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The most authoritative and comprehensive source for chemical information

CAS monitors, indexes, and abstracts the world's chemistry-related information, updating it daily
and making it accessible through state-of-the-art information services.

CAS databases offer many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!

An integrated chemical and scientific resource of journals, patents, and reputable web sources

CAS databases provide content from more than 10,000 major scientific journals worldwide, patent and patent family references from 62 patent authorities around the world, dissertations, meeting abstracts, electronic-only journals, and other reputable web sources.

The most timely scientific information source

• The CAS REGISTRY^SM database - the original source and final authority for CAS Registry Numbers (CASRNs or CAS Numbers) - is updated daily.
• All patent records, meeting CAS selection criteria, from 9 of the major patent offices are available online in CAplus within 2 days of the patents' issuance and fully indexed by CAS scientists in 27 days or less from the date of issue.
• Daily updates to the CAplus^SM database add more than 4,500 records each day, totaling more than 35 million currently.
• Bibliographic information and abstracts for all articles in more than 1,500 core journals are added to CAplus within 7 days.

Intellectually analyzed content

Analyzed by CAS scientists who are experts in a variety of scientific disciplines, the CAS databases offer value-added content obtained from journals, patents, dissertations, meeting abstracts, and more:

• Concept information - important scientific concepts, e.g., diseases, processes, techniques, as well as a statement about the nature of the study
  
• Comprehensive substance information - specific, generic, prophetic, or Markush substances, trade names, trivial names, systematic names, synonyms, and molecular formulas

Links from references to electronic journal and patent documents and other reputable web sources

With any of our online products, you can access the most integrated and comprehensive chemical information available - seamlessly.

• Links to cited references dating back to the beginning of the late 19th century
• Links to over 280 STM publishers and 6,700 unique journals
• Links to the full text of 5 major patent offices

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