Science at Collins

The American Chemical Society will be moving all but three of its publications to online only formats for institutions and individual subscribers in 2010. While this will not affect Collins Library subscriptions, which are already fully online through the ACS Web Editions and ACS Legacy Archives, it’s another major step increasing the prevalence and credibility of electronic publishing in science.

While a few users have been anxious about the change, or regretted the serendipity of the stack search, most have been pleased by the more limited environmental impact and the increased potential for innovative data presentation and reuse.

For more information try:

• The June 17 Nature article breaking the story based on the leaked ACS memo detailing the plan.
• Further details in the Ars Technica blog  entry of July 6
• The July 10 note in the Chronicle’s Wired Campus

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Tags: american chemical society, electronic access, journals, publishing

This entry was posted by Rebecca on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 8:59 am and is filed under Chemistry, Uncategorized, electronic journals.