Retrieving D&B Reports
In addition to retrieving D&B reports in HTML via Dialog Web-based products, Dialog text interface users can also retrieve D&B reports by using the REPORT command. The REPORT command is followed by the set number (Sn) containing the company record, or a D-U-N-S number, followed by the Report Code, as shown:
REPORT Sn/<Report Code>/item
Example: REPORT S1/BIR/1
REPORT DN=<D-U-N-S number>/<Report Code>
Example: REPORT DN=08-146-6849/CR
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Don't Miss This Competitive Intelligence Seminar
October 19
2:00-3:30 ET
Competitive intelligence and the associated techniques of data mining, text mining and visualization are areas of critical importance to organizations.
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Two Thomson Scientific experts — Bob
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some of the current tools and techniques available
to extract hidden knowledge from existing information
and explore some of the possibilities and perhaps
more importantly, limitations of these tools
and techniques.
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Pharmaceutical Forum 2006 in Boston
Want to increase your expertise in the pharmaceutical area? You're invited to participate in the 2006 Dialog Boston Pharmaceutical Forum on Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at Vertex Pharmaceuticals (675 West Kendall Street, Cambridge, MA 02142) to hear from Dialog's experts, network with colleagues, and take away some new ideas. For program details and to register, consult the program agenda online.
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Private Company Insight Reports from D&B Now on Dialog
Find key information on the top 250,000 U.S. private companies in Private Company Insight Reports. Each D&B business report delivers hard-to-find data on a company that is not publicly traded and, therefore, not required to disclose financial performance. Whether investigating potential partners, licensing opportunities, acquisitions or suppliers, make solid business decisions based on reliable data from D&B.
Records contain key company data, including:
- A financial overview including income statement data
- Business ratios compared to industry median
- Employees and company net worth
- Executive names and biographies, and more
D&B report links will be present in D&B - Dun's Electronic Business Directory® (File 515), D&B - Dun's Market Identifiers® (File 516), D&B - Duns Financial Records Plus® (File 519), and D&B - Who Owns Whom (File 522). D&B reports can be accessed via hyperlink through DialogLink® 5, DialogWeb, DialogSelect and other Dialog Web-based products.
Review the D&B Web page to
see descriptions and samples of each report.
Check the comparison table to help you decide
which D&B report best fits your needs and look at the tips on how to retrieve the reports.
Elsevier Science Introduces New Bibliographic Data Elements
Elsevier has introduced several new publication types and associated features in EMBASE® (File 72, 73), Elsevier Biobase (File 71) and EMCare (File 45). These are:
- Two new publication types: Trade Journal and Proceeding in EMBASE. Currently these appear only in Biobase and EMCare.
- Issue Title (TI) for journal issues that have their own distinct title and for individual book titles in records derived from individual Book Series issues
- Names of editors of specific issues
- ISBNs of journals that are book series. Both 10- and 13-digit ISBNs (BN=) are provided where available.
Check the Bluesheets for more information about the changes.
Wilson Files Current and Updating
Wilson General Science Abstracts (File 98) and Wilson Humanities Abstracts (File 436) are once again current and updating. Periodical coverage in File 98 includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals from the United States and Great Britain, and The New York Times Science Times section. File 436 cites articles from about 400 English-language periodicals covering a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, including some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser known but important specialized magazines.
New Sources Added to Dialog NewsRoom
Key additions to Dialog NewsRoom in the last month include 125 new titles, with 25 focused on Asia. Among the Asian titles are Vietnam News Briefs, Times of India, Taiwan Economic News, Manila Standard, Korea Times, and India Business Insight.
Also new to Dialog NewsRoom are Turkish Daily News and the Bulletin of the European Union.
New Addition to Dialog Trademarks Collection
TRADEMARKSCAN®—Australia (File 656) is now available on Dialog. File 656 is the third Asia-Pacific trademark file to join Dialog's trademark collection. Similar in structure to the European trademark databases, TRADEMARKSCAN—Australia has the following features:
- Over 482,000 trademarks since 1906
- Images for approximately 40% of the trademarks
- Weekly updates and weekly Alerts
- 3-D, sound and smell trademarks
- Disclaimer field - disclaims parts of the mark which cannot be protected
- Opposition field - typically a different company opposing a mark for non-use
TRADEMARKSCAN®—Australia has been added to a new DIALINDEX® category: ASIATMKS along with File 656, TRADEMARKSCAN®—Japan (File 669) and TRADEMARKSCAN®—South Korea (File 655). Check the Bluesheet for File 656 for more information.
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