I hope you will find this interesting and useful. We are pleased to announce a new web-based service... Chemistry Software and Information Resources http://www.csir.org CSIR (pronounced caesar) is an information resource for chemistry software, its development, and its use (in the broadest sense). It brings together a great deal of information scattered across the Internet, often hard to find and use, and makes it easily available to anyone with a web browser. CSIR incorporates several major components... * Chemistry Software Exchange A catalog of commercial and non-commercial software for chemists. Right now we have about 140 software packages cataloged in the repository, and clearly that's just a fraction of what's out there. We'd like to make this "the" resource for anyone looking for chemistry-related software, so we need your help to expand our holdings. If you're a software developer, please "submit" your software to CSIR. If you're a software user, tell us about your favorite packages (with as much contact information as you can provide on the supplier). We'll add it to the catalog. The web pages have forms with the information we need. Also for software developers: we can act as an additional distribution point or archive location for your software. We're developing the capabilities to handle "electronic shrinkwrap" license agreements as well. * AskNPAC Chemistry Mailing List Archive Browse or search a large selection of chemistry-related mailing lists and newsgroups. The idea here is to collect in a single place a rather substantial body of information about chemistry-related software, its use, and about chemistry in general which is presently widely scattered across the Internet. In this way, we hope to make it easier to find and use. CSIR currently subscribes to and archives more than 80 mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups of interest to chemists. The archive currently contains more than 60,000 messages, representing about six months of traffic. We plan to add "back issues" where we can, as well. You can browse the archive in a Hypermail-like format, or you can search for specific information in any combination of mailing lists. Information is available on all of the lists CSIR subscribes to, and if you're aware of anything we don't carry we'd love to hear about it. The CSIR web pages contain more information about the goals and design of the system, but you may also want to read a recent Trends in Analytical Chemistry Internet Column about CISR (http://www.elsevier.nl:80/inca/homepage/saa/trac/resource.htm). CSIR is a free service, brought to you by the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (http://www.npac.syr.edu) at Syracuse University and the National HPCC Software Exchange (http://www.nhse.org). We welcome your feedback on the service and ideas for improvement. NOTE: If your web browser complains that www.csir.org "does not have a DNS entry" or "was not found" (as opposed to "did not respond"), it may be because the browser was too impatient to wait for the DNS lookup to complete (csir.org is relatively new and probably is not widely cached in DNS servers yet). Often if you try exactly the same URL again, it will be successful. This "trick" applies to many relatively new sites, not just CSIR. -- David E. Bernholdt | Email: bernhold@npac.syr.edu Northeast Parallel Architectures Center | Phone: +1 315 443 3857 111 College Place, Syracuse University | Fax: +1 315 443 1973 Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 | URL: http://www.npac.syr.edu ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)