Chemisches Zentralblatt was founded as Pharmaceutisches Centralblatt by Gustav Theodor Fechner[1] and published by Leopold Voß in Leipzig[2] in 1830.

In the first year, 544 pages containing 400 abstracts were published, reporting all relevant research results in pharmaceutical chemistry.

[1] In 1969, after 140 years the expenses for the collection of primary literature in many languages and the production of abstracts were too high and the publication of Chemisches Zentralblatt ceased.

[3] In these 140 years, scientific editors reported research progresses in chemistry with approximately 2 million abstracts, publishing over 650,000 pages.

FIZ Chemie scanned the entire work and developed a full text searchable database for the web.