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October 2013

Impacts of U.S. Government Shutdown on STN Databases

September 2013

Application Numbers for U.S. Patents in CA/CAplus and USPATFULL/USPAT2 Enhanced with U.S. Series Code Information

September 2013

Emtree Thesaurus Updated in Embase

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Adding a Summary to Your Custom Report

Available with STN Express, Version 8.4 and higher

When you create a custom report, you can include a summary with up to six fields for each answer. This summary serves as a table of contents to help expedite review of information in the report. Hyperlinks in the left-hand column make it easy to move between the summary and the complete record.

To access the summary options when using the Report Tool, click Content. Select Summary page, and click Summary Options.

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Select up to six fields from the list or drop-down options. Use the radio buttons (Bibliographic, Substance, or Other) to customize options for each of the types of answers that you have in your report. Note that Column 1 will include hyperlinks to the complete records.

Here are the Summary Fields for bibliographic records

 

and what a summary page of a report may look like. To quickly access a record in the report, click its hyperlink in the left-hand column.

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Here is an example of Summary Fields for substance records

 

and an example of a summary page for a table with substance information.

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