I got this email this morning (posted in its entirety- I will clean up the links when I can) -ELMO: (UPDATE- I tried to put the links in as best I could (typos in the original URLs). You may need to hit the refresh button after you click the link once) ELMO. Dear Colleagues, I …
Hi all, Just wanted to let everyone know that we now have an article on Wikipedia. Jen
Two members of an American Chemical Society (ACS) committee have resigned to protest what they say is the society’s tight-lipped handling of its battle against a free federal chemical database. The flap involves the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) PubChem, which ACS leaders see as a threat to the fee-based Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) (Science, …
ACS Committee Members resign to support PubChem! Read More »
The Water Relief Network is a group that helps to bring both emergency and permanent supplies to distressed areas. You might want to check out their website. We may get some good ideas, or be able to enlist their help with some of our projects. They list some projects they work on, including giving a …
Good day Dr. Haris,My name is Brian Wagner and I am a new member of an organization called Chemists Without Borders (CWB) that has started in the United States. Our organization is interested in bettering the world through chemistry. Our primary goals include, but are not limited to: providing vaccines and affordable medicine to those …
After spending some time on the internet looking at what has been done with respect to arsenic remediation in drinking water, I can safely say that a lot of time and money has been spent to solve a purvasive problem that afflicts a great many people with only some success. Countries afflicted by this problem …
There is a Petition for open access to crystal data available; what is particularly interesting, to me, is the many comments from third world researchers. Thanks to Armel Le Bail, from the SPARC Open Access Forum.
Bego pointed this letter out. We have a conference call with Rolande today to explore the possibilities of collaborations with CWB! ELMO
Several stories from Open Access News that may be of interest this week: PubChem now contains structures from LipidMAPs, a total of over 4.2 million structures and 3.2 million compounds. The U.K. Green Party endorses mandated Open Access Quick Thinking, OA, and Google save a life – from google blog.
Hi Chemists Without Borders, I have just become a recent member of Chemists Without Borders with interests in clean water technology and renewable/alternative energy solutions for third world communities. I have spent many years working for testing laboratories and an environmental engineering company that focused on groundwater and soil testing and remediation resulting from hazardous …