The Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences is a non-profit foundation located in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

(German: ''Beilstein-Institut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften''). Founded in 1951 by the

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (german: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. ...

in honor of Friedrich Beilstein, the institute is actively involved in maintaining the

Beilstein database The Beilstein database is the largest database in the field of organic chemistry, in which compounds are uniquely identified by their Beilstein Registry Number. The database covers the scientific literature from 1771 to the present and contains ex ...

and the conversion of the contents of scientific libraries into electronic media. In 2005, the institute initiated the

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry The ''Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal established in 2005. It is published by the Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences, a German non-profit foundation. The editor-i ...

'' and in 2010 the ''

Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology The ''Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology'' is a peer-reviewed platinum open-access scientific journal covering all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It is published by the Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences a ...

''.

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