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Welcome to the first issue of Dialog Energy/Environment News. We are very pleased to offer this new resource designed especially for information professionals and knowledge workers in the energy and environment industries. In addition to bringing you product and content news, search tips and other information specific to the Dialog and DataStar products, we will offer other items of interest from industry experts and colleagues.

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Vanessa Lamarche, Ph.D.
Science/IP Specialist

Dialog Takes the Lead with Expanded Environmental Sciences Collection

Seven environmental sciences databases from CSA have expanded the Dialog environmental sciences collection to provide in-depth coverage of all areas related to the environment. CSA Life Sciences Abstracts (File 24) provides recent worldwide research literature in major areas of biology, medicine, biochemistry, biotechnology, genetics, immunology, ecology, and microbiology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Informative abstracts are included for about 90% of the records.

In addition to Life Sciences Abstracts, an environmental sciences cluster of boutique files includes:

• Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) (File 44), the premier reference in its coverage of the marine environment and biological material, is provided by an international network of information centers monitoring more than 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature.
• Pollution Abstracts (File 41) combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. In addition, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field.
• Environmental Sciences (File 76) research areas range from agricultural biotechnology and air quality to waste management and water resource issues.
• Aqualine (File 78) (Available by subscription only) covers all resources related to water including water legislation, water quality, potable water distribution, wastewater collection, water treatment technologies, wastewater and sewage treatment, and ecological and environmental effects of water pollution.
• Oceanic Abstracts (File 28) coverage is comprehensive on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
• Water Resources Abstracts (File 117) concentrates on water supply and water treatment in the life and physical sciences, as well as the engineering and legal aspects of the conservation, control, use and management of water.

The files contain scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, translations and government publications. For more information on each file, check the Bluesheets at library.dialog.com/bluesheets.

Titles for Pertroleum and Energy Industry Available for Table of Contents Alerts

Have you tried Dialog’s Table of Contents (TOC) Alerts? Dialog Table of Contents Alerts deliver the table of contents from popular journals in your industry straight to your e-mail inbox. New titles with a focus on the petroleum and energy industries are now available for Table of Contents Alerts through DialogWeb.

The new titles include Platts Coal Outlook, International Coal, Platts International Petrochemicals and Platts Oilgram News. These titles are leading publications in the industry and annual subscriptions for them are typically very expensive. By providing these titles via Table of Contents Alerts, Dialog makes it more affordable to review article titles and order just the articles of interest. Click here for a Quick Reference Card showing how TOC Alerts work.

Expanded Access to Energy Science & Technology
(File 103)

The Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, which is the information provider for Energy Science & Technology (File 103), is now allowing additional countries to access the file. The countries include Burkino Faso, Colombia, Egypt, Macedonia, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Tunisia and Ukraine. Some governments are only signed up for specific periods or are granted temporary access to help their research programs. This file is a valuable source of international information on all aspects of energy science, and is very strong on alternative fuels and the whole question of global warning.

New Energy Titles Added to The McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Online

Several new titles have been added to The McGraw-Hill Companies Publications Online (File 624). The primary area of concentration for these titles is energy and manufacturing. Please note that all titles are on a 14-day embargo. Titles being added include:

• Electric Power Daily – updates daily
• Energy Trader – updates daily
• Mid Atlantic Construction – updates monthly
• Neft Trader – updates weekly
• Platts Coal Trader – updates daily
• Platts Coal Trader International – updates daily
• South Central Construction – updates monthly

Visit the McGraw-Hill Website to view descriptions of the newsletters. Several other Platts titles are available in fulltext in the Gale Group Trade & Industry Database (File 148).

Patent Trends in the Fuel Cell Industry

With the already high oil prices for home, travel and business and increasing awareness of environmental concerns, companies have been forced to think about alternatives to reliance on fossil fuel energy sources.

The report “Patent Trends in the Fuel Cell Industry,” written by Ed White of Thomson Scientific in November 2004, focuses on the rise in fuel cell patenting over a five-year period from 1999 to 2003 when the number of patented inventions in this area more than quadrupled. He notes that companies have been fiercely competing to stake ownership on intellectual property that could one day become multi-billion dollar products. The report provides background and global patent trends for this technology, including tables and statistics on patent assignees and industry sectors.

Read the entire white paper.

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