HCAPLUS

Description:

Chemical Abstracts Plus (CAplus^SM) is the most current and comprehensive chemistry bibliographic database available from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). HCAplus covers international journals, patents, patent families, technical disclosures, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, electronic-only journals, and web preprints from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences from 1907 to the present, as well as over 110,000 records for patents and journal articles dated before 1907.

Cited references are included for journals, conference proceedings, and basic patents from the US, EPO, WIPO, and German patent offices added to the CAS databases from 1997 to the present. Also included are patent examiner citations from British and French basic patents (2003 to the present) and Canadian patents (2005 to the present).

Bibliographic information and available abstracts for the articles from nearly 1,500 key chemical journals are added within 1 week of journal receipt. HCAplus is updated daily with new bibliographic records and weekly with indexing.

HCAplus contains thesauri in the following fields: Classification Code (/CC), Company Name (/CO), Controlled Term (/CT), F-Term (/FTERM), International Patent Classifications (/IPC), National Patent Classifications Current (/NCL), National Patent Classifications Issue (/INCL), and Role (/RL).

Three pricing options are available:

• low connect-hour with search-term charges
• connect-hour with no search-term charges (HCAplus file)
• no connect-hour charge with higher search-term charges (ZCAplus file).

Producer:

Chemical Abstracts Service
2540 Olentangy River Road
P. O. Box 3012
Columbus, Ohio 43210-0012
USA
Phone: (+1) 614-447-3700
Telefax: (+1) 614-447-3751
Email: help(at)cas(dot)org