Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that the US Department of Energy (DoE) has chosen SciFinder as the chemical information tool for its researchers at 17 sites across the nation. The one-year, renewable contract marks the first time the DoE has entered into a complex-wide agreement for any digital scientific information tool. CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society.
SciFinder provides access to CAS databases, said to be the largest, most complete collection of disclosed chemistry and related research. Its capabilities that have reportedly proven valuable for DoE scientists and researchers include quick and efficient searching for research topics, chemical structures, reactions, synthetic preparations, experimental procedures and isotopic substitutions. SciFinder also interfaces well with bibliographic management software used by the DoE.
The complex-wide agreement for SciFinder covers 17 DoE sites nationally, including:
National security research facilities (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory); Renewable energy research sites (National Renewable Energy Laboratory); Accelerator facilities (Fermilab)
Steward plants for physical inventory stockpiles (Pantex Plant and Kansas City Plant).
SciFinder is an information research tool for chemists and other researchers that seeks to provide the essential content and proven results scientists need to increase productivity and make faster breakthroughs. The intuitive web interface offers instant access to CAS Registry—projected as the gold standard for chemical substances and related information. Fortune 500 corporations, more than 1,800 universities and major government agencies around the world rely on SciFinder to fuel R&D initiatives and foster innovation.
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