HISTORY OF ABSTRACTING AT CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE
HISTORY OF ABSTRACTING AT CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE
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DOI:
10.1021/ci60024a001
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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METANOMSKI, WV
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作者:
BAKER, DB;HORISZNY, JW;METANOMSKI, WV
The evolution of abstracts and abstracting for Chemical Abstracts (CA) from 1907 to the present is traced. The growth of scientific publishing, changes in the content, form, format, national origin, and language of primary documents, the shift from a large corps of volunteer abstractors to in-house document analysts, and the transition to modern computer processing have all affected the preparation and publicationof CA abstracts.Chemical Abstracts was born out of the dissatisfaction American chemists felt with coverage of the American chem-ical literature in European abstracting journals. Faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at-tempted to remedy this deficiency single-handedly by publishing the Remew of American Chemical Research in 1895, issued both as a section of Technology Quarterly and sepa-rately. In 1907 this publication was superseded by the more extensive ChemicalAbstracts (CA), sponsored by the Am-erican Chemical Society (ACS), with W. A. Noyes, Sr., as its first editor. While the history of CA includes the evolution of both abstracts andindexes, this paper will restrict itself to the history of abstracts and abstracting at CA from 1907 to the present.