CAS Info via the Internet

Last October, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) opened a World Wide Web server to provide Internet access to information about CAS's products and services. The server can be reached at URL http://info.cas.org/welcome.html, and apparently people have been reaching it -- in its first week of its public availability, with virtually no publicity, the server was accessed more than 9000 times!

Four headings are listed on the initial menu on the CAS server: "About CAS," "Products & Services," "Support & Training," and "What's New."

"About CAS" briefly describes CAS as an organization and provides general contact information. "Products & Services" describes CAS's collection of printed, on-line, microform, and CD-ROM scientific and technical information products, as well as some of the documentation that CAS offers users of its services.

"Support & Training" provides information on how to reach CAS Customer Service for setting up accounts or ordering products and how to reach the STN Help Desks in the United States, Europe, or Japan for help with on-line search questions. The schedule for CAS workshops around the world can also be found in this section. Finally, "What's New" contains such late-breaking items as press releases from CAS and special offers on CAS products and files.

A similar server based at ACS headquarters and known as the "ACS Web" will soon be linked to the CAS server and will provide information under such headings as "About the ACS," "Education," "Member Benefits and Meeting Registration & Information," "Public Affairs" "Publications & Software," and "Symposia & Colloquia." The ACS Web will open to the public in early April.


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