Community-of-Interest Electronic Newsletters Replace Chronolog and eChronolog

In response to customer feedback, Dialog is discontinuing the distribution of print newsletters, including the Chronolog, and expanding its electronic newsletter offerings. To keep you informed of developments on Dialog and DataStar, we have created two e-newsletters: What’s New on Dialog and What’s New on DataStar.

Dialog has also launched a series of content-specific e-newsletters. E-newsletters on Patents, Pharma/Biotech, Trademarks, Engineering, Chemistry, Aerospace/Defense and Competitive Intelligence have already been sent to those of you who have signed up.

Please go to www.dialog.com/enewsletters to indicate your areas of interest and subscribe to the newsletters of your choice. Sign up now and get complimentary publications, plus a chance to win US$500 in free Dialog usage. We also encourage you to share your suggestions for story topics with us. Send us your ideas.

Dialog Expands Environmental Sciences Collection

Seven environmental sciences databases from CSA including CSA Life Sciences Abstracts (File 24) are now available on Dialog. In addition to Life Sciences Abstracts, an environmental sciences cluster of boutique files includes:

• Aqualine (File 78) — Subscription only
• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (File 44)
• Environmental Sciences (File 76)
• Oceanic Abstracts (File 28)
• Pollution Abstracts (File 41)
• Water Resources Abstracts (File 117)

The files include scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, translations and government publications. For more information on each file, go to www.dialog.com/csaenews.

Special Alert Pricing for CSA Technology Research Database

CSA Technology Research Database (File 23) is now available via Alert subscription with Alert profile(s) and up to 100 Alert prints with each scheduled Alert sent via electronic mail services. This special Alert offer for CSA Technology Research Database gives those who don’t want a subscription to the file a means by which they can receive the valued CSA content in File 23. To learn more about CSA Alert subscriptions on Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com/csa_alerts.

2006 Pharmaceutical Forum Announced

The 2006 Dialog Pharmaceutical Forum will be held Tuesday, February 28, 2006, at the Woodbridge Hilton in Iselin, New Jersey. To view the agenda or to register to attend this exciting event for our pharmaceutical customers, please visit www.dialog.com/2006pharmaforum or contact your Dialog sales representative for more information.

A Century of Engineering Indexed: Inspec® Now Back to 1898

As library space becomes a premium, print copies of early abstracts journals are becoming scarce. To overcome this, Inspec digitized the entire collection of Science Abstracts Journals (back to volume one) dating from 1898 to 1968.

An archival backfile has been produced containing:

• The original value-added indexing and classifications
• Enhancements in the form of the nearest equivalent current Inspec Thesaurus Terms and Inspec Classification Codes
• Conference proceedings, books, journals, reports and dissertations
• Longer abstracts than today varying in length from half a page to several pages including diagrams and complex mathematical proof because hard copy originals were less accessible

Dialog Implementation
On Dialog, the archive has been loaded into a separate file—File 202. The archive is available either on a purchase basis (i.e., ownership in perpetuity), on a site-license basis or transactionally. Transactional pricing is listed on the Bluesheet; for purchase or site-license pricing contact your account manager. To accommodate the addition of the archive and to make searching for customers as easy as possible, the following changes have been made to the current file numbers:

• File 2: now covers all data from 1898 to date (previously covered data from 1969 to date)
• File 3: 1969 to date (previously covered the time period 1969 to 1982 which has been discontinued)
• File 4: 1983 to date (no change)
• File 202: 1898 to 1968

Index Chemicus Comes to Dialog

Index Chemicus (File 302), a text- and substructure-searchable database covering the world’s leading organic chemistry journals, reports over 200,000 new compounds each year, with coverage of over one million structures published in the literature since 1991. See the Bluesheet for more details about Index Chemicus.

Chemical structures may be searched easily with DialogLink 5 and an image prepared in a chemical drawing program or with a .mol formatted file. Learn more about Chemical Structure Searching using DialogLink 5.

Chemical Structures Now Searchable in IMS Patent Focus

IMS Patent Focus (Files 447, 947) is now searchable using chemical structures. This database details drug names (brand names), therapeutic class codes, CAS Registry Numbers by record, all linked to patent data, including estimated expiration date, priority details, originator, originating country and specific country comments. Check the Bluesheet for more details.

Chemical Structure Alerts—More Functionality for Dialog Alerts

Dialog Alerts now allows searchers an additional way of scanning database updates for potentially important records. Up until now, our Alerts system has only let you put in text-based queries. With this enhancement, you can set up your Alerts using chemical structures with DialogLink 5 for precise chemical searching. Chemical structure Alerts are available in Derwent Chemistry Resource (File 355), Pharmaprojects (File 128/928) and Prous Science Drug Data Report (File 452).

New Titles Added to Dialog NewsRoom

Several new sources expand international coverage in Dialog NewsRoom:

• Market News Service from Market News International, a newswire dedicated to the global fixed-income and foreign exchange (FX) markets and equally relevant to the equity markets, provides news on monetary and fiscal policy, budget and tax legislation, economic indicators and forecasts, and financial market activities throughout the world.

• EurActiv.com is an independent media portal with in-depth coverage of EU policies. EurActiv's news stories are presented in a consistent way: title, abstract, background, main issues, different policy positions by stakeholders and next steps.

CLAIMS®/U.S. Patents Reloaded

Dialog has completed the annual reload of CLAIMS/U.S. Patents (File 340). The annual reload of this file generally includes any patent reclassifications, references to the number of citing patents, assignee standardization, back posting of chemical indexing changes, and other corrections made by the database producer, IFI CLAIMS. A new field, Probable Assignee, which identifies the likely assignee for pre-grant publications (PGPs), has been added. Typically, U.S. patents do not identify the patent assignee until the patent is granted. The new Probable Assignee field can be searched using the PA= prefix. To restrict patent assignees to probable assignees only, the suffix /PS can be applied: S PA=WALMART?/PS. For further information on the CLAIMS/U.S. Patents database, refer to the Bluesheet for File 340.