newswires, it is a rich source of intellectual property-related information. ABI/INFORM contains details on virtually every aspect of global business, including company histories, competitive intelligence and new product development information. And, in 2009 more than 300 additional titles are now included in fulltext in ABI/INFORM on Dialog and DataStar, doubling the number of articles in each update to provide greater industry depth. Top publications include, for example, Medical Patent Business Week and Military & Aerospace Electronics. Alternatively, search ABI/INFORM on the ProQuest platform to access even more titles and retrieve PDF documents and graphic material, including original charts, graphs and tables. Suggested search strategies Alternative sources are Cengage Gale Trade & Industry™ (File 148), Cengage Gale PROMT® (File 16) and Business & Industry™ (File 9) databases. The first two can be searched with specialized indexing, including Event Names such as Patents & Copyrights, Descriptors, Product Names and Industry Names and the latter with indexing including Concept Terms such as Intellectual Property, Industry Terms and Marketing Terms. 2. Statistical information 3. Market research Try searching DataMonitor (File 761/DMON) and Frost & Sullivan (File 767/FSER) using the same keywords as suggested for a company or industry news search together with the companies or technology sectors in which you are interested. 4. Financial information TFSD Joint Ventures & Alliances (File 554) includes details of agreements where companies have combined resources to form a new business arrangement, for example, from the licensing of intellectual property. And finally Investext® PDF Fulltext (File 745), the database of company, industry and topical research reports written by analysts at leading investment banks and brokers, can contain detailed information, such as patent litigation threats to a company or market sectors. So, the next time you undertake a patent search have a look at the wealth of intellectual property information that can be found in complementary non-patent databases — you never know what you might find.
CLAIMS/U.S. Patents reloaded for continuity back to 1950 The annual CLAIMS reload updates each record in the file with a variety of information including:
The annual reload is applied to Files 340, 341, and 942, since all three files are derived from the same database. The reload is split between non-changeable data (abstract, claims) that stays the same, and changeable data (bibliographic) that receives the appropriate changes. The CLAIMS®/U.S. PATENTS database (File 340), produced by IFI Patent Intelligence, provides access to over 4.6 million U.S. patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) since 1950. This is the largest collection of U.S. patent references available in an online database. Published pre-grant applications (available from March 2001) and issued patents published for the same application number are now combined in a single merged record containing both granted patent data and published pre-grant patent application data. Watch for more on CLAIMS/U.S. Patents (File 340) and CLAIMS®/Current Patent Legal Status (File 123) as free files for the month of July.
A Proximal and a Distal Tip By Ron Kaminecki, MS, CPL, JD, Director, IP Segment, US Patent Attorney
One method is to search just the claims of the patent. The claims section covers the "metes and bounds" of the patent and defines what the attorneys stand on in court when defending the property. Why would anyone search just the claims? Freedom to operate searches, in which the scope of the invention is determined, so that managers can feel free to practice in an area or stay out of it, depend upon searches of claims to elucidate the actual invention covered by the patent. If someone else claimed the invention, you cannot practice it, let alone attempt to file for a patent for the same thing. For example, a search of a patent database for the word carburetor will find such in the title, abstract, specification and claims fields and yield many hits. To narrow the focus to just those patents in which a carburetor is claimed, an astute searcher would enter SELECT CARBURETOR/CM to search just the claims (let us ignore truncation for just a second). This would restrict the search to just the legal terminology in the claims field, but ignore the problems with searching just by legal descriptions of inventions — such a search would really focus the results to what is actually claimed in an invention rather than just mentioned. Typically scientists write the specification of a patent and attorneys usually draft the claims. The specification tends to have examples and comparisons and results. While many inventions may be mentioned in this field, it is the claims field that actually focuses the invention as being distinguished from the prior art. So, all the words in the specification help identify the invention, but it is the words in the claims that identify the patented invention. Thus, a patent specification that mentions an invention, while still prior art, may not necessarily be what is claimed. So, while a patent may mention hundreds of possible inventions, the claims will identify only the patent invention. The claims can be used to (1) focus the search in the first place and (2) identify the claimed invention for purposes of freedom to operate. Recipe for legalisms; take one part inventions and two parts lawyers... Using the sharpest blade in the drawer We've just reviewed a few ways to narrow a search, rather than depend upon patent titles. Isn't this a better approach to refining a patent search than by restricting by title? And, in case you are wondering, I do make a pretty mean chili, though it does involve a lot of steps. Feel free to write to me if you want a copy, but I warn you, it takes three days to make, plus possibly a few bandages.
Abstract and index searching and fulltext all in one package with Dialog and ProQuest Pharma Collection Does your organization need to identify key scientific findings in your own therapy and research areas? Do you need to track what your competition is publishing? Does your group need access to full-text scholarly research literature? If you answered yes, to any or all of these questions, then ProQuest Pharma Collection, a subset of ProQuest Central, has what you need. Now available through Dialog channels, it is easier than ever to combine precision searching in abstracted and indexed literature from MEDLINE®, EMBASE®, BIOSIS Previews® and pharmaceutical databases on Dialog and DataStar with the ability to readily locate the fulltext of items via ProQuest Pharma Collection. ProQuest Pharma Collection contains 2,200 scholarly full-text journals, including a number that go back to the late 1980s. More than 300 medical full-text journals provide the latest information across a wide range of specialized clinical fields with hundreds of biomedical, bioscience, psychology and science journals offering a huge breadth of references for researchers. With ProQuest Pharma Collection sources you can: Access the latest evidence for effective pharmacological and medical interventions
Whether you are a scientist, medical researcher, clinician, business manager, regulatory affairs specialist, project manager or administrator, you can get complementary information from Dialog, DataStar and ProQuest Pharma Collection all in one package. |
Celebrate 100 years of SLA with Dialog and ProQuest News, Web and Video — all in one with Dialog NewsRoom Plus! Dialog & ProQuest: What a year it's been! The importance of understanding China Business & News Content Updates Intellectual Property Content Updates Using Dialog special features Dialog's powerful commands let you rank results, sort data and remove duplicates. Resource intensive commands, like RANK, SORT or RD, use more system resources and DialUnits, but they can also take more connect time because they take longer to manipulate sets of records. Take advantage of these features cost-effectively by practicing these steps before using special Dialog commands:
July Free Files of the Month Throughout July, Dialog will offer two free files: CLAIMS®/U.S. Patents (File 340) and CLAIMS®/Current Patent Legal Status (File 123). File 340 has just been reloaded, and new post-issuance legal status information has been added to File 123. See the CLAIMS article under Intellectual Property Content Updates. See an overview of CLAIMS to learn more about these important databases on Dialog. Note: You can search up to $100 (connect time or DialUnits) in either or both files for free. Output and Alerts costs are not included.
Dialog London office changes locations Effective June 22, 2009, the Dialog office in London will relocate to:
PsycINFO® (File 11/PSYC) will stop updating in June in preparation for the annual reload of the database. The last scheduled update will be delivered on June 2. Updating will recommence later in the summer after the reload data is supplied and loaded. The Chronolog (File 410) is updating again on Dialog . The file updates quarterly and is now up to date to March 2009 (Q12009). The newest updates include the Chronolog and Training Updates newsletters.
Training Schedule Training classes on Dialog are held around the world. New classes are always being added, so for the most current schedule and for registration information for all locations, check the Dialog Web site. Besides new product training classes, sign up for new subject-specific sessions such as: "Patent Basics: Deciphering Patent Families in Derwent World Patents Index (File 351) and INPADOC (File 345)." The class will be held Tuesday, June 16.
Quantum2 at SLA Annual Conference The following Quantum2 sessions will be available as CE courses during the SLA Annual Conference in June. Visit the SLA conference Web site to check time and place and register for these events.
Note: Assessing Clients' Needs Part 1 and Part 2 are available as a full-day CE course.
Dialog Search Tip: Using the number of references field (NR=) in Inspec Locating documents with lengthy bibliographies is a way of generating a free list of relevant material on a topic. In its recent reload, Inspec® (File 2), has provided a new index field that lets you quickly search the number of references (NR=). In this example, using File 4, the section of Inspec covering 1983–present, the researcher is interested in the development of the large Collider at CERN and would like documents with extensive bibliographies: S LARGE()HADRON()COLLIDER/TI,ID
(2326 results)
S S1 AND NR=>40 (216 results)
You can further refine the search to authors who are scientists actually working at CERN in Switzerland: S S1 and CS=CERN (23 results) There is a link to the publisher site in the "Item identifier (DOI) field." In this case, the researcher found at least one record where the entire full-text article is available for free at the publisher site, and the site also includes a list of articles that cite this paper. Try out the Number of References field this month, when Inspec is the Free File of the Month. See details above about the Free File.
DataStar Search Tip: Qualifying your search statement In DataStarWeb's Advanced Search, you can bypass the drop-down/pop-up menus to quickly qualify to fields manually, for example, enter term.field. (e.g., asthma.de.), as your search statement. What's more, you can apply multiple field qualifiers, as in asthma.ti.mj. to search for asthma in the title (TI) OR as a major descriptor (MJ). With the field pop-up menus, you can qualify to only one field. In a business-news search, use the pop-up menu in Dialog Global Reporter (REPO) to search for General Electric in the Company Name field (CO). DataStarWeb displays the results showing the syntax, so you learn for future reference the syntax is general adj electric.co. If you want to broaden your search to qualify not only to the Company Name, but also to the title OR the lead paragraph (LD), enter general electric.ti,co.ld. At the same time, you can restrict your search to records added as recently as today, depending on the database. If you have already created a search set, simply enter the query number and in the box below the query box, enter the date that you want to be the update's starting point, or use the drop-down box and choose 1 week, 1 month, etc. Check the Datasheet for details on the file(s) you wish to search. |
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Join with us to celebrate 100 years of SLA! As major sponsors of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) for 2009, Dialog and ProQuest offer many opportunities for networking, training and learning more about Dialog and DataStar. Check your program for event times and locations at the SLA 2009 Annual Conference in Washington, DC, June 14 – 17, 2009.
