Impact of Advances in Computing and Communications Technologies on Chemical Science and Technology Report of a Workshop (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Session 4 Panel Discussion
Session 4 Panel Discussion
Pages 210-216
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I also belong to a small society, with about 500 or 600 members, for which I have set up a Web site and put the society newsletter on it. So I have had some experience with trying to start one, and have seen some of the problems involved with it, but on the other hand, it seems to me we may be starting afresh.
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I think there are quantitative measures of it for whatever you want to look at, like impact factors, and although I don't fully agree with that, that goes along pretty much with a kind of community opinion. I know that certain departments, when they make tenure decisions, look at the list of publications, have a numerical multiplication factor, a division factor for different journals, you know, Science, Nature, JACS, and so on.
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Gary Mallard: You could have been assigned copyright for that purpose though but not necessarily have owned it copyright can be held jointly. You don't have to have exclusive copyright and as a matter of fact the ACS does not have copyright to any work by government employees.
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Al, do you have any sense of this issue? Allen Bard: I sense that papers now are more complex and more data intensive, and the effort we have been making in what I consider an evolutionary period is to get more of that put on the Web, in other words at least in this intermediate period to let the printed version reflect the core of an article but try to get more and more of this other stuff and supporting information onto the Web.
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Certainly as I look back over the last 20 to 25 years the issue of database publishing in itself undoubtedly has contributed very significantly to our cost containment and the ability to produce electronic products. The number of people involved with producing the electronic journals and doing quality control is two or three people.
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