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Thomson Derwent Information http://www.derwent.com is a division of Thomson Scientific. The services Derwent provides are, in part, part of ongoing efforts to maintain access through one service provider [Derwent] to the information services which are available from the all the other divisions of Thomson Corporation http://www.thomcorp.com.

The Derwent Innovations Index (DII) http://www.derwent.com/innovationsindex/index.html is a web-accessible database that merges patent information from the Derwent World Patents Index http://www.derwent.com/worldpatentsindex/index.html with the patent citation information from the Derwent Patents Citation Index http://www.derwent.com/patentscitationindex/index.html. This unique data set is accessed through an interface, giving the ability to browse between patent records, without having to learn and remember search commands. DII is the first collaboration between Derwent and its sister company, the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) http://www.isinet.com/. As well as being able to review citations associated with a particular patent, it is also possible to extend the search of scientific information through non-patent citation links to the ISI Web of Science.

A copy of the presentation on the Derwent Innovations Index (DII) is available for download at http://www.derwent.com/innovationsindex/dii/demos/DII.exe.

"Classic" http://www.derwent.com/dwpireference/hostweb.html which is Derwent Classic http://www.dialogclassic.com which is a service which provides command line based functionality to enable searching of DWPI through the World Wide Web.

Axiom http://axiom.iop.org/ is Institute of Physics Publishing's innovative Web-based online research service. It features the INSPEC Database from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), and Compendex and PageOne from Elsevier Engineering Information Inc. More databases will be added in the future. Derwent Information announced the launch http://www.derwent.com/press/2000/axiomlaunch.html of its flagship product, Derwent World Patents Index on Axiom. Available from November 2000, users will be able to utilise the latest web technology to access and retrieve information from the world's largest value-add patent database. There is a brochure available at http://www.derwent.com/data/dwpionaxiom.pdf. The search results indicated use of relevance rankings {as per web search engines} and included a thumbnail picture for the results of a search.