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STN User Meeting

December 1st, 2003

Polymer Information – Focus on APOLLIT

Dr. Sabine Angel

Head of Polymers and Business Information Group
BASF Group Information Center
BASF Aktiengesellschaft

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How to improve the impact

strength of polystyrene? Which polymerisation
technologies for PVC
are claimed by our
competitors?

What is the market

volume of polyacrylic Which polymers are
acid? used in cosmetics?

What are the best Which halogen-free flame

technologies in retardants are new to
polyethylene blow moulding? ABS blends?

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Publications in the Polymers Area

9 ca. 1,7 mill. inventions from 1966 – date in DWPI

9 ca. 830 000 journal articles from 1966 – date in CA

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Sources for Polymer Information (1)

Database Sources Coverage Indexing Focus

DWPI patents from 1967 Plasdoc- all scientific

(40 countries) codes and technical
areas
manual-codes
Derwent-
codes
CA patents, journals, from 1940 index-Terms chemistry,
reviews, books, registryNo biochemistry,
conference reports, chemical
dissertations engineering

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Sources for Polymer Information (2)

Database Sources Coverage Indexing Focus
APOLLIT journals, books, conference from 1973 controlled industrial production, processing
reports, reports, standards, terms, and applications of plastics,
“grey” literature classification rubbers, fibres; production
codes technology; chemical, physical and
engineering properties of polymers

RAPRA patents, journals, reports, from 1972 keyterm- plastics, rubbers and adhesives incl.
books, conference reports, thesaurus business information
company publications,
standards

SciSearch journals from 1974 classification science and technology

codes

Textiletech patents, journals, books, from 1978 classification textiles

standards, dissertations codes

WSCA patents, journals, conference from 1976 classification paints, coatings

reports, reports, books, codes
dissertations, standards

and much more sources...

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Sources for Polymer Information

Focus on
APOLLIT

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APOLLIT – History
1955: first publication „Literatur-Schnelldienst“ produced by DKI
1955 – 1973: manually searchable card file KKF (Kunststoffe, Kautschuk
und Fasern) produced by DKI
data since 1973: available as online-database KKF (Kunststoffe, Kautschuk
und Fasern) produced by DKI und FIZ CHEMIE in German
data since 1979: include abstracts in English or German
since 1997: abstracts are in English only
Thesaurus for whole database in German and English

2001: name changed in DKILit

end of 2001: FIZ Karlsruhe acquired and produces DKILit
end of 2002: name changed into APOLLIT
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APOLLIT – An Information System

9 Online-database (1973 - ; ca. 390 000 citations; updated biweekly)

on STN, FIZ Technik

9 Intranet database (CD-ROM, web-database, updated monthly)

9 Topic-related CD-ROMs (e. g. Polyurethanes, ...)

9 Abstract Journal (monthly)

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APOLLIT – Subject Coverage

9 Production, processing and industrial applications of

plastics and semi finished products

9 Chemical, technological and physical properties of

polymers

9 Information on process and product development

9 Plastics and engineering technologies

9 Economic and environmental aspects

9 Testing (methods and results) of plastics

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APOLLIT – Sources

9 Literature from English, German and Eastern-European

journals

9 Books, standards, conference reports, reviews,

proceedings, grey literature

¾ High quality abstracts

¾ Excellent and highly consistent indexing

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APOLLIT – Indexing (1)

9 Classification Codes (CC) = rough indexing with broad themes
Æ precise search for the most relevant hits

=> e 4100/cc
E2 6822 41/CC
E4 507 4100 PRETREATMENT/CC
E6 89 4110 DISSOLVING/CC
E8 188 4120 DISPERSING/CC
E10 349 4130 GRINDING, SIEVING/CC
E12 2024 4140 MIXING/CC
E14 148 4150 COMPACTING, GRANULATING/CC
E16 209 4160 PLASTIFICATION/CC
E18 3442 4170 RECYCLING/CC
E19 7394 42/CC
E21 32 4200 CROSSLINKING DURING MOLDING/CC
E23 5547 4210 CURING/CC

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APOLLIT – Indexing (2)

9 Controlled Terms (CT) and Relationship Codes (+NT/CT)
= very well structured and detailed thesaurus in German
and English
Æ precise and comprehensive search
=> e recycling+all/ct
'RECYCLING' ALSO IN RELATIONSHIP FILE IN TLANGUAGE 'DE'
E1 5008 BT1 EN environmental protection/CT
E2 0 DE UMWELTSCHUTZ/CT
E3 21985 BT1 EN processing/CT
E4 0 DE VERARBEITUNG/CT
E5 4456 --> EN recycling/CT
E6 4456 DE RECYCLING/CT
E7 0 UF EN reclaim/CT
NOTE EN in use since June 1992
NOTE EN previously: regeneration OR waste recovery OR waste
disposal
E8 1520 NT1 EN waste disposal/CT

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APOLLIT – Indexing (3)

9 Supplementary Terms (ST) = additional free keywords for
e. g. new concepts
Æ additional search feature
AN 2003:19599 APOLLIT
TI The interface form in polypropylene-nanocomposites
Grenzflaechengestaltung in Polypropylen-Nanocomposites
AU Leuteritz, A.(Inst. fuer Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Dresden (DE))
CS Halle-Wittenberg Univ., Halle (DE). Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften
SO Radusch, H.J. (Editor) International conference: Polymeric materials 2002
Halle an der Saale (Germany), 25-27 Sep 2002
DT Miscellaneous; Conference
LA German
CC *5400 Reinforced plastics, composites
1112 Propylene polymers
7310 Interfacial phenomena
CT ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FILLERS; INTERFACES; COUPLING AGENTS; ION
EXCHANGERS; IR SPECTROSCOPY; CATIONS; SILICA; MINERALS; NANOSTRUCTURES;
SURFACE TENSION; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; COMPATIBILIZER; POLYPROPYLENE; X-
RAYS; IMPACT STRENGTH; SCATTERING; REINFORCED PLASTICS
ST PP/ layered silicate nanocomposite

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APOLLIT – A Typical Record (1)

L1 ANSWER 1 OF 1 APOLLIT COPYRIGHT 2003 FIZ KA on STN
AN 2003:18450 APOLLIT
TI Non-reactive process for recycling cellular phones
AU Tortorella, N.; Jung, W.H.; Beatty, C.L. (Materials Science and
Engineering Dept., Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (US))
CS Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield, CT (US)
SO ANTEC 2003. Proceedings
Society of Plastics Engineers, Brookfield, CT (US) (2003), p. 3483-3487
of CD-ROM
Conference: ANTEC 2003: 61. annual technical conference for the plastics
industry, Nashville, TN (United States), 4-8 May 2003
DT Miscellaneous; Conference
LA English
AB The use and production of cellular phones have skyrocketed within the
last decade, with the average use lifetime between 1 and 3 years. So, the
ability to dispose of and recycle the phones is a pressing issue. These
phones are composed of a variety of materials, including thermoplastics
(six different types), metals, rubber, and epoxy. This work pertains to
the grinding of cell phones, separation of thermoplastics and epoxy from
the bulk ground material, and subsequent compounding of the desired
materials in an intermeshing, co-rotating, twin screw extruder. Tensile
and Izod impact tests were performed on the immiscible blends, whereas
SEM and AFM analyzed the fracture surfaces. Dynamic mechanical thermal
analysis show how thermal properties of the blends change as a function
of blend composition. A polyolefin elastomer (PE) was incorporated into
the blend and was shown to improve impact properties. (orig.)

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APOLLIT – A Typical Record (2)

CC *4170 Recycling
4130 Grinding, sieving
4340 Extrusion
7123 Polymer blends
CT ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE; BLENDS; COMPATIBILITY; CONSTITUTION;
DMTA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPOXY RESINS; FORCES; FRACTURE; GRINDING;
HOUSING; IMPACT STRENGTH; MICROSCOPY; POLYCARBONATES; POLYMETHYL
METHACRYLATE; POLYURETHANES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE; RECYCLING;
TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEST; THERMOPLASTICS;
TWIN SCREW EXTRUDERS
CTDE CP-ACRYLNITRIL-BUTADIEN-STYROL; MISCHUNGEN VON POLYMEREN;
VERTRAEGLICHKEIT; KONSTITUTION; DMTA; ELEKTRONENMIKROSKOPIE;
EPOXIDMASSEN; KRAEFTE; BRUCH; SCHLEIFEN; GEHAEUSE; SCHLAGZAEHIGKEIT;
MIKROSKOPIE; POLYCARBONATE; POLYMETHYLMETHACRYLAT; POLYURETHANE;
POLYVINYLCHLORID; RECYCLING; FERNMELDEWESEN; TEMPERATUR; ZUGFESTIGKEIT;
PRUEFUNG; THERMOPLASTE; DOPPELSCHNECKENEXTRUDER
ST cellular phones recycling; non-reactive process

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APOLLIT a RAPRA a CA – A Comparison

Search: Impact Strength of ABS compositions (py > 1989)
APOLLIT RAPRA CA

Answer set 675 516 327

455 journal articles 409 journal articles 308 journal articles

183 conference articles 90 conference articles 18 conference articles

--- 13 company publications ---

44 books 2 books 0 books

0 dissertations --- 1 dissertation

1 report 2 reports 0 reports

Relevance about 80 % about 60 % > 90 %

Duplicates APOLLIT / RAPRA 52 hits RAPRA / CA 62 hits

APOLLIT / CA 89 hits
Comments easily searchable via easily searchable via thesaurus; easily searchable via registry
thesaurus sometimes difficult relevance check number + basic index
due to very short abstracts

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APOLLIT a RAPRA a CA – A Comparison

Search: Finite element method in injection molding (py > 1989)
APOLLIT RAPRA CA

Answer set 377 384 281

234 journal articles 286 journal articles 240 journal articles

129 conference articles 90 conference articles 37 conference articles

--- 7 company publications ---

11 books 0 books 0 books

3 dissertations --- 2 dissertations

1 report 1 report 2 reports

Relevance > 90 % about 90 % > 90 %

Duplicates APOLLIT / RAPRA 56 hits RAPRA / CA 57 hits

APOLLIT / CA 64 hits
Comments easily searchable via easily searchable via thesaurus; difficult search strategy; no
thesaurus sometimes difficult relevance check equivalent controlled terms
due to very short abstracts available

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Polymer Information – Focus on APOLLIT

9 High quality source with excellent indexing for information
in plastics‘ production, processing, properties and
technologies

9 Best source for Eastern-European information

9 Subject coverage, indexing and retrieval possibilities in

APOLLIT – CA – RAPRA are different
¾ complementary sources for comprehensive results

9 Extremely good relationship between producer and users:

“Listening to the customers!”
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