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EMBASE, EMBAL, AND LEMBASE reloaded with enhancements
Excerpta Medica (EMBASE), EMBASE Alert (EMBAL), and the EMBASE learning database (LEMBASE) have been reloaded with a number of enhancements:
- Records now include 10- and 13-digit ISBNs when available
- Accession Numbers (AN) now include the 4-digit year
The following fields have been removed:
- Document Number (DN)
- Meeting Date (MD)
- Meeting Year (MY)
EMBAL also includes the following enhancements:
- Simultaneous left and right truncation (SLART) in the Abstract (AB), Title (TI), and Basic Index (BI) fields
- Separately searchable AB field
For additional information on the reloads, enter HELP RLOAD at an arrow prompt (=>) in EMBASE, EMBAL, and LEMBASE.
Additional information on EMBASE, EMBAL, and LEMBASE is available in the STN Database Summary Sheets.
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FORIS renamed SOFIS on STN
Forschung Informationssystem Sozialwissenschaften (FORIS) has been renamed Sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsinformationssystem (SOFIS). On STN, FORIS can be used as an alias of SOFIS.
SOFIS (Social Science Information System) includes information on more than 45,000 theoretical and empirical research projects in the social sciences from German-speaking countries during the last 10 years. The database offers detailed descriptions of the contents (abstracts), research methods, and data collection procedures, as well as bibliographic information on research reports and publications.
For additional information on SOFIS, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.
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INPADOCDB enhanced with monthly SDI frequency
Current-awareness alert (SDI) frequency in the International Patent Documentation Database (INPADOCDB) may now be set to weekly (default) or monthly.
Family SDI display formats are valid for the current update only and should not be used for monthly SDIs.
For details on pricing, enter HELP COST at an arrow prompt (=>). Additional information on INPADOCDB is available in the STN Database Summary Sheet.
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REGISTRY enhanced with additional experimental spectral property data
More than 85,000 proton NMR spectra for nearly 84,000 substances have been added to REGISTRY.
The Field Availability (FA) search field has been updated with:
- Hydrogen-1 NMR Spectra
- Proton NMR Spectra
Substances with proton NMR spectra are also retrieved with the existing FA terms:
In addition, two new display formats have been added to display spectral images:
- SPEC.H1NMR
- SPEC.PROTONNMR
The new formats are aliases of each other. Proton NMR spectra are also displayed in the spectra (SPEC) display format.
For additional information on REGISTRY, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet.
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Updated 7/28/2008 11:14:42 AM
