Reviewers' Corner Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elisabeth Kolbert, and The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, by Charles Wohlforth
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We are pleased to feature our first ACS AuthorChoice article below. ACS AuthorChoice gives individual
authors (or their funding agency sponsors) the option to pay a fee that sponsors the open availability of their final,
published articles online without charge to readers — at the time of publication. Significant discounts on the fee
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Characterization of the Amino Acid Adducts of the Enedial Derivative of Teucrin A Alexandra Druckova and Lawrence J. Marnett
Chem. Res. Toxicol.; 2006;19(10) pp 1330 - 1340; (Article) DOI: 10.1021/tx060143k
The ACS Publications Library Advisory Group met November 15–17 in Washington, DC, to discuss journal pricing, search tools,
usage statistics, and other important topics—watch future issues of LiveWire for further details as they're available.
Articles now online for ACS Publications’ newest journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Articles ASAP for The Journal of Physical Chemistry C began appearing online
in November 2006, in advance of the January 2007 release of the publication’s first print issue. The new Part C
currently has 120 Articles ASAP accessible online.
As a result of rapid growth in evolving areas of physical chemistry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry is undergoing a
major expansion. Working in conjunction with senior editors, editorial advisory board members, and ACS staff, Editor-in-Chief
George C. Schatz of Northwestern University established the following organization,
effective January 2007:
electron transport, optical and electronic devices
energy conversion and storage
The new Part C will publish 51 issues from the outset, bringing to 153 the total number of issues delivered annually for an
institutional subscription to The Journal of Physical Chemistry. The new combined institutional subscription price of
the journal (Parts A–C) will be $5,850 ($7,071 for international subscribers outside North America).
This editorial expansion of The Journal of Physical Chemistry is in line with ACS Publications’ commitment to
provide the scientific community with high-value information in a cost-effective manner. Although the journal experienced a 71%
increase in annual pages published from 1997 to 2005, it kept the overall price per article at a level well below that of its
closest competitors (see comparative data). Given the journal’s
current 2006 list price of $4,274 (for Parts A and B) and its anticipated 2006 publishing output of 5,500 articles and 44,000
pages (an average of $0.78 per article—currently at $0.10 per page), the value delivered by The Journal of Physical
Chemistry stands in contrast to higher-priced alternatives.
Editor-in-Chief George C. Schatz commented on the importance of researchers having
access to all three parts of the journal: “Physical chemistry is a broad discipline that is increasingly integrated, with a
lot of projects that cover more than one of the topics represented in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C. The
editorial functions of The Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C are completely merged, and the assignment of papers to the
different journal sections is often a difficult choice. We’ve done our best to break things up in how the journals are defined,
but if you don’t subscribe to all three parts, you’ll miss some essential papers for most research projects.”
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