Comments on: Open Access Abbreviated, Combined

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:26:08 +0000

I think you’re right Andrew. “Department of Chemistry” is a much more solid concept than a phrase like the “Nouveaus Institutes of PhysMolChemSci and Nanospurosity” or whatever. There was an opinion piece in New Scientist around the time the UK polytechnics all got upgraded to University status and started eying up crests and Latin mottos and stuff. At the same time, the old established Unis tried to rebrand with sleek, modern logos and mission statements. It was like “Uni 2.0″ in a similar vein to all the old websites that have tried to rebrand themselves as “Web 2.0″ (Did you spot the big orange RSS box, by the way?)

By: Andrew Sun

Andrew Sun — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:53:44 +0000

But I still believe fewer words sound heavier. Only one ‘Department of Chemistry’ can round up all the things, and also imply a long history of the institute. For journals, Carbon, Polymer, Macromolecules, Langmuir etc. all *sound* tremendous

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:46:34 +0000

Good idea Chris, TTFN + HAGWE LOL ROFL

By: Chris Leonard

Chris Leonard — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:28:29 +0000

Thanks for the write up David. Personally I feel that acronyms have an even more prominent role in publishing nowadays. I have recently had to add a FAQ on APCs for PMC to the site ASAP!

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:22:56 +0000

It’s funny you should mention those prefixes Andrew. It seems that that advent of chemistry journals with mixed up names of this nature NanoPhysMolChem etc etc is concurrent with the demise of so many old-style Chemistry Departments and their replacement with the self styled departments of Nanophysics and Molecular Chemistry etc etc

By: Andrew Sun

Andrew Sun — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:32:39 +0000

Prefixes as well: Nanotechnol. Nanosci., Biosci, Nanobiol
Regions also: Chem Eur J, Chem Asian J, Can J Chem, Indian J Chem