Agricultural Chemicals Computerized

W., Cohen, S. G., Kippenhan, N. A., Dyott, T. M., and Gilbert, J, T., "Agricultural Chemicals Computerized Information System at Rohm and Haas Company", Abstracts, 173rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, La., March 1977. 

Over the past seven years we at Rohm and Haas Company have been developing a computerized chemical and biological information system called ACCIS (Agricultural Chemicals Computerized Information System)(1). In this paper we will describe the chemical and biological search capabilities which we have built into ACCIS. 

The object of this discussion is to point out that researchers should review all literature on the chemical modification and property improvement of all types of agrofibers and not restrict information to just one type of fiber. There is a vast amount of information, e.g., on the chemical modification of cotton, jute, and other agricultural fibers that is not considered relevant to the people doing research in wood chemistry. Another shortcoming in literature searching is the use of computerized searches, which in most cases do not go very far back in time into the scientific literature so that many of the old but yet excellent references are overlooked. 

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