History
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1977 |
| Our company is founded under the name of “Fachinformationszentrum Energie, Physik, Mathematik GmbH“, with a mathematics department in Berlin | |
1978 |
| INKA Online Service (54 databases in 1983; shut down at the end of 1992 after the databases had been transferred to STN) | |
1979 |
| The Bonn office - the producer of our BINE information services - is opened. | |
1983 |
| FIZ Karlsruhe and the American Chemical Society (ACS) sign a co-operation agreement governing the foundation of STN International, The Scientific and Technical Information Network. | |
1984 |
| The first 4 databases are available online via STN International (the world’s first integrated network of online hosts; in 2009: about 200 databases) | |
1985 |
| ZBMATH online (published together with Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften and Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg/Germany) | |
| ICSD – the crystal structure database is taken over from Bonn University. | ||
1986 |
| STN International acquires a new partner in Japan | |
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1987 |
| Our company name is changed to „Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, Gesellschaft für wissenschaftlich-technische Information GmbH“ | |
1988 |
| BEILSTEIN on STN (first factual database on STN; in 2009: 12 factual databases) | |
| Launch of PC-based front end software STN Express | ||
| PATGRAPH online (STN is the world’s first provider who displays vector graphs) | ||
1993 |
| Constitution of the Scientific Advisory Board (WBR) | |
| Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on STN | ||
1995 |
| DGENE online (first STN gene sequence database; in 2009: 4 gene sequence databases) | |
1996 |
| STN Easy – “point and click“ web access to STN | |
| Stand-alone web version of ZBMATH | ||
1997 |
| STN – Integration of full-texts: FIZ AutoDoc (full-text delivery system) | |
| EUROPATFULL online (first full-text patent database; in 2009: 9 full-text patent databases) | ||
1999 |
| STN on the Web, Web-basierte Benutzeroberfläche | |
2000 |
| Thieme eJournals – creation and operation of the Thieme Verlag website | |
2001 |
| FIZ Karlsruhe, Inc. founded in Princeton, New Jersey, USA | |
2002 |
| 25th anniversary of FIZ Karlsruhe! | |
2005 |
| Start of the eSciDoc project with the aim to create an information, communication, and publication platform together with the Max Planck Society. | |
| Analysis and visualization software STN AnaVist is introduced | ||
2006 |
| Computer science portal io-port.net is available online. | |
| KnowEsis – FIZ Karlsruhe‘s e-Science Solutions are established as a new field of business. | ||
2007 |
| 30th anniversary of FIZ Karlsruhe! | |
| STN Viewer – a tool for efficiently evaluating patent full-texts | ||
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| INPADOCDB on STN | |
2008 |
| Alliance of German Science Organisations; Priority Initiative „Digitale Information“ | |
| KnowEsis – FIZ Karlsruhe‘s e-Science-Solutions become available | ||
| eSciDoc-software available under CDDL Open Source license | ||
| First „eSciDoc Days“ in Berlin | ||
| INPAFAMDB on STN | ||
2009 |
| 25th anniversary of STN International | |
| A framework concept for a scientific information infrastructure in Germany is submitted to the Joint Science Conference of the Federal Government and the Länder (GWK) | ||
| The GWK commissions the Leibniz Association to establish an overall concept for Germany. The committee “Kommission Zukunft der Informationsinfrastruktur“ (“The future of the information infrastructure“) is founded. | ||
| The line “Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure“ is added to our company name. | ||
