Enriching and Updating Information

The usefulness of this text will be greatly enhanced if you supplement it with information from current periodicals, basic references, statistical collections, abstracting services, indexes, and electronic data obtained from the World-Wide Web. This will allow you to update the data given in the text and—even more important—provide practice in finding the information chemical professionals need in day-to-day analysis and problem solving. The most important sources in this section are labeled with two asterisks and the next most important with one asterisk. If you are using the book for self-directed study, you should subscribe or have access to the doubled-asterisked periodicals and read the single-asterisked periodicals, become acquainted with the contents of the references with asterisks, locate a library with national and international references, and obtain a copy of the Statistical Abstract of the United States (Sections 0.1.1 and 0.1.2). 

Chemical and Engineering News. - This is the most important journal and is published weekly by the American Chemical Society. Anyone seriously interested in the chemical industry should subscribe to it. 

Chemical Week. A subscription to this publication is very valuable. Like Chemical and Engineering News, it reports on business, economic, and technical aspects of the chemical industry globally. Frequently, longer studies on a particular product or the chemical industry in various countries are published. The Annual Buyers Guide lists the names and addresses of more than 2600 companies and the manufacturers of 16,500 products they produce (LCN TPl. C37). 

Chemical Engineering Progress. This monthly publication is particularly useful for information on new processes and technology, capital costs, and operating expenses of processes and new equipment of potential use in the CPI. It also provides issues of importance to chemical engineers (LCN TPl. A6). 

CHEMTECH. This periodical published monthly by the American Chemical Society contains articles with new and refreshing ideas about technical as well as business aspects of the CPI (LCN TPl. 1612). 

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