American Chemical Society technical databases

Chemical Abstracts. Chemical Abstracts (CA) [23] is a collection of chemical information, with nearly 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and other documents. In addition, the CAOLD database contains over 3 million abstracts from 1907-1966. Sources for CA include more than 8000 journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world. CA patent database covers 29 national patent offices and two international bodies. About 16% of the CA database, approximately 2.5 million records, are from the patent literature. Chemical Abstracts is commercially available from the American Chemical Society in several formats. 

Research articles of interest to biochemists may appear in many types of research journals. Research libraries do not have the funds necessary to subscribe to every journal, nor do scientists have the time to survey every current journal copy for articles of interest. Two publications that help scientists to keep up with published articles are Chemical Titles (published every 2 weeks by the American Chemical Society) and the weekly Current Contents available in hard copy and computer disks (published by the Institute of Science Information). The Life Science edition of Current Contents is the most useful for biochemists. The computer revolution has reached into the chemical and biochemical literature, and most college and university libraries now subscribe to computer bibliographic search services. One such service is STN International, the scientific and technical information network. This on-line system allows direct access to some of the world s largest scientific databases. The STN databases of most value to life scientists include BIOSIS Pre-views/RN (produced by Bio Sciences Information Service covers original research reports, reviews, and U.S. patents in biology and biomedicine), CA (produced by Chemical Abstracts service covers research reports in all areas of chemistry), MEDLINE, and MEDLARS (produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and Index Medicus, respectively cover all areas of biomedicine). These networks provide on-line service and their databases can be accessed from personal computers in the office, laboratory, or library. Some... 

Chemical Abstracts Service/STN International The most comprehensive collection of national and international scientific and technical databases for the chemist. Maintained by the American Chemical Society. Covers literature, patents, CAS registries, and databases. Hundreds of scientific databases, nearly 20 million abstracts, search engines, including SciFinder. http-.jHnfo.cas.orghttp Istneasy.cas.org... 

STN International Scientific Technical Network, computer system which is jointly offered by three database producers the American Chemical Society, -y FIZ Karlsruhe and the Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST). The three service centers at CAS in Columbus (USA), in Karlsruhe (Germany) and in Tokyo are linked via satellite and submarine cable. STN currently offers about 160 databases in a variety of scientific and technical subject areas. 

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