Education of infopros at JAICI

JAICI (Japan Association for International Chemical Information) has been endeavoring to raise many infopros through marketing and user support of STN/SciFinder and preparing CA abstracts and indexes for more than 30 years and prior arts search for patent examination on behalf of Japan Patent Office for almost 10 years. Recently, JAICI has started a new business, search service for focusing on patent search for private sectors, which is our new challenge for raising all-round infopros. Backgrounds and processes are described as an example of infopro-education in chemistry and its related fields.