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Bego says that Lawyers Without Borders has found a law firm to represent Chemists Without Borders on a pro bono basis! More on this soon! ELMO UPDATE: see the law firm’s website here.

We have received our articles of incorporation from the CA Secretary of State. Now on to tax-exempt status!

Here is the latest news on PubChem, from the ATA Newsletter: For months, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has been on a determined campaign to restrain NIH from developing PubChem, a freely accessible database of small organic molecules, claiming that its existence threatens the financial viability of ACS’s Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) database. In the …

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Here’s an interesting Q&A with the Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer regarding the conversion of coal to liquid HCs: Comments anyone?? ELMO

Two separate open access-related topics: The local factor: the ideal is for every community everywhere to have the means and the expertise to lead any CWB initiatives in their own area, even if occasional assistance from outside is needed. There is a long way to go to get from here to there. To develop the …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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