CA Abstracts
CA abstracts are summaries of scientific discoveries reported in the published literature. They are intended to help you decide whether the original document is of interest. If it is, you can use the bibliographic heading material as the route to retrieve the document.
CAS chemists create abstracts from:
- journal articles
- chemical and chemical engineering patents
- technical reports
- dissertations
- conference proceedings
- books
Each abstract contains
- complete bibliographic references
- patent references (details of what was patented by whom and the country in which the patent was issued)
- commonly used chemical substance names or molecular formulas
- chemical structure images (when available)
CA Index Terms
- created by the CAS experts in that subject
- provide quick links to the content of CA abstracts
- are valued by researchers for their quality and comprehensiveness
Three indexes arrive weekly with the CA abstract issues:
- Author Index - an alphabetical listing of authors, inventors, patent assignees, and corporate author names.
- Keyword Index - an alphabetical listing of words and phrases taken from the title or text of the abstract.
- Patent Index - a list of all patent numbers that have been abstracted in the issue, along with the abstract number.
Updated 3/20/2007 12:59:18 PM
