Publishing chemical structures on the Web: The ACS Policy

[Rzepa, Henry]

The following is an extract of a recent policy decision by the ACS regarding
3D coordinates, and other  information published on a Web site. The "I"
is not me, but someone else.

"The posting of work on an electronic
bulletin board constitutes prior publication and such work cannot be accepted
for publication in JACS. I recently requested
clarification from a Senior Research Associate at the ACS and received
the folowing response. The current Notice to
Authors for JACS states 'the work reported therein has not received prior
publication
and is not under consideration for
publication elsewhere in any medium, including electronic journals and computer
data bases of a public nature.' The
revision that you mentioned they plan to add of 'electronic bulletin boards'
only makes it more clear that JACS won't print
items previously posted. "

This produced extensive disucussion, which is archived on
http://www.unige.ch/crystal/w3vlc/dis-wwwpub.html

Curiously, the ACS edict does not mention WWW, but refers to
"electronic journals or bulletin boards".
I might add from my own experience with the recent ECCC-2 conference,
that informal approaches to ACS journal editors seemed to imply that if
the electronic material was only up for <30 days, it might not count!
Hence, ECCC-2 as a chemistry conference, ran for  <30 days!!
Finally, I  might mention that the ECTOC conference CD is the entity
that will be abstracted by CAS, not the electronic version.


Dr Henry Rzepa,  Department of Chemistry,  Imperial College,  LONDON SW7 2AY;
rzepa at ic.ac.uk via Eudora Pro 2.1.3; Tel  (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171
594 5804.
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