CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS Records from Early Twentieth Century are Linked to ACS Journal Archives

25-Sep-2002

Researchers can now use Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) information products to identify journal articles of interest back to the beginning of the twentieth century, then link to the full-text articles in the electronic American Chemical Society (ACS) Journal Archives. The combined power of these two massive resources was announced by CAS and ACS Publications during the ACS national meeting held this week in Boston. In effect, two complementary ACS services have been brought together to provide scientists the benefit of advanced information retrieval with the availability of a vast electronic collection of original journal literature. CAS completed its "Scientific Century" project at the end of 2001, making the bibliographic and abstract information from the entire Chemical Abstracts (CA) collection back to 1907 available for searching through its STN and SciFinder information services. This year, the Publications Division announced the availability of its ACS Journal Archives, which provides access to more than 11,000 ACS journal issues and some 500,000 articles back to 1879. Users of CAS services can now identify relevant ACS articles published during the earliest years of CA's coverage, which began in 1907, and complete their exploration by accessing the full-text article, using the ChemPort feature included in all CAS and STN electronic services. "This initiative is the enhancement most frequently requested by our customers," said CAS Marketing Director Suzan A. Brown. "With our colleagues in the ACS Publications division, we are letting scientists find new pathways to the wealth of information in older literature, now more conveniently accessible through the digital research environment." "Linking the ACS Journal Archives to CAS records was a logical step in bringing scientists the benefits of early chemical literature relevant to their research interests," said Justin Spence, Director, Sales and Marketing, ACS Publications. "This combination of resources will make it possible to pinpoint and immediately access relevant information within an important segment of early twentieth century science."

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