Find Late-Breaking News About Novel Research?

TOPIC: A quick way to uncover leap-forward biomedical breakthroughs is to search the news databases. Searching the news databases is just a start, but it helps you to unearth announcements that reporters may have picked up from contacts, at medical conferences or by attending meetings at pharmaceutical companies, universities or research centers. Promising developments make great news and great headlines. Take advantage of Dialog NewsRoom (File 990), a comprehensive global news source, which contains virtually all of Dialog’s fulltext news sources. For good measure, add in Dialog Global Reporter (File 20).

In this example, you will hunt down rumors about the discovery of a genetic link to obesity. The only information you have so far is that someone called the gene PCSK 1. Start with File 990, which contains the most current three to four months of data. (See the Bluesheet for details on other file segments going back to 2000.) Then use the Dialog ADD command to include additional database(s) to cover your bases, and REPEAT the search in the two databases.

Once you have significant data and keywords you will want to extend your search into other files in the Biosciences and Biotechnology Industry OneSearch® category BIOBUS. Files in this subject category include Adis Newsletters (Files 429,430), NewsRX Weekly Reports (File 135) and Prous Science Daily Essentials (Files 458,459)

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 990
SELECT (PCSK1 OR PCSK(W)1) AND OBES?
ADD 20
REPEAT
REMOVE DUPLICATES
TYPE S2/8,K/ALL
Click Links > Display > Type Full Record

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN File 990 to search Dialog NewsRoom. 2. SELECT key terms using proximity connectors, such as (W), to search a phrase. Be sure to enclose synonyms in parentheses when ANDing in another term. 3. ADD another database, such as Dialog Global Reporter. 4. Enter REPEAT to execute the same search statement again, now including the second file. 5. REMOVE DUPLICATES (RD) when searching more than one database.
6. TYPE records in Formats 8 and K (KWIC), which together give the title, journal name, publication date, word count, indexing and keywords in context in 30-word windows. Notice the amount of information given with Keywords in Context (KWIC). Dialog NewsRoom supplies the journal name in the free format. Note: The display shows portions of the first record only. 7. To see the complete record, click Links at the top of the record> Display > Type Full Record.
Note: You can also use the standard TYPE command (e.g., T s2/9/2). Note: Part of this record is omitted from the display.     This article includes references and URLs to sources.

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Stock #: 53415; Last modified: 14 Sep 2011

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