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STNGUIDE

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STNGUIDE

Search and Display Field Codes
Search Field Name

SearchCodeSearch Examples

Display
Codes

Basic Index (contains single
words from DBN, DESC,
SUBJ, SI, UA, PROD, SUPP,LA, SFIELD, PROP, DFIELD,and TFIELD)

None (or /BI)S MEDLINES CHEMICAL SAFETYS WASTE (L) MANAGEMENTS REPORT# AND INSPEC

DBN, DESC, SUBJ, SI,UA, PROD, SUPP, LA,SFIELD, PROP, DFIELD,TFIELD

Accession Number
Database Description
Database Language
Database NameDatabase Producer
Database Supplier
Display Fields
Entry Date (1)NoteProperty Fields
Search Fields
Source of Information
Subject Coverage
Thesaurus Fields
Update Date (1)User Aids/AN/DESC/LA/DBN
/PROD
/SUPP
/DFIELD/ED/NTE/PROP/SFIELD/SI/SUBJ/TFIELD/UP/UAS 826/ANS GEO?/DESC
S PHYSICS NOT GERMAN/LAS BIOSIS/DBN
S (ROYAL(L)CHEMISTRY)/PRODS JICST/SUPPS HIT/DFIELD AND AEROSPACES ED > 20120800
S ONLINE/NTE
S ENTHALPY/PROPS (PATENT(S)NUMBER)/SFIELD
S CONFERENCE/SIS (CHEMICAL(S)ENG?)/SUBJS ALL/TFIELDS UP >= 20120701
S DESCRIPTION/UAANDESC
LADBN
PROD
SUPP
DFIELD
Not displayed
NTE
PROP
SFIELDSI
SUBJTFIELD
Not displayedUA(1) Numeric field which can be searched with numeric operators or ranges.

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STNGUIDEDISPLAY and PRINT Formats
Any combination of display formats listed below can be used to display or print answers. Multiple codes must
be separated by spaces or commas, e.g., D 1-5 LA UA or D DBN, DES 5. The fields are displayed in theorder requested. Hit term highlighting is available for all fields except DATA, DFIELD, EXAMPLE, FEAT,PRICE, PROP, REPR, SFIELD, and TFIELD.
FormatContentExamples

ANDATADBNDESC
DFIELD
EXAMPLEFEATLA
NTE
PRICE
PROD
PROP
REPR
SFIELDSI
SUBJ
SUPP
TFIELD
UAGEN
DBS

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User AidsDefault Format (AN, DBN, DESC, PROD)
All information from a Database Summary Sheet (AN, DBN, DESC, SUBJ,SI, DATA, UA, PROD, SUPP, REPR, SFIELD, PROP, DFIELD, TFIELD,FEAT, EXAMPLE)DISPLAY AN
D L3 DATAD DBN 1-3
DIS DESCD DFIELD
D EXAMPLE
D FEAT L5 4
D LA 1-6
D NTE
D PRICE 5
D PROD 2 4
D PROP 1-2
D REPR 4 L2
D SFIELD 2 6
D SI 3-4, 6
DIS SUBJD SUPP 1-4
D TFIELD
D 4 5 UADD DBS

ALLDIS ALL

COVERAGEFIELDS

All display fields (AN, DBN, DESC, SUBJ, SI, DATA, LA, UA, PROD,SUPP, REPR, SFIELD, PROP, DFIELD, TFIELD, NTE, PRICE, FEAT,EXAMPLE)
AN, DBN, SUBJ, SI, DATA
AN, DBN, SFIELD, PROP, DFIELD, TFIELDHITOCCAll fields containing hit terms
List of display fields containing hit terms

D HIT 2
D OCC 1-6 L5February 2017

D COVERAGE 2
D FIELDS 1

5STNGUIDESELECT and SORT Fields
The SORT command is used to rearrange search results in either alphabetic or numeric order of sortablefields. The fields that you may use for sorting answers in the STNGUIDE File are listed below.
Sort CodeDBNLA
OCCPROD
REPR
SUPP

Definition
Database Name
Language
Occurrence count of search terms in answer record
Database Producer
Database Representative
Database Supplier

The SELECT command is used to create E-numbered lists of terms taken from a specified display field insearch answers. The display fields from which terms may be extracted in the STNGUIDE file are listedbelow.
Display CodeANDBN
DESC
LANTE
PROD
SI
SUBJ
SUPP
UA

Definition
Accession Number
Database Name
Database Description
Database Language
Note
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Source of Information
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Sample Records
DISPLAY GEN (DEFAULT)
AN207 STNGUIDEDBN CIN - Chemical Industry Notes
DESC CIN (R) (Chemical Industry Notes) is a bibliographic database covering
worldwide business events in the chemical industry since 1974.
The records contain bibliographic information, indexing, abstracts,
chemical names, and CAS Registry Numbers.
Left truncation and simultaneous left and right truncation (SLART) areavailable in the BI field.
There is an online thesaurus for the Geographic Term (/GT) field.
This file participates in the STN Information Keep & Share Program. EnterHELP SHARETERMS for more information.
The FOCUS command may be used with answer sets created in this file torearrange the search results to place the more relevant answers at thestart of a new L-number.
This file may be used in a multifile SDI.
This file is available on STN Easy. CIN is available in the following STN
Easy categories: Business and Drug News.
CIN is a member of the following file clusters: AGRICULTURE, ALLBIB,BIOSCIENCE, BUSINESS, CASRNS, CHEMENG, CHEMISTRY, COMPANIES, ENGINEERING,ENVIRONMENT, FUELS, GOVREGS, HEALTH, MATERIALS, METALS, PETROLEUM,PHARMACOLOGY, POLYMERS, and SAFETY.
PROD Chemical Abstracts Service2540 Olentangy River RoadP.O. Box 3012
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STNGUIDEDISPLAY COVERAGE
AN826 STNGUIDEDBN PQSCITECH - ProQuest Science and Technology Database
SUBJ Aerospace engineering; AIDS & cancer research; Agrology; Amino acids,peptides & proteins; Animal behaviour; Automotive engineering;
Bacteriology; Bioengineering; Biological membranes; Biotechnology(agricultural, medical, environmental, marine & pharmaceutical); Businessand industry news; Calcium & calcified tissue; Chemoreception; Civilengineering; Computers and information systems; Condensed matter physics;
Earthquake engineering; Ecology; Electronics and communication;
Entomology; Environmental engineering; Forensic engineering; Genetics(plant, animal, & human); Health & safety science; Human genome research;
Human population & natural resource management; Immunology; Managementissues; Mechanical engineering; Metallurgy and materials science;
Microbiology; Molecular biology; Mycology; Neurosciences; Nucleic acids;Oncogenes & growth factors; Protozoology; Risk assessment; Toxicology;
Virology; Zoology
SIJournals; Books; Conference proceedings; Patents
DATA 1962 to the present; More than 27.2 million records (07/12); Updated
monthly; Automatic current-awareness searches (SDIs) are run monthly

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STNGUIDEDISPLAY SFIELD from STNGUIDESFIELD=================================================================||||SEARCH |SEARCH|DISPLAY| CODE |EXAMPLE|CODES============================+=======+===============+==============
Basic Index (contains single|None|S MEDLINE|DBN, DESC,words from DBN, DESC, SUBJ, |(or/BI)|S CERAMIC ABSTR|SUBJ, SI,||ACTS|UA, PROD,SI, UA, PROD, SUPP, LA,||S WASTE (L) MAN|SUPP, LA,||AGEMENT|SFIELD, PROP,SFIELD, PROP, DFIELD, and||S REPORT# AND I|DFIELD, TFIELDTFIELD)||NSPEC|Accession Number|/AN|S 826/AN|AN
Database Description|/DESC |S GEO?/DESC|DESC
Database Language|/LA|S PHYSICS NOT G|LA||ERMAN/LA|
Database Name|/DBN
|S BIOSIS/DBN|DBN
Database Producer|/PROD |S (ROYAL(L)CHEM|PROD||ISTRY)/PROD|
Database Supplier|/SUPP |S JICST/SUPP|SUPP
Display Fields|/DFIELD|S HIT/DFIELD AN|DFIELD||D AEROSPACE|Entry Date (1)|/ED|S ED > 20120800|NOT DISPLAYEDNote|/NTE|S ONLINE/NTE|NTE
Property Fields|/PROP |S ENTHALPY/PROP|PROP
Search Fields|/SFIELD|S (PATENT(S)NUM|SFIELD||BER)/SFIELD|
Source of Information|/SI|S CONFERENCE/SI|SI
Subject Coverage|/SUBJ |S (CHEMICAL(S)E|SUBJ||NG?)/SUBJ|Thesaurus Fields|/TFIELD|S ALL/TFIELD|TFIELD
Update Date (1)|/UP|S UP >= 2012070|NOT DISPLAYED||1|
User Aids|/UA|S DESCRIPTION/U|UA||A|SEARCH FIELD NAME

(1) Numeric field which can be searched with numeric operators or ranges.

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