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CAplus^SM - Worldwide coverage of many scientific disciplines all in one source

Benefit to you

• An integrated source of journal articles, patent documents, dissertations, meeting abstracts and other reputable web sources in many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science and more
• English language summaries translated from the scientific literature published in more than 50 different languages from more than 180 different countries 

Core Journals in CAplus

Patent Coverage in Chemical Abstracts

Content

CAplus, produced by CAS, contains a collection of more than 35 million chemistry and chemistry related research records with references in:

• All areas of biochemistry
  - Agrochemical regulators
  - Biochemical genetics
  - Fermentation
  - Immunochemistry
  - Pharmacology
• All areas of organic chemistry
  - Amino acids
  - Biomolecules
  - Carbohydrates
  - Organometallic compounds
  - Steroids
• All areas of macromolecular chemistry
  - Cellulose, lignin, paper
  - Coatings, inks
  - Dyes, organic pigments
  - Synthetic elastomers
  - Textiles, fibers
• All areas of applied chemistry
  - Air pollution
  - Ceramics
  - Essential oils, cosmetics
  - Fossil fuels
  - Ferrous metals, alloys
• All areas of physical, inorganic, analytical chemistry
  - Surface chemistry
  - Catalysts
  - Phase equilibrium
  - Nuclear phenomena
  - Electrochemistry

Coverage

• Early 1800s 
• Patent (and patent family) references from 62 patent authorities around the world
• Article references from more than 10,000 major scientific journals worldwide (Coverage of English translation journals by CAS)
• Conference proceedings
• Technical reports
• Books
• Dissertations
• Reviews
• Meeting abstracts
• Electronic-only journals
• Web preprints
• Cover-to-cover coverage for more than 1,500 key chemical journals (since October 1994), including records for document types not covered in Chemical Abstracts (CA)
  - Biographical items
  - Books reviews
  - Editorials
  - Errata
  - Letters to the editor
  - News announcements
  - Product reviews
  - Meeting abstracts

Update frequency

• Updated daily
• Patent references from 9 major issuing authorities available within 2 days from the time the patent was issued

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• SciFinder
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• Other products and services