| Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical
Society, has announced the release of CAS Science Spotlight, a new Web
service that reveals the most highly cited and requested chemistry-related
research publications as reflected by the citations included in the CAS
databases and the full-text documents requested by scientists through the
ChemPort Connection. CAS Science Spotlight will provide not only lists
of highly cited and requested documents, but also the bibliographic and
abstract information along with the full text (where available)—all free
of charge.
CAS Science Spotlight lists the documents most cited for the last 2
publication years in the patents, conference proceedings, Web preprints,
and 8,000 journals covered by CAS. The service identifies the scientific
papers and chemistry-related patents for which researchers have most frequently
requested the full text via the CAS ChemPort Connection, which is available
through STN, SciFinder, and SciFinder Scholar. In its initial release,
CAS Science Spotlight lists the most requested documents for a 5-week period
during the most recent quarter. Future updates will be offered quarterly.
CAS began adding citations to its CAplus database in 1999. According
to the announcement, CAS Science Spotlight provides a unique report on
citation activity in chemistry research by doing the following:
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Listing the most frequently cited patent families
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Providing summaries of concepts and substances covered in the document
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Presenting links to the electronic full text of the document or to an Adobe
PDF copy when electronic full text is not available
"In 1999, CAS began adding citations to our bibliographic database at a
rate of nearly 20 million per year," said CAS director Robert J. Massie.
"This growing collection of citations is valuable in itself, but even more
so in terms of their links within the CAS databases, the world's most valuable
compendia of indexed and edited chemical and related information. Science
Spotlight is a first step in analyzing this collection and deriving insights
into the direction and focus of scientific research today. We thank our
colleagues in primary publishing for their cooperation in launching Spotlight,
and look forward to working with them and individual researchers to evolve
this program in the years to come."
The following publishers, authors, and distributors have provided free
full-text documents in Science Spotlight: ACS Publications, Academic Press/IDEAL,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Society
for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), MicroPatent, National Research
Council of Canada, Oxford University Press, The National Academy of Sciences
of the U.S., Dr. Fredrick Sanger (Cambridge, U.K.), and Dr. Harry Towbin
(Basel, Switzerland).
CAS Science Spotlight can be found at http://www.cas.org/spotlight
or through a link from the CAS home page.
Source: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, OH, 800/753-4227, 614/447-3731;
http://www.cas.org. |
