STN File FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts) has been reloaded
and moves to weekly updates.
FSTA has been reloaded and moves to weekly updates as of January 27,
2002.
At the same time, SDIs will also switch to the weekly schedule.
Additionally FSTA has been enhanced with some fields and features.
The new features are:
- stopwords are no longer used in the file
- simultaneous left and right truncations is available in the basic
index
- new search field Controlled Word (/CW)
- new search and custom display fields Reference Count (/REC) and Word
Count, Title (WC.T)
- new display format SCAN
- patent and priority information are now searchable and displayable
in both the STN and the DERWENT format (10% of FSTA is patents)
For more information see HELP DIR in the file.
Prices for FSTA have not been changed.
The revised database summary sheet will be shortly available online
in STNGUIDE as of (=> s FSTA/DBN), and on the Web at:
http://info.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/fstass.html
Further information on FSTA can be found at www.ifis.org
Regards
Rob
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Robert Austin
Regional Sales Manager USA
FIZ Karlsruhe
376 Carter Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
Tel: 1 609 333 1466
Fax: 1 609 333 8838
mailto:robert.austin@fiz-k.com
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