Dear Colleague

Welcome to the first issue of Dialog Engineering & High Tech News. We are very pleased to offer this new resource designed especially for information professionals and knowledge workers in the engineering and high tech industries. In addition to bringing you product and content news, search tips and other information specific to the Dialog and DataStar products, we will offer other items of interest from industry experts and colleagues. Please take special note of the "call for contributors" section. Our goal is to make this newsletter relevant and valuable for you, so please send us your ideas and feedback. We look forward to hearing from you.

I will host a Webcast entitled "Engineering Solutions on Dialog" on Thursday, August 4 (10:00 ET, 15:00 GMT).

Ron Rodrigues, Senior Content Specialist
Engineering Market

Engineering Content from the CSA Collection on Dialog

More than 30 CSA files—encompassing materials science, aerospace, high technology, life sciences and social sciences—are being added to Dialog through the end of 2005. Here is a run-down on what's available now. The new databases are concentrated in the domain of engineering and applied science. New databases are being added to the collection at the rate of about one per week, so look for more news on this expanding collection.

High Tech and Aerospace
Aerospace & High Technology Database* (File 108) and Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts (File 68) focus on basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences, as well as supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications and electronics. Because solid state and superconductivity technology has a profound impact on virtually every industry, it is included in this category.

Dialog is the only content aggregator to offer Technology Research Database (TRD)* (File 23), a comprehensive megafile comprising three categories of content—engineering, high technology and materials research. Check the TRD Bluesheet for a list of subfiles included in the database.

Materials Research
Files in this category include METADEX®* (File 32), Aluminum Industry Abstracts (File 33), Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramic Abstracts (File 335), Corrosion Abstracts (File 46) and Engineered Materials Abstracts (File 293). These databases contain content on materials science, metallurgy, ceramics, polymers, and composites used in engineering applications. Materials Business File (File 269), with its unique coverage of trade journals, adds a focus on industry news, international trade data, government regulations and management issues related to the metals and materials industries.

Check library.dialog.com/bluesheets for complete information about the CSA files.

*Aerospace & High Technology Database, Technology Research Database and METADEX are available by subscription only.

Weldasearch® (File 25) Complements CSA Databases

A complementary database to the engineering and materials databases from CSA is Weldasearch (File 25). Every aspect of welding and allied processes is covered including design, materials science, fatigue and fracture, mechanics, metallurgy materials science and more. Search these databases using DIALINDEX®/OneSearch® category MATERIAL for comprehensive results.

Thesaurus Mapping Added to Engineering Files
on Dialog DataStar

Thesaurus mapping has been added to the following engineering databases on Dialog DataStar: Inspec® (INSP, INZZ, IN79, IN86), Ei Compendex® (COMP, COZZ, CO89) and NTIS (NTIS, NTZZ). Previously, Thesaurus mapping was available only for large biomedical files. Thesaurus mapping makes it easy to navigate and apply the controlled vocabulary indexing to aid in retrieving the most relevant information available. For more on using this powerful feature, see the online overview or consult the online help in Dialog DataStarWeb.

File and Update Changes to Ei Compendex®

A new file (File 288) has been created for Ei Compendex® with coverage from 1990 to the present. Everything in File 288 will still be available in File 8, which also includes coverage from 1970 forward. The design of File 288 is identical to that of File 8, using the same indexing, display formats and Alert options.

In addition, the Alert default frequency for Files 8 and 288 has changed from monthly to weekly for all new Alerts created on and after May 1, 2005. The frequency for Alerts created prior to May 1 will not change. Available frequencies will be weekly and monthly. The equivalent databases on Dialog DataStar are COMP (1990+) and COZZ (1976+).

Call for Contributors

Participate in knowledge sharing with your colleagues interested in engineering-related topics. Share your story suggestions with us at support.dialog.com/enewsletters/contribute/.