Energy database ENTEC now available in the web at a flat rate

The ENTEC database is jointly produced by FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ Technik / approx. 650,000 citations from scientific publications on energy technology / free demo version available

Karlsruhe, March 2003 FIZ Karlsruhes information service is now offering the energy database ENTEC in the web at an annual flat rate of 535.00 Euro for the industry and service enterprises, resp. 500.00 Euro for universities and colleges. ENTEC can be accessed via http://entec.fiz-karlsruhe.de or through the FIZ Karlsruhe homepage. A free demo database providing limited search results is also available.
Jointly produced by FIZ Karlsruhe and FIZ Technik, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, ENTEC contains, among others, information on fossil sources of energy, nuclear energy, energy fusion and renewable energy sources. Further subjects covered by ENTEC are research and application matters as well as energy policy and energy management. At present, the data pool comprises approx. 650,000 citations. Every year approx. 20,000 new documents are added.
ENTEC features a powerful search software with a user-friendly interface allowing a well directed search for information also to those unfamiliar with search techniques.,The search can be conducted either by using a quick search mask or an expert search mask offering a vast number of search criteria. As a first search result the database provides a list of titles which then lead to abstracts with bibliographical data.
Full-text publications on the searched subjects can be ordered online, either through the direct ordering service FIZ Autodoc at http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/autodoc or through Getinfo, (http://www.getinfo-doc.de) a web service for full-text supply of sci-tech literature. Getinfo is a joint-venture of FIZ Karlsruhe and Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover.
Parallel to the flat-rate offer in the web, ENTEC is also available via STN International at its general conditions.
In order to access the flat-rate ENTEC offer, an own user identification is required. Applications can be made on the ENTEC homepage. The access to ENTEC by STN International is possible with the normal access authorizations.
For further information please contact:,FIZ Karlsruhe, Informationsdienste, Frau Iser,P.O. Box 2465, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany,Phone: [phone], Fax [phone],E-mail: [e-mail] , http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de,A worldwide scientific service institution, FIZ Karlsruhe produces and markets scientific and technical information services in print and electronic form. In cooperation with national and international institutions, FIZ Karlsruhe produces databases in the fields of energy, nuclear research and technology, crystallography, plastics, mathematics, computer science and physics. FIZ Karlsruhe also provides a search service for R&D in corporations and institutions.,FIZ Karlsruhe also operates STN International in Europe. STN International (The Scientific & Technical Information Network) is one of the worlds leading online services for sci-tech databases. At present, STNs comprehensive product range encompasses more than 220 databases with approx. 370 million documents from all fields of science and technology, among them the worlds largest and most important patent files as well as subject-related business files.,STN International is jointly operated by FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany; Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Columbus, OH, USA; and the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo.,