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STN Quick Reference Cards

STN Quick Reference cards provide step-by-step procedures and examples for features and commands.

• ANALYZE and TABULATE for statistical analysis (PDF) (~144K) 
• Archive and redistribute results with the STN Information Keep & Share Program^SM (PDF) (~131K)
• Basic STN commands (PDF) (~743K)
• CA section thesaurus (PDF) (~138K)
• CAS REGISTRY^SM: Finding CAS Registry Numbers (PDF) (~132K) 
• CAS REGISTRY^SM: Stereoisomer searching (PDF) (~187K)
• CAS roles in CA^SM/CAplus^SM (PDF) (~160K)
• CASLINK for one-step structure searching in CAS REGISTRY^SM, MARPAT, and CAplus^SM (PDF) (~148K)
• Citation searching in SciSearch (PDF) (~154K)
• Current-awareness alerts (SMARTracker) in CAS REGISTRY^SM and CAplus^SM (PDF) (~140K)
• Current-awareness alerts (SDIs) in a single database (PDF) (~126K)
• Current-awareness alerts (SDIs) in multiple databases (PDF) (~137K)
• DUPLICATE for identifying or removing duplicate records (PDF) (~127K)
• INDEX for evaluating databases and searches (PDF) (~132K)
• Patent-specific topics
  • Cited patent searching (PDF) (~125K)
  • FSEARCH for finding patent families (PDF) (~125K)
  • FSORT for grouping patent records into families (PDF) (~130K)
  • Patent classifications thesauri in USPATFULL (PDF) (~125K)
  • Patent search fields (PDF) (~105K)  
• Thesauri on STN (PDF) (~139K)
• TRANSFER for crossfile searching (PDF) (~127K)

Tip: Print these PDF files at 80% to create a printed set of quick reference cards.

See also: Quick Reference Guides