References—continued series publications

The ROS reference series is an established institution. That is the main reason Wiley Sons decided to continue its publication. In accepting an invitation to authorship with great trepidation, I can only hope that my feeble efforts will prove to be more than merely using a dog s tail to substitute for a mink s. mmm)... 

The final major continuing project is the Solubility Data Project, which is sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The project has been underway for several years, and the results are appearing as a series of volumes of the "Solubility Data Series". The collection, compilation, and evaluation of data are being carried out by a large staff of experts in each area on a world-wide basis. The first eight volumes have been announced for 1979. References (67, 68, 69, and 70) are scheduled for publication in 1979 and 1980. Dr. A. S. Kertes of Israel is editor-in-chief of the series. 

For more specialized and detailed biochemical information that is not offered by textbooks, reference books must be used. Reference works range from general surveys to specialized series. The best works are multivolume sets that continue publication of volumes on a periodic basis. Each volume usually covers a specialized area with articles written by recognized authorities in the field. It should be noted that reference articles of interest to biochemists are often found in publications that are not strictly biochemical. The best known and most widely used review publication is Annual Review of Biochemistry. Each volume in this series, which was introduced in 1932, contains several detailed and extensive articles written by experts in the field. For shorter reviews emphasizing current topics, Trends in the Biochemical Sciences (TIBS) is widely read. 

In some major public works projects, such as dams, locks, or bridges, the life of the investment is considered to be infinite. In the case of an infinite life asset, the amount needed to construct or acquire that asset initially plus the amount to provide for the perpetual maintenance and replacement of that asset is referred to as the capitalized cost. A perpetuity is a uniform series of payments that continues indefinitely, such as one would find from the conversion of a capitalized cost to an annuity. 

The Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data has published a series of tables of line frequencies, absorption intensities and molecular constants for selected molecules, particularly also those of interest in astrophysics. Some species of paramagnetic and ionic character are also included. The series started in 1972 and is continuing [9]. Useful tables may also be found in recent web publications [10, 11]. 

The main primary sources of solid-liquid solubility data, i.e. those which report experimental measurements together with the full literature source references, are those of Stephen and Stephen (1963), Seidell (1958) and the continuing multivolume lUPAC Solubility Data Series (1980-91) which by the end of 1991 had reached its 48th volume. The series covers gas-liquid, liquid-liquid and solid liquid equilibria, but up to the present time fewer than one quarter of the published volumes are devoted to solid-liquid systems. In all these publications, ternary as well as binary data are reported and solvents other than water are considered. Blasdale (1927) and Teeple (1929) give extensive data on equilibria in aqueous salt solutions relevant to natural brines and natural salt deposits, ranging from binary to quinary complex systems. The compilation by Wisniak and Herskowitz (1984) is an excellent literature source reference, but no actual data are recorded. 

In other parts of the world, reference journals were also founded In 1927, the first issue of the journal Nippon Kagaku Soran was published in Japanese. This journal has abstracted the Imown chemical literature in Japan since 1877. The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JICST), which was founded 1957, took over the reference journal in 1958 for financial reasons and continued publishing it with the new title Domestic Chemistry Series of JICST Current Awareness. The rest of the world did not take very much notice of Japanese publications, now and then an article was cited in Chemisches Zen-tralblatt or Chemical Abstracts although this Japanese reference journal was essential for Japanese chemists. The number of publications, which were cited in Chemical Abstracts increased steadily (34 abstracts in 1907 109,800 in 1991), the systematic access to the Japanese chemical literature was organized after the Second World War Since 1977, the Japan Association for International Chemical Information (JAICI), a department of JICST, has cooperated with Chemical Abstracts Service and since 1980, all CA abstracts of Japanese publications have been written by JAICI. 

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