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CA/CAplus and CASREACT patent number format for U.S. applications updated
CA/CAplus and CASREACT now include 11 character patent numbers for U.S. applications. The 11 character format is consistent with that used by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and other key STN patent resources, including Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) and INPADOCDB.
Database crossover is not affected by the update. There is no need to edit current-awareness alerts (SDIs) that included 10 character patent numbers for U.S applications. In addition, searches using a 10 or 11 character number will retrieve the same record:
S US2008069838/PN
S US20080069838/PN
For additional information about CA/CAplus and CASREACT, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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CAS REGISTRY enhanced with additional experimental spectra
Since the beginning of 2008, approximately 204,000 experimental spectra have been added to REGISTRY, including:
- 95,000 proton NMR spectra
- 31,000 carbon-13 NMR spectra
- 78,000 mass spectra
This enhancement is part of an ongoing effort to strengthen the collection of experimental spectra first made available in 2005. REGISTRY now includes more than 480,000 experimental spectra.
For additional information about REGISTRY, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.
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EMBASE, EMBAL, and LEMBASE reloaded with enhancements
Excerpta Medica (EMBASE), EMBASE Alert (EMBAL), and the EMBASE learning database (LEMBASE) have been reloaded and enhanced with more comprehensive information in the Author (AU) and Corporate Source (CS) fields:
- When available, full author names are displayed in the AU field
- Author names and affiliated organizations are now displayed in AU and CS pairs
- Correspondence author is identified in the AU field, and contact information is displayed in the corresponding CS field
Additional information now available in the Source (SO) field:
- Editor names are searchable in the AU and SO fields and are displayable in the Source (SO) field (EMBASE and LEMBASE only)
- The term editor is searchable in the SO field (EMBASE and LEMBASE only)
- Meeting names and dates are searchable and displayable in the SO field (EMBASE only)
The 2008 thesaurus is also available in EMBASE and LEMBASE.
For additional information about EMBASE, EMBAL, and LEMBASE, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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FSTA enhanced with nearly 40,000 new records in 2007
Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) was enhanced with 39,373 records in 2007. This represents a 9% increase compared to 2006, and FSTA now includes a total of 776,544 records.
More than 72% of the new records were from journal articles and 22% were from patents. The remaining content covered legislation, standards, books, conference proceedings, reports, reviews, and theses. As in previous years, the largest numbers of records covered:
- Fruits, Vegetables, and Nuts
- Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Beverages
- Food Sciences
To produce FSTA, International Food Information Service (IFIS) scientists scan approximately 1800 journals from a broad range of disciplines. These include food science and technology, agriculture, marine fisheries science, environmental and water sciences, public health and medicine, nutrition, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, and toxicology. The proportion of Open Access journals has also steadily increased.
A list of serial publications being scanned for FSTA during 2008 is available at:
www.foodsciencecentral.com/fsc/serialpubs
For additional information about FSTA, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.
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IFICDB, IFIPAT, and IFIUDB enhanced with new custom IPC display formats
Two new custom display formats for International Patent Classification (IPC) codes have been added to IFI Comprehensive Database (IFICDB), IFI Patent Database (IFIPAT), and IFI Uniterm Database (IFIUDB):
- IPC.UNIQ - displays a set of unique IPC codes for a patent
- IPC.HIT - displays IPC codes matching those specified in the search query
IPC.UNIQ may be used for a more compact display of IPC information. The IPC.TAB format is available for more extensive IPC information, including IPC metadata. IPC.HIT may be used to quickly determine why a specific record has been retrieved with a complex search strategy.
IPC.UNIQUE and HITIPC may be used as aliases for IPC.UNIQ and IPC.HIT, respectively. For additional information about IFICDB, IFIPAT, and IFIUDB, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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LPCI now available as a replacement to LDPCI
The Patents Citation Index learning database (LPCI) is now available on STN and has replaced the Derwent Patents Citation Index learning database (LDPCI).
For additional information on LPCI, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.
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WPIDS, WPINDEX, and WPIX enhanced with ECLA and current U.S. National Patent Classification
European Patent Classification (ECLA), including In Computer Only (ICO) codes, and current U.S. National Patent Classification are now included in Derwent World Patents Index (WPIDS/WPINDEX/WPIX) from February 21, 2008 onward. Approximately 8 million documents in the backfile have been updated with U.S. National (in 3.7 million patents) and ECLA (in 25 million patents) classifications.
New search and display fields:
- European Patent Classification (EPC)
- In Computer Only Codes (ICO)
- U.S. National Classification, Current (NCL)
New search fields:
- EPC Keyword (EPC.KW)
- U.S. National Classification, Current (main) (NCLM)
- U.S. National Classification, Current (secondary) (NCLS)
Current-awareness alerts (SDIs) will not be triggered by the backfile update.
Enter HELP CHANGE at an arrow prompt (=>) in WPIDS, WPINDEX, or WPIX for details. For additional information about WPIDS, WPINDEX, and WPIX, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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Updated 7/28/2008 11:11:17 AM
