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Chemical Abstracts Plus covers worldwide literature from all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences. Since October 1994 all articles from more than 1,600 key chemical journals are added including citations for documents not covered by CA. Coverage includes applied, macromolecular, organic, physical, inorganic, and analytical chemistry. Current sources include over 8,000 journals, patents and patent families from 38 national patent offices and 2 international  patent organizations, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, product reviews, bibliographic items, book reviews, and meeting abstracts. Electronic-only journals and Web preprints are also covered. Cited references are included for journals, conference proceedings and basic patents from the U.S., EPO, WIPO, and German patent offices added to the CAS databases from 1999 to the present. CAplus also provides early access to the bibliographic information, abstracts and CAS Registry Numbers for documents in the process of being indexed by CAS. Bibliographic information, indexing terms, CAS roles, CAS Registry Numbers, and abstracts are searchable. Page images for CA abstracts from 1907-1966 are displayable. Hot links giving point-and-click access to cited URL’s are available while using STN Express with Discover! and STN on the Web. A learning file, LCA, is available. CAplus contains thesauri for records from 1967 to the present in the Controlled Term (/CT) field for the CA Lexicon, in the Role (/RL) field for the CAS roles, and in the International Patent Classification fields. In addition, a thesaurus is also available for CA Sections for records from 1907 to the present.

Three pricing options are available:

• low connect hour with search term charges;
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