Latest CSA Files Provide Focused Materials/
High Tech Coverage

Eight additional CSA files, covering materials and high technology, are now available with all of the value-added services provided through Dialog. The new files are available on a transactional or subscription basis. (See www.dialog.com/csaenews for file descriptions.)

Each database has deep coverage of the subject and is focused from the point of view of professional societies (e.g., American Ceramics Society or British Ceramics Society) who are important to the literature of the subject area. Moreover, each record is reviewed and indexed by an editor knowledgeable in the field.

In addition to content, Dialog also provides tools that save you time and allow you to maximize your search results. Dialog eLinks enables optional links to fulltext articles and research materials in all Web-based Dialog interfaces and DialogLink 5. Also with DialogLink 5, Custom CSA Report Templates can be used to quickly process your research into a desired format for distribution to customers, managers and others in your organization.

Review "Dialog Strengthens Sci-Tech Collection With Addition of CSA Databases" in the Chronolog (Issue 3, June 2005) for more details on other CSA materials files on Dialog.

Dialog Choice Price Plan – Academic Market

Dialog announces special pricing on more than 90 databases through the Dialog Choice program. Fixed-rate, annual subscription rates for unlimited usage, based on number of users, is now available for academic customers of either Dialog or DataStar. Contact your sales representative for more information.

Custom E-mail Alerts

The new Custom E-mail Alerts format provides more control over the appearance of HTML Alerts. Templates in the DialogLink 5 template library provide attractive formatting. You can also tailor your Alerts to include only the fields you are interested in, add graphic images to brand the Alerts results and provide a hyperlinked table of contents in the beginning for easy navigation to records of interest.

CSS Content Expanded With More Drug Pipeline Files

Dialog is the ideal starting point for your chemical structure searches. Using DialogLink 5, you can search for over 10 million structures in the chemical and drug pipeline files that matter most to your business. Make a note of two additional drug pipeline databases now available for chemical structure searching (CSS), bringing the total number of databases CSS-enabled to eight:

• IMS R&D Focus (Files 445, 955) – Provides the latest scientific and commercial developments in international pharmaceutical research and development. Images of chemical structures are available for nearly 6,000 Drug Profile records. See the Bluesheet for more information.

• Prous Science Drugs of the Future™ (File 453) – Contains comprehensive drug monographs providing product information on new compounds, including the synthesis and corresponding schemes, pharmacological action, pharmacokinetics and metabolism, toxicity, clinical studies, manufacturers and references. Information on compounds is continuously updated as advances in development status are disclosed worldwide. See the Bluesheet for more information.

Chemical structure and substructure searching on Dialog has several unique features, including substructure highlighting in retrieved records, as well as the ability to edit retrieved structures. Multiple databases may be searched simultaneously. For more on how the process works, see the story in Issue 3 of the Chronolog.

Additional Titles Now Available for Table of Contents Alerts

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 their 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.

Alerts Default Frequency for EMBASE® Changes to Daily

The Alerts default frequency for EMBASE (Files 72, 73) and EMBASE Alert (File 172) has changed from weekly to daily for all new Alerts created on and after July 1, 2005. The frequency for Alerts created prior to July 1 has not changed. Available frequencies are daily, weekly, biweekly and monthly.

Dialog NewsRoom Adds Major News Content

Dialog NewsRoom, a continually updated database, now contains more than 11,000 sources of news reporting aggregated from 130 countries around the world. Many of the sources are archived up to 30 years. For details on new publications added, click here.

New McGraw-Hill Titles Added to File 624

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. See the full article for a list of titles being added.

Descriptions of the newsletters can be found at www.mcgraw-hill-sales.com/indexenergy.htm. Several other Platts titles are available in fulltext in the Gale Group Trade & Industry database (File 148).

New Newsletter Added to PHIND

A new newsletter, The Healthcare Lobbyist, has been added to the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Industry News Database (PHIND) (129, 130). The Healthcare Lobbyist is the first publication to provide impartial coverage of the political activities of worldwide healthcare organizations. The PHIND database is updated daily and Healthcare Lobbyist stories are added as they are made available by the PJB editorial team.

Additional Madrid Protocol Records for TRADEMARKSCAN® – U.S. Federal

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is now supplying records for USPTO applications that were filed by U.S. trademark owners seeking trademark protection outside the United States under the Madrid Protocol. Approximately 2,500 new Madrid Protocol records from April 1, 2005, forward have been added to TRADEMARKSCAN – U.S. Federal (File 226). File 226 already includes those Madrid Protocol records, known as series 79, for applications filed outside the United States seeking protection in the United States.