(Excuse me for sending to multiple mailing lists) The electronic journal Molecules (http://mdpi.org/molecules/, vol.4, 1999) will do the following, in addition to its recognized unique editorial policy, high publication standard, and free online subscription. 1. Starting from June 1999, we will replace the copyright footnote by "(c) 1999 by the authors. Reproduction of this article, by any means, is permitted for noncommercial purposes". I encourage authors to freely distribute by e-mail and store on the internet their pdf file or html file of their Molecules paper. 2. On behalf of the editorial board, I am inviting qualified chemists to serve as editors from all countries. The existing Editorial Board will remain as the advisory board. Because Molecules is a non-profit and high standard journal we plan to share the editorial task among a reasonably large number of editors. Every editor will be responsible for inviting and editorial handling 5 or more papers per year. The communications among the authors, referees and the editors will be on the internet. Please recommend qualified chemists to me or inform me your own interest in this voluntary service. Please provide the full address, e-mail and the website or the brief version of CV. The final decision regarding the acceptance of paper will be made by the Editor-in-Chief in Switzerland. The necessary English corrections, layout and final production will also be managed in Switzerland. Therefore, we are ready to make Molecules a major international journal of experimental chemistry, capable of considering and publishing a very large number of high quality papers. 3. In addition to Molecules' Molbank section (http://mdpi.org/molbank/) of short notes, I will launch two new special sections of "Bioactive Compounds" mini-reviews and "Hazardous Compounds" of safety and accident reports, publishing one short paper for one molecular structure. Looking forward to hearing from you. Shu-Kun Lin Managing Editor Molecules (http://mdpi.org/molecules/) Lin@mdpi.org, http://mdpi.org/lin/ 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)