6^th July, Burlington House, London     

7^th July, University Conference Centre, Manchester     

STN Headlines 

Keep pace with the latest STN news, including new databases and features. Learn about:

• New patent databases on STN, including EPFULL (full text of European patents) and GBFULL (full text of patents from Great Britain)
• Enhancements to CAplusSM and REGISTRY, including new physicochemical property data
• Reloaded and enhanced databases on STN, including EMBASE, MEDLINE®, and the CSA family of databases    

Using STN to Find Promising New Areas for Research

Learn how to use STN to find promising new areas of research, such as stem cell research and technology, and discover techniques for exploring relevant journal literature and international patents on STN .   

Developing Efficient Search Strategies

Ever been in the situation where you've got too many or too few answers and you don't know what to do next?  This session will explore the best ways to "free-text" search and navigate through large answer sets in a cost-effective manner.  Techniques to get the best from CA Lexicon and then take advantage of such strategies in other files which employ a thesaurus will be discussed.

Chemical and Physical Property Searching on STN

This session will give an overview of property databases on STN and will look at ways to use the new experimental and calculated properties that have been added to REGISTRY file records. Using property tags to find references with certain property specifications mentioned will be discussed.

New Approaches for Analysis of STN Data -  STN Express® V8.0 and preview of STN® AnaVistT 

The biggest challenge facing information professionals today beyond obtaining results is understanding those results and preparing them for meaningful presentation to others. In this session, we will:

• Explore techniques for better analysis of answer sets from STN searches
• Demonstrate the use of data grouping techniques and show how their use can lead to more relevant analysis results
• Preview the powerful capabilities of STN® AnaVistT software for interactive visualization of search results from CAplus, USPATFULL and PCTFULL    

This session is free and lunch will be provided. To attend please send a message to the e-mail address below by 24^th June 2005.