Scientific information services provider FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, recently signed an agreement to further strengthen a partnership that began in 1983 with the foundation of STN International. STN International is an online service for patent and research information.
The recently concluded collaboration agreements cover two new areas - indexing of scientific literature for CAS databases and customer training and support for CAS databases on STN. FIZ Karlsruhe will now also be a significant contributor to the production of the chemistry database, Chemical Abstracts (CA), and a partner in improved customer support for those databases on the STN online system.
Beginning January 2010, a team of scientists at FIZ Karlsruhe will perform value-added indexing of selected literature documents, according to the conventions used by CAS to make the information accessible within the CAS databases. In addition, FIZ Karlsruhe will assume additional responsibilities in marketing of the CAS databases. The company’s experts will provide training and support to STN customers in all German-speaking countries.
FIZ Karlsruhe joins a global network of scientists whose expertise contributes to CAS database building. Teams of scientists in Ohio, India, China, Japan and elsewhere constitute the principal contributors to this more than 100 year-old resource.
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