title: Chemical Abstracts Service approach to management of large data bases.
abstract: When information handling is "the business," as it is at Chemical Abstract Service (CAS), the total organization must be involved in information management. Since 1967, when, as a result of long-range planning efforts, CAS adopted a "data-base approach" to management of both the processing system and the distribution of information files, CAS has been grappling with the problems of managing large collections of information in computer-based systems. This paper describes what has been done at CAS in the management of large files and what we see as necessary, as a result of our experience, to improve and complete the information management system that is the foundation of our production processes.
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D003201:Computers; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D007256:Information Systems