VETU/VETB become OPEN ACCESS
28. November 2001
The Derwent Veterinary Drug File (files VETU and VETB will become OPEN ACCESS from January 2002. The files contain over 140,000 value-added references in the area of animal health and medicine, and will become available to all STN searchers. VETU and VETB are both static files, and together comprise comprehensive coverage of literature references to veterinary drugs, including their synthesis, novel re-formulation and reported side-effects for the period 1968 through 2001. For the VETU file (1983-2001) all records have English Language abstracts and detailed control term keyword indexing prepared by Derwent subject specialists.
A detailed introduction to the Veterinary Drug File is available from Derwent at:
http://scientific.thomson.com/media/scpdf/Ddf_int.pdf
The complete VETU/VETB controlled term thesaurus is available from Derwent at:
http://scientific.thomson.com/media/scpdf/ddf_thesaurus1.pdf
Further information on the Derwent Veterinary Drug File on STN can be found at:
http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/vetuss.html