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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY OFFICIAL REPORTS
128th National Meeting Minneapolis, September 11—16, 1955
Board of Directors Minutes JL HE Board of Directors of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL
SOCIETY
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Nicollet, Minneapolis, Minn, at 2:30 P.*I. on Sept. 11. Ernest H. Volwiler, Chairman, presided. The following directors were present: M. H. Arveson, Wallace R. Brode, Balph Connor, Arthur C. Cope, W. Conard Fernelrus, Harry L. Fisher, Joel H. Hildehrand.. Raymond E. Kirk. Randolph T. Major, C. F. Rassweiler, Ernest H. Volwiler, J. C. Warner, and William G. Young. The following were present by invitation: Alden H. Emery, Elisha Hanson, Robert V. Mellefont, Walter J. Murphy, and Richard H. Belknap. 1. The minutes of the meeting of June 20, 1955 were approved [see C&EN, 33, 3104-5 (July 25, 1955)].
a responsible official of the instrtutiOEi stating that its primary objective is the teaching or training of students, antd to allow the member personal-use charge only to a member in good standing upon, receipt of a signed agreement that the copy is for personal nse only and that it will n o t be sold until the second year after the date of the volume. VOTED that the Committee on Publications of the Board of Directors, acting for the Board of Directors, price single copies of current issues of the Chemicsd Abstracts Service commencing with Volume 50 (1956) as follows:
ecutive Secretary to permit Johnson Reprint Corporation to reprint Chemical Abstracts, Volume 6 , under the terms of a contract dated June 16, 1952 except that the provisions of paragraph 4 may b e waived. VOTED that the Committee on Publications of the Board of Directors, acting for the Board of Directors, instruct the Director of the Chemical Abstracts Service ^o proceed with the compilation of the 19o6 List of Periodicals Abstracted with a Key to Library Files essentially in the form previously used and to distribute it to all subscribers t o Chemical Abstracts.
Colleges and Industry, Government, and Others Members Universities $15.00 Numbers 1-22, each $ 2.00 $ 3.00 Author and Patent 0 Indexes 20.00 5.00 15.00 Subject and Formula Indexes 35.00 40.00 10.00 0 Ad Interim Actions The Patent Index will be r>ound with eithex Subject or Author Index as determined by production schedules. 2. VOTED that the report on ad interim actions of the Board of Directors be VOTED that the Committee on PublicaVOTED that the Committee on Publicareceived. This involved only approval tions of the Board of Directors, acting for tions of the Board of Directors, acting for of the draft of the minutes of the June the the Board of Directors, instruct the ComBoard of Directors, approves the recommeeting. mendation of the Executive Secretary that mittee on Exchanges in using Chemical 3. VOTED that the following ad involumes and single issues of tn.e Chbernical Ahstracts i n exchanges to be guided not terim action of the Executive Committee Abstracts Service commencing^ witEi Vol- only b y the average cost of the issues, but of the Board of Directors be confirmed: ume 50 (1956) be sold in acco-rdancse witH also b y the value to the Chemical Abthe price schedule for single copries of stracts Service of the material received in VOTED that the Executive Committee current issues until Jan. 1 of the second exchange and t h e effect on inter-profesof the Board of Directors, acting for the year resulting from such exfollowing the close of the volume sional relationships Board of Directors, on recommendation of with other societies. year and that thereafter they be made change the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory VOTED that the Committee on Publicaavailable at the following rates: Board, approve the grants from the Petions of the Board of Directors, acting for troleum Research Fund in table below. the Board of Directors, instruct the DirecComplete volume $80.00 tor of the Chemical Abstracts Service in 4. VOTED that the following ad inNumbers 1-22, each 2.50 cooperation with the Executive Secretary terim actions of the Committee on Publica- Author and Patent* Indexes 15.00 t o produce, price, and offer for sale the Subject and Formula Indexes 30.00 Fifth Decennial Index to Chemical Abtions be confirmed: 0 The Patent Index will be "bouncl with stracts as a unit comprised of the Author, VOTED that the Committee on Publieither Subject or Author Index as deter- Subject, Formula, and Numerical Patent cations of the Board of Directors, acting Indexes, and that the schedule so estabmined by production schedules. for the Board of Directors, instruct the lished shall allow for an attractive preExecutive Secretary to allow the special p-ublication discount and a reduction to VOTED that the Committee on Publica- members for personal use and to colleges educational charge for the Chemical Abstracts Service to colleges or universities tions of the Board of Directors, acting for and universities of 50% from either the only upon receipt of a statement signed by the Board of Directors, authorize t h e Ex- pre- or post-publication selling price. VOTED that the Committee on Publications of the Board of Directors, acting for tHe Board of Directors, refuse the request of Albert Boni, Readex Microprint CorPrincipal Recommended poration, to engage in a cooperative study Investigator Grant Institution t o determine the feasibility of producing, Simha New York University $ 5,750 (Nerw) i n whole or in part, a microprint edition Stein University of Massachusetts 3,000 [Renewal) of original articles abstracted in Chemical Wadsworth University of Utah 5,800 [Renewal) Abstracts, and that it give no right to reGwathrney University of Virginia 6,000 [Renewal) print material from ACS journals for sale Postdoctoral National Research Council a s a part of such an undertaking. Fellowships 12,000 (Renewal) VOTED that the Committee on Publications of the Board of Directors, acting for 4542
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the Board of Directors, authorize use of an improved paper stock in Chemical and Engineering News and i n the non-technical section of Analytical Chemistry beginning Oct. 1, 1955. VOTED that the Committee on Publications of the Board of Directors, acting for the Board of Directors, authorize an increase in advertising rates in Chemical and Engineering News and Analytical Chemistry not to exceed 15% of established gross page rates, and that Reinhold Publishing Corporation be asked to resubmit its specific proposals for advertising rates, and that the Executive Secretary be empowered to approve them within the specified limit. On recommendation of the Board of Editors of T/i
