Since 1974 the data collection has been jointly built by VINITI(All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences, based in Moscow) and ZIC (Zentrale Informationsverarbeitung Chemie, based in east Berlin, up to 1989) and the data are now maintained by the VINITI Institute.
Since 1990 InfoChem GmbH, part of DeepMatter Group, based in Munich, Germany, has been the distributor of this data collection and developed the database SPRESIweb and the app SPRESImobile.
The SPRESI database contains information on organic substances, including coverage of reactions, structures and properties.
The SPRESI data collection can be accessed online via the web-application SPRESIweb, developed and distributed by InfoChem.
Alternatively the complete set or subsets of the database can be acquired as raw data in SDF/RDF chemical file format.