Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : Issue 3, 2005

Dialog Strengthens Sci-Tech Collection With Addition of CSA Databases

Dialog is strengthening its already stellar sci-tech collection with Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) files. The content from CSA includes more than six million records in over 30 databases of subject-specific research, expanding Dialog's already extensive collection of scientific and technical databases. These collections of research focus on materials science, high tech, engineering, aerospace, computer sciences, life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, and social and library sciences. The new content also adds databases not previously available through Dialog, covering solid state technology, superconductivity, earthquake engineering and other topics.

CSA databases recently added for research and document retrieval through Dialog are METADEX®, Aerospace and Technology Database, and the mega-file Technology Research Database (TRD), all with detailed abstracts. Additional CSA databases will be loaded on Dialog throughout 2005.

METADEX, a Metals Science Database
METADEX (File 32) is the premier database of research covering metals and alloys, including their properties, manufacturing, applications and new product development. Research is gathered from more than 2,000 journals, plus patents, dissertations, government studies, conference proceedings, technical reports and books. The METADEX database includes over one million references.

Aerospace and Technology Database
The Aerospace and Technology Database (File 108) provides coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics and space sciences in over 40 countries including Japan and eastern European nations. The database also covers technology development and applications in such complementary and supporting fields as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications and electronics. The research includes articles and reports from periodicals and scholarly journals, plus research published by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities and businesses.

Technology Research Database (TRD)
Technology Research Database (File 23), a new CSA database to Dialog covering 1962 to the present, provides a single mega-file of all the unique records available through its components: the CSA Materials Research Database with METADEX, CSA High Technology Research Database with Aerospace and the CSA Engineering Research Database. The database content represents the most comprehensive and current coverage of relevant serial and non-serial literature available. Sources covered include over 4,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade literature, patents, books and press releases. The file provides a wealth of topics ranging from Aeronautics and Astronautics to civil, earthquake, transportation and environmental engineering to electronics to meteorology, climatology and oceanography, as well as metallurgy and intermetallics, to name a few.

With the addition of the CSA information, Dialog significantly expands its portfolio of scientific and technical research. David Brown, General Manager Dialog DataStar, commented, "In a number of critical research areas, such as materials science, engineering, electronics and life sciences, Dialog will soon have what are clearly the best-in-class research files available anywhere."

Access to these three CSA databases is limited to subscribers. Consult the information at www.dialog.com/csa/ for details. See the online version of Chronolog to view a sample record.

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