Chemical Publication: A Critical Evaluation

Presentation by Steven Bachrach
at the 2000 Skolnik Award Symposium at the 220th National ACS Meeting, August 22, 2000

1. Title Slide
2. Journal's Purpose: A Researcher's Perspective
3. Chemical Publication
4. Problems with Scholarly Journals
5. Trends in Costs
6. The Usual Suspects
7. How about the Societal Publishers?
8. Library Expenditures
9. Redistributing the Blame
10. The Insatiable Drive to Publish. I.
11. The Insatiable Drive to Publish. II.
12. The Insatiable Drive to Publish. II. (continued)
13. The Insatiable Drive to Publish. III.
14. The Insatiable Drive to Publish. III. (continued)
15. Information Flow
16. Solutions?
17. The SPARC Initiative
18. arXiv Success
19. Preprint Culture
20. PubMed Central
21. Solutions? - Part 2
22. Solutions? - Part 3
23. Acknowledgment