EnCompassPat
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Introduction
EnCompassPat is a patent database of almost 560,000 patent records from over 40 patenting authorities, started by the American Petroleum Institute in 1964 with non-patent literature database EnCompassLIT and updated weekly.[1] The patent records consist of bibliographic data and Derwent abstracts for many records.[2] The patent documents in the database are related to the following subjects:[2]
- Air, land, and water pollution control
- Catalysts
- Corrosion control
- Energy conservation and alternate energy sources
- Fuels, lubricants, and other petroleum products
- Hydrocarbon preparation and conversion
- Oilfield chemicals
- Petroleum refinery processes and engineering
- Pipelines, tankers, and storage
- Process control
- Synthetic fuels
EnCompassPat is available on Engineering Village and Dialog. In Dialog, EnCompassPat is File 353 (public access) and File 953 (subscribers).[2] EnCompassPat utilizes the EnCompass Thesaurus, which contains over 7,000 technical terms.[1] Users can receive weekly or monthly bulletins about specific subject areas.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "EncompassLIT & EnCompassPAT." Engineering Information website, http://www.ei.org/encompasslit_pat. Accessed September 15, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ei EnCompassPAT™." Dialog Bluesheets, http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0353.html. Accessed September 15, 2011.
