On May 21, 9:10am, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
Subject: CAS Abstracting of chemistry on the Web Because this is setting a new precedent, I am circulating a mail from David Weisgerber of CAS regarding the ECTOC Web conference.
Any comments?
"Yes, we did receive the ECTOC-1 CD-ROM. We ended up selecting 66 of the 77 papers and posters for abstracting and indexing. Eleven were not judged to contain sufficient information.
I think this is the critical observation, and one that bears consideration. A ready criticism of electronic publishing, as in an electronic conference or a web page in general, is the ease with which low information content documents are 'published'. For this medium to preserve high information density I think one needs examine the eleven that were rejected by CAS and determine if similar content should be rejected in subsequent electronic conferences. I think there may still be a place for such postings, but perhaps with a distinction made between them and the rest. Regard them as data on scratch space, volatile. Henry, could you elaborate on those eleven papers? -- M. Dominic Ryan (610)-270-6529 SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals ryanmd@mms.sbphrd.com King of Prussia, PA ----- 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)