The Chemistry Information Centre, FIZ CHEMIE Berlin

The main task of FIZ CHEMIE Berlin is to provide high-quality information services concerning chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields to governments, academia, industry and the public in general. Although FIZ CHEMIE Berlin has been serving the scientific community both in Germany and internationally for more than 20 years now, the Centre is particularly proud of the fact that it is the successor organisation to the "Chemisches Zentralblatt", the world’s first, and for many decades the world’s most important, scientific abstracting service which founded as the "Pharmaceutisches Central-Blatt" in 1830.

FIZ CHEMIE Berlin functions as a central information and documentation centre for chemistry. Its services include the preparation and marketing of databases and printed services, the organisation of teaching and information workshops on the use of databases, consulting services and so on. The centre is also an Internet host and is certified according to the ISO 9001:2000 Quality Standard. It maintains relationships with many research and information institutions at home and oversees and has marketing agreements with partner organisations world-wide. Major products on offer include the "ChemInform" abstracting service for synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry, the "DETHERM / INFOTHERM" numerical database of substance properties and the "ChemGuide", "PublishersGuide" and "MedPharmGuide" Internet search engines.

FIZ CHEMIE Berlin is also marketing representative for Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the databases of the Chemical Abstracts Service (Columbus, Ohio, USA), the largest online information system for chemistry and its related fields world-wide. Finally, FIZ CHEMIE Berlin is also actively involved in the strategic project "Vernetztes Studium – Chemie" (VS-C; Network for Chemistry Education). Funded by the Federal German Ministry of Education and Research, this major German R+D initiative has groups working at 13 German universities developing a revolutionary new electronic learning platform designed to couple the theory and practice of chemistry together in a form which will make the complete knowledge of chemistry available for teaching and further education via the Internet.

More information: www.chemistry.de and www.chemistry.org.ru.

The Chemistry Information Centre, FIZ CHEMIE Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 / 399 77 - 0
Fax: +49 (0)0 / 399 77 - 133
E-Mail: info@fiz-chemie.de

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Further Information: www.chemistry.de