DataStar: Faster and More Powerful Than Ever DataStar Functionality Enhancements Sci-Tech Content Updates Valuable Resources from ThomsonScientific News Content Updates Additional Content Updates Search Techniques

Custom Format on DataStarWeb The Custom format on DataStarWeb can be used to create your own format or to look at key words in context. To use a custom format: Select the records to view from the titles list and scroll to the bottom of the page. Select "Custom" from the Display Formats box and click DISPLAY. The next screen will bring up a table listing all the fields available in that file (or files if you are doing a multifile search). Select the fields you wish to view and/or select the keywords in context button to view your search terms in the context of the document. Click CONTINUE to display the records.

Searching Punctuation

To search a numerical string with a decimal on DataStar, enter the whole string in single inverted commas:

   MEZZ 1_: '1.25'

   RESULT 15268

Note: It is not possible to search punctuation on DataStar because it is not loaded into the index, so you cannot search the percent sign. Searching '1.25' will not always retrieve 1.25%, it might retrieve 1.25 mg, and other occurrences of this number so be sure to narrow the results.

DataStar: Faster and More Powerful Than Ever

Usage of DataStar has grown significantly as more customers choose DataStar for their information needs. To support this growth, we continue to invest in our technology infrastructure. Recent enhancements have resulted in faster response times for searches and document retrieval.

No doubt the rapid growth in the number of professionals turning to DataStar is a result of the continual addition of new functionality and tools. Just released on DataStar are additional formats for document display, saves and distribution, including saving data in XML. These new formats are just the latest in a series of powerful new tools to help you maximize investment in information by providing tools that simplify integration and distribution within your organization.

Here is a rundown of new features and enhancements so far in 2006. Click to learn more.

• AlertsManager
• ReportAid
• ILL Support in Dialog eLinks
• Streamlined REPEAT Search Feature
• Batch Loading to PrivateStar
• Thesaurus Mapping Added to More Databases
• New Output Formats

New Output Formats and Layout Changes for DataStarWeb and DataStarClassic on the Web

DataStar services are being enhanced to provide customers with new output format options and to standardize the look and feel of existing output formats. The enhancements affect both DataStarWeb and DataStarClassic on the Web customers.

Specific changes include:

• XML is available as an online (Save As) output format
• XML, RTF and RIS is available as offline (Alerts and Deliver) formats
• The output format option previously labeled ResearchSoft has been renamed “RefMgr, ProCite, EndNote.”
• A new Print Preview button has been added. This button also identifies the formats (HTML and Tagged) that can be previewed.

Martindale Reloaded with New and Updated Information

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference (MART) has been reloaded with new and updated information. Some of the changes include:

• Chapters and Chapter Sections including Antidementia Drugs, Antidepressants, Urological Drugs and others have been revalidated and updated
• New monographs cover Cystitis, Kinetin, Lutein, Liarozole and more
• Selective updates on diseases and drugs contain new, revalidated and updated information
• Preparatory preparations are now available for Venezuela and updated for other countries like Greece and Chile

For more information check the Datasheet or the Base database: BASE-MART.

New Inspec® Archive on DataStar

A new archival backfile (IN68) for Inspec is now available on DataStar containing the entire content text of the Science Abstracts Journals (1898–1968) the precursor to the Inspec® database. The backfile covers all aspects of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computing and control engineering. The more than 873,000 records includes the original value-added indexing and classifications, plus the nearest equivalent current Inspec Thesaurus term(s) and Inspec Classification Code(s). Documents indexed include conference proceedings, books, journals, reports and dissertations, and contain abstracts varying in length from a half page to several pages, which are longer than the abstracts available today. IN68 is available either on a purchase basis (i.e. ownership in perpetuity), as a site license or transactionally.

To accommodate the addition of the archival backfile, the following changes have been made to the Inspec file labels and coverage:

• INZZ: 1898 to date (previously 1969 to date)
• INYY: 1969 to date (new file)
• INSP: 1987 to date (no change)
• IN86: 1980–1986 (no change)
• IN79: 1969–1979 (no change)
• IN68: 1898 to 1968 (new file)

Introducing Techstreet®, the Industry Codes and Standards Superstore

Now get  free and immediate access to one the world’s largest online databases of industry codes and standards. At www.techstreet.com, The Online Standards Superstore, you can search and order documents for overnight delivery or immediate download. Free online tools make it easy to find and manage standards information. Unlimited standards tracking automatically sends free e-mail alerts when any document is updated, revised, amended or withdrawn, with no purchase necessary. Find out more about Techstreet from Thomson Scientific.

New Additions to Dialog NewsRoom (NEWS)

Dialog NewsRoom (NEWS) is constantly adding new providers with new sources. New sources broaden subject areas, such as Employee Benefits, as well as expanding into new areas of interest. Some of the new sources added in the last two months include:

• 41 American city business journals covering 41 U.S. cities
• 40 journal titles including Health Affairs, Hispanic Review, Omaha World Herald, Plant Disease, Total Health and Physical Therapy, Colorado Springs Business Journal, Nutrition and Dietician and several U.S. state Lawyer Weeklies
• 8 Gale Group titles, including the Colorado Springs Business Journal, Nutrition and Dietician and several U.S. state Lawyer Weeklies
• 12 International Foundation of Employee Benefits’ titles include Canadian titles: Employee Benefits News Canada and Canadian Health Care Manager

NewsRoom Adds 2006 File

A new NewsRoom file has been added to DataStar (NE06), and articles from 2006 are being added to the new NE06 database. NEWS contains the current 3-4 months of stories.

Change in Data Provided for EU Countries in Dialog TradStat

The European Commission has changed the reporting regulations for some products traded within the European Union. The revised regulation eliminates the requirement for traders to report net mass of some products. Going forward, only a unit count is required.

Currently, only the trade data for the United Kingdom and France are affected by the changes. Some traders are adopting this reporting change and are no longer providing net mass data; other traders continue to provide the net mass data.

For Dialog TradStat searchers, the change means that the net mass reported for some products will be incomplete. Despite this change, searchers will continue to be able to accurately compare trade across countries in different products by value, in a range of currencies.