The presentation summarizes a 50 year journey of ISI, from a completely independent non-governmental private chemical documentation company to becoming a part of Thomson Reuters, an� intelligent information provider�  Documentation systems in the earlier part of this journey  were directed by the �principle of completeness�. Due to an exponential growth in chemistry and with rapidly growing information this principle of completeness has become challenged. In addition to this, the demarcation line that existed between chemistry and biology has now vanished and we either talk of chemical biology or biological chemistry. The consequence of overlap of chemistry and biology has shifted the principles of documentation to �utility criteria� and this shift has changed and added new retrieval tools for both individuals and institutions.

From “Index Chemicus” for chemical documentation to integrated tools for intelligent retrieval

244th National Meeting (2012)

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