House journals

As we ourselves kept plugging along, the quantum chemical community largely was negative about DFT, even antagonistic. Their house journal International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, in 1980, published a pointed criticism of it [3] There seems to be a misguided belief that a one-particle density can determine the exact N-body ground state. In 1982, Mel Levy and John Perdew replied with a... 

Life with biochemistry—indeed with all sciences—is not always as solemn as the textbooks and scientific periodicals suggest. From 1923 to 1931 the Cambridge Biochemical Laboratory, at that time under Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, one of the world s foremost centres of biochemistry, published once a year a highly original and amusing house journal called Brighter Biochemistry. 

In its house journal (CBS), CAMAG has pubhshed many comparisons between densitometric and video evaluation [124c], and has given a clear account of the current scope and limitations of the two systems ... 

The impetus for our own investigations into this technique was provided by a gift a small bottle containing a few ml of a mixture of dyes. Carefully guarded for some months, its contents were first used at the conclusion of a fundamental course on chromatography for apprentices. In the last two hours of this course, the participants were invited to experiment with the colored solution. The results of this were so outstanding that Merck not only included them in a contribution to their house journal, but used a detail of one of the CHROMarts as a cover picture [171]. 

Journal of the American Ceramic Society, house journal of the ACerS contains peer-reviewed articles, published monthly. 

Journal of the European Ceramics Society, house journal of the European Ceramic Society published by Elsevier. 

Praised in front of colleagues, in-house journals, in general notice boards, also in front of very senior personnel, and in staff meeting,... 

Personal or generalised (notices put up on notice boards, published in house journals, in newspapers, professional journals). 

Articles published in in-house journals giving some suggestions/experience on job or for building up better relationship among employees. These can improve the morale and prestige which ultimately adds to output and results in more efficiency. 

Employee morale improves when suggestions are accepted and they are praised in house journals or puhhcly hy senior management. 

A number of chemical journals existed even before the chemical societies were founded. Yet most of the professional and scientific associations in the world have considered publication of their own journal a top priority and the chemical societies are not an exception as displayed in Table 15.2 and Figure 15.1. Table 15.2 also provides information on the first year (and last if appropriate) of publication of the societies journals. As analysed further below, in some cases the societies adopted an already existing periodical and the first year of publication thus precedes the founding year of the society. In most cases though, the society began to publish its own journal or journals immediately or within a few years of establishment. In some societies there even was a need to issue more than one journal for various reasons discussed in the proper chapter. A society without a journal was an exception, but it did occur. For instance neither the Austrian Chemical-Physical Society nor the Danish Chemical Society started to publish an in-house journal in the period analysed in this book. 

The apparent interest of chemists in joining the chemical societies is evident from the tables and the previous chapters. Therefore let us consider what made the societies attractive to the chemical community and ponder on their multiple roles, although it is not possible to specify here all functions the societies took on as shown in the individual chapters. It is observable that the key tasks and activities were common to many of the societies across national boundaries. As mentioned already, the edition and publication of an in-house journal was given high priority in most societies. Besides journals, several societies published or subsidized university textbooks, handbooks, monographs or other chemical literature. 

William G. Maass, New Information Services from a Not-So-Old Publishing House, Journal of Chemical Documentation 2, no. 1 (1962) 46-48 William G. Maass, From the Publisher A Word of Introduction, International Science and Technology 1 (January 1962) front insert. 

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