Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society and world's authority for chemical information, and MALMAD consortium - Israeli Center for Digital Information Services have announced a five-year agreement to provide SciFinder® with PatentPak™ access to all universities in Israel. PatentPak, a robust new workflow solution from CAS, saves users half the time they spend researching patents by providing instant access to hard-to-find chemistry in patents and patent families in languages users know.
Access to patent information is increasingly important to researchers in Israel. In fact, more than 75% of new substances added to the CAS content collection over the past year were initially disclosed in patents, so researchers who do not include patent information in their analyses are missing valuable information.
With SciFinder, researchers in multiple areas of study, from biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, physics, forensics, medical, biomedical and engineering, and materials science, among others, benefits from access to the comprehensive scientific information available from CAS. The addition of PatentPak offers an interactive patent chemistry viewer within SciFinder that allows users to immediately access relevant chemistry full text patents from 31 major patent offices. CAS analysts have located and annotated the important chemistry within these documents, facilitating instant access to the exact locations of information a researcher needs within what can otherwise be long and tedious searching through patent documentation.
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