Overview of Chemical
Abstracts
Chemical Abstracts is
a periodical index which:
- Indexes chemical literature
from 1907 - present
- Indexes 98% of world
chemical literature
- Indexes over 12,000 journals
- Indexes journals from
over 150 countries
- Is updated bi-weekly
with the addition of 16,000 - 18,000 new entries
Subject Coverage
- 33% - Biochemistry
- 10% - Organic Chemistry
- 10% - Macromolecular
- 20% - Applied Chemistry
- 27% - Physical, Inorganic,
Analytical
Language Coverage
- 60% - English
- 16% - Russian
- 4% - Japanese
- 4% - German
- 16% - Other languages
Document Types
- Journal articles
- Conference and symposia
proceedings and edited collections of their papers
- Research/Technical Reports
- Government and Corporate
- Books and book chapters
- Deposited documents
- Dissertations
- Audio-visual material
- Patents from 27 countries