STN and STN-Easy

What is STN? ---  STN stands for Scientific and Technical information Network. STN International (SM) is a service providing online access to a collection of essential science and technology databases.

What is STNEasy?

STNEasy provides point-and-click web access to the most popular STN International databases. You can quickly learn to use STNEasy’s user-friendly interface to search for sci/tech data and references. Through STNEasy you have access to up-to-date, specific, and accurate information from a variety of selected key scientific, technical, business, and patent databases.

STN Easy provides easy and convenient web access to publications and patents from all major areas of science and technology.  With STN Easy, no command-language, training or manual is required.

To retrieve the information you need, just

    * enter specific key words relating to the subject of interest, or use author or inventor, chemical name, CAS Registry Number, journal title, publication year, language, etc. - or any combination of these search terms
    * select the publication you want to see from the title hit list to display the detailed record
    * access the full text of your selected publication or patent electronically - if available - or order it directly via the STN Full-Text Solution

What other sophisticated features does STN Easy offer you?

    * 4 search modes "Easy Search", "Advanced Search", "CAS Number Search" and "Patent Lookup" tab
    * Relevance ranking of results and identification of duplicate answers
    * Boolean operators, right truncation, and automatic search for plurals
    * Saved Search Terms for Recall: Option to save partial search definitions for later recall
    * Defined Searches: Option to save entire search strategies for later execution with a single click
    * Option to refine your search
    * Images integrated in text results, if available
    * Hyperlinks in results to e.g., citations, cited references, CAS Numbers, and crossover search from CAS Registry
    * Secure session (https:)
    * Search results kept for 4 days in html, pdf, and rtf-format
    * Interfaces in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese