ENVIRONMENTAL
COMMENT
S C I E N C E & TECHNOLOGY
©Copyright 1996 by the American Chemical Society EDITOR William H. Glaze, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ASSOCIATE EDITORS Walter Giger, EAWAG (Europe); Ronald A. Hites, Indiana University; James F. Pankow, Oregon Graduate Institute; Jerald L. Schnoor, University of Iowa (water); John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology (air); Mitchell J. Small, Carnegie Mellon University; Joe Suflita, University of Oklahoma ADVISORY BOARD William L. Budde, EPA Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory; Stuart E Cram, Hewlett-Packard Company; Joan M. Daisey, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; John Ehrenfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michael R. Hoffmann, California Institute of Technology; Sheila Jasanoff, Cornell University; Richard M. Kamens, University of North Carolina; Michael Kavanaugh, ENVIRON Corporation; M. Granger Morgan, Carnegie Mellon University; R H. Pritchard, EPA Research Laboratory; Dennis Schuetzle, Ford Motor Company; Alan T. Stone, The Johns Hopkins University; Alexander J. B. Zehnder, EAWAG WASHINGTON STAFF Managing Editor: Stephen Cole Associate Editors: :eff fohnson, Catherine M. Cooney Contributing Editors: Tony Reichhardt, Rebecca Renner Program Assistant: Dawn Hayes MANUSCRIPT EDITING Journals Editing Manager: Kathleen E. Duffy Assistant Editor: Brenda S. Wooten GRAPHICS AND PRODUCTION General Manager: Alan Kahan Composition Manager: Vincent L. Parker Manager, Copy Editing: Elizabeth Wood Production Coordinator: :ennie Reenhardt Art Director: Neal Clodfelter
A New "Home" for ES&T
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nvironmental Science & Technology readers and the environmental community at large can now view the research section of the journal on the World Wide Web. For the next four months, the entire collection of research papers published this year is accessible free of charge through the American Chemical Society's home page (http://pubs.acs.org). In 1997 access will be limited to subscribers. This new electronic version of research articles includes all elements of the print version: figures, tables, equations, and supporting information. The electronic version can be viewed in either a text-only mode, with figures and tables visible with a click of the mouse, or a page image (PDF) format. You also have the option of viewing just the abstract and downloading or printing articles. You can find your way through this archive either by browsing a table of contents for each issue and clicking on an individual paper, or by using a search routine on key words (title or text) or author. I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to examine the journal in this electronic format. I don't know how you feel about electronic publishing, but I like it and expect that it is here to stay. I like it because it makes the literature more accessible, primarily through search routines, especially when I have so little time to browse. I like the idea of having color graphics, three-dimensional plots, and even videos associated with an article available at low cost. I like to be able to click on a literature reference or a table number and see it right away. I suppose that's laziness personified, but I appreciate the few seconds it saves me. Now I'll confess that I do enjoy holding a book more than I do typing on a keyboard. And I agree with some of my colleagues that the paper version of ES&T is nice to have on a trip or to read while lounging on the deck. But I find that increasingly I go to the research literature for a specific purpose, not to browse. In fact, browsing would be a lot easier for me when I can access all of my favorite research publications electronically from my home, office, or on travel. I hope that those of you who passionately support electronic publication and those of you who think it is the end of civilization as we know it will access the Web version of ES&T and let us know what you think. In some form or another, ES&T will continue to be available electronically, so we want to do the best we can with this new technology. Reply either by postal mail (handwritten or Selectric-typed), fax (919-966-0582), or e-mail (bill_glaze@ unc.edu). Thanks, and we'll try to keep the power on.
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