Scisearch

 

Description
The Scisearch database covers a broad area of science, technology and biomedicine. It consists of Science Citation Index ExpandedTM and additional records from the Current Contents periodical (one of the Chemical Abstracts services). More information can be found from several sites, for example http://www.cas.org/ONLINE/DBSS/dbsslist.html.

 

Availability
Scisearch is available in STN, STN Easy, products of the Dialog Corporation and EINS (http://www.eins.org/).

 

Number of entries: keywords = heat pump (Sept. 99)
Total of 17,523,300 records (10/99); 1,858 entries with keywords = heat pump.

 

Description of heat pump entries

• Application area: no high numbers on application areas

• Heat sources: few specific heat sources mentioned

• Technology specification: absorption heat pumps, heat transformers

• Type of project: no pilot plants or demonstration projects

Assessment
The database stands out with many hits on heat transformers.

 

 

Last updated: 1 March 2004

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