Abstracts, Internet

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, [Internet]. URL http //www.ashp.org/, accessed 9-23-2000. 

We can not offer a long list of addresses here. You can find the most comprehensive source of Internet links at NDTnet s NDT/UT Library which list 250 sites with its abstracts in sections Institutes, Societies, Applications, Databases/Archives, Standards. 

MSDS are available from the Chemical Abstract Service of the American Chemical Society (ACS), 1155 6th St. NW Washington DC 20036, or the Internet at http//www.acs.org, and from the chemical manufacturer. A general website to these is http //hazard.com ... 

Environmental RouteNet provides a single gateway to the world s foremost databases and information sources available on the Internet. The sendee includes searchable links to hundreds of carefully-screened environmentally-related resources, selected and indexed by the editors at Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. In addition, the site provides access to proprietaiy environmentally-related databases and to daily updates of environmentally-related news stories, regulations and legislation, plus much, much more. 

Cochrane Library. The Cochrane Library [44] includes The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, a collection of regularly updated, systematic reviews of the effects of health care. It is maintained by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. Cochrane reviews are reviews mainly of randomized controlled trials. To minimize bias, evidence is included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria. Data are often combined statistically, with meta-analysis, to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness is also included. It consists of critical assessments and structured abstracts of good systematic reviews published elsewhere. The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register with bibliographic information on controlled trials and other sources of information on the science of reviewing research and evidence-based health care are part of the Cochrane Library. It is commercially available on CD-ROM or the Internet. 

RFC 1341, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, http //www.w3.org/ Protocols/rfcl341/0.Abstract.html... 

In view of more than 150 journals and periodicals world wide which publish original papers on polymers, we refrained from listing these even in extracts. We recommend the internet - and Chemical Abstracts (CAS) - services. 

Lemkin, P. (1996) Matching 2-D gels on the Internet. From the Abstract Book of 2nd Siena 2-D Electrophoresis Meeting, 57 Siena Sept. 16-18. 

Soon after conceiving the invention, our ever-optimistic Acme chemist sends an abstract to the American Chemical Society for an upcoming meeting. The abstract is accepted online immediately and posted on the Internet the same day. The abstract describes the proposed preparation of the compound together with a description of its possible utility as an antidepressant. The chemist lists his name and two of his lab associates who will help him in making and testing the compound. The date the abstract is posted on the Internet is June 1, 2005. 

The days of the hard copy encyclopaedias of chemical information are certainly numbered. Most of the important ones are now available in CD-ROM format. The data on these CD-ROM s can be conveniently searched, in the home, the office or the laboratory making a trip to the library unnecessary. The highly important databases of international patent information are also available in the same format and also on websites via the Internet. The searching of large databases, e.g. Chemical Abstracts, by inputting chemical structures has lessened the need for an expert to come between the researcher and this information. 

There has been a rapid proliferation of commercial search interfaces, such as DataStar and STN International. STN may deserve special mention since it is a science information service operated by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in North America, Fachinformationszentrum-Karlsruhe (FIZ-K) in Europe, and Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI) in Japan. It is available as online subscriber access to 220 databases (STN Express) and as web access (STN on the Web for experienced searchers and STN Easy for infrequent searchers). See www.cas.org/stn. html and/or www.stn-international.de/. Since Internet search techniques depend on the interface available, no detailed explanations are given here. There are several published guides to database searches for chemical and physical properties, but the situation is evolving rapidly and it is recommended that you consult a reference librarian for information about the current situation concerning search interfaces at the library you use. 

Out of the hundreds of different research periodicals currently being pubhshed, those listed below describe research of special interest to physical chemists. A very complete tabulation of periodicals, the correct abbreviation of their titles, and their distribution in American and selected foreign libraries can be found in Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. Issues after the mid-1990s of almost all these selected journals are available on the Internet under licenses to research libraries. 

The Industrial Property Digital Library of the Japanese Patent Office (JPO s IPDL http //www. ipdl.inpit.go.jp/homepg e.ipdl) provides access to Japanese patent document in Japanese text. However, for non-Japanese readers, instantaneous machine translations from Japanese to English of the full documents are available over the Internet from 1974 onwards. English abstracts are also available for recent patents. 

Tables of contents for the current and archival issues of chemistry journals are free online, and usually abstracts are also provided by the publisher. Search engiues give details of the Internet addresses (URLs) for chemistry journals, aud there are also websites that provide hyperlinks to most of the chemistry journals currently online, for example, Cambridge University s Department of Chemistry website http //www.ch.cam.ac.uk/c2k/. Free full-text chemistry journals on the web are listed on the Belarusian State University website http //www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm. (The content and permanence of any website cannot be guaranteed, and Internet addresses are subject to modification.)...

Preparation and transfer of queries for CAS database searches and capture of hits image display Internet connection to STN. Internet address stnc.cas.org (134,243.5.32). STN provides on-line access to many databases with chemical, physical, thermodynamic, toxicological, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and patent data. 12th Collective Index of Chemical Abstracts on CD-ROM. PCs and Macintosh. 

Text extracts from the following databases Analytical Abstracts, Chemical Business NewsBase, Chemical Safety NewsBase, Mass Spectrometry Bulletin, Chemical Safety Data Sheets and Chromatography Abstracts in Chapter 36, Internet resources for chemistry , reproduced by kind permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry. 

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