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The Catalyst: The Swain Library Newsletter

February 1997

U.S. Patents Database Available via the Web
Socrates II – Pre-Release Version

U.S. Patents Database Available via the Web

IBM is now providing access to over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last seventeen years of images. The first entries date back to January 5, 1971. You can search, retrieve and study over two million patents. Presently, the server lets you search for patents by number or by words in the inventor, title, abstract, assignee, agent, and claims fields.

URL: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/ibm.html

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Socrates II - Pre-Release Version

Socrates II, the new Web-based library catalog being developed by Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, is available for use (http://sucat.stanford.edu/). It is not yet a complete catalog of library resources at Stanford. Not included are records for:

Lane Medical Library
Jackson Library (Graduate School of Business)
Stanford University Archives
Hoover East Asian Collection
Technical Reports

To search for their records, continue to use Socrates (telnet) on Folio.

Some New Features – Socrates II allows you to:

Search anything indexed in the full record.
Search by publisher and place of publication.
Search contents notes.
Do proximity searching.
Sort results (for up to 50 citations).
Email results in a format for use in EndNote or ProCite.
Use subject, author, and series links to search for like items.

Use the Help and ? buttons on catalog screens for more informationon searching and features. Use the Tell Us button at the top of each screen to give us your comments and suggestions.

During this pre-release period Socrates II is limited to the Stanford community. Others should telnet to forsythetn.stanford.edu and enter "socrates" at the Account: prompt to search our online catalog.