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 …
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.
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.
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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Here is a response to the Letter to the Editor of Chemical and Engineering News we sent last week: Dear Dr. Chambreau, Thank you for your recent letter to the editor of Chemical & EngineeringNews. We have decided to publish it, and it will appear in an upcoming issueof the magazine. We appreciate you taking …