Questions and comments regarding the CPS have been cross-posted by list owners to various other relevant lists. For this reason please forgive this similar cross-posting in response. This message is posted to: {SEPTEMBER98-FORUM@LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG, chemweb@ic.ac.uk, oai-general@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu} Firstly, I would like to thank everybody for their comments regarding the evolution of the Chemistry Preprint Server (CPS). I would like to briefly address some of the points that have been raised. Jim Till has provided some very revealing analysis of the submissions to the CPS (http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind01&L=september98-forum&F =l&P=29519). It will certainly be interesting to repeat this analysis when more preprints have been submitted. To this, I would like to add that each article that is submitted to the CPS has its own discussion group where users can comment on the content of the article. It is encouraging that there has been sustained use of these discussion groups. For example, 45 of the 282 preprints submitted now have more than 3 threads in their discussions. I think it will also be interesting to monitor how this feature is used. Regarding the issue of compliance with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) I would like to confirm that we have constantly referred to the initiative when developing the CPS. This is certainly a high priority because ChemWeb.com has developed the CPS as a service for the worldwide chemistry community. It is our intention that the CPS will be compliant within the next two months. I hope that this has helped to address some of the issues raised. We would of course welcome any feedback or comments on the service. Please do not hesitate to contact me personally if you have any queries or comments. Best regards, James Weeks __________________________________________________________________ James Weeks Chemistry Preprint Server Coordinator ChemWeb Inc. 84 Theobald's Road London WC1X 8RR United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0) 20 7611 4480 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7611 4301 Email: James.Weeks@ChemWeb.com http://preprint.chemweb.com http://www.chemweb.com Meet us at the ACS National Meeting - Chicago - August 27-29 - Booth 337 __________________________________________________________________ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)