From:	Christopher J Cramer <cramer-: at :-maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 93 13:10:15 CDT
Subject:	American Chemical Society gopher (fwd)

   This is an outstanding idea whose time is long overdue. Perhaps this will
marginally slow down the proliferation of journal pages . . .

> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 17:53:13 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Gary Wiggins, Indiana U. Chem. Lib., 812-855-9452"
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> Subject: American Chemical Society gopher
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> There is now an American Chemical Society Gopher located at:
> acsinfo.acs.org (port 70).
> It contains supplementary material pages from the Journal of the
> American Chemical Society from the beginning of 1993.  Also:
>
> Copyright transfer form
> Instructions for authors of the 24 peer-reviewed ACS journals.
> --Gary Wiggins, Indiana University Chemistry Library
>

   I have accessed this gopher, which currently only has volume 115 of JACS.
The promise is that all Supplementary Material will be both ASCII and TIFF
format (and that it will expand to other journals?). I can't seem to get my
Word 5.0 to accomplish the TIFF conversion, but the README file on the gopher
lists a number of pieces of software to do this, two of them available via
anonymous FTP. This will really improve access to Suppl. Matl., and hopefully
encourage its greater use for details which are critical to reproducibility,
but of less than stellar interest otherwise.



--

Christopher J. Cramer
University of Minnesota
Department of Chemistry
207 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0431
(612) 624-0859
cramer : at : maroon.tc.umn.edu



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