DOCUMENTATION SURVEY

Abstract

Annual report (June 1965 through May 1966) on the Chemical Compound Registry system. Columbus, Ohio, 1966. Development work has resulted in a the registration of about 360,000 chemical compounds in a computer system giving an identification in the form of a unique number for each compound and files data on the structure nomenclature and bibliographical citations. b testing of various methods for the input of chemical information in machine language by the use of special keyboards and keyboarding conventions. Thus whenever a compound which is already on file appears in a new reference, the previously assigned number is recovered automatically. The Registry Number acts as a tie for all information related to a given compound. The importance of this approach is indicated by the fact that an examination of the subject indexes of Chemical Abstracts shows that about 85 per cent of the index entries relate to compounds and materials.

Citation

(1967), "DOCUMENTATION SURVEY", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026422