Cutting edge chemistry rushes online.A controversial new tool that may accelerate chemistry research made its debut last week. Chemists This is a list of famous chemists: (alphabetical order) : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
n. Something printed and often distributed in partial or preliminary form in advance of official publication: a preprint of a scientific article. tr.v. Server, which was officially launched at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The server is run by a London-based, commercial Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the site called ChemWeb.com, with some 200,000 members. Before printed journals accept papers for publication, they generally put scientists' work through a lengthy review process. This can delay the communication of breakthroughs, both modest and dramatic, to other scientists doing related work. The new preprint server lets researchers share their results with other chemist (jargon) chemist - (Cambridge) Someone who wastes computer time on number crunching when you'd far rather the computer were working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running life patterns. May or may not refer to someone who actually studies chemistry. worldwide without anyone's stamp of approval. Once a ChemWeb staff member determines that a submission indeed is a chemistry paper--and not, for example, an offensive document--he posts it immediately. About 20 papers are already available on the free site. Contributors can submit charts, images, and videos with their reports. They can also substitute revised versions Revised Version n. A British and American revision of the King James Version of the Bible, completed in 1885. Revised Version Noun of their submissions later. All the while, readers can rate the quality of the preprint papers using a star system and comment on them in online discussions at the site. They can also search for articles in archives that the site will maintain. ChemWeb modeled its preprint service after a popular server that disseminates physics research. The idea of online prepublishing hasn't has·n't Contraction of has not. hasn't has not hasn't have been so widely accepted in the chemistry community, however. Many chemists see a need for speedy access to new research, but they also worry that free-flowing, unreviewed papers could erode Erode (ĕrōd`), city (1991 urban agglomeration pop. 361,755), Tamil Nadu state, S India, on the Kaveri River. The city is located in a cotton-growing region, and its industries include cotton ginning and the manufacture of transport equipment. the reliability of science communication. Additionally, some chemistry journals may not accept research for publication that has appeared on a preprint server since it could be considered previously published work. ChemWeb's director of operations, Bill Town, acknowledges these concerns. He points out, however, that some papers on the site have already been accepted for print publication, and he's encouraged by users' responses. ChemWeb members, who were notified of the site's launch a week in advance, evidently were enthusiastic. Within days of that notification, some of the papers racked up as many as 200 readers. "It really is a huge experiment," says Town. |
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