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From the Editor

In his latest communication to customers, Dialog General Manager Tim Wahlberg highlighted product development plans and the timeline for Dialog customer migration to ProQuest Dialog™. As Tim outlined in his message, the Dialog service will continue to be available in 2013, and customer migration will begin in Q3 2013. This plan ensures the time needed to fully develop the new ProQuest Dialog service and to work closely with customers on their migration. For details on the content and product roadmap, technology focus and migration planning for ProQuest Dialog, read Tim's complete message.

In this issue...
Among the many informative articles about Dialog and ProQuest Dialog in this issue, are announcements of new content and reloads, as well as details about enhancements available in the July ProQuest Dialog release. Check out Smart Searching tips for the Dialog system, and try out some of the latest online Webinars for searching on both services. It’s all here!

New Chronolog format in the works
We’re pleased to announce we are revamping the Chronolog format to make it easier for you to read and to find the information most important to you! Some of the changes you’ll notice are a two-column layout with a featured focus on content right up front. Regular features will include What’s New, ProQuest Dialog and Dialog updates. You’ll also notice shorter articles with links to additional content on our website. So keep an eye out for the new look, and let us know what you think!

 

ProQuest Dialog Updates

Did you know that...

In the latest ProQuest Dialog release on July 1, a number of enhancements addressed your suggestions.

• Truncation limits for word variations were removed. Previously, truncation had a word variant limit of 500, which impacted broadly truncated searches like nano*.
• A better display of disease and drug qualifiers in the Emtree thesaurus ensures more convenient access to drug administration terms and improved visibility to scope notes and other qualifiers. (See It’s easy on ProQuest Dialog below for a detailed example.)
• When choosing to include the search strategy in Download All, the refined search now retains the limits used in the search.
• Download All enhancements increased the maximum number of documents for download from 2,000 to 4,000, and format options — Excel, RIS, XML and RefWorks — were added.
• When present in documents, DOIs are presented as links and not just text to allow for linking to full text materials.
• Adaptations enable using ProQuest Dialog features with Internet Explorer 9.
• Reload processing for Alerts was improved to reduce the likelihood of delivering unwanted documents associated with a reload.

 

It’s easy on ProQuest Dialog

Locate specific drug routes of administration

Researchers in the biomedical field often receive questions about drug administration and dosage. These questions are generally regarding two areas of inquiry:

• How can I find citations about the route of administration and/or drug dosage, including the relationship between dosage and its effects over time?
• How can I find articles about a specific route of administration of a specific drug?

ProQuest Dialog makes it easy to get great answers. Use the Embase^® thesaurus (Emtree) to find and link qualifiers targeting specific routes of administration. Here’s how it works:

Log onto ProQuest Dialog and go to Embase. Link to the Advanced Search page and click Thesaurus on the right above the field code drop list.

In the Embase thesaurus, enter a drug name, for example, Gilenya, a drug to treat multiple sclerosis. The Emtree thesaurus points to the preferred term, fingolimod. Click the filter icon to see subheadings and choose the tab for Drug.

You’ll want to find articles that have the drug as a major topic. Check the box for Major. One of the drug subheadings is drug dose (DO). Click the accordion arrow to the right of the qualifier term to see a definition, and, if appropriate, check its box.

Embase provides special indexing features designed for the pharmaceutical researcher. These are qualifier links to specific routes of administration. To find specific routes of administration, click Show drug administration terms.

The routes of administration qualifiers appear, including drug administration (AD). Scroll down to find what you want, for example, oral drug administration (PO).

Click Add to search. ProQuest Dialog sets up the search statement in the Advanced Search page where you can add limiters, such as Humans, and a date range, such as last 12 months.

 

August Highlights

Everyone’s a winner at SLA

Even if you were not the winner of a specific award like the Roger K. Summit scholarship, the drawing of the social media sweepstakes or the SLA member achievement award, if you attended SLA this year you got your money’s worth! Exchanging ideas with friends and colleagues, attending sessions and listening to experts in their fields, joining social functions and visiting demonstrations of new products in the Exhibit Hall, made everyone a winner — and you certainly had plenty to keep you busy.

The views from the convention center at the edge of Lake Michigan were a cool contrast to hot weather in Chicago during this year’s SLA conference. The ProQuest-sponsored social media lounge, located outside the exhibit entrance, was heavily used during the conference for in-person and virtual socializing, and for powering up devices. A video discussion with Roger Summit and this year’s Summit scholarship winner, Elliott Hauser, was among those displayed in the lounge. Visitors to the ProQuest booth were keenly interested in demos of ProQuest Dialog and the ProQuest platform, and enthusiasm was high for recent ebrary announcements for corporate and government users.

More than 150 attendees crowded the room to hear Roger Summit, Mary Ellen Bates, Betty Edwards and Blanco Chou discuss challenges and opportunities for delivering information services to empowered end users.

In addition, several corporate focus groups provided valuable feedback to further enhance future ProQuest Dialog releases.

 

Attendees receive awards

ProQuest awarded the 2012 Roger K. Summit Scholarship to Elliott Hauser, a Ph.D. student studying information science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The Scholarship is awarded annually to a graduate student enrolled in an accredited library or information sciences program. Scholarship winners must demonstrate understanding of digital information services, academic achievement, and interest in the field of electronic information services. Read more about Elliott and the scholarship.

At the Opening General Session, Dialog General Manager Tim Wahlberg presented the SLA Member Achievement Award to Daniel Lee, Knowledge Manager in the Global Healthcare Division of KPMG International.

ProQuest announced Bobbi Weaver as the winner of the Social Media Sweepstakes. Weaver was chosen from participants in a poll, for her answer to a question asking for the top challenges encountered by librarians and information professionals in the face of technological changes that have transformed information accessibility. In her response, Weaver indicated her biggest frustration as being widespread lack of user awareness that search results from the open Web can be biased or incomplete. She also finds database search techniques change often as do instructional materials, making it difficult to prepare students for searching they will encounter in their careers. On Weaver’s wish list — improved archival files for online resources.

 

Discover: Scitech Content Updates

It’s all about content

New content, as well as reloaded content in several databases on ProQuest Dialog and Dialog, have made for a busy month.

New Ei Compendex Back-file on ProQuest Dialog
Ei Compendex^® Pre-1969 Backfile data with coverage from 1884-1968 is now available on ProQuest Dialog. This backfile includes 1.7 million records, some as early as the 1800s, and equates to File 988 on Dialog. The database structure is the same as the current Compendex file; however, the back-file has fewer controlled indexing terms per record and does not contain classification codes, ISSNs/ISBNs or identifiers. Back-file records are excluded from Alerts.

Use the publication date limiter pre-1969 or search YR(<1969) in Command Line search.

New Articles in Press now in Embase Alert on ProQuest Dialog
Going forward, Articles in Press (AIPs) have been added to Embase Alert^® on ProQuest Dialog. These records are similar to ‘Publisher’ records in MEDLINE^® in that they represent the earliest version of a record as it goes through the Elsevier editorial process. In most cases an AIP does not have volume, issue, or pagination information and may also be missing a publication date. However, AIPs do have a Title, Authors and an Abstract. This literature makes articles available earlier than previously.

As the AIPs move through the editorial process, they are replaced by a standard Embase Alert record when the full bibliographic citation information is known. The transition time to a standard Embase Alert record may be a couple of days or it may be several weeks. The record becomes a full Embase record when complete Emtree indexing is added.

AIPs are easily identifiable by a check box in the Document type complex limiter on the Advanced Search page, or you can search as DTYPE(ARTICLE IN PRESS) in Command Line search.

Accession numbers for all records are changing from 10 digits to eight digits to accommodate AIPs. During the eight-week change period, there will be a mixture of 10- and eight-digit accession numbers; after eight weeks, all accession numbers will be eight digits in length. Check the ProSheet for details.

ProQuest Dialog database reloads complete

• Adis Reactions Database was reloaded in mid-June with several enhancements. See the ProSheet for more details.
  • Ephmra and WHO ATC classification codes and descriptions have been added. Search using field code TC.
  • Some records now contain an abstract as well as full text.
  • Use the LNK connector to search Subject terms followed by qualifiers, e.g. SU(“MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION” LNK “DRUG INDUCED”).
  • Use .exact for the terms Adverse Event and Serious Adverse Event, e.g. su.exact(“adverse event”) and su.exact(“serious adverse event”).
• Inspec^® has been reloaded with the latest Inspec thesaurus. For details, review the ProSheet.

New Conference records added to Dialog Embase databases
In the May Chronolog, conference abstract records were made available in Embase^® on ProQuest Dialog. Now these same records are available in Embase on Dialog (Files 72, 73, 972). More than 2,000 different conferences are covered from 2009 forward, and the archive currently contains over 650,000 such abstracts of papers presented. Approximately 200,000 abstracts are expected to be added to Embase annually.

The records can be identified by the new document type field, Conference Abstract (DT=). The Conference Abstract records may contain one or more of the following search and display fields new to Embase: Conference Title (CT), Conference Location (CL), Conference start and end date (DA) and Conference Sponsor (SP).

Reload complete on Dialog Index Chemicus database

• Index Chemicus (File 302) no longer provides "structure images" and "reaction sequence diagram images" for new documents. The availability of other chemical compound images in the documents is unchanged. The Bluesheet reflects this change.

 

Innovate: Intellectual Property Content Updates

Five steps to simpler chemical searching

Chemical searching is a detailed and sometimes complex activity, often requiring knowledge of chemical structure searching. However, there are ways of retrieving chemical-related patent information in Derwent World Patents Index^® (DWPI^SM) (File 351) on Dialog without specialist expertise or subscriber coding access.

Non-chemical searchers can use data from DWPI records to access detailed information in the companion Derwent Chemistry Resource file (File 355).

Derwent Chemistry Resource
Derwent Chemistry Resource is a unique database, containing valuable substance-based information, as well as searchable chemical structures. It can be used to search for specific compounds that are indexed in Derwent World Patents Index records — like a searchable, central indexing system for chemical information in DWPI.

Derwent Chemistry Resource numbers, which are unique identifiers for specific chemical compounds, form the link between the DCR database and corresponding bibliographic indexing in DWPI.

Click the "View Search" icon on the right to see a step-by-step example* of how this powerful search technique can work for non-chemical searchers who need to identify chemical patent information.

* Some search and display sequences have been shortened.

 

Classification and indexing search advantages

The May/June 2012 issue of World IP Review features an article by training and information consultant Ian Pearce. Read Hunting the Literature: Effective Use of Classification and Indexing to learn how to achieve high quality patent search results, quickly and efficiently.

 

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