There are also multidisciplinary informations on business, conferences, and research projects. Many databases are grouped in clusters which allow easy multifile access. For more written general information, please e-mail to the STN Help Desk in Karlsruhe. If you are not a customer of STN, find short database descriptions on this server or check the Chemical Abstracts Service WWW server for entire database summary sheets . Literature and factual databases have been available since databases came into use.
Literature databases contain literature citations and factual databases contain numerical data.
This rough distinction has maintained itself to the present although a whole spectrum of database types has emerged. The following database types can be distinguished. Go to the STN User Documentation page to see what kind of database specific documentation is available. Element Terms , a handy tool to search for materials. Our chemists are interested in keeping track of any patents dealing with therapeutic uses of taxol derivatives.