AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL MEETING

摘要

The 226th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society took place September 6-11, 2003 in New York. This is a working meeting of the membership, most of who are representatives of the chemical industry and academic research. As a chemistry librarian, I was most interested in the education and information sectors of this large meeting. One of the major concerns of librarians was with the publishing delay by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) of the biennial Directory of Graduate Research. So far, CAS has given no notice as to when librarians can expect the final publication and delivery. As far as an online version goes, CAS has made no plans for publishing in that format, even though there is serious demand for such a product. At the Education Committee meeting, there was also considerable discussion regarding the Committee for Professional Training (CPT) and its liaison role of CAS with this Committee. Possible strategies were considered to enable the Education Committee to share with CAS issues and concerns regarding access and pricing schedules for smaller academic institutions and undergraduate training on SciFinder Scholar. The Education Committee is concerned that the CAS CPT has not paid attention to the needs of undergraduate curriculum and research training. Librarians can also look forward to having the CINF website live soon.