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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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News Messages 2013

Impacts of U.S. Government Shutdown on STN Databases 07. October 2013

The U.S. government partial shutdown on October 1, 2013 is impacting a number of STN databases that contain content supplied by U.S. federal government organizations as follows:

Application Numbers for U.S. Patents in CA/CAplus and USPATFULL/USPAT2 Enhanced with U.S. Series Code Information 30. September 2013

Effective September 28, 2013, U.S. application numbers from series 13, design applications from series 29, and provisional patent applications from series 60 and 61 will include series codes. The enhancement applies to:

Emtree Thesaurus Updated in Embase 25. September 2013

The third update for 2013 to Emtree, the Embase thesaurus, was completed on September 1, 2013. 747 new terms were introduced, including drug names, organism names, and additional routes of drug administration.

STN on the Web Enhanced with Updated Structure and BLAST Plug-ins 13. September 2013

In response to technical issues reported by customers, STN on the Web was enhanced to include updated Structure Drawing and BLAST Sequence Search Plug-ins on September 14, 2013. Both plug-ins are free. The new plug-ins provide compatibility with the Windows 8 operating system and a number of newer...

Appointment of new President of American Chemical Society’s CAS Division, effective Sept. 30 September 10th, 2013 12. September 2013

The American Chemical Society has appointed Manuel (Manny) Guzman to be the next president of CAS, the world’s authority for chemical information.

CAS Expands Coverage of Philippines Patents 10. September 2013

Effective August 2013, CAS expanded its kind code coverage of chemistry and chemistry-relevant Filipino patents. Coverage of Filipino B1 granted patents and Z utility model applications in CAS databases allows customers to retrieve information on new inventions from the Philippines sooner than...

PCTFULL documents with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean as filing language have English machine translations 15. August 2013

PCTFULL documents with Chinese, Japanese, or Korean as filing language have been enhanced with more than 270,000 original descriptions and claims as well as their English machine translations. The large majority of documents with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean as filing language are now available...

DWPI Manual Code Revision - submit your suggestions 09. August 2013

Thomson Reuters is asking for customer input for the 2014 Manual Code revision of the Electrical Patents Index (EPI) and Chemical Patents Index (CPI) Manual Codes.

New PV Cluster on STN® Simplifies Pharmacovigilance Alerting and Searching 01. August 2013

Effective July 30, 2013, a new cluster for pharmacovigilance (PV) searchers was made available on STN. The PV cluster consists of the following databases:

Find the Most Comprehensive and Timely Results When Searching the Newly Enhanced Embase AlertTM together with EmbaseTM 31. July 2013

Effective July 28, 2013, Embase Alert (EMBAL) on STN(R) will be enhanced to make its content strictly complementary to Embase (EMBASE). EMBAL will contain, at any given time, 100,000 novel records not yet available in EMBASE. STN customers, including those interested in pharmacovigilance, should...