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ACS blocks use of industry-standard chemical numbers in Wikipedia Antony Williams reports that Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, ACS) will not allow the industry-standard but proprietary CAS Registry Numbers to organize the growing body of chemical information on Wikipedia. Excerpt:
Also see Peter Murray-Rust's first comment:
And PMR's second comment:
Update. Also see Glyn Moody's comment, The World's Leading Anti-Scientific Society. Update. Also see the follow-up posts from Cameron Neylon and Antony Williams on the specific problem of shifting from the closed CAS numbers to some open alternative. |