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Users of Elsevier products and services (such as Science Direct, MDL databases and ChemWeb) will be able to link directly to ACS scientific journals
Users of CAS products and services (SciFinder®, STN®, and others) will be able to link, via ChemPort, directly to Elsevier scientific journals.
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Elsevier journals will join ChemPort Reference Linking, enabling users of Elsevier journals access to ACS scientific journals and CAS database records. (Available in 2004)
Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of scientific journals and the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, are both leading publishers of chemical information.
Linking this information provides new pathways to a wealth of scientific information. CAS has indexed and summarized chemistry-related articles from more than 40,000 scientific journals and the Publications Division offers 31 key scientific journals to scientists worldwide. Elsevier publishes more than 1,800 journals and provides access to its secondary databases via ScienceDirect, and its Web communities, such as ChemWeb.
"We are pleased to work cooperatively with Elsevier to provide this new linking to the scientific community," said CAS Director Robert Massie. "As stewards of the world's largest repository of bibliographic and substance information in chemistry and related sciences, we see linking our services with the full text of Elsevier journal articles through ChemPort as completely aligned with our mission to facilitate scientific discourse. We are serving ACS members and the world research community."
"As the world's largest publisher of scientific journals, Elsevier aims to create an environment for its authors and users in which information is deeply interlinked and optimally disclosed," said Martin Tanke, Managing Director of Elsevier's Life Sciences Division. "This new linking arrangement is in line with Elsevier's strategy to extend our global leadership position in providing high quality scientific, technical and medical information solutions to research scientists and information professionals, using new technology to bring all its scientific content to the desktop of researchers anywhere in the world."
"The goal of the American Chemical Society Publications Division is to provide its members and the worldwide scientific community with a comprehensive collection of high-quality information products and services that advance the practice of the chemical and related sciences," said ACS Publications Director Robert Bovenschulte. "We are pleased to be part of this arrangement, which so clearly benefits our community."
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership within the global science and health communities, the company publishes more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and MD Consult (http://www.mdconsult.com) bibliographic databases, online reference works and subject specific portals.
In addition, Elsevier's MDL provides software which allows over 1,000 life science companies to supercharge their discovery engines, thereby facilitating breakthrough discoveries. By synchronizing and streamlining the sharing and management of vital information and knowledge, MDL enables scientists to work more efficiently and invent drugs faster. MDL (http://www.mdl.com), which is part of Elsevier's Life Sciences Division, is headquartered in San Leandro, Calif., with offices worldwide.
Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com) is a global company headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and has offices worldwide. The company is part of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider.
About ACS
A nonprofit organization with a membership of more than 161,000 chemists and chemical engineers, the American Chemical Society publishes scientific journals and databases, convenes major research conferences, and provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is an organization of scientists creating and delivering the most complete and effective digital information environment for scientific research and discovery. CAS provides pathways to published research in the world's journal and patent literature — virtually everything relevant to chemistry plus a wealth of information in the life sciences and a wide range of other scientific disciplines — back to the beginning of the twentieth century. CAS publishes the print version of Chemical Abstracts (CA), related publications and CD-ROM services; operates the CAS Chemical Registry; produces a family of online databases; and offers the SciFinder desktop research tool. CAS operates STN International, a network of scientific and technical databases, in association with FIZ Karlsruhe in Germany and the Japan Science and Technology Corporation. The CAS Web site is at http://www.cas.org