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nstant, international, and interactive. That's the way Melody Voith, editor of Chemical & Engineering News Online, describes the benefits of C&EN's brand new web edition, which debuts next week with the Aug. 24 issue. We think she's got a right to rave about the latest value-added web magazine in the outstanding portfolio of American Chemical Society web publications. Chemical & Engineering News Online will contain all the stories that the print edition contains—and more. The online version will have full-text searching by subject; direct links to ACS journal articles; access to academic, industry, and government databases; and hot links to relevant university, company, government, nonprofit, and other web sites. The web edition will have an easily searchable archive as well. Readers will have access to the web edition each Monday, the day C&EN is published. This feature of the web publication will be especially valuable to C&EN's thousands of readers outside the U.S., who often have to wait several weeks to receive the newsmagazine of the chemical world. Imagine this: You won't have to worry about how to get details of a promising drug discovery that could be the next Viagra. With Chemical & Engineering News Online, you can go directly to the ACS journal article referenced in our news story. Need the latest earnings figures from DuPont? Jump to that company's home page. Trying to find a report from the National Science Foundation? If the report is on the web— and increasingly the government is posting reports only on the web—you can access it directly from our web edition. We also plan over time to have links to videos and other features that are only available on the web. Of special interest to C&EN readers is the added depth that these links provide. We plan to keep updating and improving this web edition and we want to hear from our readers about features that you would find valuable. Some readers of C&EN will no doubt remind me of the editor's page I wrote nearly two years ago when we first introduced our home page (Nov. 25, 1996, page 5). At that time, I noted that printed magazines had distinct advantages over cyber-versions. These include portability, readability, and permanence, just to name Views expressed
a few tangible benefits. There are other, less tangible benefits as well. I, for one, still cannot imagine curling up on my sofa with my computer to read the latest edition of C&EN. All of these benefits of the print edition still hold. Nonetheless, we believe that the combination of the print and web editions of C&EN offers a news and information package that is unbeatable. Through the end of this year, you can access Chemical & Engineering News Online free. Our web address is http:// pubs.acs.org/cen. In 1999, the web edition will be offered only in conjunction with the print edition. ACS members in the U.S. will pay a modest subscription fee of $15 a year. ACS members outside the U.S. will receive the web edition as part of their surface or air freight surcharge. If you're in Boston next week at the American Chemical Society fall meeting, be sure to visit Booth 1519 at the exposition to learn more about Chemical & Engineering News Online. The online version will be up and running on Aug. 24 from 9 AM on. At 3 PM, there will be a ribbon cutting, and C&EN's Managing Editor Rudy Baum, who has overseen the development of this new product, will demonstrate how to get the most from the web edition. While I'm mentioning names, my thanks go to all the talented people in the ACS Department of Information Technology, Publications, who have made our web edition possibleonline and on time: Lorrin Garson, Cheryl Dixon, Michael Leonard, Donna Lucas, Ben Martin, David Martinsen, and Jeffrey Spring. At the Boston expo, we plan to give away several free five-year subscriptions to Chemical & Engineering News Online—a $75 value. To win, stop by the booth and enter the drawing—you'll receive a special collector's edition of the C&EN 75th anniversary issue just for entering. So come by—or log on. And while you're on our home page, visit the job bank, browse through the calendar of meetings, and explore the other features that will keep you up to date with the ever-changing news of the chemical world.
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