Effective April 8, 2004, ChemWeb.com
was transferred from Elsevier Inc. to ChemIndustry.com, Inc., "the leading
comprehensive directory and search engine for chemical professionals". The ChemWeb.com site provides, via a search box at the lower right of the page, a link to Chemistry Preprints, at the Chemistry Preprint Server (CPS; free registration is required). As of April 30, 2003, the CPS had archived a total of 881 preprints (plus 112 conference proceedings). Since April 8, 12 new preprints have been archived. Of the total of 881 preprints, 366 (42%) were classified as Physical Chemistry. On February 24, 2003, this percentage was the same (264/623=42%). Although I'm not a chemist, I've been gathering some data on the number of preprints in the CPS since the first preprint was archived there, on July 20, 2000. The number of Physical Chemistry preprints (and the total number of Chemistry preprints) has increased approximately linearly. Since September 1, 2000, conference proceedings have also been posted at the CPS archive. The number of these has also increased linearly.
Posted by
Jim Till at 5/05/2004 02:35:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
