Year: 1950
Type: article
Abstract: THE growth in the number of symposia presented at AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY meetings has been rapid in the last several years. The importance of these symposia is widely recognized. They provide opportunities to review and evaluate scientific and technological advancements at periodic intervals. In an era when research is expanding at a rapid rate and scientists and technologists are experiencing increasing difficulties in keeping abreast of even a small portion of the published literature, periodic symposia perform a most useful purpose. Occasionally, however, symposia are of such a highly specialized nature that only a relatively small percentage of the readers of any one of the established ACS journals would be served by journal publication. The difficulty in publishing such symposia in their entirety in the regular journals is apparent, particularly so when the demand continues unabated for editorial pages to report the results of original research. Not infrequently, too, symposia contain a large number of ...
Source: Chemical & Engineering News
Author: WALTER J. MURPHY
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2321056652