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From: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Subject: Paper on Scholarly Communication Changes in Chemistry
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In late November 2009, Carl Lagoze released a major report on 
scholarly communication practices in chemistry and how developments 
in open access, open data, and the re-thinking of the structure of 
scientific articles are altering the landscape. The report is 
informed by an small workshop held in October of 2008 that I was 
lucky to be able to attend, but goes considerably beyond the 
discussions at that workshop.

I neglected to post this announcement out to the CNI community 
earlier, but since I've seen some evidence that it hasn't been as 
widely circulated as I think it should be, I'm posting it out 
belatedly here.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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I'd like to call your attention to a white paper released on November 
23 titled The Value of New Scientific Education Models for Chemistry. 
This document is available at http://hdl.handle.net/1813/14150.  An 
article "Communicating Chemistry", summarizing this white paper, is 
published in the December issue of Nature Chemistry at 
http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v1/n9/full/nchem.448.html.  This 
white paper examines the value of new models of scientific 
communication for chemistry scholarship enabled by web based 
technologies and the necessary future steps to achieve the benefit of 
those new models. It is intended as a starting point for discussion 
on the possible future of scientific communication in chemistry. I 
have attached a press release announcing the availability of these 
two documents to this e-mail.

I believe that these documents will be of interest to you and 
communities that you have contact with. I would greatly appreciate 
your help in distributing this information  to appropriate e-mail 
lists and other communication media. Also, your comments on the 
content would be most appreciated.

Many thanks,

Carl Lagoze
Information Science, Cornell University
Ithaca New York