EDITORIALLY S P E A K I N G
W e hope readers are indulgent each January when \re take advantage of this page for a family chat. Therc are always some changes; there are always specific plans; there are always hopes for the future. One of the first things to do is the most pleasant: giving special greetings to the new friends who decided in 1965 to have the JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION arrive on their desks each month. There are 1618 such new names on our subscription list; the total now stands a t nearly 21,500. We appreciate your confidence and hope we can fulfil it. The biggest change inaugurated with this first issue of Volume 43 is a behind-thescenes one. This is the establishment of the office of Managing Editor. Professor W. T. Lippincott moves from his position on our editorial board to the top of the masthead. Needless to say, our New Year is made a happy one by this prospect. We are especially pleased to realize that the responsibility of turning accepted manuscripts into a published issue will be under the direction of a man whose reputation is for dynamic leadership in all that THIS JOURNAL strives to he. His office in the McPherson Laboratory a t Ohio State University will do the work associated with production. All correspondence relating to scheduling, galley proofs, or reprints should be directed there. The Wooster College office of the Editor still will he the address to which manuscripts should be submitted. Editorial consideration and decision, as well as all correspondence with referees and authors, will continue to be handled a t Wooster as will all matters dealing with book reviews. We call readers' attention to the new format for the Table of Contents. The change from a single crowded page to a better spaced and consequently more easily read pagoand-two-thirds reflects the same circumstances that prompt the division of labor between two editorial offices: J. CHEM.EDUC.is growing. I n some months we have been embarrassed by the small size of the type necessary to fit in all the titles (see the December 1965 issue, for example). Publishing more articles in about the same total number of pages represents additional editorial work all along the line, from
correspondence requesting an author to write more concisely to checking more galley proof to handling more reprint orders. Added to this is the increased demand for editorial consideration represented by the receipt of nearly twice as many items as the 260 titles puhlished during the year. Future feature articles are in various stages of preparation. Chief among these will he two AC3 Resource Papers, "The Isoelectronic Principle" and "Atomic Orbitals," which are scheduled to appear before June. A third, "Heterogeneous Catalysis," will come later in the year. Informative reviews on "Electrical Properties of Metal Oxides," "Synthesis of Organometallic Compounds," and "Determination of Dipole Moments" are in galley form a t present. The Topics in Chemical Instrumentation series plans to cover "Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy," "Osmometry," and "Analytical Applications of Electrodeless Discharged Gases" in the near future. The Safety series will continue, as will the long-standing Textbook Errors, Editor's Basket, TOPS, and Tested Demonstrations. The Book Review pages will continue to add more titles in an attempt to help readers keep pace with the constantly growing literature of chemistry. The subscription cost of THIS JOURNAL will remain the same as it has been since 1957. This remarkable situation, in spite of increases in size and the inevitable increase in rates of production costs, reflects the confiderire of advertisers and the efficiency of the advertising and business offices. We remind readers again that the best expression of gratitude to Mr. Gould and his staff for the bargain they provide is to let advertisers know that their message has been read iu our pages. J. CHEX. EDUC.advertising is really up-to-the-minute news for busy readers, and the full story behind the news is readily made available by using the Readers' Service Card. Observant readers will note another minor improvo ment in this issue. It opens flat because the use of staples in the binding is no longer necessary. This is known in the trade as "perfect" binding-what a challenge to an editor! Volume 43, Number 1 , January 1966
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