Analytical Chemistry Now Up on ACS Paragon System

From ACS:

We are pleased to announce that authors who contribute to Analytical Chemistry have a new way to save time and simplify the manuscript submission process.

On February 4, 2003, the American Chemical Society released the ACS Paragon System for Analytical Chemistry. Now 19 ACS journals offer the benefits of Paragon. Implementation of this new system will continue for other ACS journals through 2003.

Paragon, a Model of Excellence in Scientific Collaboration, gives you user-friendly features such as your own personalized home page, customized submission environments for each journal, and high-level manuscript status information. As a published author in Analytical Chemistry, you are invited to register now to take advantage of these benefits.

Please take a few minutes now to complete the one-time user registration (http://paragon.acs.org) for Paragon. Or visit our Paragon information Web site (http://pubs.acs.org/paragon) for more details.

RSS Feed Added

A rich site summary (RSS) feature has been added to the site. This consisted checking a few boxes at the Blogger site that ultimately generate an XML summary of the Web log posts. If you click on the link, you may wonder why reading something that looks like raw hypertext is a Good Thing. The real utility comes from syndicating the site material so that it can be used on other sites or aggregated with other news and information (an example of aggregated information can be seen at the left margin of this site under the “MS and Biotech News” – an automatically updated newsfeed from Moreover). If this still doesn’t stir you interest, imagine what it would be like if all scientific journal tables of contents were syndicated and a selected set of recent articles could be linked automatically from a Web site. For example, a proteomics Web site could link to a newsfeed of all the MALDI of glycoproteins papers published in the past month. No cut-and-paste links. No out of date pages. If the Web-logging community can do it, scientific journal publishers can as well.

Tagboard Added/Yanked

A Tag-Board Message Board has been added. The Tagboard is a a piece of Javascript that calls up stored messages from a central Web site. The idea is similar to the Web Log (Blog), except that anyone can post. The result is a sort of message board that visitors to the site can “tag” with a short comment when they visit. Feel free to post or link.

Update: The Tagboard has migrated over to the Chemistry Internship Blog, where it might be more useful.