What is the difference between a conventional Journal Article and ECHET96?
A. ECHET96 is a forum where people can read and discuss contributions with a strong thematic content, in this case heterocyclic chemistry. Because each article has an e-mail link to one or more authors, establishing contacts is very easy, and we hope that new collaborations between scientists will emerge. At the end of the conference, authors will have the option of either withdrawing their article for publication elsewhere or having it published as part of the conference proceedings. These will appear in CD-ROM form, and will constitute a permanent archive of the event. Chemical Abstracts have agreed to consider articles and posters included on the CD-ROM for abstracting, provided “new science” is reported. This means that in due course, any conference contribution that is regarded by CA as fulfilling their criteria will be searchable via CAS Online and other sources of abstract information. This means that such a contribution would count as a “refereed scholarly paper”, and can be so
