CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION 2004, NUMBER 2 Report on the 228th ACS National Meeting and Exposition Our report on the Fall National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, held in Philadelphia, will be available before the end of February. It . includes news from about 70 companies (including some not exhibiting) . covers press releases for the last six months of 2004 . features write-ups of 37 papers (all of them author-checked) covering . cheminformatics in 2D (the Herman Skolnik Award symposium honoring Peter Johnson) . advances in virtual high throughput screening . scholarly publishing: initiatives and electronic publishing . scholarly publishing: challenges for peer review in the digital world . scholarly publishing: perspectives on Open Access . open meeting of the ACS committees on ACS Publications and CAS (Contents list in full at http://www.warr.com/morepubs.html.) Wendy Dr. Wendy A. Warr Wendy Warr & Associates 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com