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CAS: The World's Most Comprehensive Resource - For Chemical and Related Scientific Information

CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is the world's leader in providing scientists online and web access to chemistry-related research data. CAS produces the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information and makes them available through sophisticated search and analysis software for the use of scientists engaged in new product and patent research, as well as academic research in the world's leading universities. CAS databases include more than 29 million abstracts of chemistry-related literature and patents and more than 35 million organic and inorganic substances and more than 59 million sequences. Click here for the latest count.  

CAS was founded in 1907 with the aim of monitoring, abstracting, and indexing the world's chemistry-related literature. This aim was first accomplished through the well known printed reference work Chemical Abstracts^TM (CA), which CAS continues to publish after 100 years. CAS began to develop computer-based publication technologies in the 1960s in order to automate the publication of CA. Today, CAS editorial processes apply the best advantages of document analysis by highly trained scientists and the benefits of advanced information technology.

CAS indexes and abstracts patents, articles from more than 10,000 scientific journals, conference proceedings, and other documents pertinent to chemistry, life sciences and many other fields. In 2007, CAS scientists provided:

• abstracts and indexing for more than 1 million journal articles, patents, and other research materials

• CAS Registry Numbers and substance records for more than 3 million organic and inorganic substances, plus more than 1 million sequences

Through the printed CA, CA on CD^TM, the STN International^SM online network, the CAS databases distributed through licensed vendors, the SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar^TM desktop research tools, and the STN Easy or STN on the Web^SM services, data produced by CAS is accessible to virtually any scientific researcher worldwide in industry, governmental research institutions, and academia. 

Substance identification is a special strength of CAS, which is widely known for the CAS REGISTRY^SM, the largest substance identification system in existence. When a chemical substance is newly encountered in the literature processed by CAS, its molecular structure diagram, systematic chemical name, molecular formula, and other identifying information are added to REGISTRY and assigned a unique CAS Registry Number.  

CAS Registry Numbers are used in reference works, databases, and regulatory compliance documents by many organizations around the world to identify substances without the ambiguity of chemical nomenclature.

CAS celebrates one hundred years of service to world science as an integral part of the American Chemical Society. That is a century in pursuit of a single missionto provide access to chemical and related information that speeds and enables scientific discovery to improve peoples lives.
 
Many generations of scientists, information professionals, educators, and students have known and relied upon CAS' services, from the printed Chemical Abstracts to the efficient electronic research tools. 

What has not changed over the course of a century is the CAS commitment to helping scientists benefit from the published work of their colleagues around the world. As always, CAS helps researchers build upon on this knowledge by making discoveries of their own. In this way, CAS is a catalyst in fulfilling the vision of the American Chemical Society: Improving people's lives through the transforming power of chemistry.