November 2004
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New opportunities in Open Access The trend toward open access to scholarly resources grows stronger. Thomson Scientific is helping customers take advantage of the opportunities it brings by reviewing our journal coverage, building new full-text links, and tailoring our product development around new information needs. FULL STORY> |
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Patent data mining and portfolio management There are many tools that help put patent mining theory into practice. Knowing how to use them can be a key element in developing a commercially successful patent management strategy. FULL STORY> |
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Century of Science delivers ground-breaking research Web of Science coverage will soon expand dramatically with the addition of bibliographic information covering core scientific literature published 1900-1944. Web of Science users will be able to access over 850,000 indexed journal items from more than 200 scientific journals published in the first half of the twentieth century. FULL STORY> |
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Managing IP in South Korea Intellectual property law in South Korea continues to be considered perilous, but shows some signs of improvement. This article includes examples of how a business attempting to operate successfully there needs to protect their intellectual property. FULL STORY> |
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Asian scientists make their mark on research Thomson Scientific recently recognized trend-setting scientists and research in Asia with a celebratory event in Tokyo paying tribute to 16 Japanese scientists in 13 research fields. Chinese researchers are also making an impressive mark internationally, with a 2,000% increase in the volume of work indexed in Web of Science in the last quarter century. FULL STORY> |
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Polymerization catalysts past, present, and future We probably could not imagine life in the 21st century without polymers: almost everything today is made from "plastic". Based on patenting trends, we take a look at the next generation of olefin polymerisation catalysts, likely to be the late transition metal catalysts. FULL STORY> |
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BiologyBrowser: Access to evaluated Websites BiologyBrowser provides free access to a database of approximately 25,000 human-evaluated Web links describing the natural world. Content includes BIOSIS information resources such as the Nomenclatural Glossary for Zoology and Zoological Record Thesaurus, plus links to current biological science news, web sites, and more. FULL STORY> |
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Patent trends in the fuel cell industry From space-race era technology to modern ecological messiah, the fuel cell has caused mass media interest. This report describes the explosive rise in fuel cell patenting, and discusses problems that must be overcome before fuel cells can become mass-market items. FULL STORY> |