Dialog Training Updates - July/August 2006

Multilingual Descriptors in Pascal (File 144)

Records in the PASCAL database (File 144/PASC) contain descriptors in English, French, Spanish and German. Most records contain multiple descriptors in both English and French. Additional descriptors in Spanish may be present in some records in the area of biology since 1985 and all areas since 1987, and in German for the area of metallurgy since 1980. There is an average of 10 or more descriptors (in each available language) per record.

On Dialog searching with the /DE suffix retrieves descriptors in English, French, Spanish, or any language in which descriptors have been assigned in a particular record:
?s robot arm/de (Dialog)
robot arm.de. (DataStar)

You can also limit to a specific language on Dialog:
?s robot arm/ed (English)
?s robot arm/sd (Spanish)
?s robot arm/fd (French)
?s robot arm/od (Other language – German)

Note: On DataStar all languages are in the descriptor field (.de.).

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Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI^SM) Training

There’s still time to learn about the major changes in the expanded and enhanced Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) database on Dialog so you are ready for its launch. Sign up for online classes on July 11 or July 21 in the U.S. (see below)

Use the ONTAP® DWPI practice file (File 280), recently reloaded with enhanced data, to try some searches, view the new country information and review additions like the new inventor field and patent family table.

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Session Name	Date	Time
*Derwent World Patents Index*	July 11	2:00pm ET
*Derwent World Patents Index*	July 21	2:00pm ET
Introduction to DialogLink 5	July 17	2:00pm ET
Introduction to Dialog: Featuring DialogClassic	July 18	2:00pm ET
Patent Research Basics; Featuring DialogWeb	July 25	2:00pm ET
Introduction to DatastarWeb	July 27	2:00pm ET

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