additional valid sources including prophetic substances described in patents, chemical libraries, and new Web-based resources of value. CAS added nearly 1. 1 million indexed document records in 2007, an all-time high. CAS also added approximately 3. 1 million substance records to the CAS Registry, which by year end included more than 33 million organic and inorganic substances.
CAS continued to improve and expand its family of SciFinder® research tools, with the addition of SubScape™ — a powerful new substance visualization feature — and the introduction of a new Web-enabled version of SciFinder, which provides chemists and chemical engineers ready and reliable access to our databases from virtually anywhere in the world. The phased
introduction of SciFinder on the Web will continue through much of 2008. In addition, 1,457 academic institutions in 55 countries installed SciFinder Scholar™ last year, a 10 percent increase since 2006.
ACS Publications also had an outstanding year. ACS journals published more than 31,000 articles in 2007, exceeding 30,000 for the first time. Researchers downloaded 57 million articles in 2007, a 4 percent increase from 2006 and downloaded 34 million abstracts, a 26 percent increase in just 12 months. ACS peer-reviewed journals continued to rank first in citations and/or ISI Impact Factor in the seven core chemistry categories, as reported
in the 2006 Thomson Scientific Journal Citation Reports®.
In addition, ACS Publications launched two journals — The Journal of Physical Chemistry C and ACS Nano — and introduced ACS Paragon Plus, an online system for manuscript submission and peer-review. This Web-based, real-time system provides editors, authors, and reviewers with robust new capabilities to simplify the review process and help to ensure the integrity of published information.
The financial contributions of CAS and ACS Publications, revenues from dues, meetings and other activities, as well as solid investment returns and prudent expense control throughout ACS, allowed us to end 2007 in a strong financial position and will allow our Society to thrive in uncertain economic times.
AS WE PROGRESS INTO 2008, ACS WILL REMAIN AN ELEMENTAL PART OF THE
CHEMISTRY ENTERPRISE, ADVANCING OUR SCIENCE AND ENSURING THAT THE
TRANSFORMING POWER OF CHEMISTRY CONTINUES TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S LIVES.
Chair, Board of Directors
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