Hi,

Those of you who received the RSC journal ChemComm issue 6 might have noticed a CD-ROM attached to the inside at the back. We (ie the CLIC project team) are intrigued in particular to any response to the CD that your institutional librarian or IT officer might have.

As a faculty information consultant (subject librarian) I thought I might respond to this query. I too had this CD-ROM passed to me and am now wondering just what to do with it. I could add it to stock and have it held behind the "counter". However my main concern is that it is a Windows 95 version. We do not have Windows 95 yet, nor are likely to in the near future - we are more likely to move toward Windows NT. So even if I add it to stock, there is no machine here which can make use of it!! I also feel that even if I add it to stock because these products cannot easily go onto the shelves with the bookstock and so end up in "boxes" behind counters that they remain invisible to our users and therefore untouched by human hands!! I have another example which is actually from an astronomy journal - but once again each issue arrives with a CD-ROM and I have to admit these again are still sitting on my desk waiting to be dealt with. It is not only CD-ROMs which cause these problems. I also have on my desk a copy of a supplement on disc to the journal Synthesis. Once again it is a problem knowing what to do with it! Any ideas gratefully recieved. Lesley --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lesley Crawshaw, Faculty Information Consultant (Natural Sciences), Learning Resources Centre, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, HATFIELD, AL10 9AD, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel: +44 1707-284662 Fax: +44 1707-284666 E-mail: L.A.Crawshaw@herts.ac.uk Web: http://www.herts.ac.uk/lrc/subjects/natsci/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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)