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CAS 2006 Accomplishments

As we enter into this centennial year, we want to briefly reflect back on the accomplishments of 2006:

• In recognition of its contributions to science over the course of 100 years, CAS was named a National Historic Chemical Landmark. This honor will be formally awarded in June 2007.

• For the first time in a single year, CAS scientists indexed more than one million documents. In all, CAS document records now amount to more than 27 million. During the same period, more than 3 million organic and inorganic substance records were added to the CAS REGISTRY^SM database, for a total of more than 31 million substance records.

• Building upon its leadership in intellectual property information, CAS introduced several patent-related enhancements. CAS completed its implementation of IPC reform enacted by the World Intellectual Property Organization for its patent classification system. This helps users search patent information more effectively across countries. In addition, CAS processing improvements are now making China (SIPO) patent records available in the CA^SM/CAplus^SM databases more than 100 days sooner than in any competitive information services. CAS also improved its offering of Japanese patent information by adding a thesaurus for F-Term classification codes, and Korean patent data has been added to CAplus, improving its timeliness in CAS databases significantly.

• CAS is addressing the growing interest in biology-based synthesis by making access to information on enzymatic reactions and other biotransformations easy to find through its SciFinder research tool. CAS reaction information extends back to 1840 and among the more than 11.5 million reaction records are thousands for biotransformations. In addition, CAS literature databases reference a wealth of research on biological processes relating to drugs, food, materials and energy, among other applications.

• CAS acquired rights to the 19th century content of Chemisches Zentralblatt records and added several thousand such records prior to 1907 to the CAS databases.

• Having begun to add citations in 2000, CAS now has surpassed 170 million record citations from 5.6 million indexed patent and journal publications. These citations, among several applications, are used for linking CAS records to the original literature in the widely used ChemPort feature.

• With the release of SciFinder 2007 in fourth quarter 2006, researchers found it easer to fine-tune their answer sets for chemistry-related literature, substances and reactions. Other features of SciFinder 2007 included the capability to export commercial chemical records from CHEMCATS into Excel for easy sorting and manipulation of these records in spreadsheets.

• SciFinder Scholar was installed at more than 1,300 universities worldwide in 53 countries by year-end. This represents 12.5% growth in the number of schools over the previous year. The majority of the growth in 2006 can be attributed to the introduction of the Universal Share Programs that make SciFinder Scholar more affordable for schools for which the Masters and Bachelors are highest chemistry-related degrees.

• CAS and its STN partner, FIZ Karlsruhe, introduced an enhanced version of the STN AnaVist analysis and visualization software, which continued to grow in popularity. The software was also introduced in Japan in 2006. Favorable reviews of STN AnaVist were published in Online and World Patent Information.

• CAS was recognized by the Columbus Council on World Affairs as the International Company of the Year.