A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF

RESEARCH

Stuart Doig

ProQuest

Introducing the New

• Intro

• Content Overview

• Overview of Key Features

• Search Platform in Action

• Get more information

• Question Time

ProQuest Dialog – Agenda

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ProQuest Dialog

• The broadest collection of authoritative content

from the world’s leading specialized publishers

• The Largest Integrated Patent and Prior Art Collection

• A single precision search solution for all levels of users

from novice to skilled to expert searcher

• Unique workflow tools to support these industries

Pharmaceuticals Patents Engineering News and Trade

A global solution for research and management of critical information

to help organizations make informed decisions and fuel new discoveries.

ProQuest Dialog™ - Content at a Glance

• 40+ Patent Databases

• 60+ Engineering databases

• 50+ Biomedical databases

• 20+ News and Trade databases

• 3M+ Dissertations and Theses

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Patents Collection – Content Overview

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SEARCH the value-add content found in ProQuest’s 7 specialized database

INPADOC ProQuest Dialog complete and patent family

Derwent World Patents Index Derwent patent family, abstracts, assignees

Patents Citation Index Backward and forward citation coverage

IFI CLAIMS US patents Unique, enhanced, exclusive content

LitAlert US patent and trademark litigations

IMS Patents Focus Drug patent families

Derwent Chemistry Resource Link a chemical search to a patent in DWPI

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….TOGETHER with the breadth of content found in our global, full text patent collection

Full text for 33 patent authorities

Bibliographic information for additional 65 patent authorities

LNU patent families complete and simple EPO families for 95 authorities

Translations including Asian full text translations

Legal status including family legal status

Cited and citing references cited patent and literature references

Images clipped front page image

Non-Latin character sets Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Greek

- search and display

PDFs original patent document for many countries

Engineering

Premier Engineering Content

Ei Compendex

Inspec

SciSearch

ProQuest SciTech and Engineering

Discipline Specific Content

GEOREF – Tulsa (Petroleum Abstracts)

Iconda - TRIS

PIRA – RAPRA

NTIS

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Comprehensive collection of high quality databases

covering all areas of Scientific and Technical Research

Pharma

Leading Content

Embase

Medline

Biosis

SciSearch - Current Contents

Adis - IMS

Industry Specific Databases

CAB Abstracts - FSTA

PsycInfo

Incidence & Prevalence

Pascal

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Comprehensive collection of key biomedical literature from

the worlds leading publishers

News & Trade

Cross Sector News

ProQuest Newsstand Professional: consumer news,

business activity and economic conditions

Cross Sector Trade

ABI/INFORM Professional / Market Research: supports

broad, in-depth business research inc. management best

practices, market research

Gale Trade Databases: new Technologies, product

launches, recent partnerships and market commentary

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Actively managed collection of high quality news and trade resources

form the world’s leading media publishers

Overview of key features

• Flexible and Configurable Database Selection

• Powerful, Precision Search tools for all Users

• Configurable, Intuitive Output Reporting

• Easy to Use, Customizable Alerting System

• Powerful Administrative Tools

• Flexible Pricing to Manage Costs

• Unparalleled, industry-leading customer support,

staffed by expert searchers available, when and how you need it

ProQuest Dialog – The Search Platform

ProQuest Dialog – The Search Platform

Default Landing Page

Powerful Precision Search for All Users

Easy-to-use tools for end users

• Enter any term and then refine search with easy to use filters in the results list

• No knowledge of mnemonics required

• Dictionaries are available to support

users with constructing queries:

• Autocomplete

• US/UK spellings

• Pluralization

Basic Search

for the novice searcher

Powerful Precision Search for All Users

Easy-to-use tools for end users

• Easy to fill in form

• Patent number normalization

• The power of the field level search

without knowing the search fields!

Look Up Patent

for the novice searcher

Powerful Precision Search for All Users

Precision search tools for the info pro

Advanced Search

for the skilled searcher

• Visual cues to help user understand important fields

• Available fields are dynamic to databases being used

• Supports learning curve, enabling use of limiters and field tags even without previous experience

Powerful Precision Search for All Users

Precision search tools for the info pro

Search is precise, free, fast, and enhances discovery for all users!

Command Line

for the expert searcher

• Track and build interactively complex multi-set searches

• Full exploit of the power of the search syntax

• Copy and paste strategies in expandable box

Powerful Precision Search for All Users

Precision Search Syntax For Power Users

• Broad and precise search fields

• Unlimited left-hand, right-hand,

and middle truncation

• Logical and Proximity operators

• Syntax abbreviations to save time searching

• Set Building

• Large work area to build and edit complex

search strategies

Additional tools support all users

Graphical thesauri, browse lookups, results filters,

lateral search, search history

User interface tools enable all users to increase the

precision of their searches and get to an answer quickly

Use Preview to help assessing

the relevance of the results and

quick access to extended

formats and other actions.

Narrow and Visual Filters

Visual filters with ranked reports of key fields

A number of powerful yet simple to use tools quickly

accessible to help you refine and analyze your results

Building the search with different entry points

Inventor Count

Materna, P A 10

West, T G 7

Bradbury, T J 7

Murphy, K 6

CALDARISE, S 6

Saini, S 5

Warner, A V 5

KHATIWALA, C 5

Cima, M J 4

Dorfman, S 4

GAYLO, C M 4

Caruso, A B 4

Monkhouse, D 4

Sachs, E 4

Serdy, J 4

SHAROBIEM, J 4

Yaszemski, M 4

Analyzing the results

• Top Inventors

• Leading Countries

• Distribution over time

Manage Costs with Flexible Pricing

Site license

Commitment

Pay-as-you-go

• Search is always free – you’ll only pay for the information you use

• Monitor usage patterns across your organization

• Track projects for accurate billing back to departments or clients

• Easily manage budgets for predictable spending with unique flexible

pricing plans

Linking: An Integrated Research System

• To provide the best prior art research tool on the market, ProQuest

is developing an integrated linking solution for our patent and non

patent literature databases.

– Quickly link from patent to patent in the citing references, family

tables, and bibliographic data.

– Quickly link from the cited scientific and news articles in the

references field of a patent document to the prior art cited.

• With this functionality, ProQuest exposes the depth and breadth of

the underlying content with easy navigation.

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What’s next

Write to us! Stuart.doig@proquest.com