Dear colleague I am writing to tell you about ***a new section*** of the Sheffield Chemdex that I hope you, your colleagues, and other WWW users might find useful. The Sheffield Chemdex now includes pointers to the home pages of some 1700 UK academic chemists. The information is indexed in two ways - alphabetically on staff name, and by institution. The information was gleaned from open-access pages at UK universities. The information is still not complete as not all Departments make this information available on the WWW pages as a matter of course. Further, some of the names in the list are not academic chemists - it is hoped to filter such names out of the list with time. Find it at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/chem-uk/ It is hoped also to extend this new section of the Sheffield Chemdex shortly to include a searchable key-word feature allowing, for instance, prospective research students or industrial users to locate chemists with specific interests. As such, I hope that this package will be of considerable use in establishing links between your academic staff and external individuals or organisations. Please understand this section of the Chemdex is at an early stage and I hope to work with the appropriate organisations to ensure that its effectiveness is increased. Feedback welcome! [The Sheffield Chemdex at http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/ is a list of chemistry resources (largely WWW) on the Internet. Currently it includes more than 2300 links (to universities, companies, learned societies, teachingmaterials, etc., etc.), and is probably the largest chemistry-only index of its type in existence. It is also one of the oldest such lists and has been operational since September 1993 (in a number of guises).] Dr Mark J Winter (Deputy Head of Department, Director of Studies) Department of Chemistry, The University, Sheffield S3 7HF, England tel: +44 (0)114 282 4498 fax: +44 (0)114 273 8673 e-m: mark.winter@sheffield.ac.uk http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/staff/mjw/mark-winter.html WebElements is the periodic table on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/ The Sheffield Chemdex is a listing of chemistry sites on the world-wide web: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chemdex/ ----- 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)