The ACS Office of International Activities provides liaison for international matters within the ACS and between the ACS and other organizations throughout the world. It is the world's largest scientific society's access to the scientific societies around the globe.
Chemistry is a science that in most ways disregards national boundaries.
The activities of the American Chemical Society span the globe as well. More than half of the Society's revenues come from outside the United States, through income from Chemical Abstracts Service and its journals . A majority of the material covered in Chemical Abstracts , the world's greatest resource of chemical information, originates from outside the United States and more than a third of the articles published in ACS journals are by non-U.S. scientists. ACS non-U.S. membership now stands at more than 16,000 in over 100 countries and is growing steadily. The American Chemical Society has extensive links with chemical societies and institutions throughout the world chemical community and is a regular participant in international chemical sciences meetings.