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About JAICIAs an information center to support scientific & technological advancement in Japan |
ENGLISH TOP |
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) |
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| 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. |
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| 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) 
CAS, a Division of the American Chemical Society, publishes abstracts and in-depth indexes from world scientific literature with emphasis on chemistry including patent documents, in the forms of printed issues, CD-ROM, online services, and web services.
CAS also provides other related information such as chemical substances and their physical properties, chemical reactions, chemical catalog information and many other supporting materials.
CAS databases are indispensable tool for scientific research and development, education, and management of intellectual properties and company governance. SciFinder and SciFinder Scholar are the flagship services of CAS.
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.
