On Feb 21, 4:56pm, David E. Bernholdt wrote:

Subject: Announcing: CSIR web service I hope you will find this interesting and useful.

We are pleased to announce a new web-based service...

Chemistry Software and Information Resources http://www.csir.org

CSIR (pronounced caesar) is an information resource for chemistry software, its development, and its use (in the broadest sense). It brings together a great deal of information scattered across the Internet, often hard to find and use, and makes it easily available to anyone with a web browser.

CSIR incorporates several major components...

* Chemistry Software Exchange

A catalog of commercial and non-commercial software for chemists.

Doesn't this sound a lot like QCPE, but bigger? This, to me, begs the question, is QCPE now redundant, even in the latest inception on the CCL web pages?

* AskNPAC Chemistry Mailing List Archive

Browse or search a large selection of chemistry-related mailing lists and newsgroups.

The idea here is to collect in a single place a rather substantial body of information about chemistry-related software, its use, and about chemistry in general which is presently widely scattered across the Internet. In this way, we hope to make it easier to find and use.

CSIR currently subscribes to and archives more than 80 mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups of interest to chemists. The archive currently contains more than 60,000 messages, representing about six months of traffic. We plan to add "back issues" where we can, as well. You can browse the archive in a Hypermail-like format, or you can search for specific information in any combination of mailing lists. Information is available on all of the lists CSIR subscribes to, and if you're aware of anything we don't carry we'd love to hear about it.

More direct overlap with the CCL. I would love to see these two directions sorted out, particularly since $$ are getting put into both. The money may not come directly from the same pot now, but it won't take long for people to start wondering, I am. -- 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)