http://www.cas.org/newsevents/index.html What's New From CAS The latest news and site updates from CAS http://www.cas.org/newsevents/releases/scifinderweb040708.html CAS now offers web access to its award winning SciFinder research tool. CAS announced and demonstrated the new SciFinder version at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, April 6, 2008. http://www.cas.org/newsevents/releases/scholar1500schools040708.html CAS announced 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. http://www.cas.org/aboutcas/colors/index.html This month featuring the Chinese Lantern Plant http://www.cas.org/newsevents/caswikipedia.html CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers for current substances listed in Wikiprojects-Chemicals section of the Wikipedia Chemistry Portal that are of widespread general public interest. http://www.cas.org/newsevents/pborelease.html Chemical Abstracts Service and President Robert J. Massie were recognized for outstanding community service and philanthropic vision at Prevent Blindness Ohio's 23rd annual People of Vision Award Dinner on March 4, 2008 http://www.cas.org/newsevents/releases/milesconrad0208.html The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has announced that Robert J. Massie, President, CAS has been presented with the prestigious Miles Conrad Award at the NFAIS Annual Conference and 50th Anniversary celebration in Philadelphia http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/takenote/expressv83.html STN Express, Version 8.3, is now available for the Windows operating system. The software is free to all STN users, regardless of which version you currently use or if you are new to STN Express. http://www.cas.org/newsevents/casoncsiny.html When the investigators in a recent television episode of CSI New York needed to identify a certain substance, they accomplished this by using a CAS Registry Number. http://www.cas.org/newsevents/10digitrn.html To accommodate the continuing growth of substance information in the CAS REGISTRY, CAS is now assigning 10-digit CAS Registry Numbers - January 16, 2008 http://www.cas.org/aboutcas/quotes/index.html Customer comments on the value of CAS and its products http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stnews/takenote/anavistrelease.html STN AnaVist, Version 2.0, is the only platform that permits analysis of both CAplus and Derwent World Patents Index, with content processed by STN for optimal visualization http://www.cas.org/newsevents/releases/casexceedsinput082007.html CAS logged the largest number of records added to the CAplus database in a single week: 24,623 records were added the week of July 30, 2007 http://www.cas.org/products/viewer/index.html STN Viewer is a web-based workflow productivity tool for patent information users. It is designed for simple management and evaluation of full-text patent documents from STN Express answer sets. http://www.cas.org/products/scifindr/index.html New features in SciFinder 2007 include combine answer sets, export of commercial chemical records to Excel, Explore from substance display, and printing structures in thumbnail format http://www.cas.org/ASSETS/836E3804111B49BFA28B95BD1B40CD0F/casstats.pdf This document illustrates the growth in the scientific literature as measured by the number of abstracts and substances seen by CAS. http://www.cas.org/expertise/cascontent/caplus/corejournals.html The list of core journal coverage in the CAplus database was updated on February 29, 2008 http://www.cas.org/ASSETS/9EDAD1B59C9442F6AFE411322726DEE0/stnprice.pdf The comprehensive 2008 STN price list is now online http://www.cas.org/newsevents/shows/index.html Visit the CAS booth at these events in 2008 http://www.cas.org/aboutcas/careers/careers.html Current Job Openings at CAS as of February 1, 2008 http://www.cas.org/support/stngen/stntraining/workshops.html Latest STN e-Seminar and public workshop schedule http://www.cas.org/cgi-bin//cas/regreport.pl Daily figures for CAS Registry Numbers and weekly counts for reactions, commercially available compounds and regulated substances