CAS CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), celebrates its 100th anniversary this year as the global leader in chemical information. CAS provides access to the world's chemical and scientific literature and patents, with indexes built around the world's largest compendium of chemical substances, to speed and enable scientific discovery to improve peoples' lives.

Speaking of the value of CAS services, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Dr. Robert Grubbs, said, "CAS databases streamline the investigative process-allowing you to take an idea and rapidly find the important and necessary information before you forget about the idea or it loses its excitement. That really is invaluable."

"CAS is an essential part of the value ACS provides scientists," said ACS Executive Director, Madeleine Jacobs.  "Speaking as a chemist, I can say with great pride that CAS has transformed the way chemists and other scientists carry out research. We are happy to join with scientists around the world in celebrating the centenary of this renowned resource that remains essential to today's researchers."

Chemical Abstracts(tm), the leading source of indexed scientific literature, is one of the great enterprises in the history of science;it contains more than 27 million bibliographic records. And the CAS Registry(sm), today comprising more than 31 million records of organic and inorganic substances, is a monumental and vital tool
in scientific research. These two massive and interlinked databases, along with related databases of 13 million react ions, plus citations, Markush structures, and other data form the backbone of the most valuable digital research collection in the chemical sciences. Scientists, information professionals, and academicians around
the world access these databases daily through online services that have revolutionized the way scientists conduct research.

"CAS has evolved into a successful global information provider: fully electronic, web-enabled, and growing in every major market. We are proud to base our operations in Ohio, while serving scientists around the world" said CAS President Robert Massie. "Chemistry is both the central science and a discipline in which we continuously build upon and learn from past discoveries. So the value of the CAS databases to scientific inquiry grows each year."

CAS enters its centenary year with plans to provide a new generation of chemists and scientists in allied fields the benefit of CAS' incomparable database content and sophisticated search technology. The organization, based in Columbus and with customers in more than 100 countries, will host customer briefings in Europe, Asia, and the Americas along with formal celebrations in Columbus. The latter will include CAS' recognition as a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society in June.

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