What are the sources of Reaxys content?
For the nitty-gritty details, click Help button in Reaxys, then choose Reaxys Content Details/Sources. The Beilstein Handbook up to 1959 (Supplement IV) and the Gmelin Handbook up to 1975 are the core sources of historical content. Thereafter, information has been extracted from selected journals with varying levels of thoroughness. In addition, Gmelin’s coverage of the literature was always uneven: some chemical elements were very extensively covered over time in multiple volumes and supplements, while others were never updated after the original volume was published. It is important to remember that Reaxys is not intended to be a comprehensive index to the recent literature in the way that CAS’ SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts) is. Its coverage is much more selective than CAS’.
