Awesome. Nice work Professor Walker :)
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:25 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
A press release, via a chemical information list for
librarians. All
kudos to the remarkable Martin Walker (user:walkerma) and the
WikiProject Chemistry contributors.
Now *this* is how these things are supposed to happen :)
-- Phoebe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Walker" <walkerma(a)POTSDAM.EDU>
To: <CHMINF-L(a)LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:51 AM
Subject: [CHMINF-L] CAS and Wikipedia
> CAS released the following announcement today:
>
> "CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, is pleased to
announce
> that it will contribute to the Wikipedia
project. CAS will work with
> Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers for current
> substances listed in the Wikiprojects-Chemicals section of the
Wikipedia
> Chemistry Portal that are of widespread
general public interest.
>
> The CAS Registry is the world's most comprehensive collection of
chemical
> substances and the CAS Registry Number is the
recognized global
standard
> for chemical substance identification.
>
> CAS views Wikipedia as an important societal tool for the general
public;
> and this collaboration with Wikipedia is in
line with CAS' mission as
a
> Division of the American Chemical Society.
>
> We look forward to working with the Wikipedia volunteers over the next
> few weeks to make this happen."
>
> We at the Wikipedia Chemicals WikiProject would like to thank Chemical
> Abstracts Service for their kind offer of assistance in validating our
> CAS Registry Number information. We also look forward to working with
CAS
> in the future.
>
> --
> Martin A. Walker
> Associate Professor of Chemistry
> SUNY Potsdam
> Potsdam, NY 13676
> USA
> Tel: +1 (315) 2672271
> Fax: +1 (315) 2673170
> walkerma(a)potsdam.edu
>
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