CHEMISTRY

American Chemical Society (ACS)

American Chemical Society [Updated May 2004]
1155 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
USA

Contact: Dr J C Torio

Tel: +1 202 872 4548 Fax: +1 202 872 6317 
E-mail: [email protected]  / [email protected]  
Web: http://www.chemistry.org  

The American Chemical Society is a self-governed individual membership organisation founded in 1876 that consists of more than 159,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry. ACS is recognised as a world leader in fostering scientific education and research, and promoting the public's understanding of science.

In 1984, the American Chemical Society launched an initiative to assist institutions that have a need for scientific publications. Project Bookshare is charged with collecting chemistry textbooks and back numbers of journals from donors and making these materials available to libraries in selected small US colleges and to university libraries in mostly developing countries. Donated books and journals from Project Bookshare have helped improve the educations of chemists and chemical engineers in Africa (Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leon, Sudan), Asia (China, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand), Europe (Albania, Armenia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Turkey), and Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela). Project Bookshare is intended to bring US chemists closer to colleagues in less advantaged situations worldwide, Donors are required to cover costs of shipping to a US address. Recipient institutions are responsible for paying shipping costs from a US collection/distribution centre, using the least costly means available.

The Society publishes around 40 journals and magazines. ACS International Activities has also recently initiated a new bimonthly International E-Newsletter (available in Word and PDF format) which can be subscribed to online.

The full range of the Society's activities are to be found on its website.

International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)

International Union of Crystallography [Updated August 2004]
2 Abbey Square
Chester CH1 2HU
UNITED KINGDOM

Contact: Dr. M.H.Dacombe, Executive Secretary

Tel:  + 44 1244 345431          Fax: + 44 1244 344843

E-mail: [email protected]  Web: http://www.iucr.org 

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and exists to serve the world community of crystallographers. Its objectives are to:

• promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography;

• promote international publication of crystallographic research;

• facilitate standardisation of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols;

• form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences.

The IUCr fulfils these objectives by publishing in print and electronically primary scientific journals through Crystallography Journals Online, the series of reference volumes International Tables for Crystallography, distributing the quarterly IUCr Newsletter, maintaining the online World Directory/Database of Crystallographers, awarding the Ewald Prize and organising the triennial Congress and General Assembly.

Its journals are available through INASP’s  PERI (Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information) as part of the Blackwell's Synergy.

Through Crystallography Online IUCr aims to provide extensive coverage of current and internet-based information concerning crystallography and of interest to crystallographers.

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry [updated March 2004]
PO Box 13757
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3757
USA

Contact: Secretary General

Tel: +1 919 485 8700 Fax: +1 919 485 8706

E-mail: [email protected]  Web: http://www.iupac.org 

Formed in 1919, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is a voluntary, non-governmental non-profit-making association of organisations known as national adhering organisations (NAOs). Each NAO represents the chemists of a member country.

IUPAC has four major objectives:

• to promote continuing cooperation among the chemists of the member countries;

• to study topics of international importance to pure and applied chemistry which need standardisation or codification;

• to cooperate with other international organisations on chemical topics;

• to contribute to the advancement of pure and applied chemistry in all its aspects.

IUPAC is recognised as the world authority on chemical nomenclature, terminology, standardized methods for measurement, atomic weights and many other critically evaluated data. In more recent years, IUPAC has been pro-active in establishing a wide range of conferences and projects designed to promote and stimulate modern developments in chemistry, and also to assist in aspects of chemical education and the public understanding of chemistry.

IUPAC provides Chemistry International, its bi-monthly news magazine, to individuals and organisations throughout the world. The monthly journal, Pure and Applied Chemistry, contains IUPAC Technical Reports, Recommendations, and selected lectures from IUPAC-sponsored symposia. Individuals may show their support for IUPAC by joining the IUPAC Affiliate Membership Program through their local coordinators. More information may be found on the IUPAC website.

IUPAC's next Congress and General Assembly will be held in Beijing, China 14 -19 August 2005.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Royal Society of Chemistry
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BA
UNITED KINGDOM

Contact: Stanley Langer

Tel: +44 20 7440 3325 Fax: +44 20 7734 1227

E-mail: [email protected]  Web: http://www.rsc.org/ 

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has a long-standing tradition of fostering chemistry and helping chemists all over the world. The society is now the UK national adhering organisation to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and an international committee coordinates the society's policy on international affairs.

For some time the society has been operating a journals donation scheme to developing countries, chiefly back issues. A list of available journals in chemistry and related fields is distributed from time to time to universities and libraries in developing countries. Selected items can usually be shipped directly by the society or through other agencies.