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CA - chemistry plus a whole lot more!  Available in print and microform, CA has been alerting its subscribers to the most recent published breakthroughs in science back to the beginning of the 20th century.

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From its beginning, CAS has defined chemistry as broadly as possible.

CA content has always included the chemical aspects of a variety of scientific disciplines.

An annual subscription to CA provides you with more than 865,000 references to the published literature each year.  This consists of more than:

• 686,000 document references linked to the latest findings from more than 10,000 major scientific journals
• Nearly 400,000 patent equivalent references from 57 patent authorities around the world

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Content

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• 52 Weekly Abstract Issues per year containing:
  • CA abstracts from both journal articles and patents
  • index terms  from three Weekly Indexes
    - Author Index
    - Keyword Index
    - Patent Index
• Two sets of five Volume Indexes (one set every 6 months):
  • Author Index
  • Patent Index
  • General Subject Index
  • Chemical Substance Index
  • Formula Index
• The CA Index Guide

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