A Chemical Reaction on the Internet

January 2000  -  The Internet Journal of Chemistry is unique.  It is the only academic journal on-line in which readers can customize information by controlling how things are displayed on screen, manipulating 3-D images, and having conversion preferences appear in a chosen form.  "For scholars, the richer medium offered by the web is going to change the way they work," says Steven Bachrach, Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University. Bachrach serves as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal that went on-line in 1998.  Bachrach felt the publishing industry was "missing the boat" by not moving to the web, noting the few academic journals that had, were putting out an inferior and expensive product. "With the Internet Journal of Chemistry, documents can contain color graphics, movies, chemical structures, spectra, raw data...things that are difficult, if not impossible, or too expensive to include in traditional publications," says Bachrach, who hopes to revolutionize academic publishing.  "We can publish chemistry in a way where the presentation and information content are significantly enhanced by utilizing the resources of a distributed computing environment.  This includes articles that incorporate video, VRML, spectra in downloadable files, hypermolecules, and interactive programs using Java or CGI scripts." To find out more about the journal, contact Carolyn Wheat at (210) 999-8406 or by e-mail at cwheat@trinity.edu.

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