Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Defunct2007 Edit this on Wikidata
SuccessorProQuest
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBethesda, Maryland
Publication typesDatabases
Official websitewww.csa.com

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (later simply CSA) was a division of Cambridge Information Group and provider of online databases, based in Bethesda, Maryland, before merging with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2007. CSA hosted databases of abstracts and developed taxonomic indexing of scholarly articles. These databases were hosted on the CSA Illumina platform and were available alongside add-on products like CSA Illustrata (deep-indexing of tables and figures). The company produced numerous bibliographic databases in different fields of the arts and humanities, natural and social sciences, and technology.[1] Thus, coverage included materials science, environmental sciences and pollution management, biological sciences, aquatic sciences and fisheries, biotechnology, engineering, computer science, sociology, linguistics, and other areas.[2]

  1. ^ "CSA - Databases & Collections". Archived from the original on 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2009-09-27.
  2. ^ Quint, Barbara (September 18, 2000). "CSA Acquires Aerospace Database from AIAA". Information Today, Inc. Retrieved 2012-07-28.