Special Organic Chemistry Seminar

Go to the library (do you know where it is?) and take a chemistry journal from the 1990s off the shelf does it look all that different to the journals of today? Now grab one from the 1890s, how does that compare? The basic unit of scientific publishing (a paper) has not changed much for hundreds of years, but with the rise of the internet, how is this changing? And is it changing fast enough? This talk will look at different aspects of communicating chemistry through traditional methods such as journals (and all that entails, including everyone s favourite: metrics), but also via new media including blogs and Twitter.