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1966 Prices Approved for CAS Services CA to be sold at single rate, prices reduced for microfilm and computer tape services The ACS Board of Directors has set 1966 prices for the family of chemical information services offered by Chemical Abstracts Service. A single subscription rate will be charged for Chemical Abstracts, and base prices have been reduced for Chemical Abstracts on microfilm and Chemical Titles tapes and custom searches. In addition, a one-time search of Chemical Titles tapes will be offered. Prices for CT and the CA section groupings will not be changed and the 1965 prices for Chemical-Biological Activities, modified earlier this year, will be maintained in 1966. No change has been made in the base rate for Chemical Abstracts. The present subscription rate of $1200 per year will be continued. No discount will be offered to members, but certain educational institutions will be eligible for a grant of $500 toward the subscription cost. A subscription to CA includes 26 abstract issues, each of which contains an author index, keyword index, patent concordance, and numerical patent index. Five volume indexesauthor, formula, patent, ring systems, and subject—also are included. During 1966, about 208,000 abstracts will be published in CA, an increase of 6.5(A over the number of abstracts to be published in 1965. Chemical Abstracts on microfilm, Chemical-Biological Activities, and Chemical Titles tapes and custom searches—services that enable the individual scientist to take advantage of the utility and speed of microfilm and computers in his everyday work— will be available under broadened subscription terms. Lower base prices have been established for these services and maximum prices have been set for the first time. Scientists, defined as any staff members who will routinely use the service that is provided, will be counted in groups of 25, rather than individually, in determining subscription costs. CA on Microfilm. Current subscribers to Chemical Abstracts may 52
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lease microfilmed abstract issues beginning with Vol. 1, No. 1 (1907) and continuing through the most recently completed volume (C&EN, March 29, page 66). Abstracts may be photocopied from either the microfilm or from the printed issues of CA for use within the subscriber's firm or institution. As additional volumes of CA are completed, the microfilm will be sent to the subscriber to update his collection. Subscription prices for the microfilmed abstract issues are shown in the table below. Maximum prices, which hold for institutions employing 351 or more scientists, are $2500 for the first year and $1900 for succeeding years. The former pricing schedule included a base price of $2500 per year, a surcharge of $5.00 for each scientist employed at the subscriber's address, and no maximum price. CT Tapes. Scanning of the titles of articles appearing in 645 chemical journals can be done by computers using the magnetic tapes that are generated in the preparation of Chemical Titles (CT), a biweekly index to the contents of these journals. The
magnetic tapes are available about a week before the printed copies of CT are issued, thus enhancing the currency of coverage. IBM 1401, IBM 1401/1410, or comparable computer systems, may be used to search the tapes. Using blank tapes supplied by the user, CAS will fill these tapes and return them to the subscriber, along with a program deck and a user's manual. Interest profiles made up of terms that pertain to specific projects or areas of research interest are used as the basis for searching the tapes. The searches can thus be tailored to the needs of individuals or groups. Answers to search questions are in the form of author indexes, bibliographies, keyword-in-context indexes, or any combination of the three. These can be duplicated and distributed to individual staff members at very low cost, thereby increasing the amount of information flowing to each chemist. Subscription prices for the CT tape searches are shown below. The maximum price is $2200 per year (for institutions employing 351 or more scientists). A charge for computer operations is made for searches conducted by CAS. Former subscription prices included a base rate of $1500 per year, a surcharge of $5.00 for each scientist employed at the subscriber's address, and no maximum price. Custom Searches. In addition to the subscription service, a new tapesearching service will be inaugurated
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE—1966 PRICING Service
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a Certain educational institutions are eligible for a $500 grant toward the subscription cost. b This base price includes the first 25 scientists employed by a firm or institution. A surcharge of $50 is made for each additional group of 25 or fewer scientists employed at the subscriber's address who will routinely use the service. c An additional charge will be made to cover the cost of computer operations. Searches at CAS will be conducted on an IBM 360 system to be installed later this year. Thus, the costs for computer operations have not yet been determined.
in 1966. Any portion of the CT tape file, which dates from 1962, will be searched on a one-time basis upon request. Users of this service need not be subscribers to the regular tapesearching service. The base fee of $200 will include searches of all CT tapes that have been issued to date during the current year plus the 26 tapes that were issued during the previous year. Older tapes will be included at an additional cost of $50 for each year of tape that is searched. All one-time searches will be conducted at CAS and a charge for computer operations made in addition to the base fee. Searches will be conducted on the basis of terms suggested by the user. Any number of one-time searches may be requested but the base fee plus the charge for computer operations must be paid each time. This service should be valuable to firms and institutions whose information needs do not warrant a subscription to the tape-searching service and to individuals who have an occasional need for searches of the recent literature. CBAC. Coverage of 330 journals in the life science fields is provided by Chemical-Biological Activities (C&EN, June 7, page 6 4 ) . As in the case of Chemical Titles, CBAC covers the current literature—many of the journals included are received at CAS in page proof form in advance of their publication. CBAC, issued every two weeks, provides depth of coverage by presenting summaries of articles and by indexing these summaries by author names, keywords, and molecular formulas in each issue. Indexes are cumulated and issued every six months. Subscriptions begin in January or July. CBAC provides researchers in biochemistry, bacteriology, pharmacology, nutrition, physiology, and other fields at the interface of chemistry and the life sciences with a valuable aid for keeping abreast of current work of interest in their fields and related areas. An important feature of CBAC is the registry number that is assigned to each organic compound for which the chemical structure is known. These numbers link the compounds in CBAC to the CAS registry system, the first phase of the CAS computerbased chemical information storage and retrieval system to be implemented.
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Subscription prices for CBAC, which are retroactive to January 1965, are shown above. A maximum price of $1500 holds for 351 or more scientists. Extra copies of each of the 26 issues of CBAC can be obtained for $25 per year (not including the cumulative indexes). The magnetic computer tapes that are generated in the preparation of CBAC will be made available on a subscription basis starting in 1966. Pricing will be set for these services in the fall of 1965. CA Section Groupings. No changes have been made in the subscription prices for Chemical Titles or Chemical Abstracts section groupings. ACS members and educational institutions pay $25 per year for a subscription to the 26 issues of CT and $30 for a subscription to any of the five CA section groupings. All others pay $50 for a subscription to CT and $60 for a subscription to any one of the section groupings.
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Joseph H. Kuney, director of business operations and publications research for ACS publications, has been appointed a member of the Committee on Modern Methods of Handling Chemical Information of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. His appointment runs for three years beginning this month. The committee, which publishes Survey of Chemical Notation Systems, is primarily an evaluative and advisory body concerned with nonconventional methods of handling chemical information. It devotes special effort to informing the chemical community of plans, progress, and new developments in this fast-changing field. It recently formed a subcommittee to study the compatibility of various systems now in use for coding information on chemical structures. Chairman of the committee is Dr. George P. Hager, dean of the college of pharmacy, University of Minnesota, and a member of the ACS advisory boards for the Journal of Chemical Documentation and Chemical Abstracts Service.
Six Receive $40,000 PRF Grants
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Four-year grants may be used to pursue almost any area of pure science of interest to them Six outstanding research scientists have been named to receive $40,000 grants from The Petroleum Research Fund, which is administered by ACS. The recipients, selected on the basis of outstanding basic research accomplishments, are Dr. William F. Bradley of the University of Texas, Dr. Robert E. Ireland of California Institute of Technology, Dr. Martin Karplus of Columbia University, Dr. Nathan Kornblum of Purdue University, Dr. Stanley G. Mason of McGill University, and Dr. Michael Szwarc of the New York State University College of Forestry at Syracuse. The grants permit each of the scientists to pursue any area of pure science of interest to him which may provide a basis for subsequent research in the petroleum field. The grants are for a four-year period, but each scientist may use the funds at whatever rate will provide the greatest support for his research program. Dr. Bradley, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Texas, is an authority on the crystal structures of silicates and their complex formation with organic molecules. He attended the University of Illinois where he received an A.B. in 1930 and Ph.D. in 1935. Dr. Bradley was a chemist with the Illinois State Geological Survey from 1934 until he joined the Texas faculty in 1961. Since 1947 he also has been a consultant to Shell Oil Co. Dr. Bradley is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geological Society of America and editor of Clays and Clay Minerals. Professor of organic chemistry at Caltech, Dr. Ireland's principal research interest is in the total synthesis of various natural products, such as the diterpene alkaloids. He received a B.A. in 1951 from Amherst College and an M.S. in 1953 and Ph.D. in 1954 from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Ireland taught chemistry at the University of Michigan from 1956 until he was named to his present post earlier this year. Since 1962 he has been an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow. Dr. Karplus is professor of chemistry at Columbia University. Born in Vienna, Austria, he received a B.A.
in 1950 from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in 1953 from Caltech. After two years at Oxford University as a National Science Foundation fellow, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois. He went to Columbia in 1960 as an associate professor and assumed his present position in 1963. Dr. Karplus, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow in 1959-63, has conducted research on the effect of radiation on atoms and molecules, and on the interpretation of crossed molecular beam experiments. Dr. Kornblum's current research plans include the study of radicalanions as intermediates in substitution reactions. Professor of chemistry at Purdue, Dr. Kornblum received a B.S. in 1935 from New York University and a Ph.D. in 1940 from the University of Illinois. He taught at Oberlin College and Harvard before joining the Purdue faculty in 1943. He was a Fulbright senior scholar at University College, London, in 1952-53, and a Guggenheim fellow in 1953 and NSF senior postdoctoral fellow in 1964-65 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Dr. Stanley G. Mason, head of the physical science division of the Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada and research associate at McGill University, was educated at McGill, where he received a B. Eng. in 1936 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1939. During World War II he was with the Canadian Department of National Defense and National Research Council of Canada. He joined McGill and the Pulp and Paper Institute in 1947. He is currently chairman of the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Dr. Mason is widely recognized for his outstanding contributions to the rheology and stability of disperse systems, and has more than 140 publications in physical, colloid, and polymer chemistry. Dr. Szwarc is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and director of the Polymer Institute at the State University College of Forestry at Syracuse, N.Y. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1941 from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a
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