Subscriptions to online Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data increase greatly.In December 1999, NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. changed to a sole partnership with the American Institute of Physics The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a professional body representing American physicists and publishing physics related journals. It was founded in 1931. The aims of the organization are: "promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its (AIP AIP acute intermittent porphyria. AIP Acute intermittent porphyria ) in publishing the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (JPCRD). Since that time, AIP has vigorously marketed the journal and the number of print subscribers has stabilized. More importantly, AIP has included the journal in package offerings to consortia of academic and non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. institutions. In late September 2003, AIP announced that the number of online subscribers had risen from 470 to today's total of 1128 institutions. The great increase dramatically improves the availability of NIST standard reference data and once again demonstrates the revolutionary nature of online dissemination dissemination Medtalk The spread of a pernicious process–eg, CA, acute infection Oncology Metastasis, see there . The Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data is an internationally renowned publication featuring articles evaluating published scientific data. Subjects include thermodynamics thermodynamics, branch of science concerned with the nature of heat and its conversion to mechanical, electric, and chemical energy. Historically, it grew out of efforts to construct more efficient heat engines—devices for extracting useful work from expanding , thermophysics, atomic and molecular spectra, electron, atomic and molecular collisions, surface science and solubilities of substances. Articles in the journal are not subject to page constraints and contain comprehensive tables of recommended data values as well as detailed explanations of evaluation criteria and reviews of data generation procedures. About 50% of the journal articles are authored by NIST data experts and the remainder come from scientists throughout the world. Since its inception in 1972, the journal has published over 626 articles, nine monographs, and 12 supplements, making it one of the largest ongoing handbooks of evaluated chemical and physical data in the world. CONTACT: Geraldine Dalton, (301) 975-2214; geraldine.dalton@nist.gov. |
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