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Operational Computer-Based Systems At The Chemical Abstracts Service
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Terrant, Seldon W. Wood, James L. |
| Copyright Year | 1966 |
| Abstract | The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a non-profit organization chartered by Congress as a scientific and educational organization. The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society. Like any society the ACS is concerned with helping its members to get their papers published and to help chemists and chemical engineers to gain recognition in the scientific and general public communities. Equally important, however, the ACS wants to have available information put to use. To this end, it is concerned that all forms of research, development, and applied technology be fully recorded , indexed, and retrievable for the full scientific community. Chemical information is not used only by chemists and chemical engineers. It is used by many other kinds of scientists. In line then with the major purpose of getting available information put to use, it is clear that the ACS operates the Chemical Abstracts Service not only for the benefit of members of the Society, but for a broader reason. We want chemical and chemical engineering information put to use in the full scientific community so that the general public will reap the benefits which such use will provide. When the full dimensions of the information problem for chemistry and chemical engineering are considered, it is easy to see why a community service is a requirement for all those who use scientific information. If information processing is carried out well, the information will be cheaper and more easily available. If it is not done well, such operations will not continue to exist. Considering not only chemistry and chemical engineering information, but also all of the other scientific and technical information available, it is not possible 124 125 for any one institution to meet all of its information needs from within its own resources. Community services such as Chemical Abstracts are a necessity if information is to be used to the best advantage. When the full user community for scientific and technical information and the diversified needs of the community from institution to institution and from individual to individual are considered, it can be seen that the traditional means of publication, which assemble information into traditional printed form, are neither flexible enough nor responsive enough to meet today's needs adequately. For this reason, during the last five years the ACS/ CAS started to shift its operations to a computer base. It is expected that all CAS publications … |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Synopsis |
