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We hope you enjoyed Issue 1 of the Dialog Chemistry News. This issue brings you more chemistry databases enabled for chemical structure searching, advanced search techniques using coding for precise searching in Derwent World Patent Index and industry issues that we think you will find interesting. Don’t forget to send us your suggestions for articles you would like to see featured in the newsletter and sign up for other e-newsletters, including What’s New on Dialog, Competitive Intelligence News, Pharma/Biotech News and Patents News at support.dialog.com/enewsletters/.

Ieva O. Hartwell, Ph.D.
Content Analysis and
Documentation Specialist, Chemistry

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 2.4 million structures published in the literature since 1993. 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.

Keep Your Eye on the Molecules: Chemical Structures Added to 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).

Chemical Structures Now Searchable in IMS Patent Focus

IMS Patent Focus (File 447, 947) 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.

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 proofs 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.

Reviewing Challenges Facing the Chemicals Industry

The United Kingdom has the sixth largest chemical industry in the world and the chemical industry is the U.K.’s largest manufacturing exporter. The industry worldwide, however, faces new challenges. Review the report entitled "UK Chemical Industry Vision for the Sustainable Production & Use of Chemicals," produced by the Forum for the Future on behalf of the Chemistry Leadership Council (CLC) in the United Kingdom. It contains case studies, current status and future directions for the industry and current initiatives of the CLC. The report should be of interest to the chemicals industry, as well as chemistry-using enterprises.

EU's REACH for a New Chemical Policy

Have you been following the European Union discussion on legislation of man-made chemicals? The system being proposed by the Commission to meet the aims of the new EU Chemicals Policy is known as REACH, the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals. Read background information and current discussion of European Commission review of EU Chemicals Policy.

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