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美国化学文摘社(CAS)自诞生以来,已走过90年的路程。1997年4月14日该社在西海岸名城旧金山举办盛会庆祝了她90岁生日。现在,化学文摘社拥有世界上最大、最完整的化学信息数据库,它出版的CA及建立的REGISTRY数据库已收录了大约1300万条化学文献与专利文献,有1650万条化学物质记录。在1996年工作日里,每9秒钟里其化学登录号索引中就增加一种新的物质,一年中共增加了122万种化合物;在CA文档中全年增加了70万条与化学有关的期刊论文、专利及其它文献的摘要。化学文摘社及其各种产品,其影响在化学界乃至整个科技界已是人人皆知。
American Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) since its inception, has gone 90 years away. On April 14, 1997, the agency celebrated her 90th birthday at a gala in the West Coast city of San Francisco. Currently, CASI has the largest and most complete database of chemical information in the world. Its published CA and established REGISTRY database has collected approximately 13 million chemical and patent literature and 16.5 million chemical records. During the 1996 working day, every 9 seconds, a new substance was added to its Chemical Index number, an increase of 1.22 million compounds a year, and 700,000 chemical-related additions to the CA document Summary of journals, patents and other literature. Chemical Abstracts Service and its various products, the impact in the chemical industry and the entire scientific community is well known.