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CAS Exceeds All Previous Records for Input to Databases

Columbus, Ohio, August 20, 2007 - In its 100th year of existence, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has logged the largest number of records added to the CAplus^SM database in a single week: 24,623 records were added the week of July 30, 2007, referencing chemical and related scientific research in the world's journals and patents.  Researchers worldwide using CAS products such as SciFinder, SciFinder Scholar, and STN now have access to a greater quantity of daily updated scientific information than with any other source. CAS announced this and other database content developments at the American Chemical Society National Meeting in Boston, August 20, 2007.

This year to date,  CAS' weekly input has reached an average of 20,924 records, compared to 19,551 per week in the record analysis year 2006, an increase of 7%.

"CAS has always reflected the growth and scope of chemistry-related literature," said Matthew J. Toussant, Ph.D., CAS Senior Vice President of Editorial Operations. "The sheer volume of new records entering the CAplus database each day indicates the magnitude and diversity of research now occurring worldwide. It also speaks well of CAS' editorial operations and the hundreds of scientists who make it work."

In its centennial year, CAS has made a raft of other enhancements to its literature and substance databases:

• U.S patent records from 1870-1889 have been added to enhance the oldest segment of the CA^SM/CAplus databases;
• Utility model patents issued from January 1, 2007 from the State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO) have been added;
• Bibliographic data and abstracts for patent applications from the Indian Patent Office are now available in CAplus within 14 days of publication;
• French- and German-language abstracts in basic patents from the European Patent Office (EPO) are now available in CAplus;
• CAS continues to improve the timeliness of Korean patent records in CA/CAplus.

"Patents are a special focus of recent enhancements," said Toussant. "Patents are now the leading source of new substance information in the CAS REGISTRY^SM database and accounted for 63% of new substance records by CAS in 2006."

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. 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^TM, among others.