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Support : eNewsletters : Chronolog Archives
From the Editor
In this issue... Stay tuned to the Chronolog as your guide for all news at Dialog. Watch for new features, exciting additions to ProQuest Dialog, and more as 2012 unfolds.
2011 ProQuest Dialog highlights New releases of ProQuest Dialog in November and December provided a fitting finale to our amazing year. Designed to support innovation across the enterprise, ProQuest Dialog™, our next-generation service, delivers critical information to help your organization discover new opportunities, validate the uniqueness of inventions, and bring innovative products to market. Offering ease of use for information professionals and knowledge workers across industries, ProQuest Dialog combines authoritative sources from Dialog® and DataStar® databases with an intuitive new interface and powerful tools to maximize your research and results. It's a fresh approach to precision searching. Some highlights from 2011 illustrate these accomplishments. Customize content Search and discover
Select flexible pricing Three pricing options meet different users' needs.
When we started to develop ProQuest Dialog, you told us you wanted three things above all:
In 2012, watch the Chronolog for details on more important collections, such as patents and news, and more enhanced features.
New look and functionality to Command Line Search
Note: Advanced search also contains similar features.
Transactional pricing Invoice Detail Report Administrators using the ProQuest Administrator Module (PAM) in ProQuest Dialog will find a new Invoice Detail Report alongside usage reports for transactional pricing. The reports provide details about documents, Alerts, and other features that have transactional costs. Using PAM, the administrator selects an invoice by number or date and downloads a detailed version in CSV (Excel compatible) format that includes a breakdown of charges by transaction, by database, by project code, and by My Research account.
It's easy on ProQuest Dialog New delivery options, preferences and pricing for Alerts
After performing a search, click the Create Alert icon located on the results page to begin the process. A new window appears, and you are prompted to complete a three-step process.
Similar to setting up Alerts in the legacy product, enter an Alert name, add a subject line, and schedule Alert delivery.
In addition to controlling what documents are included, display formats, maximum number of documents to deliver, and adding a message, you can now select Alert delivery formats from a drop-down list under preferences, as displayed. The full search strategy is included in the email sent with the Alert, not just the final line of the search strategy, and you can also choose whether to include field names in your results. Duplicate detection has been added as the default feature for Alerts. But, from the Alerts Define preferences tab, you can also choose to include duplicate documents.
Alert profiles on ProQuest Dialog are charged on a monthly flat rate, variable by frequency, rather than as a charge for each time the profile is run. Example:
Overall cost for the flat monthly rate based on frequency is comparable to Alerts profile prices on the Dialog service. Note: Also read the article "Tips to create effective Alerts on ProQuest Dialog" in the November/ December issue.
Ei Compendex — Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering and technical literature
Compendex covers subjects in every engineering discipline from chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical and mining engineering to geological, biological, electronics, mechanical, automotive and robotics. It is an indispensable tool for engineering professionals, researchers and librarians with more than 6,500 scholarly journals, transactions, reports and special publications of engineering societies, scientific and technical associations, government agencies, universities, laboratories, research institutions and organizations, monographs, standards, seminars and reports. In addition, the database also contains significant published proceedings of engineering and technical conferences, symposia and colloquia. Used as a tool to monitor the progress of competitors' innovations and view the competitive landscape, you also can locate emerging technologies, check for prior art on your own inventions and verify the feasibility of new inventions. Use this database to find information on the activities of private, public and government research labs, institutes or think-tanks. Learn more about Compendex and try searching it this month. An overview provides more details about this authoritative engineering database.
Quantum2 Webinar receives kudos
If you missed the Webinar, you can now view the video recording on the ProQuest Discover More Corps site. Just sign up now for ProQuest's online community Discover More Corps! Watch for a new series in 2012.
Annual classifications MEDLINE reload update
INPADOC adds Japanese legal status
Changes to Claims updates Starting this month, granted patent and weekly published applications in CLAIMS®/U.S. Patents (Files 340, 341 and 942) are now updated weekly only. Bibliographic and chemical indexing updates, previously updated monthly, will now be included in the weekly updates. As a result, monthly Alerts currently set up to run against File 340 monthly bibliographic, and File 341 and 942 monthly indexing updates are no longer available. Note user-defined, calendar-based Alerts are not affected.
Latest Manual Code Revision goes live on Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) The DWPISM manual coding system annual revision has now been completed and is being used by the editorial teams to code records appearing in the database from DWPI Update 201201 onward. The editorial team consistently applies DWPI manual codes to new inventions across all 47 authorities covered in the database. Since the coding highlights the novel technical aspects of the invention as well as the application(s), it is extremely useful to improve the precision and recall of searches and the subsequent analysis of result sets. As with previous revisions, the coding has been updated to:
In total, 800 changes have been made to the manual coding system and scope notes. Among 440 new codes are:
Another significant enhancement this year is the introduction of a completely new in-depth hierarchy of packaging codes covering all aspects of mechanical packaging. These new codes were created in conjunction with input from experts in this technology field. This development follows from the expansion of the electrical packaging codes during the last manual code revision released at the start of 2011. New sections include the following:
The Coding Manuals and reference guides on the Thomson Reuters homepage have all been updated to include the changes. These resources are available through the following links:
Additionally, users can provide suggestions for future manual code revisions by sending them to scientific.mcrdwpi@thomsonreuters.com.
In today's fast-paced, highly competitive business environment, successful research must be supported throughout the whole cycle — from exploring, to pinpointing data, to managing resources, to using and sharing findings in innovative ways. You have inspired ProQuest's breakthrough research environment as we evolve to meet your research needs. The latest release of the new ProQuest platform brings exciting enhancements that give you the edge in discovering, saving, analyzing, reporting and keeping current on mission-critical data.
See how ProQuest encompasses the whole research cycle to help you move more productively to your most accurate conclusions. |
2011 ProQuest Dialog highlights New look and functionality to Command Line Search Discover: Scitech Content Updates Validate: Intellectual Property Content Updates "Best Patent Search Gift for 2011" Search Techniques on ProQuest Dialog "Best Patent Search Gift for 2011" In May 2011, Intellogist1 blogger Kristin Whitman reviewed ProQuest Dialog in her post, The Search Product Everyone Will Be Using Next Year, where she listed the many benefits of the new platform. Last month, Intellogist published a list of the "Best Patent Search Gifts" for 2011. Among them, in the category of Best New Non-Patent Literature Platform, was ProQuest Dialog. Here is an excerpt from the piece: "The great news about ProQuest Dialog is that it is a modern, up-to-date web-based platform with all the conveniences we've come to expect in a search interface: adequate search forms, auto-suggest features, thesaurus lookup functions, faceted results set navigation, and export capabilities." We appreciate the nod from Intellogist and look forward to offering even more enhancements and benefits to wow them in 2012. 1Intellogist through its website, blog, wiki and community of patent researchers focuses on distributing information on how to conduct patent research. It is one of the foremost resources for tips and instructions on using hundreds of online databases for patent and prior art research. Use proximity connectors judiciously to create precision Wise use of proximity connectors can add to the precision of effective search queries. Dialog gives you the power to broaden or narrow your searches just by changing your proximity connector. For example, a search in New York Times® — Fulltext (File 471) for articles about hybrid cars illustrates how broad or narrow you can go, from exact phrase, using the With operator (W), (), to words in either order (N), to words in close proximity (nW), (nN), to words in the same paragraph (S), to mention of the two words hybrid AND car or cars found anywhere in the article, not necessarily close to each other.
Take your books on the e-road with ebrary ebrary books can be downloaded onto the iPhone, iPad, Kobo, Nook, and Sony Reader, as well as the Kindle Fire. E-books may also be transferred to and read on the Kindle Fire. Events
ProQuest Dialog Webinars
New biomedical series — A new weekly biomedical series walks you through biomedical and pharmaceutical searching on ProQuest Dialog.
ProQuest Dialog Demonstration — Test the features of ProQuest Dialog by trying searches at no cost. A short module illustrates basic and advanced searches in the demo databases and provides exercises to try in these databases. Legacy Dialog training
Continue to hone your skills by checking out the ProQuest Dialog Customer Information site. Take advantage of search aids and short, self-paced modules, all updated with ProQuest Dialog's latest features. Review some of the following:
Click the Training tab at the ProQuest Dialog Customer Information site.
InfoStars announced at London Online
Dialog's newest InfoStars were honored in December at Online Information 2011 in London. These outstanding information professionals demonstrate leadership and inspire others to act as catalysts for change. Lars Kjøller, Principal Information Specialist at LEO Pharma from Denmark, and Kate Arnold at Cancer Research UK of the United Kingdom were named 2011 Quantum2 InfoStars for the International region. Congratulations to our InfoStars!
Order preference for duplicate documents When searching multiple databases, you will want to make sure you are retrieving unique records. As the default, ProQuest Dialog removes duplicates from your search results. However, often you may want to keep records from specific databases. For example, if you prefer a citation from one database over another, you can set your preferred order. Here's how. From the results page, under Duplication document settings, click Change.
You can then set rankings from the "Order Preference" Page. Enter a number in the text box (e.g., 1 for most preferred database) or drag and drop in the order you prefer. Click Apply preferred databases.
The results page will change No settings applied to Preferred databases applied. Duplicates will be retained from Preferences stay with your current session and added databases can also be prioritized. Note: Sorting these documents does take processing time. Refine results to smaller sets for better performance.
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Happy New Year from all of us at Dialog! 2011 was one of the most exciting years in Dialog history, culminating with the migration of DataStar® customers to ProQuest Dialog™. You'll understand our enthusiasm when you read 2011 ProQuest Dialog highlights in this issue, including an Intellogist recommendation, "Best Patent Search Gift for 2011." 2012 promises even more in the way of authoritative content, innovative tools, and professional services from Dialog. Watch for General Manager Tim Wahlberg's New Year's message to fill you in on what you can anticipate from Dialog in 2012.
With the addition of new scientific and technical authoritative content, including Inspec®, NTIS: National Technical Information Service, New England Journal of Medicine and Drug Information Fulltext®, the number of databases in ProQuest Dialog has reached 69. With the ProQuest Administrator Module (PAM), you can create content industry groups from among these databases for your users. 
Define preferences 
Ei Compendex®, containing more than 13 million records, is the Featured Database for January. The file is included in the following industry categories on ProQuest Dialog™ — Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Engineering & Technology, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical & Biomedical and Telecommunications & Computing. 
The Quantum2 Webinar: "Market yourself and your information center" on November 17 was received enthusiastically by more than 100 participants. The session discussed key business competencies and foundational skills necessary to develop their own marketing program. 
MEDLINE® is reloaded every year because the National Library of Medicine (NLM) re-indexes relevant documents from the whole database with changed medical terms. The MEDLINE database on ProQuest Dialog and legacy Dialog (
Patent searchers can celebrate the new year with the addition of Japanese legal status to INPADOC (
Enhancements to the new ProQuest platform aid greater research performance 
Learn more about ProQuest Dialog when you take advantage of live 
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