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New on STN

May 2012

Removal of BABS, GMELIN97 and INIS from STN

April 2012

RSS Delivery for STN Alerts (SDIs) is Now Available on STN

April 2012

CAS Expands Global Patent Coverage - The Eurasian Patent Organization Becomes 63rd Authority on CA/CAplus

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Convegno AIDB 2012, Vicenza, May 15-16

Third China IP Forum and Innovation Exhibition, Taizhou, May 24-27

STN User Meetings

München, 22.05.2012
Gothenburg, 23.05.2012
Stockholm, 24.05.2012

Solutions for Information Professionals

Information professionals can depend on STN for access to comprehensive patent and sci-tech information and advanced tools for search and analysis.

For intellectual property professionals we offer patent and literature databases from all over the world for answering questions related to:

  • Patentability
  • Prior art
  • Competitive intelligence
  • Legal status
  • Freedom-to-operate

For professional searchers in the sci-tech and medical area STN offers an unsurpassed collection of essential databases covering a wide range of topics, including bioscience and biotechnology, chemistry, energy, engineering, material science, medicine, pharmacology, physics, and toxicology. In addition, STN provides the largest repository of publicly available bio-sequence information from patents and the journal literature

To access the databases, information professionals can use the following interfaces:

  • STN Express - Desktop access to all STN databases with a variety of analysis and post-processing tools - the most popular choice for Information Professionals
  • STN on the WebSM - All the power of STN anytime, anywhere for experienced online searchers

To analyze or visualize your data, take advantage of:

  • STN AnaVist™ features and capabilities for efficiently analyzing and interpreting information retrieved from scientific and patent databases
  • STN Viewer™ features for simple management and evaluation of full-text patent documents from STN Express answer sets

The full-text of documents for all references which have been retrieved in STN databases can be accessed via the STN Full-Text Solution.