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 …
Chemists Without Borders is now on Google! #4 is still progress! ELMO
I guess this had me scratching my head. I would be interested to hear comments on this. ELMO
Our follow up letter to the Editor of C&E News has been published (Aug 29, p7)!!! ELMO
See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9108631/site/newsweek/ for an interesting article about non profit organizations. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts as we work to set up CWB as a public benefit organization. ELMO
Organic chemists now have a fully gold, open access journal to publish in – to share their work with colleagues around the globe. Now that’s Chemistry Without Borders! The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, a new, open access chemistry journal, was officially launched today, August 28, 2005. Thanks to Open Access News’ George Porter, and …
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