About JAICI

As an information center to support scientific & technological advancement in Japan

Our Mission

To contribute to the Advancement of Science and Technology of Japan and the rest of the World via Flow of Chemical Information

New technical information is released every minute in the world. Inevitably, it has become important for achieving visual results of research to make the best use of such information and to acquire seeds of new ideas from it. For information to be useful, it must be delivered to those who need it in a timely fashion. It becomes a lively resource only if it is sufficiently comprehensive and intellectually analyzed to turn it to knowledge.

Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI) was established in 1971 to provide global chemical and technical information as the time demanded. By building cooperative relationships with other international information organizations in the world, we have been providing support for scientific information to academics and industries etc.

We are especially working to promote CAS databases, recognizing that CAS information is the best and valuable source to scientists. This has always been JAICI's primary objective since its founding.

We are committed to contributing to scientific and technological developments that create our bright future by distributing useful information to researchers in various disciplines.

The biggest challenge to us and to scientists is transforming “information” to “knowledge”.

Profile

Name	Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI)
Location	Nakai-Building, 6-25-4 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0021, Japan
Establishment	1971 (Approved as Shadan Hojin (nonprofit, incorporated body) by the Japanese Government in July 1975)
President	Dr. Takashi Ito (Emeritus Professor of Yokohama National University)

History

1968	+ American Chemical Society asked the Chemical Society of Japan to work together for CAS information flow.
1969	+ An investigation team consisted of Scientific and Technical Information Committee (General Administrative Agency of the Cabinet) visited CAS. + The Chemical Society of Japan started the Special Committee for the chemical information
1970	+ The Board of the Chemical Society of Japan and other academic societies adopted a resolution to establish a chemical information organization.
1971	+ JAICI was founded.
1975	+ The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and the Science Technology Agency approved JAICI as a not-for-profit corporate body.
1977	+ JAICI entered into the cooperative agreement with CAS.
1980	+ JAICI became the exclusive sales agent of CAS in Japan. + The CAS online service started.
1981	+ JAICI began marketing PDB (the Protein Data Bank). + JAICI began marketing CCDC (the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre) products.
1982	+ Input into the CAS Databases started.
1983	+ The STN Agreement was signed between CAS/ACS and FIZ Karlsruhe. JAICI became the Provisional STN Tokyo Service Center. + JAICI began marketing the Quantum Chemistry Literature Database.
1987	+ The STN Tokyo Service Center moved to the JICST (current JST). JAICI entered into Agreement with JICST for STN. + JAICI began the FIZ Chemie's service (ChemInform).
1989	+ JAICI began the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) database service.
1993	+ JAICI began CD-ROM service of Chapman & Hall. + JAICI began CRYSTMET service.
1995	+ SciFinder service started in Japan.
1998	+ SciFinder Scholar service started in Japan.
2002	+ JAICI and JST became co-operator of STN Tokyo Service Center.
2005	+ Prior art search service for Japan Patent Office started.
2007	+ JAICI became the operator of STN Tokyo Service Center.

Cooperative Structure

As science and technology are developed on a global scale across borders and technological fields, the importance of sharing worldwide information is becoming more and more important.

JAICI has been providing high quality information services through the collaboration with other international as well as domestic organizations.

Such international organizations include CAS in the USA, FIZ Karlsruhe of German Scientific Information Agency with whom we are jointly operating STN, The Cambridge Structural Database System (CSDS) in U.K. which produces the crystal structure database, and Toth Information Systems Inc. in Canada.

CAS is known as the global leader with the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of scientific and technical information.

In addition, our activities have been supported by three types of domestic members: Regular Members who committed to the founding of JAICI, Sustaining Members who support our objectives and work with us on the project, and Associate Members who support our activities.

CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service)
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, is the world’s authority for chemical information. Curated and quality-controlled by CAS scientists, our secure databases are recognized by chemical and pharmaceutical companies, universities, government organizations, and patent offices around the world as the chemical information gold standard. By combining these databases with advanced search and analysis technologies, CAS delivers the most complete, cross-linked, and effective digital information environment for scientific discovery through SciFinder®, STN®, and Science IP® products and services. To learn more, visit www.cas.org.

FIZ Karlsruhe
FIZ Karlsruhe, a European Service Center of STN Online System, is a nonprofit National Scientific Information Center supervised by the German Federal Government.

FIZ Karlsruhe was established in 1977 to provide information services to academia and the industry. They have been supporting the research and development of scientists in the world by building and offering high quality databases that cover a wide range of fields.

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC)
The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is an independent non-profit organization which distributes world-renowned Cambridge Structural Database (CSD).

The CCDC, today, has been expanding its business into the development and sale of biochemical and crystallographic software, thereby supporting the research and development of scientists in the world.