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DAUGAZ, the first international gas industry data bank accessible online
Literature
10. Information
provision
at the stage of
estimating scientific and technical require-
ments
and experiF. Knyihev. iVauchno-Tekh. Inf: Ser. I (U.S.S.R.) 1986. No. IO. pp. 7-9.. Special ‘features ‘of the provision of information for scientific research and experimental design projects at the stage of estimating the scientific research effort needed for development and installation for production is examined, and the uay in which it is implemented is described. The need for clear delineation of responsibility between the main users of scientific research work, experimental design work, experimental engineering work, specialists carrying out information and patent research and workers responsible for the design and installation of production facilities is stressed. mental
for scientific
research
design projects.
V.
11. Information services and document supply bv libraries of technical universities. K: Bbchk (Technische Hochschule, KarlMarx-Stadt. Germanv). Informarik (Germany) 1986; Vol. 33,-ho. 6, pp. 2301232. Starting offfrom the increasing automation of information work the author discusses the position of technical libraries and their new tasks within said nrocess. Further conclusions are derived fr&omthe beginning delineation of university libraries as storage centres for literature as well as the increasing concentration of information sources and media. Using as an example the library of the Technische Hochschule Karl-Marx-Stadt, the author illustrates the utilization of the reading room for information media, the polytechnical patent library and the university and special-edition library. 12. Alternatives to system optimization. VI. Integrated information systems in patents documentation. J. Stillger. Mikrodok (Germany) November-&ember 1986, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 210-214. Following the discussion of estimates of capacity requirements of patents documentation archiving systems, the article reviews methods available for machine-readable documentation storage and retrieval. The problems encountered in the attempts at international standardisation of patent documentation processing are considered. 13. Reflections of a lawyer-end user, Weston, CT, U.S.A., 4-6 November 1986. N. D. Finke. Online, Weston, CT, U.S.A. 1986. VII+266 DD. 73-75. There are a number of databases, particularly the laree. full-text databases such as Westlaw andYiexis, that are specifically designed for use by lawyers. Theie are other databases, which are not so distinctive in their makeup, such as patent/trademark databases or leeal biblioeraohic databases which mieht. al‘ihough &h’ less justification, alsovb; called neculiarlv ‘leeal’. Lawvers are verv eclectic, their fcelds of specialization may lead them to use practically any online source available. The focus of this presentation is on recent developments in legal databases. ”
J
14. Patent basics: history backeround. and fundamentals: E. G. Brbwn. (Department of Government Publications and Maps, New Mexico University Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.) Gov. If: Q. (U.S.A.) 1986, Vol. 3, No.4,pp. 381-405. searching
Review
The U.S. patent systems and the body of issued patents are key elements in meeting information needs related to technoloev and innovation. Most librarians, howeve;, have little understanding of the value of patents as source of technilogical information - and less knowledge about how to help users tap what has been called ‘the largest and most comprehensive body of technological literature in the world’. This article attempts to provide a sufficient background on patent fundamentals to allow librarians to assist or refer users who would benefit by the use of patents. Detailed patent searching instructions are provided for staff in government printing office depository libraries to use materials available through the depository program. The value of uti1isin.g one of the 58 Patent Depository Libraries to enhance and expedite the search process is highlighted and online searching options are introduced. 15. DAUGAZ. The first international gas industry data ‘bank accessible online. “A. Uvodic and A. Collomb. Rev. Energ. (France) August-September 1986, Vol. 37, No. 385, pp. 690-695. The research and develonment division (DETN) of Gaz de France’ decided to computerize its documentation system. Two years later the documentation and patent rights section set the DAUGAZ bibliographic data bank into operation. The objective was to make the documentation of the DETN more widely accessible to users in a context of growing interrelation between technological fields and rapid development of techniques; and contribute to the promotion, of the work and achievements of the French Gas Industry, given the role played by bibliographic data banks throughout the world in the spread of information. The develooment of DAUGAZ has been backed up by significant resources which include: numerous conversational terminals for transmission of information to the point where it is needed in Gaz de France, and new documentary software making it possible to search bibliographic entries by way of the text itself and no longer by key words only. 16. Patents and other intellectual property rights. Stephen Powell. Phys Technol. January 1987, Vol. IS, No. 1, pp. 11-16. Patents and other forms of intellectual property rights can provide inventors and desieners with sienficant benefits: nrotectkn of the resul& of their own work-and useful information on the achievements of others. Considered are criteria for patentability, domestic and foreign pateni, costs of oatent anolications. structure of oatent spe’cificatidri, exploitaiion of a pate& and future of oatent laws. 17. Patent groups and their relationship with journal lit&at&e. T. S. Eisenschitz, k. M. Lazard and C. J. Willey (City University, London, U.K.). J. I$ Sci. (Amsterdam) 1986, Vol. 12, No. l-2, pp. 53-58. Two samples of British patents and patent applications published in 1980 were assembled concerning pharmaceuticals and food preparations.-Other patents were sought, published in the five years either side of 1980, which marked out an extended research programme including the original 1980 patent. About half the
203
1980
sample
belonged
to groups.
The
overlap of patents with journal publications concerning anv asnect of grouD programmes way sought for a sample df arouos.
These
were
found
to be much
rarge; than the overlaps- between one patent and one article; 60.2% for pharmaceuticals and 25.7% for food preparation patents. They reflect more accurately the disclosure of patent information to the wider scientific community. 18. Chemical information from Information Services. Peter F.
Dialog
Rusch (Dialog Information Services Inc., Palo Alto. CA. U.S.A.). J. Chem. Inf: Sri. August 1985, Vol. i5, No. 3, pp. 162-197. The Dialog Information retrieval software was desig>ed in the 1960s to provide interactive searching of large databases by in both alphanumeric search terms, boolean and proximity operations. Chemical information databases were adapted to this storage and retrieval system in {he 1970s leading to the first &line availability of Chemical Industry Notes, CA Index Guide, CA Patent Concordance, and the CA Subject Index Alert (CASIA) in combination with the CA Condensates File. Complementary chemical substance databases were created with unique features and enhanced content. The sources, derivation, and uses of these online databases and many of the search terms are described. 19. Using a patent database to boost R & D. Jack W. Simpson (Mead Data Central, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.). Des new (Boston) I8 February 1985, Vol. 41. No. 4, pp. 8991. Lexpat is a patent database system, which was created to contain the full text of nearly 800 000 patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The system permits a very easy yet sophisticated type ofsearching involving the use of a combination of concepts. Every word or number in the database is an entry into an inverted file or concordance. The entry is followed by a string of numbers that specify the location of that entry in the text. By using these address markers, the computer can recall from the concordance, all documents related to specified words, names or numbers entered by the user. 20. Delivery of German patent inforamtion. Gerd Tittlbach (Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstine, West Germany). J. Chem. In/ dimput. Sci. February i986, Vol. 26, No. I, pp. 13-17. This paper will discuss current *and short-dated planned online patent information services offered via the STN Node Karlsruhe. Special attention is addressed to ongoing developments in extending the access to the German Patent Database PATDPA containing both text and graphical representations. The novel features will be the joint storage of text and drawings in one database, the conversion of digitized graphical data into vector-graphics out format, and the combined transmission of text and graphics via telecommunication networks to various types of terminals. The advantages of vector graphics vs raster graphics for storing, transmitting and displaying technical drawings as well as some details of graphics handling and terminal support are outlined.
10. Information
provision
at the stage of
estimating scientific and technical require-
ments
and experiF. Knyihev. iVauchno-Tekh. Inf: Ser. I (U.S.S.R.) 1986. No. IO. pp. 7-9.. Special ‘features ‘of the provision of information for scientific research and experimental design projects at the stage of estimating the scientific research effort needed for development and installation for production is examined, and the uay in which it is implemented is described. The need for clear delineation of responsibility between the main users of scientific research work, experimental design work, experimental engineering work, specialists carrying out information and patent research and workers responsible for the design and installation of production facilities is stressed. mental
for scientific
research
design projects.
V.
11. Information services and document supply bv libraries of technical universities. K: Bbchk (Technische Hochschule, KarlMarx-Stadt. Germanv). Informarik (Germany) 1986; Vol. 33,-ho. 6, pp. 2301232. Starting offfrom the increasing automation of information work the author discusses the position of technical libraries and their new tasks within said nrocess. Further conclusions are derived fr&omthe beginning delineation of university libraries as storage centres for literature as well as the increasing concentration of information sources and media. Using as an example the library of the Technische Hochschule Karl-Marx-Stadt, the author illustrates the utilization of the reading room for information media, the polytechnical patent library and the university and special-edition library. 12. Alternatives to system optimization. VI. Integrated information systems in patents documentation. J. Stillger. Mikrodok (Germany) November-&ember 1986, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 210-214. Following the discussion of estimates of capacity requirements of patents documentation archiving systems, the article reviews methods available for machine-readable documentation storage and retrieval. The problems encountered in the attempts at international standardisation of patent documentation processing are considered. 13. Reflections of a lawyer-end user, Weston, CT, U.S.A., 4-6 November 1986. N. D. Finke. Online, Weston, CT, U.S.A. 1986. VII+266 DD. 73-75. There are a number of databases, particularly the laree. full-text databases such as Westlaw andYiexis, that are specifically designed for use by lawyers. Theie are other databases, which are not so distinctive in their makeup, such as patent/trademark databases or leeal biblioeraohic databases which mieht. al‘ihough &h’ less justification, alsovb; called neculiarlv ‘leeal’. Lawvers are verv eclectic, their fcelds of specialization may lead them to use practically any online source available. The focus of this presentation is on recent developments in legal databases. ”
J
14. Patent basics: history backeround. and fundamentals: E. G. Brbwn. (Department of Government Publications and Maps, New Mexico University Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.) Gov. If: Q. (U.S.A.) 1986, Vol. 3, No.4,pp. 381-405. searching
Review
The U.S. patent systems and the body of issued patents are key elements in meeting information needs related to technoloev and innovation. Most librarians, howeve;, have little understanding of the value of patents as source of technilogical information - and less knowledge about how to help users tap what has been called ‘the largest and most comprehensive body of technological literature in the world’. This article attempts to provide a sufficient background on patent fundamentals to allow librarians to assist or refer users who would benefit by the use of patents. Detailed patent searching instructions are provided for staff in government printing office depository libraries to use materials available through the depository program. The value of uti1isin.g one of the 58 Patent Depository Libraries to enhance and expedite the search process is highlighted and online searching options are introduced. 15. DAUGAZ. The first international gas industry data ‘bank accessible online. “A. Uvodic and A. Collomb. Rev. Energ. (France) August-September 1986, Vol. 37, No. 385, pp. 690-695. The research and develonment division (DETN) of Gaz de France’ decided to computerize its documentation system. Two years later the documentation and patent rights section set the DAUGAZ bibliographic data bank into operation. The objective was to make the documentation of the DETN more widely accessible to users in a context of growing interrelation between technological fields and rapid development of techniques; and contribute to the promotion, of the work and achievements of the French Gas Industry, given the role played by bibliographic data banks throughout the world in the spread of information. The develooment of DAUGAZ has been backed up by significant resources which include: numerous conversational terminals for transmission of information to the point where it is needed in Gaz de France, and new documentary software making it possible to search bibliographic entries by way of the text itself and no longer by key words only. 16. Patents and other intellectual property rights. Stephen Powell. Phys Technol. January 1987, Vol. IS, No. 1, pp. 11-16. Patents and other forms of intellectual property rights can provide inventors and desieners with sienficant benefits: nrotectkn of the resul& of their own work-and useful information on the achievements of others. Considered are criteria for patentability, domestic and foreign pateni, costs of oatent anolications. structure of oatent spe’cificatidri, exploitaiion of a pate& and future of oatent laws. 17. Patent groups and their relationship with journal lit&at&e. T. S. Eisenschitz, k. M. Lazard and C. J. Willey (City University, London, U.K.). J. I$ Sci. (Amsterdam) 1986, Vol. 12, No. l-2, pp. 53-58. Two samples of British patents and patent applications published in 1980 were assembled concerning pharmaceuticals and food preparations.-Other patents were sought, published in the five years either side of 1980, which marked out an extended research programme including the original 1980 patent. About half the
203
1980
sample
belonged
to groups.
The
overlap of patents with journal publications concerning anv asnect of grouD programmes way sought for a sample df arouos.
These
were
found
to be much
rarge; than the overlaps- between one patent and one article; 60.2% for pharmaceuticals and 25.7% for food preparation patents. They reflect more accurately the disclosure of patent information to the wider scientific community. 18. Chemical information from Information Services. Peter F.
Dialog
Rusch (Dialog Information Services Inc., Palo Alto. CA. U.S.A.). J. Chem. Inf: Sri. August 1985, Vol. i5, No. 3, pp. 162-197. The Dialog Information retrieval software was desig>ed in the 1960s to provide interactive searching of large databases by in both alphanumeric search terms, boolean and proximity operations. Chemical information databases were adapted to this storage and retrieval system in {he 1970s leading to the first &line availability of Chemical Industry Notes, CA Index Guide, CA Patent Concordance, and the CA Subject Index Alert (CASIA) in combination with the CA Condensates File. Complementary chemical substance databases were created with unique features and enhanced content. The sources, derivation, and uses of these online databases and many of the search terms are described. 19. Using a patent database to boost R & D. Jack W. Simpson (Mead Data Central, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.). Des new (Boston) I8 February 1985, Vol. 41. No. 4, pp. 8991. Lexpat is a patent database system, which was created to contain the full text of nearly 800 000 patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The system permits a very easy yet sophisticated type ofsearching involving the use of a combination of concepts. Every word or number in the database is an entry into an inverted file or concordance. The entry is followed by a string of numbers that specify the location of that entry in the text. By using these address markers, the computer can recall from the concordance, all documents related to specified words, names or numbers entered by the user. 20. Delivery of German patent inforamtion. Gerd Tittlbach (Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstine, West Germany). J. Chem. In/ dimput. Sci. February i986, Vol. 26, No. I, pp. 13-17. This paper will discuss current *and short-dated planned online patent information services offered via the STN Node Karlsruhe. Special attention is addressed to ongoing developments in extending the access to the German Patent Database PATDPA containing both text and graphical representations. The novel features will be the joint storage of text and drawings in one database, the conversion of digitized graphical data into vector-graphics out format, and the combined transmission of text and graphics via telecommunication networks to various types of terminals. The advantages of vector graphics vs raster graphics for storing, transmitting and displaying technical drawings as well as some details of graphics handling and terminal support are outlined.