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Long-established collaboration extended to include aspects of producing the world's most important chemistry databases, and consolidation of customer support activities
Karlsruhe (Germany), Columbus (USA/Ohio), October 2009 - A recent agreement between FIZ Karlsruhe and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) strengthens a partnership that began in 1983 with the foundation of STN InternationalSM, the world's premier online service for patent and research information. In the future, FIZ Karlsruhe will also now be a significant contributor to the production of the world's most important chemistry database, Chemical AbstractsSM (CA), and a partner in improved customer support for those databases on the STN online system.
The recently concluded collaboration agreements cover two new areas:
o Indexing of scientific literature for CAS databases
o Customer training and support for CAS databases on STN
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.
FIZ Karlsruhe has acquired its expertise and experience to manage and perform this function in the course of more than three decades as a producer of sci-tech databases.
In this regard, 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.
At the same time, FIZ Karlsruhe will assume additional responsibilities in marketing of the CAS databases. FIZ Karlsruhe's experts will provide training and support to STN customers in all German-speaking countries.
"We are happy to extend our successful collaborations with CAS to two further business-critical areas," says Sabine Brünger-Weilandt, President and CEO of FIZ Karlsruhe. "By this, we significantly strengthen our most important international partnership, and we secure jobs for scientists within the German information infrastructure, especially within the Leibniz Association."
Robert J. Massie, President of CAS, commented that, "As the amount and complexity of publicly disclosed chemical information continue to grow, we are fortunate that we could turn to FIZ Karlsruhe and extend our partnership to include aspects of CAS database production. Further consolidation of our customer support activities will strengthen STN's already high reputation for providing expert assistance and training in Europe."
More information:
FIZ Karlsruhe
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Phone +49 7247 808-555, Fax +49 7247 808-259
helpdesk@fiz-karlsruhe.de, www.fiz-karlsruhe.de
Press contact:
FIZ Karlsruhe, Rüdiger Mack
Phone: +49 7247 808-513, Fax +49 7247 808-134, Ruediger.Mack@fiz-karlsruhe.de
CAS
P.O. Box 3012
Columbus, Ohio 43210 U. S. A.
Phone +1 800 848-6538 (North America)
Phone +1 614 447-3600 (worldwide)
Fax +1 614 447-3713
help@cas.org, www.cas.org
Press contact:
Crystal Poole Bradley, +1 614 447-3611, cas-pr@cas.org
About FIZ Karlsruhe
FIZ Karlsruhe provides high-quality services for science. Its main activities are focused on STN International, the premium online service in science and patent information, jointly operated with CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. Through its
KnowEsis product line, FIZ Karlsruhe provides e-Science infrastructures to support web-based research. FIZ Karlsruhe also develops databases in mathematics, computer science, and crystallography. FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Leibniz Association (WGL) which consists of 86 German research and service institutions.
About CAS
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, provides the world's largest and most current collection of chemical and related scientific information, including the most authoritative database of chemical substances, the CAS REGISTRYSM. CAS combines these databases with advanced search and analysis technologies to deliver the most complete, cross-linked, and effective digital information environment for scientific research and discovery, including such products as SciFinder®, STN®, STN Express®, and STN® AnaVist?, among others.
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