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SciFinder Scholar Now Serves 1500 Academic Institutions Worldwide

COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 6, 2008 CAS announced today that SciFinder Scholar, the leading scientific research tool for academia, has registered its 1500th subscriber. SciFinder Scholar is now in 90% of all universities worldwide granting a minimum of a 4-year degree in chemistry. This milestone was reached as Kean University in Union, New Jersey adopted SciFinder Scholar to serve the science research needs of its faculty and students.

Launched in 1998 by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), SciFinder Scholar is an online research tool that allows college students and faculty to access CAS' databases of disclosed chemistry and related information from multiple scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science and others.

SciFinder Scholar has become the most widely adopted research tool of its kind, with installations at universities throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and South America.

"SciFinder Scholar continues to demonstrate its widespread appeal as the scientific research tool of choice for Ph.D., master's and bachelor's level chemistry and related science education," said Christine McCue, CAS Vice President, Marketing. "High quality content, timeliness of information and ease-of-use have proved to be a winning combination for SciFinder Scholar in both the academic and commercial settings.  New chemistry graduates have come to expect to use SciFinder in the research enterprise."

Of the 1500 SciFinder Scholar subscribing institutions, approximately 800 offer the Ph.D. in chemistry, while over 700 offer M.S. or B.S. degrees in chemistry.  Harvard University was the first academic institution to subscribe to SciFinder Scholar, and the University of Manchester, England, became the first non-U.S. subscriber, both signing on in 1998.

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CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, provides the world's largest and most current collection of chemical and related scientific information, including the most authoritative database of chemical substances, the CAS REGISTRY^SM. CAS combines these databases with advanced search and analysis technologies to deliver the most complete, cross-linked and effective digital information environment for scientific research and discovery, including such products as SciFinder, STN, STN Express, and STN AnaVist, among others.