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  • AUGUST 2007
    In the section Databases & Service reviews has been added an extensive review on aerospace information.
    It includes the history of the American and European approach to cover aerospace information, a review and comparison of the available aerospace databases, a comparison of the coverage between the aerospace databases and the more general scientific and technological databases and finally the contribution to the aerospace databases by the European countries.

  • AUGUST 2007
    EINS has made available the Immage Training file (file241). This file is during August available to all users free-of-charge. As of 1 September it will be charged on an hourly rate just like the INSPEC training file. All pricelists have been updated.

  • APRIL 2006
    Cineca launches new service: Data and Text Mining, an analysing tool for patents and Medline. For an article on this new service, please click here.

  • JANUARY 2006
    In concordance with our database producers and partners some price changes have been made effective 1 January 2006. For detailed information on database specific prices please see the pricelist of your country. Click on About us and then Prices

  • JANUARY 2006
    Telnet will no longer be supported by Cineca as of 1 January 2006. Please use the command mode or the easy mode.

  • DECEMBER 2005
    The following databases will be removed from EINS on December 30, 2005:
    MATH
    CANCERLIT (last update 2002, included in MEDLINE)
    FSTA
    HDA - HEALTH DEVICES ALERTS
    HDS - HEALTH DEVICES SOURCEBASE
    MEDITEC.

  • JANUARY 2005
    The Sigle database has been removed.

  • NOVEMBER 2004
    A detailed article on APOLLIT now available under databases reviewed, in addition to AQUALINE, IMMAGE, MHIDAS and MIRA.

  • JULY 2004
    A new database: AQUALINE, file n.74, has been released. It contains scientific literature on all aspects of water resources.
    You will find a more detailed description under databases reviewed.

  • JULY 2004
    Documentation: revised edition of Guide to search the databases on EINS GEM (free download)
    The use of the command language HYPERQUEST has been revised and updated. Major additions can be found in the sections 4, including the use of the Questindex, 9, the ZOOM command, 10, Additional commands, and 11, Displaying of results, including online ordering of fulltext via Autodoc, British Library and INIST.

  • MAY 2004
    A more detailed description is now available on the EINS GEM website: see EINS GEM databases reviewed (now IMMAGE)

  • APRIL 2004
    New database available from FIZ: FOREGE (file n.39) - on Current Food Legislation

  • JANUARY 2004
    A new cluster available from FIZ-Karlsruhe: SuperBUILDING, file no.118
    It contains the following files: ICONDA, ITRD, ULIDAT, RSWB, PASCAL

  • DECEMBER 2003
    The Thesaurus is now available, in the databases which have it available, also via the Easy Advanced Mode.

  • DECEMBER 2003
    Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are now available as a separate field in the following databases: Psychinfo, CAB and Global Health. The DOI will offer a direct link to the full text of e.g. journal articles via mEDRA, a service offered by Cineca. It is expected that in the course of 2004 more databases will become available with a separate field for the DOI. To see an example, please use the command e(xpand) 10/doi in one of the above mentioned databases. Most of the direct links to the full text have a charge or require a subscription.

  • NOVEMBER 2003
    The Questindex command now available for DIMDI files. More information available in the Questindex short guide.

  • SEPTEMBER 2003
    New database available from DIMDI: GLOBAL HEALTH (file n.40)
    I2plus Chemistry has been launched

  • JULY 2003
    New databases available from FIZ-Karlsruhe:
    TRIBO (file n.102) and TEMA (file n.38)
    Two new databases: TRIBO and Weldasearch added in the SuperMATERIALS cluster

  • JUNE 2003
    The FIZ-Karlsruhe AutoDoc service is now available on EINS GEM. Users can now order full-text documents from their session or order documents manually. To order documents you need to have access to EINS. More information available in the AutoDoc Order Help.

  • JUNE 2003
    I2plus: charges apply as of 1 June 2003.
    As of 1st June charges will apply for use of the I2plus service. I2plus allows you to simultaneously perform a search query on a GEM databases and on a selected list of relevant web sources for a given domain. At present only one domain, Aerospace, is available. (continue)

  • APRIL 2003
    A new database from DIMDI: Somed, no.62, is now available
    According to the new DIMDI price structure, the formats B and BA are no longer available for DIMDI's databases, while remain available the title (format S) free of charge and the full format (R or A), for which there is a charge, see pricelist.

  • FEBRUARY 2003
    Databases and clusters removed:
    BNB -British National Bibliography
    XONCO; XAIDS; XADDICT; XTOXLIT; XHEALTH; XSOCMED; XENVIR, XSPORT; XGERON

    Clusters added:
    XBIOTECH; XMEDALL; XMEDPROD; XHTA; XTOXLITALL; XTOXLITCORE; XPHARMALL; XPHARMCORE; XMEDCORE; XISI; XVET XAGRI also is still available.
    The Infosheets will be updated accordingly as soon as possible.

  • JANUARY 2003
    As of January 1, 2003 the following databases will no longer be offered due to a strategic decision of DIMDI: AGRIS (file 109), ASFA (file 52), PSYNDEX-AV (file 68), PSYNDEX-TRAINING (file 69), PSYTKOM (file 71), SPOLIT (file 53).
    Also ENVIROLINE (file 11) will no longer be available from the same date as the producer cancelled the contract with DIMDI.
    The pricelist will be updated accordingly.

  • NOVEMBER 2002
    The DKILIT database is renamed APOLLIT, and has some more fields available, as MT (Meeting Title), ML (Meeting Location), MD (Meeting Date) and MY (Meeting Year)


   
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