Chemical abstracts service chemical registry system: History, scope, and impacts

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 349-360

  Weisgerber, David W ^a  

^a Chemical Abstracts Service   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SERVICES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE (CAS) CHEMICAL REGISTRY SYSTEM; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE IDENTIFICATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031120122     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199704)48:4<349::AID-ASI8>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Review

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