STN News

During 2022, the availability of Claims data in CA/CAplus patent records will continue to expand.

Existing search strategies are valid in the new file while you can benefit from exciting new features like cross file SDIs (SMARTracker)

On April 3, 2022 a new and enhanced version of the Derwent World Patents Index will become available which will include all DPCI data.

This expansion will help serve the growing number of life scientists using STNext to accelerate the development of the products of tomorrow.

If you are running Alerts (SDIs) in MEDLINE, we recommend reviewing them to see if the terminology in them should be expanded or replaced, based on the introduction of the new MeSH.

The latest Emtree version adds 261 new drug terms and 1,241 non-drug terms, including 21 new medical device terms. The thesaurus now contains about 92,278 preferred terms and nearly 500,000 synonyms.

To help STN users realize the full benefits and capabilities of STNext, we have compiled a series of resources to guide you through the transition to STNext.

The reload of USGENE complements the reloads of the biosequence files GENESEQ and PATGENE last year.

From DWPI update 2022001 onwards the DWPI Manual Codes will be indexed with the revised 2022 set of codes.

The patent sequence database GENESEQ, produced by Clarivate and providing coverage of nucleic acid and protein sequences has been reloaded and enhanced.