Presently over 8000 publications published in 50 different languages are monitored annually, and approximately 700,000 new documents are selected for abstracting in CA each year. CA covers all kinds of published material from journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports, to patents, dissertations, and books. Information can be found on any chemical subject, including biochemistry and chemical engineering. Coverage includes leading physics, biological, medical and other technical journals as well as strictly chemistry-oriented publications.
Information is given with the abstract so that the original article or document can be located.
Indexes to the abstracts. There are six types of indexes including author, subject, chemical substance, formula, patent number, and ring system. Chemical Abstracts is published weekly. Volume 130, for example, contains 26 volumes of abstracts numbered 1 to 360,813, for January - June 1999, as well as the associated indexes to the abstracts. In Kraemer Family Library the most current years of Chemical Abstracts can be found in the Reference Department on the Index Tables.