“Sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion ser­vices provider FIZ Karl­sruhe, Ger­many, and Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice (CAS), a divi­sion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety, recently signed an agree­ment to fur­ther strengthen a part­ner­ship that began in 1983 with the foun­da­tion of STN Inter­na­tional. STN Inter­na­tional is an online ser­vice for patent and research information.”

“Begin­ning Jan­u­ary 2010, a team of sci­en­tists at FIZ Karl­sruhe will per­form value-added index­ing of selected lit­er­a­ture doc­u­ments, accord­ing to the con­ven­tions used by CAS to make the infor­ma­tion acces­si­ble within the CAS databases.”

“FIZ Karl­sruhe joins a global net­work of sci­en­tists whose exper­tise con­tributes to CAS data­base build­ing. Teams of sci­en­tists in Ohio, India, China, Japan and else­where con­sti­tute the prin­ci­pal con­trib­u­tors to this more than 100 year-old resource.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Oct 21, 2009

Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity has access to this Chem­i­cal Abstracts data­base via SciFinder Web– for­merly SciFinder Scholar.  To reg­is­ter to use Chem­i­cal Abstracts Web, con­tact Julie Arn­heim, ( Chem­istry Librar­ian)