Elsevier Sales Meeting

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API EnCompassA World of Information

• Elsevier Sales Meeting
• August 10, 1999

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API EnCompass

• Created in 1954 by eight major oil companies
• Information focuses on the downstream petroleum ,
  petrochemical and natural gas industries
• Approximately 40 subscriber companies and
  organizations worldwide

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API EnCompass Subscribers
Partial List

• OIL COMPANIES
• BP/Amoco, UK
• Total Fina Elf
• Exxon, US
• Intevep, Venezuela
• Nippon Matsubishi Oil, Japan
• Shell Oil, Netherlands
• Slovnaft, Slovakia

• CHEMICAL COMPANIES
• BASF, Germany
• PATENT ORGANIZATIONS
• US Patent Office
• European Patent Office
• German Patent Office

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Overview of Products Services

• Traditional Online Files
• Literature - EiEnCompassLIT
• Patent - EiEnCompassPAT WPAM
• Internet Files
• Ei EnCompassWeb

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Overview of Products Services

• Weekly and monthly Industry Alert! bulletins
  (electronic formats)
• Literature, Patent and Business Print Indexes and
  EnCompass Thesaurus
• Document Delivery Service
• Database training program

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Products

• EiEnCompassLIT
• Focuses on worldwide petroleum-related materials
• Records derived from trade and scientific
  journals, conference proceedings, and technical
  reports
• Original abstracts plus abstracts from other
  important sources

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Products

• EiEnCompassPAT
• Covers patents from nearly 40 countries
• Contains Ei EnCompass world-renowned value-added
  indexing
• Designed to allow researchers locate all relevant
  patents with ease and confidence
• Includes special features not available
  elsewhere, such as roles and links

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Products

• WPAM
• Premier file created by Ei EnCompass and Derwent
• Combines Derwents World Patent Index (WPI) with
  EnCompass value-added indexing and section
  headings
• Contains all family information
• Eliminates cross-file searching and associated
  charges

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Products

• Industry Alert! Bulletins

• Contain original abstracts and published weekly
• Highly focused and designed for researchers and
  end-users in specific areas
• Excellent for current awareness

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Products

• Industry Alert! Bulletins

• Automotive
• Catalysts/Zeolites
• Fuel Reformulation
• Health Environment
• Natural Gas
• Oilfield Chemicals

• Petroleum Refining Petrochemicals
• Petroleum Substitutes
• Transportation Storage
• Tribology

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Products

• EnCompass Thesaurus

• The primary tool for searching the EnCompass
  technical databases
• Guided by a task force consisting of industry
  experts and the Ei EnCompass indexing staff
• Updated annually

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Other Services

• Document Delivery Service
• Database training program

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Ei EnCompass Subject Coverage
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Benefits of EnCompass Indexing

• Automatically searches all relevant narrower
  terms
• Results are comprehensive - all records retrieved
  are relative to the search term, whether or not
  the term is mentioned
• You can use words, rather than alpha-numeric
  codes

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Benefits of Ei EnCompass Subscription

• Unrestricted access to all EnCompass products and
  services, including the databases
• Unlimited access to all subsidiaries of
  subscriber organization
• Preferential pricing - 50 discount over
  nonsubscriber pricing
• One stop shopping for more efficient and
  cost-effective access to the most comprehensive
  source of downstream energy information

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Benefits of Ei EnCompass Subscription

• Access to hard-to-find patent and technical
  information
• Precision searching utilizing controlled
  vocabulary of the EnCompass Thesaurus, as well as
  other unique searching features
• Unrestricted access to Ei EnCompass Industry
  Alert bulletins