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File 410 Updated
with E-newsletters
File
410, formerly the Chronolog database,
has been renamed Dialog Community-of-Interest
Newsletters and updated with all What's
New and community-of-interest newsletters. To
locate e-newsletters, SELECT JN= and the title
of the e-newsletter, e.g.,
S
JN=CHEMISTRY NEWS
S JN=WHAT'S NEW ON
DIALOG
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Community-of-Interest
Electronic Newsletters Replace Chronolog and eChronolog
In
response to customer feedback, Dialog is
discontinuing the distribution of print newsletters,
including the Chronolo g, and expanding
its electronic newsletter offerings. To keep
you informed of developments on Dialog and DataStar,
we have created two e-newsletters: What's
New on Dialog and What's
New on DataStar.
Dialog has also
launched a series of content-specific e-newsletters. E-newsletters
on Patents, Pharma/Biotech, Trademarks, Engineering, Chemistry, Aerospace/Defense
and Competitive Intelligence have already been sent to those of you
who have signed up.
Please go to www.dialog.com/enewsletters to
indicate your areas of interest and subscribe to the newsletters of
your choice. Sign up now and get complimentary publications, plus a
chance to win US$500 in
free Dialog usage. We also encourage
you to share your suggestions for story topics with us. Send
us your ideas.
Dialog
Expands Environmental Sciences Collection
Seven
environmental sciences databases from CSA including
CSA Life Sciences Abstracts (File 24) are now available
on Dialog. In addition to Life Sciences Abstracts,
an environmental sciences cluster of boutique files
includes:
- Aqualine (File 78) — Subscription only
- Aquatic
Science and Fisheries Abstracts (File 44)
- Environmental
Sciences (File 76)
- Oceanic
Abstracts (File 28)
- Pollution
Abstracts (File 41)
- Water
Resources Abstracts (File 117)
The files include
scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books,
translations and government publications. For more information on each
file, go to www.dialog.com/csaenews.
Special
Alert Pricing for CSA Technology Research Database
CSA
Technology Research Database (File
23) is now available via Alert subscription
with Alert profile(s) and up to 100 Alert
prints with each scheduled Alert sent
via electronic mail services. This special
Alert offer for CSA Technology Research
Database gives those who don't want a
subscription to the file a means by which
they can receive the valued CSA content
in File 23. To learn more about CSA Alert
subscriptions on Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com/csa_alerts.
2006
Pharmaceutical Forum Announced
The 2006
Dialog Pharmaceutical Forum will be held Tuesday, February 28, 2006, at the
Woodbridge Hilton in Iselin, New Jersey. To view the agenda or to register
to attend this exciting event for our pharmaceutical customers, please
visit www.dialog.com/2006pharmaforum or
contact your Dialog sales representative for more information.
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New Engineering
Web-based Training Series
Attend new Web-based training sessions covering engineering research.
 Introduction to Searching Engineering Information Featuring DialogLink
5 provides an introduction to the basic commands, techniques and
databases containing engineering content, including the CSA files. Commands
and techniques
are illustrated in the context of four engineering applications. Practice
exercises are included. Sign up for this session in the U.S. on November
15 or December
15.
Introduction to Searching Engineering Information Featuring DataStarWeb covers
databases and techniques to search technical literature using DataStarWeb.
Five applications are designed to teach certain basic search skills and
are presented in the context of a search for information of interest
to engineering
searchers. Practice exercises are included. Sign up for this session
in the U.S. on November 22.
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Practice Chemical Structure Searching Using ONTAP® Beilstein Facts
ONTAP® (ONline Training And Practice) Beilstein
Facts (File 389) is now chemical structure searching
enabled. File 389 is a free database that DialogLink
5 customers can use to practice their chemical structure
searches on Beilstein Facts. Get User IDs and passwords
here.
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Physical Education
Index for Sports Data
Physical
Education Index (File 138) is now available
on Dialog. The file contains a wide variety of
content, ranging from physical education curricula.
to sports medicine. Other coverage includes
sport law, kinesiology, sport sociology/psychology,
health education and physical therapy to name
a few. Most of the 47,500 records include abstracts.
For more information, please refer to the Bluesheet.
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A
Century of Engineering Indexed: Inspec® Now Back to 1898
As library space becomes a premium, print copies of early abstracts
journals are becoming scarce. To overcome this, Inspec digitized the
entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals (back to volume one)
dating from 1898 to 1968.
An archival backfile has been produced containing:
- The original value-added indexing and classifications
- Enhancements in the form of the nearest equivalent current Inspec
Thesaurus Terms and Inspec Classification Codes
- Conference proceedings, books, journals, reports and
dissertations
- Longer abstracts than today varying in length from half
a page to several pages including diagrams and complex mathematical
proof because hard
copy originals were less accessible
Dialog Implementation
On Dialog, the archive has been loaded into
a separate file—File
202.
The archive is available either on a purchase
basis (i.e., ownership in perpetuity), on a
site-license basis or transactionally. Transactional
pricing is listed on the Bluesheet; for purchase
or site-license pricing contact your account
manager. To accommodate the addition of the
archive and to make searching for customers
as easy as possible, the following changes
have been made to the current file numbers:
- File
2: now covers all data from 1898 to date (previously covered
data from 1969 to date)
- File 3: 1969 to date (previously covered the time period 1969 to
1982 which has been discontinued)
- File 4: 1983 to date (no change)
- File 202: 1898 to 1968
Index Chemicus Comes to Dialog
 Index
Chemicus (File 302), a text- and substructure-searchable database covering
the world's leading organic chemistry journals, reports over 200,000
new compounds each year, with coverage of over one million structures
published in the literature since 1991. See the Bluesheet for more details
about Index Chemicus.
Chemical
structures may be searched easily with DialogLink 5 and an image prepared
in a chemical drawing
program or with a .mol formatted file. Learn
more about Chemical Structure Searching using DialogLink
5.
Chemical
Structures Now Searchable in IMS
Patent Focus
IMS
Patent Focus (Files
447, 947) is now searchable using
chemical structures. This database details drug
names (brand names), therapeutic class codes,
CAS Registry Numbers by record, all linked to
patent data, including estimated expiration date,
priority details, originator, originating country
and specific country comments. Check the Bluesheet for
more details.
Chemical
Structure Alerts—More Functionality for Dialog Alerts
Dialog
Alerts now allows searchers an additional way of scanning database
updates for potentially important records. Up until now, our Alerts
system has only let you put in text-based queries. With this enhancement,
you can set up your Alerts using chemical structures with DialogLink
5 for precise chemical searching. Chemical structure Alerts are available
in Derwent Chemistry
Resource (File 355), Pharmaprojects (File 128/928)
and Prous Science Drug
Data Report (File 452).
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New Date/Time Display Field in Dialog NewsRoom
A new display
field has been added to records in NewsRoom files (File 989
– 996) on Dialog. The Dialog Update Date/Time field shows the
actual time and date when the record was loaded to NewsRoom.
The time is displayed in Eastern Standard Time (EST). This
new field makes it more evident as to when a record was added
to NewsRoom versus the original publication date of the content.
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New Titles Added to Dialog NewsRoom
Several new sources expand international coverage in Dialog NewsRoom:
- Market
News Service from Market News International, a newswire
dedicated to the global fixed-income and foreign exchange (FX) markets
and
equally relevant to the equity markets, provides news on monetary
and fiscal
policy, budget and tax legislation, economic indicators and forecasts,
and financial market activities throughout the world.
- EurActiv.com is
an independent media portal with in-depth coverage of EU policies.
EurActiv's news stories are presented in a consistent
way: title, abstract, background, main issues, different policy
positions by stakeholders and next steps.
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Improved Display Formats for INPADOC
You
can now see portions of patent families in INPADOC (File
345) by requesting output for only those
countries that are of interest.
Simply enter the country codes for
the desired countries or patenting authorities
(e.g., TYPE S1/US,WO/ALL). Another alternative
is to request the patent table, Format 3, in conjunction
with the detail of specific country families (e.g.,
TYPE S1/3,US,WO,MX,BR/ALL). See the Bluesheet for
output pricing modifications.
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CLAIMS®/U.S. Patents Reloaded
Dialog
has completed the annual reload of CLAIMS/U.S.
Patents (File 340).
The annual reload of this file generally includes
any patent reclassifications, references to the
number of citing patents, assignee standardization,
back posting of chemical indexing changes,
and other corrections made by the database producer,
IFI CLAIMS. A new field, Probable Assignee, which
identifies the likely assignee for pre-grant
publications (PGPs), has been added. Typically,
U.S. patents do not identify the patent assignee
until the patent is granted. The new Probable
Assignee field can be searched using the PA=
prefix. To restrict patent assignees to probable
assignees only, the suffix /PS can be applied:
S PA=WALMART?/PS. For further information on
the CLAIMS/U.S. Patents database, refer to the Bluesheet for
File 340.
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