December 1996 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

Win an EEVL sweatshirt!
by Ian Winship, Univ Northumbria Info Services 18 Dec '96

18 Dec '96

============================================================================= Message forwarded by Ian Winship, University of Northumbria Information Services (ian.winship(a)unn.ac.uk) ====================================================================== To celebrate the success of the official launch of EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library) on Friday 13th December at the Web 13 CyberCafe, we are giving away 5 EEVL sweatshirts. Highly desirable items of leisurewear :-) the sweatshirts are printed in full colour on white, and feature the attractive EEVL logo and web address. All you have to do to stand a chance of winning a sweatshirt is to visit EEVL at http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ and complete a very brief questionnaire (only three questions). The questionnaire asks for your opinions about EEVL and the services offered. The winners will be chosen from entrants at random early in the New Year. Go on, have a go. Best wishes and Happy Christmas Linda Kerr Project Officer, EEVL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linda Kerr, EEVL Project Officer, Heriot-Watt University Library, Edinburgh EH14 4AS United Kingdom Email: L.Kerr(a)hw.ac.uk Tel : +44 (0)131 451 3572 Fax: +44 (0)131 451 3164 Visit the Engineering Virtual Library URL: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ or join the discussion list http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/eevl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Archiving of chemistry Web Sites
by Rzepa, Henry 18 Dec '96

18 Dec '96

Next year will see the start of the 4th year of operation of our Web site. It struck me that we have no permanent record of the evolution of the site, and would have great difficulty tracking the history of the various files (since the dump tapes are recycled after a few month). I wonder if anyone operates any sort of archival policy? For example, at the end of each year, it should be possible to burn e.g. a CD ROM of the Web hierarchy of a server (assuming its less than 660 Mbytes!). Such a CD ROM might be held locally, or could be sent to e.g custodian such as a learned society. It would be used to resolve disputes, establish precedence and priority, etc etc, and even provide copies of documents which might have been cited as URLs in journal articles (for example, in our paper of June 1994, we cited around 40 URLs, most of which probably no longer work!). I am mindful of the fact that a historian of the early development of the Web is going to have a very thin time of it, unless we take some sort of pro-active steps to preserve snapshots of the system at periodic intervals. I am also mindful that CAS is abstracting only a tiny proportion of Web based materials, almost entirely deriving from e.g. conferences and journals which have well characterised "punctuation points" and are not in a constant state of flux. Is this the sort of thing a learned society should be doing? Perhaps we should devise a code of good practice to encourage this sort of thing? Or do we accept that a very high proportion of all Web based chemistry deservedly should expire without trace within 1-2 years? Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ (Eudora Pro 3.0) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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chemical education
by ddata＠chem.amu.edu.pl 12 Dec '96

12 Dec '96

Dear Web chemists, were should I send my questions on methodology of chemical kinetics teaching in secondary school. regards ************************************************************************** * * * mgr Nikodem Miranowicz * * * ************************************************************************** * Zaklad Dydaktyki Chemii * Laboratory of Chemistry Methodology * * Wydzial Chemii * Institute of Chemistry * * Uniwersytet im.A.Mickiewicza * Adam Mickiewicz University * * Ul.Grunwaldzka 6, Poznan * Ul.Grunwaldzka 6, Poznan, Poland * ************************************************************************** ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Chemical Web Site statistics
by Jeffrey.Nauss＠UC.Edu 10 Dec '96

10 Dec '96

On Dec 10, 12:36pm, Rzepa, Henry wrote: > As an adjunct to Mark Winter's statistics, our own have recently been > revised to give monthly views > > http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/server/browser.html > > One interesting observation is the gradual increase of > Windows NT in the OS profile, the decrease of > X11 Unix systems and the domination of Win 95 > since around August this year. Have "local hits" been filtered out? What I mean is have hits to your pages from your local domain been removed? If your site is heavy into Windows NT this might explain the increase. Has anyone tried to correlate OS and browsers with IP addresses and domains? -- Jeff Nauss *********************************************************************** * UU UU Jeffrey L. Nauss, PhD * * UU UU Director, Molecular Modeling Services * * UU UU Department of Chemistry * * UU UU CCCCCCC University of Cincinnati * * UU UU CCCCCCCC Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172 * * UUUU CC * * CC Telephone: 513-556-0148 Fax: 513-556-9239 * * CC * * CCCCCCCC e-mail: Jeffrey.Nauss(a)UC.Edu * * CCCCCCC URL http://www.che.uc.edu/~nauss * *********************************************************************** ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Chemical Web Site statistics
by Rzepa, Henry 10 Dec '96

10 Dec '96

As an adjunct to Mark Winter's statistics, our own have recently been revised to give monthly views http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/server/browser.html One interesting observation is the gradual increase of Windows NT in the OS profile, the decrease of X11 Unix systems and the domination of Win 95 since around August this year. Note also the "hump" in June for PowerPC users. We suspect this is the ECHT96 conference, but need to confirm this. One interesting aspect we will report upon shortly is whether certain "pages" on our site have significantly different profiles from the ones above. Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ (Eudora Pro 3.0) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Failed Email to ri.ac.uk
by rob＠ri.ac.uk 09 Dec '96

09 Dec '96

During the weekend of 6-8 December an error occurred on our mail server which caused certain e-mail messages to be non-delivered. Our logs show that an e-mail message from you to an address in .ri.ac.uk was among those which failed to be delivered. Unfortunately I do not know what, or if any, error message was returned to you; however the fault has now been rectified, and it is likely that a further attempt to send the failed message would now be successful. -- Robert G. Bell Royal Institution of Great Britain Phone: +44 (0)171-409-2992 21 Albemarle Street Fax: +44 (0)171-629-3569 LONDON W1X 4BS, UK email: rob(a)ri.ac.uk ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Country of origin
by G.P.Moss 09 Dec '96

09 Dec '96

Many IP addresses indicate the Country of origin in the right hand field by a two letter code. Is there a convenient listing of these codes ? Gerry Moss ___________________________________________________________________ Dr GP Moss Telephone: +44 171 775 3262 Department of Chemistry Queen Mary & Westfield College Facsimile: +44 181 981 8745 Mile End Road London E1 4NS, United Kingdom E-mail: g.p.moss(a)qmw.ac.uk World Wide Web server: http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/ IUPAC data base: http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac/ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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London On-line Exhibition
by Rzepa, Henry 06 Dec '96

06 Dec '96

I attended a small proportion of this conference yesterday. Points I noted were a) The release of a Web version of STN http://stneasy.fiz-karsruhe.de (+ USA and Japan sites) b) The announcement of Beilstein Netfire, which provides full abstracts. No URL yet given. Interestingly, Netfire uses the <font face=symbol>a</font> markup for Greek letters. c) For UK users, the release of BIDS via the Web; http://www.bids.ac.uk/ISI which is a significant improvement on the Telnet interface hitherto used. In short, pretty much everyone is rapidly providing an Web interface, although I also note greatly excessive use of multiple gif images to create a visual effect, rather than what I would regard as more effective use of text. STNEasy for example takes an age to download from Karlsruhe (congestion in the Munich area!) largely because of these wretched gif images. Its a search interface for heavens sake, so why not download the FORM html, and scrap all the pretty but largely useless images. The "lets sculpt a pretty bevelled button" in 2k bytes, rather than take 2 bytes to write out "go" syndrome is going strong! I might add these pages are unfathomable with suppression of gif images. Oh, and while I am on about my pet hates on Web pages, how about the non-wrapping page that requires full screen display on a 17" monitor to display the page in full because its designer happened to have a 21" monitor at their disposal. Henry Rzepa. +44 171 594 5774 (Office) +44 594 5804 (Fax) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Source for Chemistry Related Images
by Jeffrey.Nauss＠UC.Edu 06 Dec '96

06 Dec '96

Is there an on-line source for chemistry-related images (gif or jpg)? We are looking for images of common laboratory equipment such as beakers and such as well as other images related to chemistry. Examples of molecular graphics are not a problem, there are plenty to be found. Thank you... -- Jeff Nauss *********************************************************************** * UU UU Jeffrey L. Nauss, PhD * * UU UU Director, Molecular Modeling Services * * UU UU Department of Chemistry * * UU UU CCCCCCC University of Cincinnati * * UU UU CCCCCCCC Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172 * * UUUU CC * * CC Telephone: 513-556-0148 Fax: 513-556-9239 * * CC * * CCCCCCCC e-mail: Jeffrey.Nauss(a)UC.Edu * * CCCCCCC URL http://www.che.uc.edu/~nauss * *********************************************************************** ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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Re: Source for Chemistry Related Images
by ddata＠chem.amu.edu.pl 06 Dec '96

06 Dec '96

>Is there an on-line source for chemistry-related images (gif or jpg)? We are >looking for images of common laboratory equipment such as beakers and such as >well as other images related to chemistry. Try with "The lab drawer": http://genchem.chem.wisc.edu/labdocs/labdrwr/checkin.htm and then "chemist's Art Gallery": http://www.csc.fi/lul/chem/graphics.html ************************************************************************** * * * mgr Nikodem Miranowicz * * * ************************************************************************** * Zaklad Dydaktyki Chemii * Laboratory of Chemistry Methodology * * Wydzial Chemii * Institute of Chemistry * * Uniwersytet im.A.Mickiewicza * Adam Mickiewicz University * * Ul.Grunwaldzka 6, Poznan * Ul.Grunwaldzka 6, Poznan, Poland * ************************************************************************** ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver(a)ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa(a)ic.ac.uk)

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