• The Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, and other organizations merge to form the Royal Society of Chemistry in Great Britain.
• NSF awards grant to Fritz Machlup to study "Information Science: An Analysis of Methodological Issues and Interdisciplinary Relationships." Report is issued in 1984 (Altman, 1993).
• Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, PL 96-511, is passed. Designates the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as major agency to coordinate federal information. Establishes the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in OMB (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
• The ACS publication, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, is made available in full text on an experimental basis on the (BRS) Bibliographic Retrieval Service online system.
• Gmelin Handbuch begins transition from German to English.

• First successfully marketed IBM personal computer, the IBM PC.

• Fachgruppe Chemie-Information is founded within the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker.
• Great Britain's Chemical Structure Association is established.
• Chemical Abstracts issues a collective index for 1977-1981.

• Division of Chemical Information and Computer Science is founded within the Chemical Society of Japan.
• CA File, the most complete online equivalent of CA, is introduced.
• U.S. National Science Foundationincorporates ARPANET into its new INTERNET (interactive network) (Pinelli, et al., 1992).

• CAS ONLINE is incorporated, along with non-CAS databases, into Scientific and Technical Network (STN) International, a joint operation of CAS, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, and Fachinformationzentrum Karlsruhe.
• Journal of Biological Chemistry becomes first journal to ask authors to reference an electronic database, in this case of nucleotide sequences.

• NSFNET (National Science Foundaton Network) is established. Implements a high-speed data communications network to link the National Supercomputing Centers and their networks (Pinelli, et al., 1992).
• NSF Division of Information Science becomes the Division of Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Altman, 1993).

• First International Conference on Chemical Structures held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
• Teleosophy System (early precursor project for multimedia browsing on distributed file servers) begins at Bell Labs by Schatz (Schatz, 1997).

• National Center for Biotechnology Information founded to oversee the information components of the Human Genome Project.

• First International Conference on Chemical Information held in Montreux, Switzerland.
• Tetrahedron Computer Methodology, edited by W. Todd Wipke, becomes the first journal published in electronic form only, available on floppy disks.
• March: Tim Berners-Lee (CERN) prepares internal paper titled "Information Management: A Proposal," describing a proposed information system for CERN. W3C history considers this an important document in the development of the Web. (Contains interesting similarities to proposals by IST professionals for information services.)

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