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Welcome to STN Easy for Intranets
STN Easy for Intranets enables you, the information professional, to create customized sites and workgroup pages for your end-users within your corporate intranet. You can offer more than 100 sci-tech databases from your intranet and a number of value-added services to provide your end-users an optimum assistance in obtaining information.

STN Easy for Intranets benefits the information professional:

If you are designated as STN Easy for Intranets Site Administrator, you can:

  • Easily authenticate STN Easy for Intranets users via their IP address; login IDs and passwords are not needed

  • Customize content, appearance, and access to the full text of original documents:
    • Databases and categories
      • Create custom database categories - even include subscriber files !
      • Select existing STN Easy categories
    • Colors and fonts
    • STN Easy search modes
    • User preferences, e.g.
      • enable/disable cost displays
      • enable/disable access to linked data or eScience®
    • Corporate logo, links and welcome text
    • Chemport full-text options - by using the STN Site Administration Tool (SAT) "Full Text Solution"

  • New! Create customized Workgroup pages tailored to the specific needs for your project teams or user groups

  • Use your expertise to set up and maintain current-awareness alerts (SDIs) in any of the 200+ sci-tech databases on STN and easily deliver alerts results to your STN Easy for Intranets site and/or workgroups

  • Lend searching assistance to your end-users and/or workgroups through Predefined Searches - leaving more of your time for mission-critical work

  • Track the amount of money that is spent on searching, by charge-back-code for individuals, groups, or projects

  • Access usage reports that show usage for either the Intranets page or for individual Workgroups via STN Easy for Intranets Site Statistics

  • Increase your visibility by providing links to your information department and services

  • Set up and maintain your STN Easy for Intranets site and Workgroup pages without programming knowledge or IT-support
    • No software needs to be installed
    • The easy-to-use STN Easy for Intranets Setup Assistant guides you through the customizations process
    • Conveniently modify your setup, if needed - whenever you want

There is no setup fee to create an STN Easy for Intranets site for your organization. Standard STN Easy charges apply to searches and standard STN charges apply to alerts and Posted Results.

 

STN Easy for Intranets:

  • no programming or HTML knowledge needed
  • Setup Assistant helps you design your customized STN Easy for Intranets site and Workgroup Pages
  • choose your own STN Easy databases for end-users´ information search
  • offer value-added services to end-users, e.g. provide alerts results and create Predefined Searches

Finding scientific and technical information has never been easier!

Just follow these easy steps to set up your
STN Easy for Intranets Site!

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See how it works:

Steps to Setup

What´s new 06/03

New! Workgroups

Alerts feature

Predefined Searches

Info Sheet (PDF)