Report:STN/Major Recent Updates

Major Recent Updates

See the Intellogist update policies for more information.

January 2013

A press release on the STN International website states that "the MEDLINE reload on STN (effective January 26, 2013) includes enhancements such as records with updated 2013 MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) indexing, the 2013 MeSH Thesaurus and four new fields":^[1]

• Revised 2013 MeSH - STN loaded the revised 2013 MeSH vocabulary on December 8, 2012.
• New Field - UNII - The new UNII search and display field provides UNique Ingredient Identifier information.
• New Field AUID - The Author Identifier field is expected to include author identifier information from the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) registry.
• New Fields for Electronic Publications EPD and EPY - Search and custom display electronic publication date information for documents indexed in MEDLINE using the new /EPD (Electronic Publication Date) and /EPY (Electronic Publication Year) fields.
• Ahead of Print Electronic Publications - Changes for 2013 to STN record processing for EPUB AHEAD OF PRINT records include:
  • EPUB AHEAD OF PRINT records will now be updated as new or additional information becomes available
  • EPUB AHEAD OF PRINT records removed from PubMed will be retained on STN to benefit prior art searches
  • Records are easily identified by the EPUB PMID WITHDRAWN tag in the /AN and /FS fields
  • Records with the EPUB PMID WITHDRAWN tag will be updated at the annual reload

See the full press release here.

According to STN International:^[2]

To ensure an improved, more consistent user experience with newer features and maximized security for all STN sessions, we plan to discontinue support and access to older versions of STN Express below v8.4 during 2013. Support and software are now discontinued for all versions below 8.0. Please note that you can upgrade for free at any time to the current version of STN Express, Version 8.5, from the STN Software License and Download website.

Software and support for versions of STN Express will be discontinued according to the following schedule:

Version	Support	Software
Versions below 8.3	August 31, 2012	February 9, 2013
Versions below 8.4	February 9, 2013	June 8, 2013

See the full press release here.

According to STN International:^[3]

On January 12, 2013, STN added CPC search and display capabilities and a CPC thesaurus to the CA/CAplus family of databases and the USPATFULL/USPAT2 databases. CPC capabilities are already available in the INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB databases on STN.

Plans for additional CPC implementation include the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI), a number of full text patent databases and USPATOLD.

ECLA, ICO and USPC searching capabilities remain available in relevant STN databases.

See the full press release here.

According to STN International:^[4]

The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) is now available for the complete INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB databases, comprising CPC data for 36 million applications and 16 million inventions (Inpadoc families), respectively. As the CPC is a replacement for the European Patent Classifications ECLA and ICO and the US national patent classification USPC, users no longer need to include the historical ECLA and ICO classifications in their search strategies.

Please note that a comprehensive search for US patent documents requires CPC and US patent classification codes, because the USPTO will have a transition period of two years during which CPC and USPC codes are assigned.

For the time being ECLA and ICO codes will be kept as historical classification data for all patent documents not being updated. For all updated INPADOC records only CPC codes will be available.

See the full press release here.

December 2012

According to STN International:^[5]

The first update in of 2013 to Emtree, the Embase thesaurus, was completed on December 16, 2012.

This latest thesaurus version features:

• 161 new drug terms
• 896 non-drug terms

There were 513 new preferred terms and synonyms added to Emtree's devices branch.

Customers running SDIs in Embase may wish to consult the new thesaurus to determine if the search terms in their strategies need to be updated.

According to CAS:^[6]

Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI) Country Coverage Update - Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia - The following enhancements were announced on December 14, 2012:

• Additional Malaysia Backfile content back to the beginning of 2005
• Enhanced coverage of Thailand to include registration numbers and changes to the publication date
• New coverage of Indonesia - the 50th data source in DWPI

According to a CAS press release:^[7]

The STN partners, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and FIZ Karlsruhe, are pleased to announce that Version One of the new STN platform is now available in beta for fixed fee customers. This is the first major milestone in a multi-year initiative to create the next generation of STN, the choice of patent experts.

The focus of this first version has been on developing the core search and retrieval system for new STN. This release combines the complete CAS REGISTRY and Chemical Abstracts content along with Thomson Reuters’ Derwent World Patents Index®.[...]

A new approach for STN is to allow organization of work in projects for easy management of search queries and results. New technologies are designed to process broad and complex searches with industry-leading performance. This is vital for patent searchers to keep pace with the continued increase of disclosed research and patent information from around the world.

The new workflow integrates the power of command line with an intuitive user interaction that enables professionals to leverage their expertise and realize instantaneous results. For the first time, text and structures can be combined in a single query to simplify searching for chemical information.

The STN Partners will incorporate additional content and functionality in the new architecture with ongoing versions. Full text patent content will be added throughout 2013. [...] The current STN system, including STN Express® and the other STN products will continue to be available and fully supported throughout the development of the new platform.

The following updates were listed in the December 2012 Issue of STNewsline:^[8]

• Latest Manual Code Revision goes live on Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) - The DWPI manual coding system annual revision has now been completed and is being used by the editorial teams to code records appearing in the database from DWPI Update 201301 onward. The editorial team consistently applies DWPI manual codes to new inventions across all 47 authorities (soon to be increasing) covered in the database. Since the coding highlights the novel technical aspects of the invention as well as the application(s), it is extremely useful to improve the precision and recall of searches and the subsequent analysis of result sets. [...] In total, 235 changes have been made to the manual coding system and scope notes. Among them are 101 new codes.
• DWPI Country Coverage Update - Changes to Gulf Co-operation (GC) Kind Codes - As a result of customer feedback, the kind code for Gulf Cooperation Council patents in DWPI has been changed from B to A to reflect that this is the first stage of publication for records filed through this patent office. From update 201260 onwards, all new GC patents have the kind code A, with backfile corrections subsequently appearing to change the kind code of records already in DWPI.
• CAS Registers 70 Millionth Substance Just 18 Months after Reaching 60 Millionth Milestone - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's authority for chemical information, announced a major milestone for the CAS REGISTRY, the largest collection of publicly disclosed chemical substance information. CAS scientists registered the 70 millionth substance from a patent application submitted to the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO).
• New SDI STANDARD Command Streamlines SDI Set-ups - Streamline SDI set up with the new STN command, SDI STANDARD, effective December 9, 2012. The SDI STANDARD command:

  -Increases efficiency by reducing the number of questions to set up an SDI

  -Works with single file and multifile SDIs, including SDI packages

  -Accounts for SDI set-up best practices

  -Maintains flexibility with ability to customize settings using SDI EDIT

  -Reduces STN MAIL charges by changing the default Notifications setting to NO (do not send notifications) from YES

  Other recent SDI improvements on STN include:

  -Weekly delivery of SDI packages RSS delivery of SDI alerts

  -Hit Term highlighting in RSS-delivered SDI results

• STN Viewer Now Supports Japanese Full-text Patents from JPFULL - Effective November 18, 2012, you can import records from JPFULL, the new Japanese full-text patent database on STN, into STN Viewer. STN Viewer enables customers to manage and evaluate full-text patent documents from STN answer sets. In addition to JPFULL, you can also import records into STN Viewer from the following full-text patent databases on STN:

  -AUPATFULL

  -CANPATFULL

  -CNFULL

  -EPFULL

  -FRFULL

  -JPFULL

  -PATDPAFULL

  -PCTFULL

  -RDISCLOSURE

  -USPAT2

  -USPATFULL

  -USPATOLD

• New document supplier for FIZ AutoDoc - Informa Healthcare (London, UK), a trading division of Informa UK Limited, will be available as a new FIZ AutoDoc document supplier for the pay-per-view option. Thus, articles from more than 160 Informa Healthcare e-journals, including ahead-of-print versions, can be ordered and downloaded via FIZ AutoDoc immediately.
• Training & Event Calendar on the CAS Website - You can now find upcoming training on the new Training & Events Calendar. The event titles provide a full description of the event and registration links. For simplified use, view the calendar by month or filter by event type.

According to the CAS website:^[9]

In December, CAS began enhancing its reaction coverage in SciFinder and on STN’s CASREACT® database with the addition of reactions from nearly 900 dissertations published in the Selected Organic Reaction Database (SORD) between 1961-2009.

November 2012

According to STN International:^[10]

The CPC is an IPC-based classification system with about 250.000 subdivisions comprising the former ECLA- and ICO-codes plus an expanded scheme for business methods (G06Q) and special collections from the US patent classification.

From week 47/2012 onwards, CPC data are available for new and updated records of the INPADOC databases. Users have full access to all details of the CPC data including CPC codes and attributes. A CPC thesaurus feature supports classification searching, helping users to identify relevant codes and searching the hierarchy of the codes.

For details and search examples see the INPADOC News 2012/11.

According to STN International:^[11]

IMSPATENTS was reloaded with enhancements on November 18, 2012. The reloaded IMSPATENTS has many enhancements, including the comprehensive standardization of patent numbers. Rarely used display formats were removed.

According to Information Today:^[12]

FIZ Karlsruhe announced that the complete ReaxysFile is now available on STN. ReaxysFile now contains the full content from Reaxys, a leading source for chemical substance and reaction data produced by Elsevier. [...] Information on several million substances has been added, including inorganic substances and substances derived from patents, bringing the database to the same content level as in Reaxys.

According to a recent email from a FIZ Karlsruhe representative, "bibliographic and sequence specific data have now been added to the USPTO Genetic Sequence Database (USGENE) back to publication date 4th January 2005":^[13]

• A concise one-line sequence description (DESC)
• Patent sequence location information (PSL)
• Priority application information (PRN, PRD, PRAI)
• U.S. related application information (RLN, RLD, RLI)
• Calculated patent expiration date (XPD) and patent term adjustment information (NTE, PTA) for issued patents

All USGENE records, including issued patents and published applications (except mega published applications with >49998 sequences per document), now contain this additional data from 4th January 2005 to date.

According to the STN International website:^[14]

AGRICOLA will be reloaded with enhancements on November 18, 2012. Key customer impacts are as follows:

• The monthly SDI for November will use the reloaded version of the database.
• Historical entry dates will only be available for 2012. If required, manual profiles should run on or before November 17, 2012 if not already done so after the last update in October.
• SDIs and saved queries will remain available after the reload.

Because the accession number format will change with the reload:

• Duplicate history for AGRICOLA SDIs will be deleted
• Previously saved single file answer sets in the AGRICOLA file are no longer valid and should be deleted by the user
• Previously saved multi-file answer sets with AGRICOLA answers are still valid for the other files but displays of the AGRICOLA portion should not be done

The reloaded AGRICOLA database will have many enhancements, including the simultaneous left and right truncation (SLART) and the Numeric Property search feature (see HELP NPS).

The following updates were listed in the November Issue of STNews:^[15]

• New Japanese Full-Text Patent Database Now Available on STN - STN now includes JPFULL, the full-text Japanese database of patent applications and patent specifications. Currently JPFULL covers application years 2006 onwards. Historical data will continue to load (one year per week in reverse chronological order) until all records back to 1964 have been incorporated. Once completed, the database will contain approximately 16 million records.
• Emtree Thesaurus Update in Embase - The third update in 2012 to Emtree, the Embase thesaurus, was completed on October 8, 2012. This latest thesaurus version features: 220 new drug terms, 1085 non-drug terms. Many new terms and synonyms were added to Emtree’s devices branch. Customers running SDIs in Embase may wish to consult the new thesaurus to determine if the search terms in their strategies need to be updated.
• MARPAT® Backfile Expansion Update - In March 2012, CAS announced that the MARPAT database would be enhanced with English-, German- and Japanese-language patents from 1987. The addition of English- and German-language patents for 1987 is now complete. Processing of English- and German-language patents from 1985 and 1986 and Japanese-language patents from 1987 is continuing. We are pleased to report that Markush information from over 2,600 patent publications has been added to date.
• INSPEC Reaches 13 Million Records - INSPEC, the leading database for science, engineering and technology research, has reached 13 million records. The 13M milestone has been hit with an important piece of medical technology research. INSPEC is produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and provides access to intelligence from across the world with over 700,000 new records added each year and fully searchable archive spanning over 100 years.

September 2012

According to the CAS website:^[16]

On September 22, 2012, STN enhanced Embase coverage to include Conference Abstracts and Conference Reviews, including a backfile of more than 800,000 records. Conference Abstract records include abstracts, full indexing and controlled terminology from the Emtree thesaurus. Conference Review records include abstracts, key topics and the number of papers presented at the conference.

According to the STN International website:^[17]

STN’s unique numeric property search feature (NPS) that allows for searching the numeric values of >30 physical and chemical properties is now available for 11 databases on STN, including Derwent WPI, and many patent full-text files. Searchable properties and their respective base units comprise data like surface area (m²), molarity, molar concentration (mol/L), density, mass concentration (kg/m³), molar mass, molecular weight (g/mol), volume (m³) and many more. The system will recognize 90 base units with 1,800 spelling variants.

Currently, databases on STN that include NPS are:^[18]

• 1MOBILITY - Global Mobility Bibliographic database
• 2MOBILITY - Global Mobility Standards database
• AEROSPACE - The Aerospace and High Technology database
• AUPATFULL - Australian patent applications and specifications
• CANPATFULL - Canadian patent applications and specifications
• CNFULL - China (CN) Patents Full Text
• ENCOMPPAT / ENCOMPPAT2 - API EnCompass Patent Database
• FSTA - Food Science Technology Abstracts
• METADEX - Metals Abstracts/Alloy Index
• PCTFULL - Patent Cooperation Treaty database
• PQSCITECH - ProQuest Science and Technology
• WPIDS - Derwent World Patents Index Subscriber File
• WPINDEX - Derwent World Patents Index (Non-subscribers)
• WPIX - Derwent World Patents Index Subscriber File w. Ext. Abstr.

According to the STN International website:^[19]

METADEX will be reloaded on September 22, 2012. The reloaded METADEX will have many enhancements, including coverage of patent documents, the numeric property search feature and simultaneous left- and right truncation in title (/TI) and abstract (/AB) fields. The reload will have some impacts on SDI and saved answer sets:

• The monthly SDI for August will run after the reload. The last update and SDI run was end of July.
• The monthly SDI for September is expected to run beginning of October.
• SDIs and saved queries will remain available after the reload.
• Because the accession number format will change with the reload, SDI history and saved answer sets (except for the query itself) will be lost after the reload.
• Entry dates of 2012 will be kept, but other backfile records will have new entry dates. If you run a manual profile, please check if this could affect you.

According to the STN International website, "by the end of 2012, CAS expects to register the 70 millionth organic or inorganic substance."^[20]

According to the September 2012 issue of STNewsline:^[21]

• USAN 2012 Reload Now Available on STN - The 2012 version of USAN is now available on STN and includes more than 200 new drug names. USAN, the USP Dictionary of U.S. Adopted Names and International Drug Names, is recognized throughout the health care industry as the authoritative drug dictionary.
• Get More Current Reaction Information with Daily Updates to CASREACT® on STN - Improve your search experience and receive more timely information for single- and multi-step reactions and synthetic preparations with daily updates to CASREACT.

August 2012

ReaxysFile on STN has been reloaded and information on more than 8 million substances has been added including inorganic substances and substances deriving from patents.^[22]

The following updates were described in the August 2012 issue of STNews:^[23]

• Redesigned CAS Website Launched on August 5, 2012 - CAS is pleased to announce that a newly redesigned CAS website was launched on Sunday, August 5. Combining a modern design with streamlined navigation and searching, the refreshed site will provide easier access to products, news, videos, social media and other valuable STN content.Links to many pages on the current site will automatically redirect you to corresponding information on the refreshed site. If a page is not automatically redirected a custom error message will suggest options such as using the site search or site map.
• Access to STN from Versions of STN Express® Below 8.0 Will Be Discontinued on August 31, 2012.
• Reload of ENCOMPPAT/2 Database - ENCOMPPAT/2 databases were reloaded on July 28, 2012. More details on the enhancements and changes are available in the databases in HELP RLOAD.
• INPADOCDB: Enhanced Display Options - INPADOCDB has been enhanced with new display options, including the new predefined formats PI.PDF and BRIEF. The format PI.PDF provides hyperlinks to the original documents (PDF) in ESPACENET for all members of the national family. This format easily combines with the new BRIEF format, which includes important bibliographic information (TI, AB, PAS, INS, PI, AI, PRAI, patent classifications), and is being deduplicated for all members of the application. The new BRIEF format is ideal for technology-based searches and alerts. It is recommended to use 'SET LINELENGTH 100' with the PI.PDF display format.

According to STN International:^[24]

The European Patent Office provided the missing bibliographic data from Germany, which were loaded into INPADOC. Today the latest publication date for DE-publications in INPADOC is 20120802.

July 2012

According to an email from an STN representative:^[25]

NCBI and EMBL external links provided in USGENE feature tables have recently been added to the database back to January 2005 for all relevant records captured by these two sources. In addition, the database producer SequenceBase Corporation, has added an anonymous viewer application so you can now follow these external links confidentially.

The following updates were described in the July 2012 issue of STNews:^[26]

• RSS Delivery of Alerts (SDIs) Enhanced with Hit Term Highlighting - Hit term highlighting is now available for all new and existing RSS alerts. When creating a new SDI, add this option by typing Y (for Yes) when prompted for highlighting. To remove or add highlighting to an existing SDI, use SDI EDIT followed by the name of the SDI. Select the number for the highlighting parameter and type N (for NO) or Y when prompted for highlighting.
• More Frequent Updates to the Emtree Thesaurus in Embase on STN Provide Earlier Access to the Latest Drug and Medical Terminology - The Emtree thesaurus in Embase on STN will now be updated three times a year. More frequent updates will provide you with access to current drug and medical terminology for your searching. Additionally, the thesaurus is now current with updates from 2012.

According to STN International:^[27]

AEROSPACE will be reloaded with enhancements on July 28, 2012. Key customer impacts are as follows:

• The monthly SDI for July will use the reloaded version of the database.
• Manual profiles should run on or before July 27, 2012 if not already done so after the last update end of June, as historical entry dates will not be available in the reloaded AEROSPACE database.
  • SDIs and saved queries will remain available after the reload.
  • Because the accession number format will change with the reload, SDI history and saved answer sets will be lost after the reload.

The reloaded AEROSPACE will have many enhancements, including the numeric property search feature and Digital Object Identifiers.

The CAS REGISTRY now contains more experimental property data with the addition of more than 120,000 Wiley mass spectra and NMR spectra.^[28]

As of July 28, 2012 content of the CSA databases has become available in the new multidisciplinary PQSciTech (ProQuest Science and Technology) database on STN.^[29]

June 2012

According to the CAS website:^[30]

A new weekly SDI package on STN increases the timeliness of your current awareness and makes it easier to meet government reporting requirements for pharmacovigilance.

An SDI package combines multiple SDI result sets from different databases into a single, convenient delivery, regardless of individual database update schedules and SDI frequencies.

SDI packages save you time and increase your productivity with:

• Automatic removal of duplicate records.
• Convenient single delivery of packaged SDI results monthly or weekly.

For more information about SDI packages, type HELP SDPACKAGE (HELP SDP) at the arrow prompt.

According to STNewsline June 2012:^[31]

Field Name Change in CHEMLIST® Database - CLP (EU Classification, Labeling and Packaging Regulation) replaces EECDS (EEC Classification, Packaging and Labeling of Dangerous Substances) field name to more accurately reflect regulation changes.

The CLP field:

• Indicates substances with standardized hazard classification and labeling information based on EU Classification, Labeling and Packaging Regulation (EC) No.1272/2008 (CLP Regulation) or EEC Directive 67/548/EEC (Dangerous Substances Directive).
• Is based on the UN Globally Harmonized System (GHS).
• Will replace both the Dangerous Substances Directive and the Dangerous Preparations Directive by 2015.

May 2012

According to STN International:^[32]

INPADOC comprises the largest legal status collection worldwide, offering selected legal status data in English for currently 61 patent authorities. The new legal status display format LSO (legal status original) in INPADOCDB provides the legal status code titles in the original German, French, Spanish, Dutch and some other languages.

For a list of legal status codes available in original language, see this page.

You could use the new LSO in combination with the BIB display format.

See this press release for an example of the LSO in BIB display format.

According to STN International, in regards to INPADOC databases:^[33]

The coverage of US citation data has been extended to include examiner citations for US published applications (US A1 documents). This is a considerable advantage because citations of US documents are now available much earlier and more comprehensive than before. Previously, citations were only made available for US granted patents. Examiner citations of US A1 publications have the attribute PRS (pre-grant search) assigned indicating the source of citation.

According to STN International:^[34]

The INPADOC legal status collection has been significantly enhanced with the addition of Japanese legal status data for Japanese patents and utility models. These data are currently available from June 2010 onwards and backfile data are continuously been loaded back to 2003. INPADOC comprises about 90 selected legal status events for Japanese documents, including

• pre-grant events (JPA-codes)
• renewal fee payment (JPFPAY code)
• registration information (JPR-codes, JPS-codes)

Trial information (JPT-codes) about appeals, oppositions and invalidations is not yet available.

According to STN International:^[35]

A new version of STN Express, Version 8.5.1, is now available. This maintenance release provides software updates and completes the integration of new full-text databases AUPATFULL, CANPATFULL and CNFULL on STN.

Please visit the STN Software License and Download website to download STN Express, Version 8.5.1.

According to STN International:^[36]

The Food Science and Technology Abstracts database (FSTA) was reloaded on May 19, 2012 with some changes and enhancements.

• Classification Codes are now indexed including their subsections. In case there are any classification codes within your search queries, you should adjust the search in order to cover all subsections (e.g., change S A/CC to S A#/CC).
• The latest version of the FSTA thesaurus is now available.
• Simultaneous left and right truncation (SLART) has been added to abstract (/AB) and title (/TI) fields.
• DOIs are available.
• The Numeric Property Search feature is implemented.

For additional information on the reload, enter HELP RLOAD at an arrow prompt (=>) in FSTA.

According to STN International:^[37]

Please note that on May 19, 2012, INIS, BABS and GMELIN97 databases will be removed from STN. BABS and GMELIN97 are removed from STN at the request of the database producer, Elsevier Information Systems.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The content of BABS and GMELIN97 will become available again on STN when ReaxysFile on STN is reloaded at the beginning of Q3, 2012.

As alternative sources for INIS content, please consider ENERGY, COMPENDEX, INSPEC databases on STN. If you have questions regarding these changes, please contact your STN customer support.

According to the CAS website:^[38]

Now you can search and display Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for approximately 12 million records in the CA/CAplus family of databases, including 75 percent of journal articles that have already entered CAplus in 2012. DOIs provide a permanent and unique identifier for retrieving full-text publications.

The availability of DOI information for specific records can be found in the FA field using DOI/FA or FTDOI/FA. Where available, DOI information is now automatically included in ALL/IALL and MAX/IMAX display formats at no additional charge.

According to the STN International website:^[39]

INPADOC comprises the largest legal status collection worldwide, offering selected legal status data in English for currently 61 patent authorities. The new legal status display format LSO (legal status original) in INPADOCDB provides the legal status code titles in the original German, French, Spanish, Dutch and some other languages.

For a list of legal status codes available in original language, see this page.

See this page to learn how to use the new LSO in combination with the BIB display format.

April 2012

According to the CAS website:^[40]

The Numerical Property Search feature in the Derwent World Patent Index (WPINDEX, WPIDS and WPIX) on STN enables numerical searches to be performed for a specific set of physical property data identified within the English text fields.

Search field codes and related text for all physical properties available for numerical property searches have been indexed in the /PHP search field. Details on the newly available search fields and units are listed under HELP NPS.

For further information, please contact your local STN Help Desk.

According to the CAS website:^[41]

STN alerts (SDIs) can now be delivered by RSS feeds. New RSS alert delivery on STN:

• Allows you to easily distribute STN alert results throughout your organization to support critical research and business decisions.
• Supports your workflow by seamlessly integrating with most commercially available RSS readers and custom applications, such as portals.

To set up a new alert for RSS delivery, just enter RSS as the method of delivery during the STN SDI set-up process. Existing alerts can be changed to RSS delivery using the SDI EDIT command. Alerts being delivered by RSS can also be delivered to specific email addresses simultaneously by including these addresses in the Optional Email IDs section of the SDI set-up. At the completion of the SDI set-up process, you will receive the URL for the RSS feed, which can be accessed by any standard RSS reader to display the results.

According to the STNewsline for April 2012:^[42]

• Technology and management database (TEMA) – Backfile added - The TEMA® database, provided by the German Producer WTI Frankfurt, is an important source of literature for engineers, technicians and scientists. Since 2011 it has also been available to STN users from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. STN has enhanced TEMA by adding 2 million backfile documents from 1968-1989. TEMA now covers more than 4.4 million references to international literature in the areas of technology and management. Coverage includes mechanical engineering and plant construction, electrical engineering and electronics, information technology, materials, textile technology, medical technology, management and operational organization.
• Derwent Drug File (subscriber file: DRUGU; non-subscriber file: DDFU) - Simultaneous left and right truncation (SLART) has been added to the Basic Index (/BI). The Derwent Drug File provides information from worldwide pharmaceutical literature on all aspects of drugs, from drug design to post marketing surveillance.
• Global mobility database (1MOBILITY and 2Mobility) - Simultaneous left and right truncation (SLART) has been added to the Basic Index (/BI), Title (/TI), and Abstract (/AB). The Numeric property search (NPS) is now available. 1MOBILITY contains information from worldwide technical literature on technologies for self-propelled vehicles for land, sea, air, and space. 2MOBILITY contains information on worldwide standards and specifications in the area of mobility engineering.
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Philadelphia, PA, US), a WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH Inc. business, is now available as a new FIZ AutoDoc document supplier for the pay-per-view option. Thus, articles from more than 260 e-journals of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins as a leading international publisher of professional health information can be ordered and downloaded via FIZ AutoDoc immediately.

According to the CAS website:^[43]

CAS is enhancing its extensive patent authority coverage in CA/CAplus by adding the Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO). EAPO (country code EA) is headquartered in Moscow and the 63rd authority covered by CAS.

Eurasian patent documents expand CAS' already substantial coverage of the world's major patent authorities. CAS actively continues to expand coverage, particularly from smaller patent authorities which would otherwise be largely inaccessible to many patent searchers.

Coverage of Eurasian kind code B1 is retroactive to February 27, 2007. The B1 kind code covers patents. Eurasian B1 patents are eligible to be covered as basics or added to existing patent families. Approximately 1,700 patents are expected per year, including approximately 420 basic patents.

March 2012

According to the CAS website:^[44]

Get more information on natural products from the NAPRALERT (NAtural PRoducts ALERT) database on STN with the recent addition of content indexed between 2006 and 2011. NAPRALERT is also now part of the STN Fixed Fee Program.

The NAPRALERT database is a key source for bibliographic information on natural products, including information on the pharmacology, biological activity, taxonomic distribution, chemistry of plant, microbial and animal extracts, as well as ethnomedicine use records. This database is an excellent source for prior art in the areas of traditional medicine and natural products.

For more information about the NAPRALERT database on STN, please refer to the Database Summary Sheet.

According to the CAS website:^[45]

Aquatic and in vitro exposure toxicity data is now available in RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances) database. The new toxicity data is searchable in the Basic Index. It is also possible to search more specifically by Effect (EFF), Route (RTE), Organism (ORGN) and Duration (DUR).

See this announcement for more information.

According to the CAS website:^[46]

CAS is enhancing the MARPAT database with additional backfile coverage from 1987 beginning with English- and German-language patents in March. Markush content for Japanese- and additional German-language patents from 1987 will be added throughout 2012.

According to the CAS website:^[47]

With ePub ahead of print records, you can:

• Easily identify ePub records from an answer by the EPUB AHEAD OF PRINT tag in the AN (Accession Number) field.
• Create an answer set of ePub ahead of print records using the FS (File Segment) field (e.g., S EPUB AHEAD OF PRINT/FS).

Coming soon! Access the most current versions of online-only articles in MEDLINE on STN. Current versions will be reflected in the DN (Document Number)field for that record (e.g., DN PubMed ID: 20029611.2 Version ID: 3 Version Date: 2012/03/14).

According to the CAS website:^[48]

STN now includes CNFULL, the full-text of Chinese patent applications and patent specifications from 1985 onwards.

The Chinese Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China has been the top authority for the number of patent applications. In recent years, over 500,000 applications were filed annually.

CNFULL database records contain bibliographic data including patent applicant, inventor, patent number, application, priority and related (PCT) application data, IPC and EPC classification codes, abstract and the full text of descriptions and claims. Records are available about a week after publication with the complete content. Abstracts are initially machine translated and replaced three months later by human translated text; descriptions and claims are machine translated.

Each database record contains all documents published for one application, displayed in order of appearance. Legal status data and family display formats from the INPADOCDB database are available. Online thesauri for the International Patent Classification (/IPC) and European Patent Classification (/EPC) are searchable.

The database is updated weekly and comprises over 4.5 million records and more than 3.8 million images. About 10,000 documents enter the database each week.

Numeric values of over 30 physical and chemical properties (/PHP) in almost 400 unit variants are searchable in all full text fields.

For additional information about this new databases, refer to the STN Database Summary Sheet or STNGuide (=> S CNFULL/DBN).

According to the STN International website:^[49]

The 1MOBILITY and 2MOBILITY databases were reloaded on March 18, 2012. More details on the enhancements and changes are available in HELP RLOAD.

According to a publication on the STN International website:^[50]

US application numbers consist of a two-digit series designation, corresponding to a range of filing years (i.e. series 08/ was used for filing years 1993 through 1997), plus a six-digit serial number (for example 635776).

In DWPI and DPCI, the format for US application numbers, for series up to and including series 12, excludes the two-digit series designation and comprises the application date along with the six-digit application serial,which starts again from000001 with each new series.

Series 13 Documents

The USPTO has now started publishing application numbers for series 13 with the first application in this series being filed on 17 December 2010. As an improvement to DWPI and DPCI, the series code element will now be included in the application numbers from series 13 onwards. There will be no change to the formats for any of the previous series.

See this publication on the STN International website for an example.

According to a publication on the STN International website:^[51]

Since the DWPI reload in 2006 on STN individual publication information has been covered. Customers requested that a display format be provided selectively displaying the individual publication data having given rise to the retrieval. This format has now become available as the HITMEMBer display format for the DWPI database (files WPINDEX, WPIDS and WPIX). This display format comprises all data from theMEMB format for all individual publications where HIT terms occur. An example may illustrate a possible user interaction.

See this publication on the STN International website for an example.

February 2012

According to the CAS website:^[52]

Find more chemical regulation information with the addition of the REACH List of Registered Substances in CHEMLIST on STN. REACH is the European Union (EU) regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals published by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). ECHA developed the list from registration dossiers provided by the chemical industry.

For substances on the REACH List, the CHEMLIST record will

• Show this information in the Inventory (INV) field.
• Include the EC Number, and if available, the submitter chemical name and corresponding CAS Registry Number.

There are 3,878 substances in CHEMLIST on the REACH List of Registered Substances. The list will be updated when new information is provided from ECHA.

The purpose of REACH is to protect human health and the environment from the risks posed by chemicals, while protecting the EU chemicals industry. The chemical industry is required to identify and manage risks linked to the chemical substances that are manufactured and marked in the EU.

An update on the new STN platform was recently posted on the CAS website:^[53]

In October 2011, the STN partners announced that a completely new STN would be phased into the market beginning in 2012. This initiative was to start with an alpha release at the end of 2011, followed by continued customer consultation and product development.

We are pleased to confirm that we are on track with this plan.

An alpha release was provided to the STN Advisory Council members in December 2011, and has been used to date by nearly 100 patent search professionals. They have confirmed that the new platform provides important advances while retaining the value of STN and aligning with the workflow of patent experts.

An enhanced alpha version will be available by June. At that time, we will expand availability to additional customers who have requested early access to the new platform.

Release of a beta version of the new platform to all STN fixed-fee customers is on track for the fourth quarter of 2012.

According to STN International:^[54]

PCTFULL documents with a non-Latin filing language, i.e. Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian, were enhanced with descriptions and claims in English machine translation for search and display. The text in original language is displayable.

The following table illustrates the coverage and enhancements of the non-Latin filing languages:

Language	Full text coverage since	Added full text
Japanese	July 2008	almost 100,000
Chinese	April 2011	over 6,300
Korean	May 2009	over 13,300
Russian	January 2007	almost 1,000

All descriptions and claims in the original filing language are displayable with D DETDOR and D CLMOR respectively. The English translations display with Formats ALL, DETD and CLM etc.

According to the CAS website:^[55]

You can now search the new Harmonized Tariff Code (HTC) field in the CHEMLIST database on STN. Other CHEMLIST enhancements include EU Customs Codes display in the HTC field and chemical names in more languages.

The CHEMLIST database now lists the HTC number assigned to a chemical substance by the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS). More than 200 countries rely on HTC as a basis for customs tariffs and collection of international trade statistics.

The World Customs Organization maintains the HTC as part of an international cooperative effort to standardize import and export classifications on internationally shipped products.

Importing and exporting within the European Community requires the EU Customs Code that displays in the HTC field. The EU Customs Code is the tariff classification system used in the European Community's Combined Nomenclature, based on the HS.

As part of the addition of the HTC and EU Customs Codes enhancements, CHEMLIST now contains chemical names in the following languages, when available:

• Italian
• Dutch
• Portuguese
• Finnish
• Danish
• Swedish
• Lithuanian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Czech
• Estonian
• Polish
• Hungarian

A number of STN updates were mentioned in the STNewsline February 2012:^[56]

• Latest Manual Code Revision goes live in Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI®)

The DWPI manual coding system annual revision has now been completed and is being used by the Editorial Teams to code records appearing in the database from DWPI Update 201201 onwards. Read the full article.

• IFICLS Updates Resumed on STN® - change of dates

Updates to the IFICLS database have resumed. The database was updated the week of January 23, 2012 with coverage from April 21 – December 27, 2011. The next update covers data from December 28, 2011 – January 20, 2012 and was made on January 24, 2012. Regular weekly updates resumed on January 27, 2012.<p> <p>Monthly SDI runs for IFICLS resumed on February 1, 2012.

• New format RE displays citations of patent and non-patent literature from INPADOCDB in Patent Full-text Files

RE (reference) is a new display format in the patent full text files PCTFULL, FRFULL, GBFULL, and AUPATFULL. If citations of patent or non-patent literature are available in the corresponding INPADOCDB record, they are displayable with the command => D RE.

• INPADOC databases enhanced with Japanese Patent Classifications, current US Classification, and Japanese legal status

The coverage of major patent classifications in INPADOC has significantly been enhanced with the addition of the Japanese patent classifications (FI-terms and F-terms), providing a considerable value to Japanese patent and utility model publications. At the same time the current US patent classification codes have been included into INPADOC, complementing the set of issued US classification codes. Prior art searching is now much more reliable for Japanese and US patent documents.

The Japanese Patent Office (JPO) applies two completely independent national classification systems to classify Japanese patents and utility models: the IPC-based FI classification and the F-term classification. Both Japanese patent classifications became available in INPADOC on STN, providing an extremely useful tool to access Japanese patent literature. The Japanese patent classifications are available for 15 million Japanese patents and utility models back to 1965.

The coverage of the US national patent classification in INPADOC has been extended to include the current US classification codes for 9,3 million US applications. These codes are available for the complete backfile of US patent documents back to 1836.

For further details and search examples see the INPADOC News 2012/02.

The European Patent Office has just started to provide legal status data for Japanese patents and utility models back to April 2011. We expect more than 90 different legal status events for Japanese publications. Use EXPAND JP/LSC to see a list of all Japanese legal status codes currently available in INPADOC.

• MEDLINE Reload - Updated MeSH Vocabulary and Two New Fields on STN®

New features and enhancements are now available with the STN reload of MEDlars onLINE (MEDLINE/LMEDLINE), produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Revised 2012 MeSH

The revised MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) vocabulary for 2012 was loaded on STN on December 11, 2011. MEDLINE records have been completely updated using the 2012 version of the MeSH vocabulary.

Changes to the MeSH vocabulary include:

• 454 new terms
• 42 terms replaced by more up-to-date vocabulary
• 15 deleted terms

For the most comprehensive searching in MEDLINE, consult the updated MeSH thesaurus for new or better search terms.

Review your SDIs running in MEDLINE with the new MeSH vocabulary to determine whether updating is necessary.

New Search Fields

The new RE.EX and RAU.EX search fields provide expanded capabilities for searching cited reference and cited reference author information.

RAU.EX Search Field

MEDLINE searches using the new RAU.EX field automatically retrieve reference author names with single initials even when multiple initials are used in the search query. This expands the number of results retrieved.

=> S WELSH T H?/RAU

L22 19 WELSH T H?/RAU

=> S WELSH T H?/RAU.EX

51 WELSH T?/RAU

19 WELSH T H?/RAU</p <p>L23 51 WELSH T H?/RAU.EX

(WELSH T?/RAU OR WELSH T H?/RAU)

The new RE.EX field for cited references works similarly to the RAU.EX search field for cited reference authors.

Evaluate the relevance of additional results retrieved using RE.EX and RAU.EX.

January 2012

According to STN International:^[57]

Previously, very large chemical structure images were not available for display. Instead of "STRUCTURE DIAGRAM TOO LARGE FOR DISPLAY - AVAILABLE VIA OFFLINE PRINT", these images will now display online and appear in transcripts.

This enhancement is available to customers using STN on the Web and STN Express, Version 8.5. Customers using STN Express, Version 8.4 or earlier will need to upgrade to take advantage of this enhancement.

According to the CAS website:^[58]

View chemical substance images for more patent records with the addition of over 79,000 structure graphics (issue graphics) to the MARPAT and CA/CAplus databases on STN and SciFinder.

The enhanced availability of these images increases customers access to information regarding the structure of chemical entities disclosed in Markush patents. Structure graphics are now available for more than 75 percent of MARPAT records.

According to the CAS website:^[59]

Updates to the IFICLS database have resumed. The database will be brought up-to-date on January 6, 2012. Weekly updates will occur regularly, thereafter.

Weekly SDI runs will resume the second week in January following weekly updates. Monthly SDI runs for IFICLS will resume on February 1, 2012.

For the latest update information, type NEWS FILE at an arrow prompt within the IFICLS database or contact your local STN Service Center.

December 2011

According to an email from CAS, the "STN fixed-fee plans can now cover all databases, including NAPRALERT." Users can contact their STN representative for more information on the Fixed-Fee Program.^[60]

According to STN International:^[61]

ITRD and PATIPC databases will be removed from STN on December 17, 2011. ITRD is being removed from STN by request of the database producer. PATIPC is no longer needed as all of this current IPC information can be obtained from the IPC thesauri on STN.

According to STN International:^[62]

Effective December 17, 2011 ITRD, AEROSPACE, AGRICOLA and IMSPATENTS no longer be available in STNEasy.

According to STN International:^[63]

STN on the Web has been enhanced with an updated BLAST plugin installer and is now fully compatible with Microsoft Windows 7. Please refer to the updated Operating System and Browser Support chart on the STN on the Web login page (https://stnweb.cas.org/) for enhanced compatibilities.

According to the STNewsline for December 2011, recent changes for INPADOC legal enhancements include:^[64]

• Legal Status Data from Argentina are now available - The European Patent Office takes a considerable effort to expand the coverage of patent data from Latin America. Most recently legal status data from Argentina have been added to the INPADOC legal status collection. The coverage goes back to 2004 and includes 5 different legal status events referring to e.g. the lapse or refusal of a patent application. Please use the EXPAND command for the legal status code field /LSC to see which codes are available for Argentina => E AR/LSC.
• Coverage of Taiwanese patent publications has been enhanced - The coverage of Taiwanese patent publications has been significantly enhanced for recent years. Taiwanese unexamined patent applications (TW A documents) have now been added to INPADOC with a publication date from 2008 to 2011, including English titles and abstracts and IPC- and European patent classification codes (ECLA, ICO).
• New Citation Category introduced by European Patent Office - The European Patent Office applies citation categories to patent and NPL citations to indicate the level of relevance of a particular examiner citation. A new category has been introduced for cited patent and NPL references referring to patent publications with a publication date from April 2011 onwards. The new category “I” indicates a citation of particular relevance and has a similar meaning to category “x”:
  • category I – particularly relevant if taken alone, prejudicing inventive step
  • category X - particularly relevant if taken alone, prejudicing novelty
    
    Citation categories are searchable using the search field /CAT and can be linked with cited patent numbers (/PN.D) , e.g.
    => S WO 2006042305 /PN.D(S)(X OR I)/CAT

According to the STNewsline for December 2011:^[64]

Rolled-up IPC Core Codes are being removed from IPC reclassifications (IPCR field) in patent databases on STN to deliver more consistent and streamlined IPC content.

In 2006, the European Patent Office (EPO) introduced Rolled-up Core Codes for each advanced level IPC code in patents. This practice simplified searching across countries by providing a code that spanned assigned IPC codes at both the Advanced level and the Core level. In late 2010, the EPO stopped rolling up Core Codes and removed Rolled-Up Core Codes from the IPC reclassifications supplied quarterly to database producers and vendors.

Rolled-up IPC Core Codes have now been removed from the IPCR fields of the following databases on STN:

• CA/CAplus family of databases
• EPFULL
• FRFULL
• GBFULL
• INPADOCDB / INPAFAMDB
• PATDPAFULL
• PCTFULL
• USPATFULL / USPAT2 / USPATOLD

Rolled-up Core Codes are in the process of being removed from the set of current IPCs in WPINDEX / WPIDS / WPIX. This process will be completed by end of 2011.

According to the STNewsline for December 2011:^[64]

In mid-November, CAS enhanced its extensive patent authority coverage in CA/CAplus by adding the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia. Malaysia (country code MY) is the 62nd authority covered by CAS.

Malaysian patent documents expand CAS’ already substantial coverage of the world’s major patent authorities. CAS actively continues to expand coverage, particularly from smaller patent authorities which would otherwise be largely inaccessible to many patent searchers.

You can quickly access multiple sources with broad coverage of 62 patent authorities covered by CAS. Coverage of Malaysian kind code A is retroactive to January 15, 2010. This includes granted patents and utility models. Malaysian A patents are eligible to be covered as basics or added to existing patent families. Approximately 1,000 patents are expected per year (approximately 200 basic patents) from Malaysia.

According to the STNewsline for December 2011:^[64]

Coverage in the CA/CAplus databases is expanded to include Japanese patent examiner citations. Intellectually translated examiner citations include links to other CAplus records for quick access to the exact information you need such as inventor names and patent assignees.

Database coverage includes Japanese B1 and B2 patents processed as basics and published September 21, 2011 or later. Patent examiner citations are available for about 95 percent of the Japanese B1 and B2 patents processed so far.

The numerous countries and authorities available with examiner citations in CA/CAplus include:

• CA
• EP
• GB
• DE
• FR
• JP

October 2011

According to a press release from FIZ Karlsruhe:^[65]

The STN partners, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in the U.S. and FIZ Karlsruhe in Germany, are pleased to announce that a completely new STN will be phased into the market beginning in 2012. The new platform will bring improved efficiency and usability at the expert level. Powerful new elements will include:

• Project-oriented workflow,
• Combined text and structure queries,
• Simultaneous query and results interaction,
• Real-time analysis of results, and
• Virtually no system limits.

[...] An alpha release to the STN Advisory Council is planned for later this year, and a re-lease to global STN fixed fee customers will follow in 2012. The initial customer release will comprise the core databases of CAS and Thomson Reuters, a number of full-text patent files, and a suite of critical features and functions. Subsequent releas-es will be enhanced with additional databases and functionality. The current STN system, including STN Express and STN on the Web, will continue to be available and fully supported throughout the development of the new platform.

September 2011

According to STN International:^[66]

You can now access full-text Australian and Canadian patent information on STN Viewer. Addition of AUPATFULL and CANPATFUL databases to STN Viewer adds value to the only patent evaluation tool that combines high-quality full-text patent databases on STN with precise search capabilities and post-processing features of STN Express. To use the AUPATFULL and CANPATFULL data on STN Viewer, download the STN Express support file update from September 22, 2011.

According to STN International:^[67]

Thesauri for ECLA (European Patent Classifications) and ICO (in computer-only) codes now provide STN users a higher degree of specificity when searching patents in the CA/CAplus family of databases on STN. Monthly updates to both thesauri allow STN users to access information about emerging areas of technology. Additional ECLA and ICO code changes in the CA/CAplus family of databases include matching formatting conventions for cross-database searching. The thesauri can be used with the EXPAND and SEARCH commands in EPC (including EPC aliases, ECLA and EPCLA) and ICO fields. The following relationship codes are available:

• ALL - All associated terms
• AUTO - Automatic relationship (BT, SELF, CODE, DEF)
• BT - Broader terms (BT, SELF, DEF)
• CODE - Classification code (SELF, CODE)
• DEF - Definition (SELF, DEF)
• HIE - Hierarchy terms (all broader and narrower terms)
  • (BT, SELF, DEF, NT) KT Keyword terms (SELF, KT)
• MAX - All associated terms
• NEXT - Next classification within the same class (SELF, NEXT)
• NEXT(n) - Next n classifications within the same class
• NT - Narrower terms (SELF, NT, DEF)
• PREV - Previous code within the same class (PREV, SELF, DEF)
• PREV(n) - Previous n classifications within the same class
• TI - Complete title including broader terms (BT, SELF, DEF)

According to STN International:^[68]

Updates to the IFIPAT/IFIUDB/IFICDB databases have resumed. The databases will be updated in chronological order beginning with the oldest update (April 28, 2011) and moving forward. The databases are expected to be current by November 2011. SDI updates will also resume. We will be delivering separate SDI updates for April/May, June, July, August, September and October before returning to your regular scheduled frequencies in November 2011.

According to STN International:^[69]

GEOREF and ENCOMPLIT/2 databases are reloaded on September 24, 2011. More details on the enhancements and changes are available in the databases in HELP RLOAD.

According to STN International:^[70]

As of September 24, 2011, CANPATFULL adds the full-text of Canadian patent applications and patent specifications from 1920 onwards to STN. The Canadian Intellectual Property Office is within the top ten authorities concerning the number of patent applications over the past two decades. In recent years, over 30,000 applications were filed annually. The records of the database contain detailed bibliographic data, legal representative information, International and European classification codes (IPC and ECLA/EPC), abstract, and the full text of description and claims. Database records for patents published in French have in addition to the original French document a human-translated English abstract and machine-translated English claims and description. Each record contains all documents published for one application, displayed in order of appearance. Legal status data, and family display formats from the INPADOCDB database are available as well as the searchable online thesauri for the International Patent Classification (/IPC) and European Patent Classification (/EPC and /ICO). CANPATFULL is updated weekly and comprises a total of about 2 million records.

According to the CAS website:^[71]

The EMBASE Classic backfile, covering records from 1947 to 1973, has been added to the EMBASE database on STN. EMBASE Classic augments the 8.4 million records added to EMBASE earlier this year when the MEDLINE Uniques file segment was added to the database. The backfile contains 1.8 million biomedical publications from 1942 through 1943 and pharmacological records covering more than 3,400 international publications. [...] Using the Drug Descriptor Terms in EMBASE Classic records, CAS generated Registry Numbers for 480,000 records that lacked Registry Numbers altogether. Supplemental CAS Registry Numbers were supplied for another 180,000 records. Altogether, CAS added nearly 1.9 million CAS Registry Numbers to these 660,000 enhanced EMBASE Classic records!

According to the CAS website:^[72]

STN now provides the most up-to-date USAN database information, now with coverage from 1953-2011. This additional information provides STN users with the most complete USP Dictionary of U.S. Adopted Names and International Drug Names recognized throughout the pharmaceutical and health care industries.

According to STN International:^[73]

To ensure an improved, more consistent user experience with newer features and maximized security for all STN sessions, we plan to discontinue support and access to older versions of STN Express beginning in March 2012. Please note that you can upgrade for free at any time to the current version of STN Express, Version 8.5, from the STN Software License and Download website. Software and support for versions of STN Express will be discontinued according to the following schedule:

Version	Support	Software
Versions below 7.0	December 31, 2008	March 31, 2012
Versions below 8.0	March 31, 2012	August 31, 2012
Versions below 8.3	August 31, 2012	December 31, 2012
Versions below 8.4	December 31, 2012	June 30, 2013

• Support discontinuation = You may continue to use the software, but technical support and documentation for this version may no longer be available.

• Software discontinuation = Access to STN will no longer be possible with this version of STN Express.

According to STN International:^[74]

CAS journal coverage now includes ahead-of-print (AOP) articles published by:

• ACS Publications
• AIP Journals
• Nature Publishing Group
• Springer
• Wiley-Blackwell

AOP articles are included from more than 100 journal titles CAS covers from these publishers. To learn more about CAS journal coverage, visit the CAS website.

August 2011

According to the CAS website, the new STN Express, Version 8.5 includes:^[75]

• Updated table and report post-processing functionality to allow parsing of the new assembled FQHIT, QHIT, FQHITEXG and QHITEXG display formats in MARPAT.
• New Patent Family Manager option to streamline twin multiple basic patent content from CA/CAplus answer sets.
• Save Answers for SciFinder wizard transfers answers from STN to the web version of SciFinder to improve workflow between information professionals and scientists.
• Hyperlinks from MEDLINE cited references to associated MEDLINE records.
• Default RSA encryption of sessions for enhanced security.

According to the STN International website:^[76]

The coverage of German bibliographic and legal status data has been resumed in the INPADOC files INPADOCDB/INPAFAMDB. The coverage gap from week 25/2011 has been closed and current DE data will be provided close to the time of publication. Some delays for legal status information are still possible. Recent developments at the German Patent Office brought significant enhancements to the legal status information : the coverage has been extended to include new legal status events and more legal effect dates. For all current legal status events a new set of legal status codes is applied, old codes will not be changed. More details have been published by the European Patent Office. This includes a list of all new legal status codes and the corresponding old codes. Please use the new and corresponding old codes for legal status searching, e.g. “opposition filed”: (DE8363 or DER026)/LSC

July 2011

According to STN International:^[77]

AUPATFULL is a new patent full text file on STN as of July 24, 2011. It provides the full text of patent applications and patent specifications published by the Australian Patent Office from 1964 onwards for the complete STN feature set including the new numeric search feature.

June 2011

According to the CAS website, "STN on the Web was updated to include a new Patent Family Assistant and an updated Structure Plug-in."^[78] The Patent Family Assistant allows users to:^[78]

• Extract the first member from each patent family
• Remove twin multiple basics from patent families
• Customize displays of patent family results

The updated Structure Plug-in (version 8.5) includes "improved structure drawing and searching capabilities."^[78]

According to STN International, "the European Patent Office informed us about significant delays of the coverage of German bibliographic and legal status data in INPADOC from week 25/2011," but "on STN, bibliographic data of German patent publications are also available in the patent full-text database PATDPAFULL and in the value-added databases CAPLUS and Derwent World Patents Index. These databases are not affected and will provide German patent data as usual."^[79]

According to STN International, "The INPADOC databases INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB have been enhanced with first page images for patent publications of 8 major patent authorities."^[80]

According to the CAS website, "the German patent database PATDPA will no longer be updated after June."^[81]

According to the STN International website:^[82]

The database TEMA ® (Technology and Management) produced by WTI-Frankfurt eG has been available on STN for many years, but was not accessible for STN customers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since June 1, 2011 STN users from these countries have access to this important resource for international literature on R&D, new products and procedures, as well as on developments in business enterprises.

May 2011

According to STN International:^[83]

FIZ Karlsruhe has enhanced the performance for biosequence searches in the databases DGENE, USGENE and PCTGEN. Searches (RUN GETSEQ, RUN GETSIM, RUN BLAST, BATCH search) now run to completion in a fraction of the time you have been used to. The BLAST suite of programs has been upgraded to a newer version. mpiBLAST 1.5.0. is being employed to achieve the considerable performance gains.

According to STN International, the new numerical search on PCTFULL now "enables users to search for chemical and physical properties."^[84]

According to STN International, "the INPADOC files, PCTFULL, GBFULL and FRFULL have been enhanced with thesauri for the European Patent Classifications."^[85]

According to the CAS website, a new STN platform is being developed:^[86]

Plans to develop a new STN platform have been announced by STN partners, CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe. The new platform will provide a more modern interface and product architecture, while maintaining the critical search power and high quality content for which STN has become known. Some advantages will be

• Better integration of analysis tools
• Improved database content consistency
• Higher system limits

The new platform will run in parallel with current STN services for a few years to provide a comfortable transition for current users.

April 2011

According to the CAS website:^[87]

MEDLINE users can access full-text source material quicker, courtesy of Digital Object Identifier (DOI) information included, as available, in BIB and ALL displays. There is no additional charge for DOIs in these frequently used display formats. Also, content of the Chemical Name (CN) field has been streamlined for easier review. The field now covers just chemical names (including the names of chemical classes) and, as available, Enzyme Commission Numbers.

According to the CAS website, CA/CAplus now includes "Swedish patent applications (kind code A1) from April 13, 2010 to present."^[88] Swedish kind codes "are now eligible to be added to patent families:"^[88]

• A0 (Patent application made available to the public)
• A2 (Corrected patent application)
• C3 (Corrected granted patent)
• T3 (Translation of EP patent)

According to STN International:

European Patent Classifications are being added to the DWPI database (files WPINDEX/WPIDS/WPIX) for some time already. Now thesauri are being made available for the /EPC and /ICO search fields to make navigating through the maze of codes easier.^[89]

March 2011

According to the CAS website:^[90]

New pricing has been introduced for the USPAT (US Patent Publications) databases (USPATFULL / USPAT2 / USPATOLD) and the IFI databases (IFIPAT / IFIUDB / IFICDB) based on the number of records from which patent numbers are SELECTed. This introduction makes the pricing of USPAT and IFI database families consistent with other full-text and value-added patent databases on STN.

February 2011

According to STN International, "the PCTFULL file on STN is completely reloaded as of February 26, 2011, and contains much more content, like names, addresses and full-text in various languages (e.g. English translations of German, French, Spanish or Russian full-texts), plus a new search feature for numeric property search in full-texts."^[91]

According to STN International, "following the replacement of PCI by DPCI, the learning file LPCI will be replaced by LDPCI on February 26, 2011."^[92]

According to STN International, "as of February 2011 CABA will be updated weekly. Automatic current-awareness searches (SDIs) will be available weekly or monthly (weekly is the default)."^[93]

January 2011

According to STN International, within the USPATFULL and USPAT2 databases, users "will notice a big change in the previously static indexing due to a recent en masse refreshing of the CAS indexing included in these records. Effective immediately, you may also observe weekly updates to relevant index records."^[94]

According to STN International:

The enhanced DPCI database has been released on STN on January 23, 2011. The coverage is substantially increased. It now provides patent citation information from 23 sources including Asian sources like Korea. Inventor, opposition, post-grant and third-party citations have been added as well.^[95]

According to the CAS website, "A number of new features and enhancements, including an updated version of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary, are now available with the January STN reload of MEDlars onLINE (MEDLINE/LMEDLINE), produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)."^[96]

November/December 2010

According to STN International, "now you can locate answers to your research questions more quickly and easily when you search the archive of 50,000 unique World Traditional Medicine (WTM) patents offered by CAplus. Newly added index terms, including CAS Registry Numbers and roles, provide many additional points of access that you can use to rapidly zero in on the information you need."^[97]

According to STN International, users can now "search an additional 46,850 bibliographic records recently added to the MEDLINE backfile, extending its coverage to 1946."^[98]

According to the CAS website, ReaxysFile is available on STN.^[99]

The CAS website also reports that "to provide more precise patent publication number crossovers, STN has introduced the PNK (Patent Number/Kind Code) field for use when transferring patent publication numbers between databases. PNK field crossovers can be used to transfer publication numbers of published applications and granted patents."^[99]

Finally, there has been an "increase in search limits in the CAS databases."^[99]

• "The iteration and answer limits for CAS REGISTRY structure searching are increasing from 2 million to 6 million for online searches [and] 3 million to 8 million for batch searches."^[99]
• "The current accession number crossover limit from MARPAT to and from the CA/CAplus databases is doubling from 50,000 to 100,000." ^[99]

November 2010

STN announced that 16 data files would be retired from the collection on December 31st, 2010. These files include:

ABI-INFORM a ProQuest database on business topics and news	DRUGMONOG IMS Product Monographs	IMDRUGNEWS IMS R&D Focus Drug News	NLDB Newsletter Database
AQUIRE Aquatic Toxicity Information Retrieval	DRUGMONOG2 IMS Product Monographs with Prices	IMSPRODUCT IMS LifeCycle, New Product Focus	PROMT Predicasts Overview of Markets and Technology
CSCHEM Chem Sources Chemicals and Trade Names	HSDB Hazardous Substances Data Bank	MDF Metals Datafile	TEXTILETECH Textile Technology Digest
CSCORP Chem Sources Company Directory	IMSCOPROFILE IMS Company Profiles	MSDS-CCOHS Material Safety Data Sheets from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety	WTEXTILES World Textiles

STN cites "a variety of technical, fiscal, and producer-driven factors" as the reason for the removal of these files, and further states that STN's efforts in the future will be directed to making "highly requested enhancements for key databases and development of the new STN platform," the development of which was announced earlier in 2010.

The relevant news item is available from the CAS website, at http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/dbnews/novdec10.html.

July 2010

CAS announced that the Derwent DWPI First View file will not be available on the STN platform as of July 30, 2010. A CAS press release explains that the First View file is no longer needed to provide access to newly issued patent documents, because the timeliness of the original DWPI file has improved. As of July 2010, records are added to the DWPI file within an average of 15 days after publication.

The First View file is described in the Derwent Families section of the Intellogist report on the Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI).

For more information, see http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/dbnews/mayjun10.html

May 2010

CAS and FIZ Karlsruhe have announced that a new STN platform is in development as of May 2010. According to the news announcement, the development effort for this new platform will aim for better integration of analysis tools, improved database content consistency, and higher system limits.

The press release can be viewed at http://www.stn-international.com/newsline052010.html.

August 2009

In August 2009, STN announced the addition of legal status information to the CA/CAplus database. The new information covers US patents and includes "assignment, reassignment, and related events." For more information, please see the STN news post about the enhancements: http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/dbnews/august09.html#caplus

July 2009

In addition to the GBFULL changes mentioned below, STN announced enhancements in other areas:

• CA/CAplus was enhanced with new citing references features
• EPFULL was enhanced with first-page images and applicant-cited references provided by the European Patent Office (EPO)
• The EPO added Russian legal status data to INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB; see our INPADOC glossary entry for more info
• PATDPAFULL now supports Simultaneous Left and Right Truncation (SLART) for AB, CLM, MCLM, and TI fields
• SequenceBase, the producer of the USGENE database, has included additional bibliographic and sequence information

For more details, please see STN's announcement here: http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/dbnews/july09.html#caplus

Also in July of 2009, the GBFULL file available on STN was extended to include the full text of United Kingdom (GB) applications and granted patents back to 1855. Full text is comprehensive back to 1859, and is incomplete for earlier years. The additional data was produced by LexisNexis Univentio through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. The database is structured so that patents and their applications appear together as a single record, and abstracts are present for over 95% of applications in the database. To see the announcement of this enhancement, see the STN International press release at http://www.stn-international.com/stn_news_messages_2009.html?&cHash=e1c50d4639.

June 2009

A portion of the Beilstein database became available on STN Easy in June 2009. Beilstein provides chemical substance and property data on over 10 million substances. To read more about this enhancement, see the STN International press release at http://www.stn-international.com/beilstein_substance.html.

April 2009

In April 2009, STN announced the addition of legal status information to the USPATFULL and USPAT2 databases. The new information covers US patents and includes "assignment, reassignment, and related events." For more information, please see the STN news post about the enhancements: http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/dbnews/april09.html#uspat

February 2008

The STN Express software was updated to version 8.3. Version 8.3 features an enhanced Select Discover! Wizard window as well as improved interoperability with STN AnaVist™ and STN Viewer™. STN's statement about version 8.3 can be found here.

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