On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
Earlier this year, we spent some time producing and testing the CD corresponding to the proceedings of the ECHET96 conference, but one of the areas we did not concentrate on was to ensure its "printability". I gather that the subsequent abstracting of this CD by CAS was delayed because this mandated printing the entire product prior to its abstracting.
My understanding of current CAS abstracting procedure is that they use as far as possible the electronic form of a paper rather than the printed version. Hence the problem with the CD proceedings of ECHET96 is perhaps that the unix machines used by abstractors were unable to read the disc. I just wonder if contact with CAS might have suggested an alternative transmission procedure which would have facilitated their abstracting. 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@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.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)