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A company’s sustainability strongly depends on its innovative power. Economically successful innovations strengthen its position in the international competition and help secure jobs. Innovations require a huge amount of research and development and have an immense economical potential. Time is a critical factor, and the information used has to be precise and reliable. Without such precise and reliable information, research, development and critical business decisions would not be possible.
For three decades, FIZ Karlsruhe has been providing its online services under the premium trademark STN International to scientists working in industry, at research organizations, and at academic institutions. In a collaboration model that is unique in the world, the products and services of international information providers are made available through STN and FIZ AutoDoc .
STN International is the world’s leading online service for scientific and technical research and patent information. STN offers high-quality content from the databases of renowned producers, as well as state-of-the-art retrieval, analysis, and visualization functions, on a neutral platform. The retrieval system has been optimized for the database content and allows for text searches, factual searches, and chemical structure and biosequence searches. Directly after a search, the full texts of scientific journal articles and patent documents can be conveniently accessed via the integrated STN Fulltext Solution, using FIZ AutoDoc.
STN supports its customers in making business-critical decisions by offering them complete and topical information that meets the highest quality standards. Top priority is given to data privacy protection, data security, and confidentiality.
STN International is jointly operated by FIZ Karlsruhe and CAS worldwide and represented in Japan by JAICI.