Information professionals can depend on STN for access to comprehensive patent and sci-tech information and advanced tools for search and analysis.

For intellectual property professionals we offer patent and literature databases from all over the world for answering questions related to:

• Patentability
• Prior art
• Competitive intelligence
• Legal status
• Freedom-to-operate

For professional searchers in the sci-tech and medical area STN offers an unsurpassed collection of essential databases covering a wide range of topics, including bioscience and biotechnology, chemistry, energy, engineering, material science, medicine, pharmacology, physics, and toxicology. In addition, STN provides the largest repository of publicly available bio-sequence information from patents and the journal literature

To access the databases, information professionals can use the following interfaces:

• STN Express - Desktop access to all STN databases with a variety of analysis and post-processing tools - the most popular choice for Information Professionals
• STN on the Web^SM - All the power of STN anytime, anywhere for experienced online searchers

To analyze or visualize your data, take advantage of:

• STN AnaVist™ features and capabilities for efficiently analyzing and interpreting information retrieved from scientific and patent databases
• STN Viewer™ features for simple management and evaluation of full-text patent documents from STN Express answer sets

The full-text of documents for all references which have been retrieved in STN databases can be accessed via the STN Full-Text Solution.