The ACS Publications and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) divisions of the American Chemical Society (ACS) jointly announced the integration of CAS' CA Section subject index topics to tag articles across the 39 scholarly research journals published by the Society. This includes the ACS' flagship publication Journal of the American Chemical Society.
The incorporation of these CA Section assignments will enable ACS' global audience of scientific authors and readers to browse and discover leading, cutting-edge research results from across the nearly 500,000 articles published in ACS peer-reviewed journals between 1996 and 2011.
ACS Publications and CAS have partnered to map the 80 CA Section subject topics to tables of contents, abstracts, and article-level content displays on the ACS Publications Web Editions platform. The content mapping enables readers to browse research articles from multiple titles and to filter and sort search results by scientific topic, thereby facilitating simultaneous discovery across multiple ACS journals and analysis of articles published across a variety of research areas and sub-disciplines.
Subject-specific landing pages for each of the 80 CA Sections have also been introduced on the ACS Publications Web platform. These topic pages highlight recently published ACS articles assigned to each scientific topic, feature an option for readers to obtain subject-based RSS feeds, and deliver a comprehensive list of articles pre-categorised under each CA Section subject. In addition to the subject pages, readers can also apply each of the 80 Sections as a filter with the Advanced Search interface on the ACS Web Editions platform, and narrow their results list using author name, keyword, journal title, publication date, and article type filter options.
CAS assigns CA Section categories according to the novelty of the process or substance that is being reported in the literature. The 80 CA Sections are categorised within five broad scientific groupings - Applied; Biochemistry; Macromolecular; Organic; and Physical, Inorganic, and Analytical. These topical hierarchies are now available via Publication A-Z menu displays, as a toggle option on the site-wide Quick Search module, and through the advanced search interface on the ACS Publications Web Editions platform.
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