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2022 Issues
March 2022 |
- New prior art analysis tools in STNext®
- Reload of Derwent World Patents Index files
- Enhancements to PATGENE, GENESEQ, and USGENE sequence databases
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2021 Issues
December 2021 |
- PATGENE reload and enhancements
- EMTREE updated (September 2021)
- Reloads for NTIS and RDISCLOSURE
- Claims coverage expanded and enhanced in CAplus and CA
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August 2021 |
- EMTREE updated (May 2021)
- Enhancements to Structure Editor in STNext
- Higher quality structure query images
- Improved system uptime
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March 2021 |
- Patent Status Indicators in new PSPI tables in CA and CAplus records
- January 2021 Update to EMTREE now available
- The STN IP Protection Suite
- ReaxysFileSub and companion bibliographic database ReaxysFileBib now available on STNext
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2020 Issues
July 2020 |
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Numeric Property Search has been added to USPATFULL and USPAT2
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May 2020 Update to Emtree® Now Available on STN®
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New information for COVID-19 added for STN users
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April 2020 |
- Expedited processing for COVID-19 related articles
- Added lexicon terms for COVID-19
- 2020 Version of Medline now available
- January 2020 update to EMTREE®
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2019 Issues
Dec. 2019 |
- New CAS Formulations Database on STNext®
- PatentPak® now available in USPATFULL and USPAT2
- Enhancements to DEFULL and INPADOC
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Summer |
- Updates to World Surface Coatings Abstracts (file WSCA)
- Derwent Markush Resource (DWPIM) Database Enhancements
- Second 2019 update to Emtree® now available on STN
- Major Coverage Enhancements for US legal status information in INPADOC
- PatentPak® Coverage Expands to Include 14 Additional Patent Authorities
- Web Address Change for new STN
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Spring |
- More Powerful Searching Comes to STNext® with Expanded Search Limits
- Best practices for STN passwords
- Full-text patent databases FRFULL and GBFULL reloaded and enhanced on STNext
- CPC Combination Sets Now Fully Available in Derwent World Patents Index®
- Top Reasons STN Search Professionals Switch to STNext
- From the Help Desk
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Winter |
- 2019 Medline Refresh
- Emtree updated in EMBASE
- MARPAT® Search Algorithm Updated
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2018 Issues
Autumn |
- BLAST Alignment Reports now in STNext®
- Emtree updated for third time in 2018
- Derwent Markush Resource (DWPIM) available in STNext
- Scripting with data files in STNext (an introduction)
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Summer |
- Latest Version of Emtree
- Web Security Update
- Use Folders as Organizational Tools in STNext
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Winter |
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2017 Issues
July-September |
- Recent STNext® enhancements
- Using scripts for automated searches in STNext
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May/June |
- Introducing STNext
- The importance of Deleted Registry Numbers in Ensuring Comprehensive Substance Search Results
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March/April |
- Latest Release of New STN Enhances Search History and Expands Database Coverage
- Additional MEDLINE Unique Records Being Added to Embase
- Adis Databases on STN Refreshed
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January/February |
- 2017 Version of MEDLINE is Now Available
- NOT Proximity Operators: Eliminate Unwanted References
- Emtree Introduces 930 New Terms
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