PRESS RELEASE DEC 8th 1999 Gmelin Database is REVIVED!! On December 6th 1999 the future of the Gmelin Database was decided with the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) and Elsevier Science / Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH (BIS) / MDL Information Systems Inc. as details were finalised for an exclusive license agreement. This will ensure the continued rights for the distribution and sales of Gmelin but additionally provide full production rights including all future updates. The investment and commitment required to restore and develop the Gmelin Database will be made as soon as the final approval of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) is received. This is seen as a significant break through and important in securing the synergy between BISs existing products and synonymous with the companies values for providing the customer with valuable, in-depth data coverage for the scientific community. This will also further enhance the product suite provided by Elsevier Science, reinforcing the link between primary literature from ScienceDirect to the high quality scientific details excerpted for Gmelin. The essence of the final negotiations has been an exclusive license agreement, which has been granted by the GDCh who will play an important role with BIS. Together we aim to restore Gmelins status, as the worlds most comprehensive Database for Inorganic and Organometallic compounds which in 1994 held 1.3 million compounds. The GDCh has recognised the need to fill the data gap of 1995 to 1999 and has committed to do so, within only a four-year period. In an effort to remain focused on the scientific community s needs the GDCh has pledged to provide support via an advisory board which we see as an invaluable contribution. GDCh/BIS must also take this opportunity to thank all the parties especially the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) for their constructive contribution in the previous discussions leading to a positive result. Most importantly the real driving force behind our determination to come to an agreement was the encouragement received from our customers. We now hope with this new agreement and with the support of our customers, we can take Gmelin into the Millennium. CONTACTS Eduard Cohen Managing Director Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH Theodor-Heuss-Allee 108 60486 Frankfurt Tel: +49 69 5050 4211 Fax: +49 69 5050 4213 E mail: ecohen@beilstein.com www.beilstein.com Prof. Dr. Heindirk tom Dieck Managing Director Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker Varrentrappstrasse 40-42 60486 Frankfurt +49 69 7917 320 +49 69 7917 307 htd@gdch.de www.gdch.de ********************************************************************** Dr. Uwe Geissler * Beilstein Informationssysteme GmbH * E-mail: ugeissler@beilstein.com Theodor-Heuss Allee 108 * Phone: +49-69-50504258 D-60486 Frankfurt * FAX: +49-69-50504266 Germany * ********************************************************************** chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)