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An important factor in technological or scientific innovation is the ready availability of relevant information. In chemical research and development data and factual information on chemical species are of prime importance: in chemistry at present we know 9 million compounds — this figure is increased annually as a result of the synthesis of another half million substances. New compounds, new properties, new processes and new methods were reported in the last year in circa 600,000 documents with an upward trend predicted for the future. The state-of-the art in chemistry is documented in many thousand patent applications annually.
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Czermak, J.M. (1989). A policy for science and technical information in chemistry. In: Collier, H.R. (eds) Chemical Information. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75165-3_2
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