...Kristina Voigt; Rainer Brüggemann; Stefan Pudenz Purpose The purpose of this research is to establish that data on chemicals detected in the environment are urgently needed to comply with the future environment and chemicals policy in the European Union. The availability of data on chemicals can...

..., over the years, the rules laid down by the IUPAC committees have changed. Thus, the names listed above all identify the same compound (who would have thought that?) and all have been in use in the CAS system. Thus, something else is necessary for uniquely identifying chemical compounds other than...

...Paul Meehan; Helen Schofield When the CrossFire databases were released in 1994, chemical information became available in electronic form of a quality and quantity never before accessible to end‐users. Describes the information sources used by chemists before CrossFire and the origins...

...Kristina Voigt; Gerhard Welzl; Gerda Rediske Constantly expanding chemical and environmental information sources increase the need for descriptive statistical analysis. This paper gives a comparative evaluation of data sources, i.e. online databases, databases on CD‐ROM and Internet resources...