FIZ Karlsruhe launches new defensive publication database RDISCLOSURE on STN International

Unrivalled source of prior art disclosures with over 27,000 records/ Full text and images / user-friendly search features

Karlsruhe, Germany (PRWEB) May 11, 2003 -- FIZ Karlsruhe, one of Europes leading providers of information services, and European partner of premier science and technology online service STN International, has launched RDISCLOSURE, the most significant non-patent prior art database in the world, containing cutting edge disclosures going back decades. Industrial patent searchers, legal firms and individual inventors wishing to locate prior art, check for patentability or undertake validity or opposition searches, will all find RDISCLOSURE on STN a convenient and powerful information access.

Produced by Kenneth Mason Publications Ltd., Westbourne, Hants, United Kingdom, RDISCLOSURE provides the full text including images of technical disclosure records from the defensive publication journal Research Disclosure. For over 40 years Research Disclosure has held an unrivalled place as the primary rapid-disclosure mechanism for companies and individual inventors wishing to place their research findings in the public domain. Research Disclosure is the only dedicated rapid disclosure journal included in the PCT Minimum Documentation, ensuring its use during search examination by all leading patent offices or national IP authorities around the world.

The Database RDISCLOSURE covers descriptions of inventions from all areas of science and technology, i.e. all classes of the IPC, and contains records from 1960 to the present. It is updated monthly. Current-awareness alerts (SDIs) are also available monthly.
The records comprise the title, a detailed description and illustrations of the invention, as well as a statement as to whether the invention is disclosed anonymously or by company name. The full text is loaded in ASCII for search and display. Page images of the complete records including all illustrations can be displayed in TIFF format.

In order to pinpoint relevant information quickly and effectively in RDISCLOSURE, STN users can utilise a range of powerful proprietary full-text retrieval tools. The SLART (Simultaneous Left and Right Truncation) feature, for example, allows wildcards and truncation to be used on both sides of a search term, enabling users to locate multiple variations of a word or phrase, and so achieve a greater degree of precision in their searches.

STN International can be accessed by dialling into STNs online service using its user-friendly client software STN Express with Discover! Alternatively, it can be accessed directly over the Internet using a standard web browser (http://stnweb.fiz-karlsruhe.de or secure server: https://stnweb.fiz-karlsruhe.de). At a later time, RDISCLOSURE may also be available in STN Easy®, the point-and-click interface for occasional searchers unfamiliar with the STN command language.

For further information please contact:

FIZ Karlsruhe
STN Europe
P.O. Box 2465
76012 Karlsruhe
Germany
Phone: +49-7247-808-555
Fax +49-7247-808-259
E-mail: helpdesk@fiz-karlsruhe.de
   http://www.stn-international.de

Press Contact:
Rüdiger Mack
Phone: +49-7247-808-513, Fax: +49-7247-808-136
E-mail: Ruediger.Mack@fiz-karlsruhe.de

Note to Editors: A non-profit scientific service institution, FIZ Karlsruhe produces and markets scientific and technical information services in print and electronic form worldwide. In cooperation with national and international institutions, FIZ Karlsruhe produces databases in the fields of energy, nuclear research and technology, crystallography, plastics, mathematics, computer science and physics. FIZ Karlsruhe also provides a search service for R&D in corporations and institutions.
FIZ Karlsruhe also operates STN International in Europe. STN International (The Scientific & Technical Information Network) is one of the worlds leading online services offering access to bibliographic, factual and full-text databases in science and technology. At present, STNs comprehensive product range encompasses more than 220 databases with approx. 400 million documents from all fields of science and technology, among them the worlds largest and most important patent files.
STN International is jointly operated by FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany; Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Columbus, OH, USA; and the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo.