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China has joined the ranks of nations promoting economic growth through innovation, with increases in scientific output and patenting activity that are outpacing all other countries. Two recent developments are helping to build a bridge between Chinese science and the global research community, and giving Thomson Scientific customers new insight into Chinese research and development.

Access to top scholarly publications from China
Based on research conducted using Web of Science®, China published 69,664 papers (including document types: articles, notes, reviews, and proceedings papers) in 2006. China's scientific output ranked fifth in the world, after USA, UK, Germany and Japan; accounting for over 7.75 per cent of the World's output. This represented an increase of 16.9 per cent on China's 2005 scientific output, at a time when the rest of the world's output was decreasing*.

To give customers searchable access to this research output, Thomson Scientific is partnering with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to host the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD) on the ISI Web of Knowledge^SM platform. This database is comprised of more than 1,000 top scholarly publications from China, with more than 1.3 million records in total. CSCD will be fully searchable within ISI Web of Knowledge, and users will also be able to link from citations within the database to data within Web of Science .

Available in early 2008, the Chinese Science Citation Database will be the first non–English product available within ISI Web of Knowledge. Because much of the bibliographic information will appear in both Chinese (Simplified) and English, ISI Web of Knowledge will be upgraded to support Unicode — expanding research capabilities and empowering users with new customization options. Users can conduct searches in their preferred language.

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A comprehensive view of Chinese patent activity
According to Thomson Scientific's World IP Today Global Patent Activity Report, published in April 2007, patent activity in China grew by 470 percent from 1997 to 2006, outpacing growth in all other countries. In December 2007, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) — China 's patent and trademark registry — reached a significant milestone when it received its four millionth patent application since the country's first patent law was implemented back in 1985. It took 15 years to get to the first million, but only one and a half years to get to the fourth million — see the Thomson Scientific 2008 Patent Focus Report for more information.

Thomson Scientific has broadened its coverage of intellectual property in China with the addition of English-translated Chinese Utility Model Registrations to Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPI ^SM). Thomson Scientific is the first patent information provider to offer weekly comprehensive coverage of all Chinese Utility Model Registrations in English. Utility models are similar to patents, but require a less stringent review process and offer a shorter protection period. Like conventional patents, utility models reveal important new technology advances and are a significant part of any prior art search.

The Chinese Utility Model Registrations, beginning with records published on October 3, 2007, are initially made available in Derwent World Patents Index First View^SM (DWPI First View^SM), the companion file to DWPI. Records in DWPI First View include human translation of the author's title, abstract and first claim. Each record is then reviewed by one of Thomson Scientific's expert analysts before it is uploaded into DWPI, where Chinese Utility Registration records have the same benefits that are available for all DWPI patent records, including an alerting abstract and manual coding.

DWPI also covers OPI and Examined Patent applications from China . It is the world's most comprehensive database of value-added patent documents, and is available on the Dialog®, STN International and Questel•Orbit online services.

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